OtherEric

I want both the tire pressure on the truck taking the books to the boat and the tyre pressure on the trucks taking the books to the shops. It’s the details like that that make this thread so colorful. And colourful.

Creepy 1968 Yearbook thoughts: This is the only one of the Yearbooks/ Annuals that Goodwin edited, so it's something of a guide to what he thought the highlights of the early part of his tenure were. Cover: I like the vintage poster look of Uncle Creepy's speech balloon. The cover is incorrectly attributed to Frazetta on the table of contents, given that Davis did the cover for #. It's mostly Frazetta, though. The inside front cover is Davis, not Frazetta, I believe. Goodwin seems to have made an effort to get most of the artists who worked on the first several issues spotlighted, and to make sure it wasn't all his stories. I'm somewhat surprised he didn't include a Toth story rather than two Crandall pieces, but otherwise it's a respectable overview. Overall, this is a pretty solid "introduction to Creepy" book. But I'm not sure of the appeal at this late date... it could have been very interesting back in the day, letting people see out of print material, and as a sampler of the title. But I see little appeal in the modern era. There are plenty of the latter annuals (once they're part of the regular numbering) that are quite worthwhile. There are several excellent artist spotlight issues, and both Vampirella and Eerie will use it to collect serialized stories. There's also quite a few annuals with nice new covers. But at this stage there's not a lot to make me warm up to the book 50+ years after it came out.

It's "Finish the run, Post the run" time!

Today's delivery, completing the run:

The Super-Men.

To quote the article you linked to: "For the punishment, the spelling gantlet is preferred in American English usage guides by Bryan Garner and Robert Hartwell Fiske[8][9] and is listed as a variant spelling of gauntlet by American dictionaries.[1][10] British dictionaries label gantlet as American.[11][12]" Admittedly, it would have been fun if they changed the spelling for the pence version. But my reaction is exactly opposite yours- "Yay! It's one of the rare times they got it right!"

And limited interest in the books for the contents, but yay Frazetta!

Found at a local store today. Low grade, but how often do you see Dell 10c books?

It’s spelled right, but every other appearance of the character spelled it wrong, perhaps?

Happy Turkey Day!

Veni, Vidi, Vici.

Even I've been able to afford a Gaines File Copy. I really need to get it slabbed one of these days. OK, it's so I can say I have a GFC more than anything else... but I've got one!

The Pharoid is from the SDCC set they did a few years ago. The Time Traveler is the only real Mego figure in the lot, although I do have some alternate vintage chest plates I can rotate out on it. (They're stored in the Pharoid time chamber.)

Agreed. “There Will Come Soft Rains…” is my personal all time favorite EC story, and “The Aliens “ is a classic as well.

My local retro store knows I’m looking for micronauts. They don’t show often.

Nobody has a perfect record !

It looks to me like it's rather specifically Walter Lantz/ MGM/ WB characters mixing, each clearly given their own little box even if the overall image is a single drawing. I'm guessing they actually were fully aware from the beginning, then somebody changed their mind about the mixing, or they decided it wasn't worth the headache keeping all three copyright holders happy in one book.

I know I have more books with Jones covers, but these are the ones I could find after a quick search. Some are in my storage unit for sure.

An Epic illustrated cover by Jones:

In this week:

To answer your original question: Jones was probably better known as a cover artist than for her interiors, she only did a handful of stories longer than one page that I'm aware of, probably more than half of those for Warren. They were a member of "The Studio" in the 70's, along with Bernie Wrightson, Barry Windsor-Smith, and Mike Kaluta. Her ex-wife, Louse Jones (later Louise Simonson) will later turn up as an Editor of the Warren Mags as we continue through the reading club. If you want I can try to scan and post some paperback covers later.