#9

Synopsis

Thurber befriends an eccentric painter named Pickman who paints incredibly morbid paintings of demonic entities. Pickman shows Thurber his underground studio in a old part of the city and shows him his latest painting, that of an evil looking monster feeding on humans. Pickman explains he takes photographs of backgrounds that he uses in his paintings. When Pickman gets spooked by a noise and goes to investigate, Thurber pockets one of Pickman's photographs. After he returns to the city, he sees that the photograph was of the monster in the painting. These demons that Pickman paints are real!

Credits

Script

Larry Lieber, Stan Lee

Plot

Stan Lee

Pencils

Bernie Wrightson, Tom Palmer, Don Heck, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko

Inks

Bernie Wrightson, Tom Palmer, Don Heck, Christopher Rule, Steve Ditko

Colours

Tom Palmer

Letters

Morrie Kuramoto, Sam Rosen, Ray Holloway

Editor

Stan Lee

Adaptation

Roy Thomas

Layout

Marie Severin

Original story

H. P. Lovecraft