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Two from KAYO Books today. The Blue Book has a Damon Runyon story:

Found at KAYO Books in SF today. Not high on my personal priority list… but at $20 there was no chance I was leaving it there, either:

Found at Borderland Books in SF today:

The last time I was in SF, I had to report I didn’t see a single underground in the vicinity of Haight Ashbury. This time, it went better. Not a huge selection, but Mr. Natural #3 was one I needed. And as a comic geek, buying an underground on the corner of Haight Ashbury was just a perfect moment.

Back before I was going for everything, I grabbed this one because the cover was so intriguing

I know. I don’t mind it the way some people do, but I get what you mean. One of my favorite projects was getting all of Heinlein’ pre-war pulps. Fascinating looking at the older books, and in a couple cases earlier versions of the stories

I'm not even disagreeing, exactly. How often was a Siamese twin involved in an EC story, anyway? It just doesn't impact my enjoyment of the stories in the slightest.

Welcome to the forums and the thread, Doc! Keep showing books like these and you'll keep getting lots of likes... we love this stuff here, no matter how many times all of us have seen them!

I certainly don't recall many examples of that... although I also think we've seen at least a couple. I may be thinking of books with multiples of the same T&P stamp, though. I find it amusing they had so much trouble selling this one... Farnham's Freehold is generally considered Heinlein's worst book. Certainly not one I cared for.

Agreed. His Warren work was pretty uniformly first rate. Then again, I rarely recall seeing any art from him I would consider bad. Scripts, yes. Coloring, yes. Actual ART? Very little that wasn't first rate, and even what wasn't was still interesting. Even his later projects for DC were fun. Somewhere between bonkers and borderline incoherent -script wise, but they looked great.

No apology needed! I never meant for that to sound like I was complaining. I just genuinely thought the Underground thread would enjoy it as well!

The underground thread would love to see some of the Griffin stuff if you feel like cross posting:

Nice book, 7.0 looks about right to me as well. I would rename the topic, though... I saw it and wondered how the heck you could have a PGM on a Signature Series book.

Creepy 14 thoughts: Cover: Morrow knocks it out of the park. Loathsome Lore: Decent art and writing, but as is frequent with the lore pages it's hard pressed to do as much as it wants with only one page. Where sorcery Lives: The Goodwin/ Ditko team continues to be absolutely magnificent. Art of Horror: A nice twist, but Grandenetti's art continues to turn me off. Not a lot I can add at this point. Snakes Alive: Castellon's art looks more like "talented amateur" than professional caliber at this point... I can see bits with lots of potential along with a lot of very underwhelming work. The Beckoning Beyond: Adkins & Pearson provide some first rate art for a story where Goodwin gets downright Lovecraftian. Piece by Piece: Nice Orlando art as Goodwin does a riff on Frankenstein. Castle Carrion: Beautiful work by Crandall. Curse of the Vampire: This isn't even close to Adams comic book debut, despite what the index says... he had done quite a few pages for Archie, some promotional comic books, and some ads in comic form that had appeared in comics, never mind the Ben Casey comic strip the index mentions. All this means that Adams had several years of experience in comics in various forms under his belt before he finally drew this story, which is his first multi-page comic story in a regular newsstand comic, and the first comic book I'm aware of where he's actually credited. And it looks like full-blown Neal Adams, doing his amazing, brilliant, innovative work. It would not surprise me to learn Adams plotted this, or at the very least Goodwin wrote it Marvel Style, because it seeems tailored to Adams. That wouldn't have really been possible at this point since it's his first story. Adams is arguably the most influential comic book artist of all time. (Although you can certainly make a case for Kirby at the very least, and I might listen to a couple other names.) Pretty much everything from the early 70's on shows his influence to greater or lesser degree. And this is fundamentally where that all started. Another great issue!

Only about half reprints, actually. Here's another Sheldon Mayer final issue:

And a few more Marvel Monsters to wrap it up. Anybody else find Tales of the Zombie to be the scarcest Marvel Monster Mag?

I'm pretty sure I already have a copy of Dracula Lives #1 in my storage unit, but I haven't been able to find it. And I really don't see a downside to having a spare copy these days, anyway.

We've discussed how Creepy #29 has been becoming hard to find here already, I'm quite happy to finally nail down a copy. We haven't really discussed the #63 becoming harder to get, but the reason I haven't mentioned it is because I've been desperately looking for months and not finding a copy that wasn't priced sky-high. It's got the first publication of "Jenifer", which may be Wrightson's finest hour. The #30, by contrast, was a simple target of opportunity, whereas the other two were probably the top two on my Creepy want list.

Some early 1984's

A few Warrens; the Movie Aliens Illustrated doesn't have any comics... but it seems to be the non-comic issue that gets included when people try to make the numbering make sense. Warren Presents is too messy for that to ever actually work, but at least having it will keep my OCD from having only 13 issues of a series that ends at 14. Back to scanning, more soon.

I'll start with the magazine size books. I've wanted to upgrade from the digest format Chandler to the full size edition for a very long time, but since I did have the digest and the big version is a pain to search for separately from the original online, I haven't been looking too hard. Still, this is a long standing tick on the want list. I've also wanted the Heavy Metal 1941 adaptation a long time, I've heard very good things about it. But it's another one where trying to nail the search terms can be a nightmare looking online. The Time^2 books have been on my "if I ever spot these I'll grab them" list for a while, as well; but not urgent. Still, they were cheap, and the Chaykin sig is a nice bonus.

One book from Grit City Comic Show today. What a great cover.

A couple books from Grit City Comic Show today. Getting the Vault means I finally have at least one issue of each New Trend title (counting Crypt of Terror/ Tales from the Crypt as one). The Panic #6 is actually a downgrade, but since my other copy is the Don & Maggie Thompson copy I've wanted a reader for this one. And who knows, maybe someday I'll get it sketched.

Grit City show killed my budget in about an hour. Scans when I get home after lunch. A preview:

Heading down to the show in a few minutes!