Witzend Index

Compiled by Richard Arndt (richarda39@nospam.hotmail.com) (eliminate the nospam to e-mail him)

Witzend was the first of the independent or “indy” magazines. Premiering in 1966, it published 13 issues over almost two decades, most of them between 1966-1971 and provided a welcome link between mainstream comics and the then-new underground movement. Although it, at times, suffered from the lack of a strong editorial hand at the helm, it showcased many important artists of the period and pointed the way for every self-publishing writer/artist to this day. This bibliography is incomplete so if you can fill in the gaps, please contact me.

1. Cover: collage of panels from interior stories done by Archie Goodwin (Summer 1966)

[edited: Wally Wood]

2. Cover:

3. Cover: Wally Wood/back cover: Al Williamson (1967) [back cover features Flash Gordon]

1) Frontispiece [illustrated: Leo & Diane Dillon] 1p

2) Mr. A [written & illustrated: Steve Ditko] 5p [first Mr. A. story?]

3) Poetry [written: Ralph Reese; illustrated: Leo & Diane Dillon] 1p

4) Edgar Rice Burroughs Portfolio, part 2 [illustrated: Reed Crandall] 4p

5) Harold Sunshine [written & illustrated: Art Spielgelman] 3p

6) Hey Look! [written & illustrated: Harvey Kurtzman] 1p

7) The Invaders! [written & illustrated: Richard Bassford] 3p

8) The Chase [written & illustrated: Roger Brand] 4½p

9) Poetry [written: Wally Wood & Bill Pearson] ½p

10) Pipsqueak Papers [written & illustrated: Wally Wood] 3p

11) Vanessa [written: Sam Kobish; illustrated: Roy G. Krenkel] 1p [text story]

12) Last Chance! [writtten & illustrated: Frank Frazetta] 9p [a comic strip tryout from 1950 refashioned into traditional comic pages]

13) Hey Look! [written & illustrated: Harvey Kurtzman] 1p

15) Contents And Portents And Otherwise Words [written: Wally Wood; illustrated: Al Williamson] 1p [text article, on inside back cover]

4. Cover: Wally Wood/back cover: Frank Frazetta (1968)

1) Words From Wally Wood [writen: Wally Wood; illustrated: ? Conroy] 1p [frontispiece]

2) Pipsqueak Papers [written & illustrated: Wally Wood] 4p

3) Mr. A [written & illustrated: Steve Ditko] 10p

4) The Rejects [written: Wally Wood & Bhob Stewart; illustrated: Wally Wood] 3p

5) Edgar Rice Burroughs Portfolio, part 3 [illustrated: Reed Crandall] 4p

6) A Proper Persepctive And Several Strange Viewpoints [written: Wally Wood & Bill Pearson; illustrated: Leo & Diane Dillon] 2p [poetry]

7) The Sneeze [written: Bill Pearson; illustrated: Ed Glasser?] 3p [art credited to Grass Green]

8) Virtue Ever Triumphant [written & illustrated: Roger Brand] 6p

9) The World Of The Wizard King [written & illustrated: Wally Wood] 5p [text story--Wood would redo this story in traditional comic form in the late 1970's]

5. Cover: photo of an elephant’s backside!/back cover: Ed Paschke (Oct. 1968) [edited: Bill Pearson]

1) The World Of The Wizard King [written & illustrated: Wally Wood] 5p [text story]

2) The Junkwaffel Invasion Of Kruppenny Island [written & illustrated: Vaughn Bode] 4p

3) Jaf [written & illustrated: JAF?] 8p

4) Edgar Rice Burroughs Portfolio, part 4 [illustrated: Reed Crandall] 3p

5) Pipsqueak Papers [written & illustrated: Wally Wood] 5p

6) Prevue: The Adventures Of Talon [illustrated: Jim Steranko] 3p

7) Homesick [written & illustrated: Roger Brand] 8p

8) Editorial Matters [written & illustrated: Wally Wood] 1p [text article, on inside back cover]

6. Cover:

7. Cover: Vaughn Bode/back cover: Kenneth Smith (1970)

1) Editorial [written: Bill Pearson; illustrated: Ralph Reese] 1p [frontispiece]

2) Cobalt 60 [written & illustrated: Vaughn Bode] 10p [probably the best single story the magazine published.]

3) Letter’s Page [illustrated: Dan Adkins] 2p

4) The Avenging World, part 2 [written & illustrated: Steve Ditko] 8p [Mr. A appears on last page.]

5) The Strange Adventure Of Ike And His Spoon [written & illustrated: Roger Brand] 6p

6) Pin-Up [illustrated: Ed Paschke] 1p [shows Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, Dot, Dennis the Menace, Casper, the friendly ghost, Little Lulu & Little Orphan Annie in an opium den!]

7) Limpstrel [written & illustrated: Berni Wrightson] 1p

8) untitled [written & illustrated: Bill Pearson] 1p

9) Mr. E [written: Bill Pearson; illustrated: Tim Brent] 2p [rather savage satire of Ditko’s Mr. A. Actually 4 pages printed sideways]

10) Limpstrel [written & illustrated: Berni Wrightson] 1p

11) The Journey [written: Betty Morrow; illustrated: Gray Morrow] 8p

8. Cover: Ralph Reese/back cover: Mike Hinge (1971)

1) Editorial [written: Bill Pearson] 1p [frontispiece]

2) The World Of The Wizard King [written & illustrated: Wally Wood] 5p [text story]

3) untitled [written & illustrated: Bhob Stewart] 1p

4) Barf The Insurance Salesman [written: Bill Pearson; illustrated: Ralph Reese] 7p

5) Foxtale [written: Nicola Cuti; illustrated: William Stillwell] 2p

6) Holding The Bag [written & illustrated: Dr. Seuss] 1p reprinted form Judge Magazine (1932)

7) The City In The Sea [written: Edgar Allan Poe; illustrated: Frank Frazetta] 10p [poem. I don’t know when this art was done but it certainly looks like circa 1971 Frazetta art which would make it Frazetta’s last comic art job. Beautiful work!]

8) The Break-Out [written & illustrated: Steve Ditko] 1p

9) The Hunting Of The Snark [adapted & illustrated: John Adkins Richardson] 8p from the poem by Lewis Carroll

9. Cover: Jeff Jones ( ?) [W. C. Fields issue]

10. Cover: Wally Wood (1976) [wraparound cover]

1) Kym: Lost In A Dream! [written: Bill Pearson; illustrated: Dick Giordano] 8p

2) 39/74 [written: Guyla & Alex Toth; illustrated: Alex Toth] 10p [copyrighted to Marvel Comics Group]

3) On March 17, 1969... [written & illustrated: Howard Chaykin] 3p

4) Pin-Up [illustrated: Terry Austin] 1p

5) Sally Forth [written & illustrated: Wally Wood] 6p

6) Pin-Up [illustrated: Craig Russell] 1p [looks like an altered version of Russell’s unused cover for Doctor Strange Annual #1]

7) The Avenging Dodo [written: Bill Pearson; illustrated: Mike Zeck] 8p

8) Pin-Up [illustrated: Walt Simonson] 1p

9) My Furry World And Welcome To It! [written: Nicola Cuti; illustrated: Joe Staton] 8p

11. Cover:

12. Cover: George Bush/back cover: photo of woman posing as Kym (1982) [Bush’s cover is a rendering of Humphrey Bogart in The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre]

1) Frontispiece & inside back cover [illustrated: Jerry Bingham] 2p

2) Editorial [written & illustrated: Bill Pearson] 1p [text article]

3) My Ship Of Dreams [written: ?; illustrated: ?] 1p

4) Stargazer [written: J. R. Blevins & Z. Capistance; illustrated: Z. Capistance] 12p

5) Bugs In The System [written: Al Sirois & David Stone; illustrated: Al Sirois] 4p

6) The Phantom Pin-Up [illustrated: Gray Morrow] 1p

7) The Real World [written: Bhob Stewart; illustrated: John Norton] 4p

8) untitled [illustrated: Don Martin] 2p

9) Booby Trap [written & illustrated: Steve Ditko] 1p

10) Kym: The Awakening [written: Bill Pearson; pencilled: Mike Zeck; inked: Ruben Yandoc] 9p

11) Lunar Tunes [written & illustrated: Wally Wood] 12p [one of Wood’s last stories]

12) Wallace Wood 1927-1981 [illustrated: Wally Wood] 1p

13. Cover:

Although not officially an issue of Witzend, a reprint volume of Wally Wood’s [entitled Woodwork and not to be confused with the newsletter of the same name] did come out in 1980 and is, in effect, an issue of Witzend.

1. Cover & back cover: Wally Wood (1980) [front cover is page 1 of Pipsqueak Papers from #4, back cover is page 1 of Animan, part 2 from #2]

1) Statement Of No Policy [written & illustrated: Wally Wood] 1p [frontispiece]

2) Witzend #3 cover [illustrated: Wally Wood] 1p

3) The Witzend Story [written: Bill Pearson; illustrated: Wally Wood] 2p [text article]

4) Pipsqueak Papers [written & illustrated: Wally Wood] 3p reprinted from Witzend #3 (1967)

5) Pipsqueak Papers [written & illustrated: Wally Wood] 3p reprinted from Witzend #4 (1968)

6) Pipsqueak Papers [written & illustrated: Wally Wood] 5p reprinted from Witzend #5 (Oct. 1968)

7) The World Of The Wizard King [written & illustrated: Wally Wood] 15p [text story] reprinted from Witzend #4-6 & #8 (1968-1971)]

8) Witzend #2 cover [illustrated: Wally Wood] 1p

9) The Rejects [written: Wally Wood & Bhob Stewart; illustrated: Wally Wood] 3p reprinted from Witzend #4 (1968)

10) Animan [written & illustrated: Wally Wood] 15p reprinted from Witzend #1 & 2 (1966-1967) [pg 1 of the second part is removed from the story and located on the back cover]

11) Witzend #4 cover [illustrated: Wally Wood] 1p [on inside back cover]