Skeleton Crew, September 1990

Overview:

• Title: Skeleton Crew, September 1990
• Author: Dave Reeder
• Year: 1990
• Publisher: Argus Specialist Publications
• Price: £1.95
• Pages: 64
• Binding: A4
• Type: MAGAZINE
• Title Reference: Grotesques Before Nine
• Notes:
  • Volume 2, issue 3.
  • Cover price in the United States is $5.95.
  • The cover art is entitled Swamp Thing.
  • The title of James Herbert's essay, 'Dead Write', is listed as 'Deadwrite' in the table of contents.
  • The essay 'Talk of the Dead' is about Ron Chetwynd-Hayes and his horror writing.
  • In 'Necrofile', Matthew Pook reviews the science fiction fanzine, Cerebretron.
  • Steve Hambidge's 'Frankenstein' is a comic strip.
  • Other material in this issue of Skeleton Crew includes: 'Stripped to the Bone' (comics reviews - Shade the Changing Man, Puma Blues and The Shadowmen) by James Wallis; 'Origins', an essay by Swamp Thing artist, Steve Bissette; 'Swamped', an essay about DC Comics' Swamp Thing by Jonathan Key; film reviews by Mark Lewis (Beverly Hills Vamp, Shocker); an interview with film director Joe Dante by Mark Lewis; 'Pandora's Box' by Andy Lane (reviewing British TV mini-series Chimera); and 'Last Writes', an uncredited preview of the British Fantasy Society's Fantasycon (1990).