The Witching Hour #1 Values

Publisher: DC, 1969

About The Witching Hour #1

First appearances of Mordred, Mildred, and Cynthia. Cover by Nick Cardy. Art by Neal Adams, Alex Toth, and Jack Sparling.

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COVER DETAILS

Title: It's 12 O'Clock..The Witching Hour!

Characters: Mordred the Witch

Pencils: Nick Cardy

Inks: Nick Cardy

Notes: Art credits from The Art of Nick Cardy.

STORY DETAILS

(5 Stories)

Title: Save the Last Dance for Me!

Characters: Thurgood "Tin Toes" Trapley (millionaire magnate); Clot O'Neil; Dicky; Mildred the Witch (Cameo)

Synopsis: Trapley is rich and selfish and has a machine that has locked onto earth 100 years into the future (although Clot says "1000", which doesn't agree with the year 2068 later). He wants all the benefits of traveling there for himself, and what he finds...well, you'll have to read the story.

Pages: 4.500

Script: Denny O'Neil

Pencils: Pat Boyette

Inks: Pat Boyette

Letters: Pat Boyette

Reprints: The Witching Hour (DC, 1969 series) #38 (January 1974)

Title: Eternal Hour!

Characters: Terwit; the kind man; Gustav; Frederick; mocking kids; townspeople; Mordred the Witch (Cameo)

Synopsis: Terwit is dwarfish and is teased and ridiculed by the town's boys. Most adults do nothing to stop it. Terwit recluses himself in a clock tower and the clock from then on is stopped at midnight. Years later, many of those boys, now men, go to the tower to drive Terwit out and their screams cry out...Why?

Pages: 7.670

Script: Alex Toth

Pencils: Alex Toth

Inks: Alex Toth

Letters: Alex Toth

Title: The Perfect Surf or How to Make Waves Without Really Trying!

Characters: Stanley (a surfing maniac); Carol; an old hag; a couple other surfers; Cynthia the Witch (Cameo)

Synopsis: Stanley is totally nuts about surfing. He really never even notices the total babe at his side. He is obsessed with finding the "perfect wave". He is afforded an opportunity to find that wave in the dead of night. What do you think happens?

Pages: 4.670

Pencils: Jack Sparling

Inks: Jack Sparling

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CGC Census Report*

Grade	NG	PG	CVR	0.5	1.0	1.5	1.8	2.0	2.5	3.0	3.5	4.0	4.5	5.0	5.5	6.0	6.5	7.0	7.5	8.0	8.5	9.0	9.2	9.4	9.6	9.8	9.9	10.0	Total
Universal	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	6	11	10	21	21	23	35	45	52	53	66	37	40	39	21	8	0	0	492
Qualified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	3
Signature Series	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	3	0	1	1	1	1	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	15
CGCxJSA	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Restored	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	3	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	7
Total	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	6	11	12	23	24	25	36	48	56	54	68	41	41	40	21	8	0	0	518

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