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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.

An excellent pickup, with both Howard & Lovecraft providing poems, Howard's poem featuring King Kull.

Well said, Albert's work is amazing to behold. On a different note, were they the UK Ace Doubles or imported American editions? I've got a fairly decent collection of the US doubles but I've only seen scant reference to the UK versions... enough to know they sound fascinating.

SORRY, STILL CAN’T HEAR YOU! There was only one Highlander movie. Period. End of story. Anyone who claims otherwise is misremembering. (It’s not impossible I feel far more strongly about the subject than I really should.)

Highlander was a great movie with great music. It really surprises me that it was just one movie and nobody has ever tried to make a follow up. LA LA LA LA LA I CAN’T HEAR YOU!!!!!

I think it’s safe to say there are nuances to the theatrical credits I didn’t pick up on at age 7, for all that the lyrics made an impact for some reason.

How on earth do you get a Qualified .5? Would it be a NG otherwise?

Music sticks in the memory like nothing else, that's for sure. At the risk of mentioning the competitor in this thread... I saw the Buck Rogers movie in the theater on original release when I was 7 or 8, then loved the TV show when it aired. I quickly forgot the opening credits were different in the theatrical version. But for some reason I remembered some of the lyrics to the theme song every time I saw the credits, even though the TV version didn't use them. It was something of a revelation when I saw the theatrical credits again decades later and went "oh, that's where that came from." Although I had reversed the line to "Who am I, What am I" in my head and to this day the actual version sounds odd to me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BINijYepahA Youtube won't let the video embed... if you've never seen it it's one of the most late 70's things ever.

Also, not Marvel, and the credits listed are all wrong, the date is wrong, and from what we can see it looks better than the assigned grade. Other than that it looks fine.

Confusing barely covers it on that title. I have a couple earlier issues that I'll try to scan, back when it was Saturn Science Fiction. As compared to Saturn, Saturn Web Detective Stories, or Web Terror Stories. The series is legendarily bonkers.

And a couple of UK price stamps:

A couple of Bonnett's.

In today, courtesy of @wpbooks01. The Bijou is the last issue I need for the run, and is surprisingly scarce compared to the rest of the issues... I have no idea why it only had two printings, both fairly low quantity.

Only that it's my third try to get a decent copy, it took me years of looking to find ANY copy. Then MCS screwed up on their listing, I suspect. I think they meant to call it an 8.0... which is pretty much the highest grade I ever see them give an unslabbed book... but it got listed as a 5.0. I grabbed it fast when I saw it. My undercopies. The Looney Tunes thread has dubbed the first one the "Sniffles chewed" copy.

A few more Four Color first issues:

Don’t exaggerate. 20 pages tops, not 100. More seriously, you’re almost certainly right that it’s tied to them figuring out the direct editions going forward.

RIP Aline Kominsky-Crumb: https://www.comicsbeat.com/rip-aline-kominsky-crumb/?amp

The offer of a couple low-grade extra Help!s from me stands, but complete runs seem to be scarce on the ground. As I’ve mentioned, I think I’m the only forum regular who has claimed a full run in their personal collection.

I might argue uniform 3 hole punch holes are appropriately considered a single major defect, albeit a discontinuous one. Not sure the graders see it that way, though.

I don't love the holes, but definitely happy with the books overall!

I think the most I ever paid for a Four Color was $75. Which, at the time, was the most I had ever paid for a comic. It’s looking like the me from 30 years ago made a good call.

With that info, I’ll say around $18,500.