Monday, May 24, 2021

The Witches Cauldron #1 and The Panther's Revenge: The cover story

 Gredown's The Witches Cauldron #1 was published in 1976:


The cover art, likely by Phil Belbin, is based on two panels from the lead story, The Witch of Hog Wallow (incorrectly titled The Witch of Hog Hollow on the front cover) :



The cover was recycled by Gredown a few years later for The Panther's Revenge: 


Interestingly, the bumpkin figure in front of the panther is replaced by a rendition of the priest figure from the lead story Sweet Resentment. The panel below shows both Priest Nofrite and the panther:


Not only is the priest on the cover clearly based on Priest Nofrite, but the figure appears to be the very same figure on The Witches Cauldron #1 touched up to represent the priest. 

Clearly there was an attentive editorial hand at work in this instance.

The contents of The Witches Cauldron #1 and The Panther's Revenge have been indexed on AusReprints along with many of the splash panels to the various stories.

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