Axe Elf

Circular logic is when one assumes the conclusion to an argument as a premise in that argument. I don't believe I am guilty of that. If you think I have missed something, however, I would appreciate enlightenment.

To which I replied that he had missed the point, but that I appreciated his participation. And that brings us back to DOH!

Sure. My point was that if people knew ahead of time that they should not expect to get anything back when they send stuff to CGC, it would save them countless hours of worrying about getting their stuff back. I think most people break this general rule by submitting things with the expectation of getting them back.

Sorry, you missed the point, but thanks for playing!

There's something wonky about that top staple, like it might not be attached all that well at the bottom, but disregarding that, I would say around a 4.0.

Knowing this ahead of time would have saved countless people untold hours of anxiety.

We really need a third-party case-grading company. That one looks like about a 4.5.

That's awesome! Love hearing those memories of first Warren experiences! Cool grandmother!

That's a good idea too, but as I said last week, if they were going to reprint "The Invitation" at all, it should have been in the EERIE Yearbook, and not the CREEPY one. I was hoping you'd have the accurate count!

EERIE 1970 Yearbook - August 1969 (One of the original "Po' Boy EERIE Collection" copies that hasn't been upgraded--yet...) According to the Warren Magazine Index... 1. cover: montage of previous covers (1969) 1) Cousin Eerie’s Welcome [Jack Davis] 1p reprinted from ? 2) Soul Of Horror [Archie Goodwin/Angelo Torres] 8p reprinted from Eerie #3 (May 1966) 3) Shrieking Man! [Archie Goodwin/Steve Ditko] 7p reprinted from Eerie #4 (July 1966) 4) The Masque Of The Red Death [Tom Sutton] 6p from the story by Edgar Allan Poe, reprinted from Eerie #12 (Nov. 1967) 5) The Wanderer! [Archie Goodwin/Dan Adkins] 8p reprinted from Eerie #9 (May 1967) 6) A Matter Of Routine [Archie Goodwin/Gene Colan] 8p reprinted from Eerie #5 (Sept. 1966) 7) The Quest [Archie Goodwin/Donald Norman] 6p reprinted from Eerie #7 (Jan. 1967) 8) One For De-Money [E. Nelson Bridwell/Angelo Torres] 7p reprinted from Eerie #2 (Mar. 1966) 9) Terror In The Tomb [Archie Goodwin/Rocke Mastroserio] 7p reprinted from Eerie #9 (May 1967) 10) Easy Way To A Tuff Surfboard! [Archie Goodwin/Frank Frazetta] ½p reprinted from Eerie #2 (May 1966) Notes: Publisher: James Warren. Editor: Bill Parente. $.60 for 72 pages. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As with last week's Yearbook, I can't say too much here or I won't have anything to write about in my review. It does appear, though, that the "Cousin Eerie's Welcome" is not a reprint at all, but an original introduction to this 1970 EERIE Yearbook. The original introduction to Cousin Eerie was printed back in EERIE #2, but this isn't that. One more relaxing week of retrospection before we burst out of the Dark Ages with what is probably the hottest consecutive trio of releases in the entire Warren catalog--CREEPY #29, EERIE #23, and VAMPIRELLA #1! June is going to be fun!

Hey wait a minute...

Nope, I pretty much know nothing about comics that aren't Warrens. But that does make a lot more sense. Now the part that doesn't make sense is why are they being discussed in a thread about highly-graded comics...

Looks like a fairly significant piece out on the back cover; I wanna say about a 3.5, maybe 4.0.

Wow. That's bizarre. That's like going on spring break in heaven.

Well, I thought I had reached my stopping point, with the culmination of my Warren collection, but then... The same storage box that had those CREEPYs and EERIEs from my high school years also contained my nearly-complete runs of the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and Fat Freddy's Cat titles from college (which I originally posted in this thread HERE--I have since added FFFB #13 and the Free Comic Book Day issues--I really need to scan them some day; these are just pics I took with my phone--but I digress). Anyway, when I saw a run of the first 9 issues of Rip Off Comix ("1st print"; were there more?) up for sale on daBay, it was the first time I'd seriously considered moving my stopping point. I have learned about many great titles from my days on these boards, but other than the Warrens, I've been able to content myself with digital editions of most of them--but if the Warrens represented my youth, the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers represented my young adulthood, and I began to sorely covet. I knew there were like 30 Rip Off Comix, but I thought I had read somewhere that only the first dozen or so were worth getting, and then @OtherEric wrote something about getting all of them that he wanted, even if he didn't have them all, so I consulted with him. He was able to inform me of the hiatus the magazine took, resulting in no 13th issue, and I was like, "Yep, I think I'd be happy with just getting the first 12," and my stopping point was moved. The seller was asking more than I wanted to pay at first, but after watching the lot not moving for a while, and a couple of inquiries to the seller, I ended up paying about 70% of the original asking price. Another two purchases tacked on #10, #11, #12, and an extra #7, for some reason (so if anyone wants a Rip Off Comix #7, I have a spare)--and I reached my stopping point again. And then I saw pics of later issues of Rip Off Comix with the Brothers on the cover! So who says I don't need the later issues; I've got to have them all! ALL, I tell you in the name of God--ALL!!! And my stopping point moved again... I managed to find a lot of 14 of the remaining 18 issues in a single lot, for less than $10 each, but after piecing together the last 4 issues from various sellers (including $33 for a #28--all the listings I could find were at least twice that!) I was starting to get some serious sticker shock and some moderate buyer's remorse. Fortunately, the lot of 14 books were in almost as good condition as my lottery ticket Vampirella lot, so that helped ease the remorse a great deal. The lot of 9 books isn't in BAD condition, but they're not as minty either. Ironically, the books I bought individually (and therefore paid the most to get here, with their individual shipping charges and tax) are in the worst condition of the bunch. Oh well. So there's about five of them that have some scuffing and corner creasing, but overall, it's a pretty solid run. And I really hope I have achieved my stopping point again. (But there's always Famous Monsters of Filmland...)

But even that is kind of in keeping with the Warren tradition of reprints.

Arrived today; pretty cool. The cover is almost cardstock, and even the interior pages are of a heavy, glossy paper--it's a sturdy book, and in really good shape! Love that fine print on the back cover--"Ad is for display only. DO NOT ORDER. Company is no longer in business!"

I do like that the all-Frazetta cover harkens back to the golden years of CREEPY (and cool that they reworked the CREEPY #16 cover as @OtherEric mentioned)—but I guess I just don’t get the idea of a “Yearbook” that goes back two or three years. I would have hoped that each Yearbook would have served as a retrospective of the best stories of the past year, but it seems like any previous material is fair game. Granted in a year where half or more of the stories published were reprints, there wasn’t much new material to spotlight, but it still would have been nice if each Yearbook stood for an actual year. That said, the reprints are pretty representative of the top artists of those early years—the Frazetta covers, two pieces by Morrow, two pieces by Ditko, a Crandall and a Neal Adams—all of which were penned by the original Archie Goodwin. So you couldn’t really ask for more in terms of the quality of the material included. And then we get to the ugly duckling, the “one of these things is not like the others” story—the only story not written by Goodwin, with art by Manny Stallman, who has consistently received lukewarm-at-best reviews here in the Warren Magazine Reading Club—“The Invitation.” This story didn’t even originally appear in CREEPY; it was first printed in the EERIE #1 ashcan edition before later appearing in CREEPY #8. So what the heck, people?? If they were going to reprint this story at all, they should have reprinted it in the first EERIE Yearbook, coming up next week—that's where it really belongs. Ironically, "The Invitation" was probably the story that I remembered the best--maybe because we've already seen it twice before (and at least we get the full bald-headed man in this printing). Most of the others fall into the category that I talked about last week, where it takes me a minute of reviewing the story before I get that, "Oh yeah, that was the one where..." feeling. But I don't have a lot to say about any of them the second time around, other than that “Blood of Krylon” still makes me think of crimson spray paint. I also liked the collage of panels from the stories inside the front cover, but it kind of made up for the fact that there were no panels from the stories on the "Contents" page as there usually are--so it basically just turned the Contents page into a two-page spread.

Great story! You don't post much, and I don't collect much, but as I have gotten into collecting the Warrens over the past year, I have enjoyed browsing your high-end collections, so you're a little bit of a hero to me (and I was giddy when you posted in my Warren Magazine Reading Club one time)! I for one am glad to hear that you follow the Comic Magazine forum posts, and I would love to hear from you more often!

Looks like a tiny staple tear on the top staple and some bends to the bottom of the back cover, but the most salient defects appear to be the long color-breaking crease at the lower left of the back cover, through OJ's body, and the stain/paint/abrasion/color lift or whatever it is in the "S" of the logo. Between those two things alone, I could see the book grading between 5.5 and 7.0, depending on what that is in the logo.