The Twilight Zone (Gold Key) 26

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The Twilight Zone #26 (Gold Key)
Publisher:	Gold Key Comics
Series:	The Twilight Zone (Gold Key)
Volume:	Volume 1
Alternate Number:	10016-807; T.T. Zone #26-684
Cover Date:	July 1968
Cover Price:	$0.12 USD
Cover Credits:	? (painted)
Pages:	36 pages
Format:	Color; Saddle-Stitched; Newsprint; Ongoing Series
Artists:	Joe Certa, Andre LeBlanc, Ben Oda, George Evans, Jon D'Agostino, Reed Crandall, Jack Sparling
Previous Issue:	The Twilight Zone (Gold Key) 25
Next Issue:	The Twilight Zone (Gold Key) 27

This was the twenty-sixth issue in the 1962 The Twilight Zone comic series, published by Gold Key Comics.

Series information

Main article: The Twilight Zone (Gold Key)

Publication details

This issue was published in color as a saddle-stitched pamphlet on newsprint. The size was typical of Standard Silver and Modern Age comics and consisted of 36 pages, including ads. The cover was dated July, 1968 and priced at twelve cents (American).

This issue contained four stories—three fully illustrated and one in text format—accompanied by two fact sheets. Each of the illustrated stories over one page in length was introduced by Rod Serling as the Narrator.

Indicia

THE TWILIGHT ZONE, No. 26, July 1968. Published quarterly by Western Publishing Company, Inc., North Road, Poughkeepsie New York 12602. Second-class postage paid at Poughkeepsie, New York. Subscription price in the U.S.A. 45¢ per year; foreign subscription 75¢ per year; Canadian subscriptions 60¢ per year. All rights reserved throughout the world. Authorized edition. Designed, produced and printed in the U.S.A. by Western Printing & Lithographing Co. Copyright © 1968, 1961, 1960 by Cayuga Productions, Inc.

Contents

1. "The Bridegroom"

   Type: Story, 10 pages

   Credits: George Evans (Pencils), George Evans (Inks), Ben Oda (Letters)

   Summary: A Don Juan is arranging a scheme that will set him up for life, but how long will that life be?

   Genre/Subject: Supernatural fiction, Paranormal, Occult, Ghost

   Note: Reprinted: from The Twilight Zone (FC 1288) (February-April 1962)

2. "Journeys Into Oblivion"

   Type: Story, 4 pages

   Credits: Andre LeBlanc (Pencils), Andre LeBlanc (Inks)

   Summary:

   Genre/Subject:

3. "Travelers in the Twilight Zone"

   Type: Fact sheet, 1 page

   Credits: George Evans (Pencils), George Evans (Inks), Jon D'Agostino (Letters)

   Summary: Profiles users with purported psychic talents, such as Nostradamus, Edgar Cayce, Shanti Devi and Peter Hurcos, meant as a supplement to the story "Doomed by Prediction".

   Genre/Subject: Paranormal, Telepathy, Telekinesis, Precognition

4. "The Visions"

   Type: Text story, 1 page

   Credits: Joe Certa (Pencils), Joe Certa (Inks)

   Summary:

   Genre/Subject:

5. "The Joiner"

   Type: Story, 10 pages

   Credits: Reed Crandall (Pencils), George Evans (Inks), Ben Oda (Letters)

   Summary: A feeble man ridiculed by the people closest him finds solace in those not so close to him. Some, in fact, quite, quite distant.

   Genre/Subject: Science fiction, Comedy, Aliens

   Note: Reprinted from The Twilight Zone (FC 1288) (February-April 1962)

6. Dinosauria: "Iguanadon"

   Type: Fact sheet, 1 page

   Credits: Jack Sparling (Pencils), Jack Sparling (Inks), machine type (Letters)

   Summary: Page with information on the Iguanadon species of dinosaur.

   Genre/Subject: History, Prehistory, Dinosaurs

Notes and references

References

• Bob Klein and Mike Tiefenbacher. "The Twilight Zone no 26 (1962 series)." Grand Comics Database. Retrieved: July 11, 2009.

External links

• The Twilight Zone no 26 (1962 series) at Grand Comics Database