Issues of the comic had described themselves as "graphic prose", or simply as a novel. Similarly, "Sabre: Slow Fade of an Endangered Species" by writer Don McGregor and artist Paul Gulacy (Eclipse Books, August 1978)—the first graphic novel sold in the newly created "direct market" of United States comic-book shops—was called a "graphic album" by the author in interviews, though the publisher dubbed it a "comic novel" on its credits page. "Graphic album" was also the term used the following year by Gene Day for his hardcover short-story collection "Future Day" (Flying Buttress Press). Another early graphic novel, though it carried no self-description, was "The Silver Surfer" (Simon & Schuster/Fireside Books, August 1978), by Marvel Comics' Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. Significantly, this was published by a traditional book publisher and distributed through bookstores, as was cartoonist Jules Feiffer's "Tantrum" (Alfred A. Knopf, 1979) described on its dust jacket as a "novel-in-pictures". Hyperbolic descriptions of longer comic books as "novels" appear on covers as early as the 1940s. Early issues of DC Comics' "All-Flash", for example, described their contents as "novel-length stories" and "full-length four chapter novels". In its earliest known citation, comic-book reviewer Richard Kyle used the term "graphic novel" in "Capa-Alpha" #2 (November 1964), a newsletter published by the Comic Amateur Press Alliance, and again in an article in Bill Spicer's magazine "Fantasy Illustrated" #5 (Spring 1966). Kyle, inspired by European and East Asian graphic albums (especially Japanese "manga"), used the label to designate comics of an artistically "serious" sort. Following this, Spicer, with Kyle's acknowledgment, edited and published a periodical titled "Graphic Story Magazine" in the fall of 1967. "The Sinister House of Secret Love" #2 (Jan. 1972), one of DC Comics' line of extra-length, 48-page comics, specifically used the phrase "a graphic novel of Gothic terror" on its cover. The term "graphic novel" began to grow in popularity months after it appeared on the cover of the trade paperback edition (though not the hardcover edition) of Will Eisner's "A Contract with God" (October 1978).