OtherEric

I apologize if my answer was a bit terse, but I figured the scans were more eloquent than anything else I might say. I think one of the Picture Stories from Science also had a 15c price but I didn’t have a scan handy.

Thank you. I somewhat remember the discussion but had forgotten the source of the image. When it comes up again in a couple years I'll probably claim I had never heard of the film yet again, knowing me!

Never heard of it before. But agreed, nice mix of books on the stand there!

Thank you. I think in the US we would call both of them newsstands, although the ones that got big enough to be what you would call "newsagents" that were still magazine & paper oriented enough to not be better called bookstores or convenience stores are pretty scarce. I can think of at least one I went to back in the late 80's- early 90's, though. It was simply called Bulldog News, with no stand, agent, or other term appended to the name.

Thank you. That clarifies it quite a bit. I assume by digests you mean stuff like DC Thompson's Commando and Starblazer? From what little I know about them I suspect they have a lot of room to grow as well, although all I've got are about 8 issues of Starblazer. (The Grant Morrison issues, specifically.)

For the yanks in the audience, can you explain the difference between a newsstand and a newsagent? I had been conflating the two in my mind.

Like you say, it's pretty common as pulps go. But it's an awesome 2 issue run to get!

No.

I'm not sure, given that it's almost 40 years ago that the did their last book, I consider anyone who worked on the Warrens a "newer artist". I'll grant that he's a later artist, at least. I'm probably just being excessively pedantic, I do that all too often.

Correct, three issues of Lassie. (20-22, I believe).

According to the Warren index, Easley did the covers for Creepy 129 and 133 during the original run, as well as a handful of interiors.

Nice one! Pretty sure that's a 1st, and has several pages of Baker art that were deleted in all the reprints. If you're looking for other affordable Bakers, the four issues he did for Dell are still not terribly pricey.

Creepy 17 thoughts: Cover: While this is far from Frazetta's last Warren cover, this does mark the end of the era where he is the primary cover artist. This one is firmly in the "mediocre Frazetta is better than most people's best day" category. It may be my least favorite of his Warren covers, although I've never ranked them all in my head. It's still pretty darn spectacular. Loathsome Lore: If you're stuck with reprints, starting with Frazetta is the right place. Zombies: We haven't seen Mastroserio in a while, and he turns in a nice job here. Thundering Terror: Cousin Eerie acting as host points to the problems the books are starting to have, but it's hard to complain about Severin drawing one of his spectacular horror westerns. Mummy's Hand: If they couldn't get Wood to follow up his Mummy adaptaion from Monster World #1, Orlando was an excellent choice. A very nice little story, even if I've never seen the movie, and the fact this was originally in Monster World #2 makes its reprint nature somewhat less obtrusive. Heritage of Horror: Very solid work from Norman Nodel & Goodwin. Fan Page: We get the announcement of Goodwin's departure. He will be back several times, as writer and even editor again, but this really does mark the end of Warren's golden age. Goodwin even now has a reputation as one of the best editors who ever worked in comics, particularly from those whose work he edited, and this run is where his reputation began. Archie Goodwin was the writer on the first comic book I ever collected rather than just randomly reading issues (The original Marvel Star Wars run), he was the writer of the first run of back issues I ever started looking for because I had heard good things about it (Manhunter in Detective Comics #437-443), and to this day he remains one of my favorite comic creators, decades after his death. So I have really enjoyed the chance to finally go back and look at the Warren runs where his astounding body of work began, and see than even at the beginning of his career he was one of the greats. Image in Wax: Great work by Sutton, even compared to his story in Eerie 11 we see how his style of exaggeration is rapidly being honed to serve the story. A Night's Loding (sic): Rhea Dunne has no other credits at Warren or elsewhere that I can find, and may well be a pseudonym. Maurice Whitman had an extremely extensive carrer in comics, but this is his only solo art job for Warren. He co-wrote one other story, and co-drew another, both of which we've already covered in the reading club. Even as one-time contributors they turn in a very solid story here. The Haunted Sky: Roger Brand draws a handful of stories for Warren, as well as writing one. He started out as an assistant to Wally Wood, but he's probably best known for his work in underground comix. His art here is a bit sparse, but works well with the story. And so, the Goodwin era on Creepy ends with one of its strongest issues. When the biggest complaints about an issue are directed toward Frazetta you're looking at a pretty spectacular package.

In today. Just a reader copy... but it will do for when we get there in the Reading Club

My apologies. Is “As one of the few Yanks” suitable as a correction?

Already posted these in the Four Color thread, time to share them here:

I still need 1, 2, 4, and 6. And not being picky on what printing I get, either. The 8 was a 2nd print, although erroneously marked as a first. It was cheap enough I don't care, particularly since I'm not going for a pure 1st print run already. Not counting books that only ran 1-3 issues, I think the only UG full runs I have so far are Zap, Skull, Bijou, Arcade, and Comix Book. Edit: Oh, and Junkwaffel Although now that I think about it, that's a meaningful percentage of UG's that ran 4 or more issues...

At the risk of being overly vague... There's a chance you could find somebody willing to pay a premium for the book, but it would probably take some looking. You could definitely find people unwilling to pay a premium, and possibly only willing to take it at a discount. It's very much a "find the right buyer" situation.

Happy Birthday to Margaret Brundage, who would have been 122 today!

It's Wood's first story in EERIE specifically, although he did the Monster Gallery in issue 5. He had stories in Creepy #9 (Overworked), and Blazing Combat #3 (The Battle of Britain) and #4 (ME-262) so far.

Today's books. Particularly happy with the color on the 647, particularly since it was under $10 at MCS so I was buying without a picture:

Today's books:

A couple more in today:

As the Yank who regularly intrudes on the UK-centric threads, I thought it past time I got myself an official membership pass to this particular club:

I had missed this when it came out, finally found a reasonably priced copy: