OtherEric

Double the pages, double (or more) the stickers or stamps! I love it!

Nice catch, I hadn’t noticed the All-Star ripped off the Pep Comics cover the Three Ring reprinted

There's a very long running thread over in magazines that covers all Vampi books, not just the Warrens: And, to add some images here:

Posted this over in the Looney Tunes thread as well, in today. 1st issue of a long-running title.

I like your current profile pick. And it's nice timing to get the 1st issue of Tweety's comic so close to the actual anniversary, isn't it?

In today:

Agree with the 5.0-6.0 range. Miles better than my copy, certainly.

Thank you for trying on this.

I'm not sure either, but it seems likely. This issue came out between the second and third cartoons featuring Sam, and the coloring glitch suggests to me it was partly based on "Along Came Daffy", which has twin Sams, one with black hair. If the character had been in the comic before, they probably would have gotten it right here. I'm speculating on awful thin evidence here, but I would be surprised if this wasn't the first appearance. But I was surprised by the Coyote look-alike before his first cartoon, so it's not impossible.

Oh, I'm not questioning that's it's legit; I just think it might be one of those weird outliers that pop up now and then. Who knows what the next copy in a similar grade will go for?

And the #72 has just jumped up my want list, even if this sale is a fluke it's a great cover.

Another three hole book I picked up earlier this year.

No COA, the best it has is the Metropolis label on the bag, which does say it's a GFC. I do not know if that is sufficient for CGC to label it as such. For that matter, none of the Fantucchio books I've gotten from MCS had COA's, either. If you find out what is required to get the pedigree on the label, let me know... I would love to get the Mad submitted, and maybe a couple of the Fantucchio's.

Glad I could help. Metropolis was where I got my GFC Mad magazine, it looks like they have a few affordable ones left as well.

A very nice milestone indeed! Are you specifically looking for only Golden Age books, or will any era do? MCS has quite a few inexpensive Fantucchio books, and if you look around a bit there are later issues of MAD that are Gaines File Copies.

Just a very short essay, no art.

Snagged at the local Barnes & Noble yesterday. Slightly beat up, and honestly I haven't been overwhelmed by the actual content of the Warrant books I've seen. But who among us can resist a new Sanjulian cover fresh off the newsstand?

Not something I'm personally that interested in, but saw this on the pulp covers blog and thought the stamp would be of interest here, at least. https://pulpcovers.com/the-golden-treasure-that-was-hidden-for-2500-years/

I have no clue what library this was a copy for.

I actually don't... I had to copy and paste to get the symbol!

Still arguably better than 1L rather than 1£, which they tried on this one:

I don't suppose you thought to count how many holes it would take to fill the hall while you were there, did you?

I missed Roger here a couple months ago. Elton was the last show I saw before Covid hit. Saw McCartney a few years ago, I started the show hoping I would have his energy when I reached his age and ended wishing I had his energy now. Then for the encore he brought the surviving members of Nirvana on stage to join him. Incredible shows, all. Would dearly love to see the Who some time. The Eagles keep going by getting their kids to play as they die off, apparently. Which makes as much sense as anything, I suppose. A comic to pull us semi back on topic, although pretty sure this particularly copy has never made it to the UK.

One of my great regrets is that I never had the chance to see a Pink Floyd concert. Saw Roger Waters do The Wall twice, though! Incredible shows.

I think this is Orlando's only Warren cover, but I could be wrong. Eerie #11 thoughts: Cover: Joe Orlando does a nice job on the cover here. For all that I haven't been a fan of a lot of Orlando's work for Warren, he was a spectacular artist. Monster Gallery: For some reason, the perspective on this one seems off to me. Adams seems to be going for an exaggerated effect on the Minotaur, and goes a little too far with it to work. It's still fascinating to see his early work as he figures out how to do stuff. Witch Hunt: One of Orlando's best stories for Warren, I think. Beautiful and effective art. To Slay a Dragon: Again, beautiful art by Jones, although again somewhat reliant on heavy scripting by Goodwin to clarify the storytelling. The Mummy: We get into reprints here, this one is from Monster World #1... and the first Warren horror comic. Wally Wood's famous quote is clearly in play here... "Never draw anything you can copy, never copy anything you can trace, never trace anything you can cut out and paste up." But so is the less often included second part of the quote... "Then draw the **** out of everything that's left." A surprisingly successful compression of the classic movie into six pages. Berenice: It's Grandenetti. Insert standard "I respect the craft but the result leaves me cold" refrain at this point. The Blood Fruit: Good story, not Craig's best art... but Craig on his not best day is still pretty good. The Monster from One Billion BC: Sutton's first work anywhere, not just for Warren. This has signs of early work; a lot of the faces are a bit too exaggerated to really work well. Sutton quickly got much better at using exaggeration like a scalpel, it's one of his signature tricks. Still, a very impressive debut by a great artist who remains very underrated. Big Change: The only Warren credit for either Ron Whyte or Larry Woromay. Woromay had credits in comics dating back to the early 50's. Whyte has a smattering of scripts at various publishers. I found the story an impressive twist but the art was underwhelming... I would have guessed the artist was the one with their third published story here and the writer was the veteran, but the reverse is true. First Blood: I can't get past the goofy fangs Colan draws in this one. Ironic given that arguably Colan's most famous work was his 70 issue run on Marvel's Tomb of Dracula. My somewhat mixed comments above to the contrary, I felt this was one of the stronger issues we've read recently. It may technically be the last Goodwin edited issue from his original tenure, but I'll have more to say about that with Creepy #17 and Eerie #12.