-- "The SEED of SHOCK" (as featured in 1977's PARADE OF GORE #1) Text: © 1976, Rick Grimes.  Lettering & Logo: © 1976, Rick Taylor. Illustration: © 1976, Fred Greenberg.

UPDATE! - GRIMES:  ""The SEED of SHOCK" was supposed to read: Where the old alien gets up to leave and it says 'the key / exhilarated' is where line broke wrong. Story actually is supposed to end where 'Skael' puts his hand to his face, like in the picture. "The miscopied (which I was too slack then to double check ahead of time, let alone just do myself) version, as printed, tho' intelligible actually is less preferable to me as it leaves the impression that the other alien's death means nothing at all to Skael, that he is just continuing on to another world. Whereas its supposed to be a culminating failure - the death ever caused by his interpenetrating the other's reality. "And, as printed, the so called ending is really the setting for where the alien is about to die. "Clear as mud and about as important. "Was better rereading it 'today' than thought it was. That cold do that good. Bissette said at the time he didn't think I'd caught it as well as the way I had told it to him, and Fred, before ever writing it. But, then again, I didn't broadcast the error alot after it was printed. Don't even know if anyone ever realised it, or who I told."  -- February 16th, 2009.

GRIMES:  ""My text story called "The SEED of SHOCK" (one-plus pages), with Fred's illo, (actually from '76), was inspired, if that's not overstating my result, by the picture's two overlapping aliens, the largest, more 'faded', seeming to interpenetrate the other being as it falls from a run. Still think it's a fine picture. One Fred contrived from two separate pieces, in printing. If I recall right.