OtherEric

Some I got in yesterday:

About the same, other than the staples. I think I would be going for most of the books, anyway, but it's definitely impacting the order of the search. And some, like the Yearbooks/ Annuals, and Warren Presents, might not have been on the list otherwise.

And in today. I'm only 3 books short of having everything I need for the reading club through March 2023 now. Still about 200 books short of the full list, though.

There are at least a few of us who really do appreciate your efforts, @Get Marwood & I. Not that I'll ever do anything with the info (other than keep an eye open for the books), but I'm glad the information is available. Thank you.

Call those two mycomicshop.com lottery ticket wins... they were both listed as GD and cost $2.60 each. They're not perfect but they're definitely extreme examples of glorious MCS undergrading.

And, as promised earlier, some Creepys:

Both are amazing. Heath really knocked himself out on Cowgirls at War in particular. I thought about mentioning Wrightson on the EC bit, but was confining myself to cases of “they got the actual artists”, not just they got incredible artists. Then again, the more I’ve seen, the more I realize just how much of Wrightson‘s style comes from Ingels.

Some more Eeries today. This puts me right at the half-way mark for the Eerie run, including the Yearbook/ Annuals I'm at 71 of 142. I'll have some Creepys to post when I get home from work tonight, as well. But no time to scan them before I have to leave.

Today's additions. The Elmer Fudd is the last Looney Tunes Four Color:

In today. 1st print.

A great example of Grandenetti's craft... I'm starting to admire him more and more for his sheer skill, but nothing seems to make me actually LIKE it. There are some creators I just wind up going "the problem is me, not them" and Grandenetti is definitely on that list.

In this case, "Peter Money" was actually Peter Bramely, not Peter Max. You're right on the "you never know" bit, though. I think my favorite examples of that are in The Very Large Book of Comical Funnies. The section on "Lost" E.C. Comics includes work from Russ Heath, who did work on a few ECs, and then a bit later the "Sap Comix" parody includes work from S. Clay Wilson and Spain. It's an amazing book... completely useless as a history of comics, because if was parodying everything, but also clearly written with a better grasp of the actual history of comics than some if not most of the comic histories available at that time.

Famous Monsters bought, to relaunch : https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/corey-taylor-relaunches-famous-monsters-1234609243/

http://comixjoint.com/zapcomix3-1st.html http://comixjoint.com/zapcomix10-1st.html They're both either 1st or 2nd prints. The 10 should say if it's a 2nd on the inside front cover, if it doesn't say it's a second them it's a first. The 3, I don't know how to determine it easily (comixjoint pretty much says break out a micrometer) but is probably a 2nd given the relative quantities. More info at the link. Nice pickups, by the way!

Comparison of digest (what you have) to bedsheet, standard pulp size is somewhere in the middle, close to regular comic size.

My guess is the one on the left is very, very slightly out of register. I've seen a lot of off register pulps over the years. Obviously an extreme case, but you can see how it winds up making things blurry even beyond the obvious off register aspect.

First use of the Spider-Woman name, I believe.

So help me, it didn't even occur to me that they were both Gorilla covers until you pointed it out...

I would guess a 5.0 or so with the ink loss in the black areas and the color breaking spine ticks.

I love the whole series. Had a lot of fun talking to Matt about it at ECCC a few years ago.

It might have stemmed from different arrangements with Marvel and DC at the time causing a special set of circumstances with that book. It's more than odd enough to disregard in any overall theory of distribution.

I have been trying hard to get at least one detail above and beyond the stories themselves into all of my primary posts for the club. Not sure I've managed it completely, but I think I've had a decent track record.