SteveDuin

Next time I get a collection, Jeff, I'll just drive over to your house

Creepy 71. 8.0 VF COW. Ken Kelly cover. Bernie Wrightson frontispiece. Bruise bottom spine. Still sweet at $30

Creepy 72. 9.4 NM or better. OW. Ken Kelly cover. Josep Gual issue. A 9.6 copy of this sold for $162 ... in 2009. And this may well be a 9.6. Underpriced at $125. SOLD via PM

Creepy 73. 9.4 NM COW. Ken Kelly cover. Tiny discoloration by the heel at the lower right corner of the front cover, which you might consider a reason to lower the grade further. Not me. Wrightson, Corben, Severin interior art. $75 SOLD to jr70

Four more, then I'm taking a brief break. A memorable quartet. Creepy 74. 8.5 VF+ COW. Reed Crandall cover. Heck, it's all Reed Crandall. Dings bottom right corner front cover, bottom edge front cover and left edge back cover. $25 SOLD via PM

You're darn right I'm keeping the #76, a photo of which I've included below. But here's Creepy 75. 8.0 VF OW. Ken Kelly cover. Sumptuous color but an impact ding at the top of the spine. Wrightson, Toth, Adams, Severin, Wood interior art. $25

Creepy 77. 9.0 VF/NM OW. Sanjulian. Light flaws art edges, ding at bottom of the spine. Bernie Wrightson, Alex Toth, Richard Corben interior art. $40 SOLD to jr70

Creepy 78. 8.0 VF COW. Sanjulian cover. Light stress lines at spine on the front cover, a major honker on the back cover. Alex Toth, John Severin, Wally Wood interior art. And, yeah, I do bump up the Sanjulians. I'd happily keep 'em all. $40

Creepy 79. 7.0 FV/VF OW. A spectacular 7.0 Sanjulian cover with a tiny puncture hole along the right edge of the front cover, which also affects the first tiny page. Tiny chip out of the bottom right corner of the front cover and several flaws on the edges of the back cover. $25

Creepy 80. NM- 9.2 COW. Ken Kelly cover. We're in June '76, if you're keeping score. Alex Toth and Esteban Maroto interior art. Faint imperfections at edges, none of which (you've heard this before) detract from the power and the glory and the depth of color on the cover. $60 SOLD via PM

Creepy 81. 8.0 VF COW. Iconic Ken Kelly cover. Warble or two at the edges. Tiny nicks bottom edge back cover, and flaws on the right edge of the back cover that were inflicted, as so many are, in the publishing process or the newsstand rack. $35 SOLD to jr70

Creepy 82. 9.0 VF/NM COW. All Maroto issue, with the Maroto/DuBay cover. Light crease top right corner front cover. $20 SOLD to jr70

Creepy 83. Sigh. 7.0 FN/VF COW. Frank Frazetta cover, and a semi-perfect one, but the back cover has a water/wrinkle spasm near the top right corner of the back cover. Bernie Wrightson, Russ Heath, Richard Corben, Al Williamson interior art. $25

I've thought a lot about time, dedication and chance while going these Warrens, the time and dedication required to assemble a run like this, the pure chance involved in finding so many of the comics in this condition. That you could not pull that off in 2022 is irrelevant, I suppose: No one is trying. No one is on the lookout. Almost no one remembers the void the Warren comics filled in the late '60s among collectors who were alive when ECs when on the newsstand. The 145-issue run is a loud, brash, chaotic snapshot of what was possible in comics, from 1965 to 1983, when Archie Goodwin, Louise Jones or Bill DuBay were at the controls, offering space and a decent page rate to Frazetta, Williamson, Wrightson, Corben, Crandall and a bunch of wild Spaniards. I knew the original collector for the last 30 years of his life, and I'm sure he devoured the stories and their topless heroines, ever so gingerly, before setting the comics, in groups of 15, in brown paper bags, where they remained when he died. The ones I'm keeping will always have his name on the back of their mylar sleeve, because his name and his era and his passion for Sanjulian, Ken Kelly, Neal Adams and Russ Heath is so familiar to me. That they're not equally familiar or desirable to folks on the Boards isn't a tragedy, just another subtle reminder that many of the things we cherish are products of an era that disappears with us at the bittersweet end.

I wish you good health ... but you're gonna leave some amazing magazines for your heirs.

And the last one for tonight: Creepy 84, 9.4 NM COW. Ken Kelly cover. Green and gorgeous. $50 SOLD to jr70

Creepy 85. 8.0 VF COW. Ken Kelly cover. Infantino and Simonson interior art. Bindery tear top spine more pronounced than usual. Small tear at spine right edge back cover. Prominent staples. $20

Creepy 86. 9.0 VF/NM OW. Ken Kelly cover. If Covid persists, this is next year's Christmas card. Light wear at edges ... that pales before the glory of the image, the color strike, the gloss. Infintessimal crease top right corner front cover. The photo suggests a blemish at the lower left corner of the front cover. Nope. $35 SOLD to jr70

Creepy 87. 9.0 VF/NM COW. Wrightson/DuBay cover. Light wear at edges. Wrightson, Gray Morrow, John Severin, Wally Wood interior art. $30

Creepy 88. 9.2 NM- or better. COW. Steve Hickman cover. A flutter here and there, but c'mon ... $50 SOLD via PM

Creepy 89. 9.0 VF/NM COW. Frank Frazetta cover, reprinting Blazing Combat #1. A light warble here and there, a bit of a scrape at the bottom o the spine, but check out the spine, the corners, the deep blacks .... $65 SOLD via PM

Creepy 90. VF/NM OW. Enrich Torres cover. Carmine Infantino interior art. Light wear at edges, faint crease right edge front cover, but nothing that mars the dark, rich presentation here. $40 SOLD to jr70

Creepy 91. 8.5 VF+ COW. Frank Frazetta cover, reprinting Vampirella #11. Ding at spine, light crease lower right corner bottom front cover, slight rubbing back cover. But what a friggin' squarebound. What a spine. What a glorious array -- Bernie Wrightson, Neal Adams, Alex Toth, John Severin -- of interiorl art. $700 To the vault it goes

Creepy 92. 8.5 VF+ OW. The $5.4 million image, a Frazetta cover that first appeared on Eerie 23. Light wear left edge/spine of front cover, the other minor flaws around back. $45

Creepy 93. 9.0 VF/NM COW. You're right. It's ridiculous that I'm describing VF/NM books as "fallow." Don Maitz cover. Severin, Nino and Infantino interior art. Light wear on a tight, glossy squarebound. $20 SOLD to jr70