OtherEric

I kinda both love and hate the 6 for a dollar K-Mart stickers at the same time.

This, almost word for word (I have decent tolerance for spine splits when it gives me a book that presents several points higher than the technical grade.) Light foxing, I generally don’t mind. As long as it’s actually foxing, I’ve seen other stains or mold inaccurately called foxing frequently.

It was mostly (but not quite entirely) a joke, based on the fact the issue adapted the story Carmilla, which is where Warrant got the title for their magazine and the host character therein. I assume the reason they can get away with such an otherwise blatant Vampirella- inspired character is that they can point to the original story (which dates to 1872) as the source.

I know it's poor form to go back to a previous week's book, but since this is a semi-vacation week anyway: How the heck did none of us flag the reason the Creepy #19 is hard to find as "1st Vampiress Carmilla" !?!

It's been very eye-opening to me to realize just how much of Wrightson's style came from Ingels. Not all of it-- Wrightson had his own brilliance as well-- but the base he built off was almost pure Ingels.

And Porky to wrap it up:

Bugs next:

And the four colors. This finished off the Elmers.

And, finally, a handful of Elmer Fudd issues that completes my set of that title.

And here's the start of the aforementioned MCS lot that arrived today, I'll scan more after I eat dinner. I'm sure I already have a 317 somewhere, but for the life of me I couldn't find it. This one is nicer looking anyway:

And today's incoming book:

Issue #13, only a dozen left to go. I also got a lot of Four Colors I'll post in that thread first, then drop in here in a day or two.

Today's pair of books:

The dialogue actually seems slightly more complex than a typical Spidey Super Stories to me.

$552 with buyers premium. Didn’t see that coming.

I do. And I think it’s better than a 4.0, for that matter:

Not the face! Not the face!

I've got one or two books where being remaindered is how I could afford it.

Saw this one today. I guess people have figured out it's a scarce issue, I wonder where it will land:

Interesting catch! There's enough of both similarities and differences that I wonder if they're both referencing a third original, rather than the Vampi swiping directly from the pulp cover.

Me, without a comment for the reading group? You wound me, @Axe Elf! Eerie 14 thoughts: Cover: Prezio provides a very good cover that fits the story quite nicely. It's nice to see that, even in the dark ages, they seem to be working very hard to provide covers that go with the issues. I suspect the Creepy #18 cover was intended for Famous Monsters originally... where I could easily see an article discussing early Amazing Stories, where the swipe would be a nice touch. On to the stories: Other than the monster gallery, these are all reprints from Creepy, not Eerie. (13 was also all non-Eerie reprints, although I didn't catch it there.) I'll give them credit for that, it lets them get slightly earlier material, and if for some reason somebody was collecting Eerie but not Creepy, it would give them new material. I suppose they did admit this on the cover, calling it "Tales in the Creepy Tradition!" The reprints are all good choices, the mini-spotlight on Angelo Torres is nice. They actually did a good job of subbing in Cousin Eerie for Uncle Creepy this issue, I didn't catch any glaring textual errors this time. The last story does refer to the next Ghoulsome Goody, but that could be the next issue as well as the next story. Bonus points to them for catching the mid-story comment by the host and updating that as well. All in all, this is a quite solid issue. The only complaint is that it's all-reprint past the cover, at a point when the annuals were not part of the regular numbering. As Creepy Yearbook 1968.5, this would be fine. As an unheralded all-reprint issue of Eerie... I would be very unhappy grabbing this off the stands if I had been reading both Creepy & Eerie since the start. But as a casual reader picking up a random issue, it's a good package.

I couldn't figure out where to enter the code. It would have only made about $8 difference, so I ordered anyway, they should arrive next week. 16 more Looney Tunes related four colors I need.

As far as I'm concerned, Spidey Super Stories is an underrated title in general. I'm all ready if the prices jump, though: