The 13 Dead Things

Is this the most gruesome strip Skywald ever printed? I dunno, but it's pretty damn gruesome. What's that? Oh really? You've seen worse and anyway it's nothing like as bad as... holy crap, look at THAT!!!!
By the way, if you're searching for old Skywald mags on the ebay, that cover trumpeting this story? The strip actually turned up two issues later...

Dave Kraft - Killer On The Road

I love it when writers or artists shoehorn themselves into one of their own stories, something that these days would be called an easter egg, but back then, it was just fun spotting such obvious in-jokes aimed at the reader.
Always liked Man-Wolf / Defenders scribe and FOOM editor Dave Kraft too. DAK was a long-haired rocker, like wot I was, and never missed an opportunity to title amost any story or character after a Blue Oyster Cult or Rush track, probably making devil hand signs while typing his scripts to boot.
That's Dave with Roger Slifer in FOOM #16, hitch-hiking cross country on a conventioneering vacation.
The story below always put me in mind of that photo, so here, from the Psycho 1972 annual is what I'm saying is Dave ( in spirit, if not actually in 100% likeness ), alongside artist Villanova hitch-hiking cross country on a killing spree. But where's Roger?
Well, what's left of him's in DAK's backpack.

Hunger Of The Slaughter-Sludge Beasts

This is the way the world ends. Here's Doug Moench alongside Saga Of The Victims' Jesus Suso Rego, scratching that perennial Bronze Age itch, the ecological horror story. 

Doug ( who apparently never slept during the '70's, judging by his output ) channels the Skywald style perfectly, in fact you'd swear this was written by Archaic Al Hewetson, and Suso is as great as ever.

And anyway, if you could resist a story with a title like this, you wouldn't be here.

All The Myriad Ways & Means To Die

Here's two versions of the same story, adapted from Larry Niven's original, a tale that's probably the last word in alternate realities. Or one of the last words...

You won't mind one bit reading the same piece twice, as the first ( from Psycho #9 ) is by Jeff Jones, while the other ( from Unknown Worlds Of Science Fiction #5 ) is from Howard Chaykin.

Plus, as you'll see, two subtly differing versions of the same story is entirely in keeping here.