OtherEric

The perhaps inevitable "he thinks he has powers but really doesn't" trick.

I was mostly being silly... you may have noticed I tend to do that occasionally. I have very few Warrens that are too nice to handle, so I'm going for the originals. If I can't fill in books before we get to them I will probably fall back on the digital versions without blinking.

You're using electronic copies? That goes completely against the spirit of the reading club, and wasn't the whole point you had the entire runs assembled? (Yeah, I tend to read the book, then use the Internet Archive when I'm actually compiling my notes too... )

Congratulations! To be fair, the magic words "a few years ago" are key on any Baker or Baker-related purchase... my price shouldn't make you feel bad about yours.

In today. 2nd Super Goof, 1st with powers:

In today. Toth Zorro.

And, after far too long, an addition to the collection. 14 issues to go. For the record, even with the detached cover, I'll take all the books that look like this that MCS grades and prices as 'good'.

Today's addition to the Underground collection:

Two books today. I might have held off this week waiting for Emerald City, except I won the Comix International #1 in the MCS auction Monday, and at that point I figured a few other books since I was already paying postage made sense.

Did anyone here get the liberty magazine? It certainly makes me feel the $14.25 I paid for my copy a few years ago was well spent…

Is the All Top #16 really that much more than the 11 or 13 normally?

We would love more company in the reader group, the eerie #4 is next week's book. Nice books!

It's one I would like to get, there's demand from Oz collectors as well as Four Color collectors. I'm not sure I've ever seen a copy.

I've been enjoying this thread immensely, even if I don't have much to contribute. My personal theory on why the DC Comics Presents #22 seemed so rare for so long is because it doesn't have the Whitman in the DC logo like most of the DC Whitman variants. Added to the fact that's it's one of the June 1980 Whitmans that are already hard to find, and how little people valued the Whitman variants for so long, and you had a recipe for an undiscovered book. There's some anecdotal evidence that the June 1980 Whitman books were not actually distributed in the US, they seem to turn up from Canada far more frequently.

I've never seen an issue of Xenophobe before this. I've got a complete run of XXXenophile, though...

I’ve got 3 of them for sure, maybe four…not sure on the Thrilling Wonder

Agreed, thank you for the reports!

Posted before, but I felt it deserved a repeat today. Don't think I've included the back cover before. R.I.P. Olivia Newton-John.

That MAY have been what I intended, but now I’m claiming overkill is the heart of true speculation.

Because 28 seemed like overkill?

Now that you point it out I see how he was going for a similar effect on both covers. Nice catch!

It will be a cold day before I argue with @Stevemmgon magazine value. It looks like the run is in decent shape but not particularly high grade. I hope others have better suggestions on what to do with them; we might have better suggestions with better photos.

As is the case more often than not, I have nothing to contribute right now. But as I occasionally do, I want to thank everybody who is contributing... this thread remains fascinating 145 pages in.

Creepy #9 thoughts: Not a huge fan of the cover, although when looking to buy a copy it was very recognizable from the thumbnail. The downside is I will forever think of this as the "E" cover, because the demons on the left look like a large E on the thumbnail. Still, lesser Frazetta is better than 99.5% of everybody else. Loathsome Lore: Krenkel is probably the most Frazettaesque artist other than Frazetta himself, as shows here. They were also frequently working together around this time, although I hadn't ever heard a suggestion Frazetta contributed to this page. It wouldn't surprise me, though. Dark Kingdom: Perhaps a little less innovative than what we've seen from Morrow recently, but still a very good job in service of a strong story. The Castle on the Moor: A bit too text-heavy for me. Good work by Johnny Craig where it's actually visible. Adam Link's Vengeance: And back to 'meh' for these, honestly. Overworked: I liked this more than our indexer did. I think part of the problem is it's in the shadow of three other stories Wally Wood worked on... "My World", "His Name is... Kane", and "My Word". Two of which, to be fair, came after this story. But the story feels like the least of the four, and that hurts it. I suspect it worked better when it first came out, and even now it's a pretty strong piece. But it's not one of the 100 greatest comic stories ever... and "My World" and "His Name is... Kane" are, if not on that list, serious contenders for it. Creepy Fan Club: I'm sure for some people this is the key point of the issue. It's hard not to view it as far more important than was ever expected when it first appeared, given that Wrightson is one of the Warren legends. But he won't actually do anything else for the company for quite a while. It's still crazy neat in its own way. The Coffin of Dracula: Now that we've got the whole thing, it's not a bad story. But it doesn't seem to warrant the 2-part status to my mind. I suppose we could consider it the first step towards Warren's serials and view it more positively as a step towards what Warren eventually became. Out of Time: One of Goodwin's stronger stories this issue, with great Toth art. The Spirit of the Thing: Ditko gets more weirdness to play with than in his first story in Eerie, and it's a good thing. Easy way to a Tuff Surfboard count: 2 The book ends stronger than it begins, I think, but there's just too much in this issue that's "just OK". I think there's enough good material that it's probably fair to say the whole comes across as less than the sum of its parts. But it is a step down from the other recent issues and it shows in the reaction.