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vii Any Idea in Any Form Bill Mason

xv witzend, beginning to end Bill Pearson

WITZEND #1 (1966)

1 front cover design: Dan Adkins

2 Statment of NO Policy Wallace Wood

3 Savage World!

11 And in the O!ng

13 illustration Reed Crandall

14 …And Thereby Hangs a Tale…

15 Sinner Archie Goodwin

19 illustration & poetry poems: Wallace Wood

20 Bucky Ruckus Wallace Wood

20 Dedication, Credits, Some Acknowledgements, et cetera Wallace Wood

22 Animan (origin) Wallace Wood

29 Moon Critters

39 Cut Your Own Throat Dept. Wallace Wood

40 back cover: Buster Crabbe illustration Frank Frazetta

WITZEND #2 (1967)

41 front cover Wallace Wood

42 What is it text: Wallace Wood art: Tatjana Wood

43 Orion (origin)

49 Hey Look! (1)

50 Hey Look! (2)

51 If You Can’t Join ’Em… Beat ’Em! Warren Sattler

55 A Reed Crandall ERB Portfolio Reed Crandall

60 poetry and illustration poems: Wallace Wood,

62 cartoon Will Elder

63 A Flash of Insight, a Cloud of Dust and a Hearty Hi-Yo Silver Art Spiegelman

66 Midnight Special

67 …By the Fountain in the Park… Don Martin

69 Animan Wallace Wood

78 herein, and furthermore… text: Wallace Wood art: Al Williamson

79 A word from Wood … Subscribe! text: Wallace Wood

80 back cover Ralph Reese

WITZEND #3 (1967)

81 front cover Wallace Wood

82 Bomb Peking! Diane Dillon

83 Mr. A (first story)

88 poetry by Ralph Reese, illustration by Leo and Diane Dillon poems: Ralph Reese art: Leo and Diane Dillon

89 Crandall — ERB Part II Reed Crandall

93 A Very Strange Comic Strip Art Spiegelman

96 Hey Look!

97 The Invaders! Richard Bassford

100 The Chase Roger Brand

104 poems Wallace Wood, Bill Pearson (as “Wild Bill”)

105 Pipsqueak Papers (Chapter 1) Wallace Wood

108 Vanessa art: Wallace Wood

109 Last Chance! plot and art:!Frank Frazetta! script: Bill Pearson

118 Hey Look!

119 Contents and Portents and Otherwise Words

120 back cover Al Williamson

WITZEND #4 (1968)

121 front cover Wallace Wood

122 Words from Wood text: Wallace Wood

123 Pipsqueak Papers (Chapter 2) Wallace Wood

127 Mr. A

137 The Rejects (origin) art: Wallace Wood

140 Edgar Rice Burroughs Part Three Reed Crandall

144 A Proper Perspective and Several Strange Viewpoints

Diane Dillon

146 The Sneeze

149 Virtue Ever Triumphant Roger Brand

155 The World of the Wizard King (Prologue, Chapter 1) Wallace Wood

CONTENTS

160 back cover Frank Frazetta

WITZEND #5 (1968)

161 front cover

162 The Witzend Contents Page text: Bill Pearson art: Art Spiegelman

163 The World of the Wizard King (Chapter 2) Wallace Wood

168 The Junkwa!el Invasion of Kruppenny Island Vaughn Bodé

172 Jaf

180 Portfolio of Edgar Rice Burroughs Part Four Reed Crandall

183 Pipsqueak Papers (Chapter 3) Wallace Wood

188 Prevue: The Adventures of Talon

191 Homesick Roger Brand

199 Our Past, Present, Future, Philosophy, Motives and Excuses

200 back cover Ed Paschke

WITZEND #6 (1969)

201 cover (part 1) Mike Hinge

202 Daring Compromise Issue Bill Pearson

203 Alien

209 An Interview with Will Eisner

213 Subscription/Change of Address form

216 Qwamb! Bill Pearson (as Sorrel Garika)

223 The Spawn of Venus script: Al Feldstein art: Wallace Wood

231 ads art: Bill Pearson

233 The Avenging World

243 illustration

244 cover (part 2) Mike Hinge

WITZEND #7 (1970)

245 front cover Vaughn Bodé

246 Editorial

247 Cobalt 60 (origin) Vaughn Bodé

257 Letters

258 Heartbreaking News! art: Dan Adkins

259 Subscriptions

260 ads

261 The Avenging World, Part 2

269 The Stirring Adventure of: Ike and His Spoon Roger Brand

275 cartoon Ed Paschke

276 Limpstrel (1) Bernie Wrightson

277 Memorize This Message Alphonse Mucha

278 cartoon Bill Pearson

279 Mr. E script: Bill Pearson

281 Limpstrel (2) Bernie Wrightson

282 The Journey

292 back cover

293 Witzend contributors part 1

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vii An Oral History Patrick Rosencrantz

WITZEND #8 (1971)

1 front cover Ralph Reese

2 why, it’s witzend

3 The World of the Wizard King Chapter Three Wallace Wood

8 cartoon Bhob Stewart

9 Barf the Insurance Salesman script: Bill Pearson art: Ralph Reese

16 Foxtale

18 cartoon Dr. Seuss

19 Passing the Buck Bill Pearson

20 The City in the Sea

30 The Break-Out!! Steve Ditko

31 The Hunting of the Snark

39 Is this the last witzend? Bill Pearson

40 back cover Bill Pearson

WITZEND #9 (1973)

41 front cover Je!rey Catherine Jones

42 W.C. Fields photo

43 Table of Contents

44 The Films of Charles Bogle Bill Pearson

52 The Bank Dick Bill Pearson

56 The Films of Otis Criblecoblis Bill Pearson

58 Complete Filmography of W.C. Fields Bill Pearson

59 Adversity: The W.C. Fields Game Bill Pearson

71 photo

72 Between the Scenes

78 A Fussy Old Man in the Movies

84 Allan Wood, On Stage With W.C. Fields Bill Pearson

85 illustration Bill Pearson

86 Index to photos

86 Bibliography

87 photo

88 back cover Bill Pearson WITZEND #10 (1978)

89 cover (part 1) Wallace Wood

90 illustration Bill Pearson

91 Kym, Chapter 1: Lost in a Dream! script: Bill Pearson

99 39/74

109 I Haven’t Slept Since Howard Chaykin

112 illustration

113 Sally Forth (The monsters sequence) Wallace Wood

119 illustration

120 The Avenging Dodo script: Bill Pearson art: Mike Zeck

128 illustration

129 My Furry World … And Welcome to It! script: Nick

139 Backword Bill Pearson

140 cover (part 2) Wallace Wood

WITZEND #11 (1978)

141 front cover Bill Pearson

142 illustrations Bill Pearson

145 Kym photo illustration Bill Pearson

146 Spurt Starling (Chapter 1) script: Bill Pearson art: Rich Chidlaw

147 The Wicked World of the Wizard King Wallace Wood

151 Early Poop (1)

152 The Care and Feeding of Geks script:

160 Spurt Starling (Chapter 2) script: Bill Pearson art: Rich Chidlaw

161 The Enormous Slug Suckers From the Planet Mars!! (Chapter 1) Bill Pearson

165 The Wanton World of the Wizard King Wallace Wood

169 The Enormous Slug Suckers From the Planet Mars!! (Chapter 2) Bill Pearson

174 Kym, Chapter 2: Encounter script: Bill Pearson art: Ruben M. Yandoc, Jr.

182 Early Poop (2)

183 The Welcome World of the Wizard King Wallace Wood

187 Spurt Starling (Chapter 3) script: Bill Pearson art: Rich Chidlaw

188 Kym illustration

189 illustrations Bill Pearson

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192 back cover Bill Pearson

WITZEND #12 (1982)

193 front cover

194 witzend Fantasy Issue

195 random words, random pictures, arbitrarily arranged

196 illustration Henry C. Pitz

197 Stargazer J.R. Blevins and Dennis Janke (as Z.

209 Bugs in the System

213 The Phantom

214 The Real World story: Bhob Stewart art: John Norton

218 cartoon Don Martin

220 Booby Trap Steve Ditko

221 Kym, Chapter 3: The Awakening story: Bill Pearson art: Mike Zeck and Ruben Yandoc, Jr.

230 Lunar Tunes (origin) Wallace Wood

242 Wallace Wood 1927–1981 Wallace Wood

243 illustration

244 Kym photo photo: Bill Pearson

WITZEND #13 (1985)

245 front cover Dennis Janke

246 figure studies Victor Perard

247 Those Glamorous … Good Girls pencils: Bill Pearson inks: Wallace Wood

248 Good Girls (1) Pearson, Rich Chidlaw,

249 illustration Frank Frazetta

250 Roy Krenkel portfolio 1

252 Willy Pogany portfolio

254 Jumbo Comics #46 cover Zolne Rowich

255 Good Girls (2)

256 illustration P. Bauer

257 Good Girls (3): Heart of Juliet Jones, 8-24-1960 Stan Drake

258 Good Girls (4): Kenneth Smith portfolio

260 Hannes Bok portfolio Hannes Bok

262 illustration pencils: Charles Nicholas

263 Strange Girls

264 Good Girls (5)Paschke, various

265 Good Girls (6) John Beatty, Wallace Wood, Richard Bassford266 Good Girls (7)

267 illustration Brad Foster

268 Roy Krenkel portfolio 2

270 Wallace Wood sketch portfolio Wallace Wood

272 illustration

273 Good Girls (8)

274 Good Girls (9): Alley Oop daily, 12-3-1938

275 life drawings Mike Zeck

276 illustrations Richard Bassford, Bill Pearson, various

277 Good Girls (10)

278 Roy Krenkel portfolio 3

280 illustration Bill Pearson

281 Good Girls (11) Wallace Wood

282 Contents of This Issue art: Rich Chidlaw

283 figure studies Victor Perard

284 back cover

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285 Bonus Portfolio

286 Last Act of a Living Legend script: Bill Pearson art: Steve Stiles

294 Foxtale (color version) script: Nick Cuti

296 witzend #9 bonus cover print Je! Jones

297 witzend #6 cover

301 witzend #10 cover Wallace Wood

306 witzend contributors part 2

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