OtherEric

And one from elsewhere... only 2 D-Series SF doubles to go!

A few from @Randall Dowling's recent sales thread:

A digest in today from @Randall Dowling. From a purely speculative viewpoint, I expect this one to become scarce on the ground fairly quickly as people realize it's one of the only girls in tubes covers that hasn't gone ballistic already:

A big box in today from @Randall Dowling, including a couple digests that will make nice type samples for their respective publishers. Although I do wonder if anybody has actually read any of these in the past 50 years, or if they're all in the hands of collectors mostly interested in the cover art:

I can't speak for others, I normally only pick up DC funny animal books if a) they're really cheap, like 2-5 dollars at most, or b) if they have Sheldon Mayer stories. Fox & the Crow rarely meet those requirements, so I don't have many, although I do have appearances of them in other books, like Comic Cavalcade, which has Mayer stories in many issues.

April 1st has always seemed like a fitting birthday for Sheldon Mayer:

Like I said, no longer my copy. But it is a pretty nice book, isn’t it? I’ll see if I can get a photo of my copy when I get home.

I had a Fightin' Marines #15 that was about that bad, only along the right edge. Sold it to a boardie pretty quickly, a quick check shows that it's still the highest graded after they submitted it. I'm happy enough with my 4.0 that I got as part of the sale/trade:

When you finally see the story, tell me I'm wrong describing the main character like that!

Eerie #35 thoughts: Cover: The index sums up Enrich's debut quite nicely. Although I wonder what Tor Johnson did to deserve his fate here. Monster Gallery: This seems to be John Cornell's only comic credit, other than a fan page appearance in Creepy a few months earlier. Extremely good work for a one page wonder, it reminds me a bit of Barry Windsor-Smith's early work. Retribution: Nice art by Englehart, an enjoyably pulpy story by him and Fox. The Comet's Curse: Beautiful art by Brunner, a solid enough plot by Saunders. I think the story could have used another page or two to breathe, though... the time jump makes both parts feel slighly rushed. The Tower of Demon Dooms: Mike Ploog only does four stories for Warren. He's one of those creators whose impact in comics is huge relative to how much work he actually did, including co-creating Ghost Rider, Werewolf by Night, and Weirdworld for Marvel. His art here is excellent, except... the main character looks like D**k Tracy cosplaying as Conan, and I find it terribly distracting. I Am Dead, Egypt, Dead: Victor De La Fuente is going to turn up a lot once we reach the 1980's, largely in translated reprints of work he originally did for international publishers. But I believe this is his only story for Warren in the 70's. The story is excellent, with an extremely clever and well executed series of twists at the end. I also want to note the clever touch of having the site be the tomb of Rameses... there were eleven Pharaohs of that name, giving them any number of choices should somebody complain that some of the details aren't right. Cats and Dogs: A clever conceit by Bill DuBay for the plot, and as so often happens I respect Grandenetti's craft on the art without actually enjoying it. Money: An excellent story by Kim to finish off the issue. Easy Way to a Tuff Surfboard count: 14! But we're getting very near the end, this is the last appearance in EERIE. Overall, an great issue, starting with a spectacular cover and continuing with a bunch of stories ranging from very good to excellent. I would have felt my 60 cents were very well spent if I bought this one off the racks.

I've already got most of them is the only issue, and even then I grabbed one upgrade

It's an upgrade on my current copy.

As far as I know, it's not that the pedigree label is extra, it's that the pedigree label is not available on magazines at all. I was asking a while ago in regard to some Fantucchio magazines I have. Not sure why it isn't.

Thank you!

Sticking with my 2nd print on Soft Touch for now... but somebody should claim it and remove the temptation, please!

I'm down to 10 of the D-series SF books to go, 3 doubles, 6 singles, and 1 Special Edition. And other than the 3 doubles, every single one is a reprint of something I've already got an earlier Ace version of.

See what I mean?

A nice little lot of Aces in today. With that said, completionist tendencies are a hell of a drug:

Amusingly, this arrived in the mail for me today, ordered before you mentioned it here: