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Issue Details

Issue #8
Published December 1998
Cover Price 2.50 USD 3.65 CAD
Pages 36
Editing Albert B. Feldstein
Notes Parody of eye chart. Cover blurb "Notorious 1950s EC Comics!" not part of original cover.

Cover Details

Genre parody
Script Albert B. Feldstein ?
Letters typeset
Notes Parody of eye chart. Cover blurb "Notorious 1950s EC Comics!" not part of original cover.
Reprinted from Panic (EC, 1954 series) #8 (April-May 1955)

7 page story "Irving Oops"

Characters Irving Oops; Dinah; King Zug; Grand Budwizer; Ooolala; Doctor Lostpuss; Fuzzy; Poopik The Sailor Man
Genre parody
Script Jack Mendelsohn
Pencils Bill Elder (signed)
Inks Bill Elder (signed)
Notes Parody of comic strip "Alley Oop".
Reprinted from Panic (EC, 1954 series) #8 (April-May 1955)

1 page text article "It Shouldn't Have Happened Last Night"

Genre parody
Letters typeset
Notes Parody of newspaper play review column by "Basil Metabolism. "
Reprinted from Panic (EC, 1954 series) #8 (April-May 1955)

6 page story "Carmen"

Characters Melvin Kross; Michaela; Carmen; Don Jose; Rose La Rose; Captain Zuniga; Escamillo
Genre parody
Script Jack Mendelsohn
Pencils Joe Orlando (signed)
Inks Joe Orlando (signed)
Notes Parody of Bizet's opera "Carmen."
Reprinted from Panic (EC, 1954 series) #8 (April-May 1955)

2 page The Crypt-Keeper's Page of Fine Arts letters page "The Crypt-Keeper's Page of Fine Arts #72"

Genre fan art
Script ? (as The Crypt-Keeper); Bob Gorby; Wendy Gunther; Joe Grotenrath II; Barry McCollum
Pencils Frank X. Mattison; Mr. Crow; Paul Dale Roberts; Grant Smith
Inks Frank X. Mattison; Mr. Crow; Paul Dale Roberts; Grant Smith
Letters typeset
Notes Fan art and poems, introduced by The Crypt-Keeper.

6 page story "Panic Peeks Into Some Old Underpaints"

Genre humor
Script Jack Mendelsohn
Pencils Jack Davis (signed)
Inks Jack Davis (signed)
Notes Gag captions for famous paintings.
Reprinted from Panic (EC, 1954 series) #8 (April-May 1955)

7 page story "Gone With The Widow"

Characters Scarlip O'Hare; Rhett Buttons; Mammy; Ashcan Milks; Mr. O'Hare; Shmoe Haminegg; Maladie Haminegg
Genre parody
Script Jack Mendelsohn
Pencils Wallace Wood (signed)
Inks Wallace Wood (signed)
Notes Parody of movie "Gone With The Wind".
Reprinted from Panic (EC, 1954 series) #8 (April-May 1955)

1 page Pan-Mail letters page "Pan-Mail"

Characters Albert B. Feldstein; William M. Gaines
Script Stephen A. Geppi?
Pencils Marie Severin
Inks Marie Severin
Letters typeset
Notes Letters from: Bobby Gorby; Joe Grotenrath II; The Knave; David Dellario; Rick Olson; Richard Jaeger.
Reprinted from Panic (EC, 1954 series) #8 (April-May 1955) [illustration only]

Half page credits "State of Ownership, Management, and Circulation"

Letters typeset

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "Subscribe!"

Pencils Jack Davis (signed)
Inks Jack Davis (signed)
Letters typeset
Notes House ad for subscriptions to Gemstone Publishing's EC Comics reprints.
Reprinted From ads for the EC Fan-Addicts club in various EC comics of 1954, but text is modified.