OtherEric

I can’t say I love detached covers in the abstract… but I love some of the nicely presenting books I could afford because of the detached cover

Small batch from MCS today. 9 issues (8 and the special) to go:

My computer is dead, so just a photo of today’s book. But it’s a major pickup. Last (not counting reprints) Frazetta cover from Warren I needed.

Either as two separate issues of the same series... 2(a) and 2(b)...or as two separate series. Given the extreme content difference and slight cover differences, I would think 2 separate series would probably be the preferred option officially, even if I personally would prefer the first option.

I may go digging on the matter in the future... those Analogs are the earliest US books I've seen with dual US/UK pricing of any sort. I think (but am not positive) that I've seen paperbacks published in the UK with US pricing that date earlier. Now I need to decide how far down the rabbit hole I want to go looking... Even if it's not directly comic books I consider it definitely related to the overall subject of when stuff switched to dual pricing since that tells us interesting things about the import market overall.

Pretty sure my copy was the most I paid for a Weird Tales issue, so you're not the only one who likes it! Although I've only got about 20 of the Brundage covers, and with the recent crazy jumps in pulp prices I'm not very likely to get may more.

It doesn't look like Fredric Brown has ever had a story adapted to comics, other than a couple in a fanzine. I could have sworn I had read an authorized adaptation of Arena somewhere... I'm probably confusing it with several dozen unauthorized adaptations. Edit: never mind. It was in Worlds Unknown and I saw it reprinted in Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction. But whoever put the data in couldn't spell Fredric correctly.

Nice! Once my next box from MCS arrives I’ll be down to single digits on the Vampirella run. I’m assuming you’ll beat me to the special if a cheap one turns up, though.

To add one more pulp to the discussion, I'll mention that Amazing Stories added a UK price in September 1971, after decimal day.

Here's hoping you feel better soon! Here's what I've been able to determine: The regular inclusion of the UK price began on Analog in February 1964. The switch from LSD to decimal was in January of 1972, a bit behind the curve. The UK price was dropped again in March of 1977. Related to comics, Analog was originally published by Street & Smith under the name of Astounding Science Fiction, the name gradually changed around the time the book was sold to Conde Nast. By gradually, I mean they spent about a year when they were printing both names on the cover, with Analog slowly becoming more boldly printed and Astounding fading away. Not my scans, while I have several of these issues they're in storage.

Thank you for the birthday wishes! The one you posted is actually a UK specific edition, the yellow circle would normally have the publisher's logo. (Sorry I can't find a better image.) But all the copies of Analog had the 5/- on them. So now I'm wondering where dual pricing on all copies began. From what I vaguely recall, Charlton was actually the first to do that regularly on comics, but I'm not sure.

We do consider pulps comic-adjacent here, right? Just noticed this; I'm used to seeing dual-priced books from after decimalization but I can't recall many magazines having the price in LSD.

It has nothing to do with the interiors of the book (which I admit doesn't necessarily detract from it as a standalone piece of art), I always get hung up on how the hero's lower body is supposed to be positioned, and if somebody offered me any issue of Suspense I would take the Cole cover on #8 over this one. With that said, my general reaction is not so much "I dislike the cover" as "I just don't get why others love it so much."

I don't think we've seen this cover in the thread yet... or even this artist. My vote for Jack Davis's masterpiece:

Not a cheat at all… her colors on that cover are exquisite!

It's an awesome cover and I desperately wish I had a copy... but I can't consider that a masterpiece until somebody satisfactorily explains where Buck and Wilma's feet are.

Creepy #3 thoughts: Cover: An unusual use of white space by Frazetta makes this one really pop, it's underrated compared to many of his Warren covers. Inside Front Cover: It's a crying shame Davis didn't do more for Warren, I'm glad we have at least this one interior page by him. Letters: I'm not totally surprised at Uncle Creepy getting referenced in a comic strip, but I'm surprised at how early in the run of the magazine it happened. Swamped: Astounding Torres art and a story that makes several unexpected turns by Goodwin. The book is really starting to find its voice now. The Tell-Tale Heart: A great adaptation of Poe's story by Goodwin and Crandall. Howling Success!: Ironically, not nearly as big a success as the first Goodwin/Torres story in the issue. Haunted! Maybe it's just me, but this is one of the first stories yet that strikes me as actually testing the edges of what they can get away without the Comics Code looking over their shoulder. There are a couple panels that are rather graphically shocking compared to most of what we've seen so far. Incident in the Beyond: A fairly story with some nice shading effects in the graphics. It seems to me that Morrow, while not my favorite of the regular artists, is the first one who is really starting to adapt his work to the format instead of just doing normal comic stories that happened to be in a magazine rather than a standard comic Return Trip: Does a very good job of building a creepy mood over a fairly pedestrian story. Subscription ad: Nice Davis art. Overall, this is the strongest issue yet by a fair margin.

I keep thinking whoever currently owns the rights to Eerie could probably make some decent coin it they did a high quality facsimile of the #1. Same paper stock & size as the original, same trim size, only difference a discrete "2022 printing" and any additional legalese they need at the bottom of the inside front cover in small type. I would back a kickstarter or similar crowdfunding project for around $20-$25 dollars to get a copy like that. Maybe they could offer two versions... one the original size and one normal magazine size. But for now I'll be using the Eerie Archive comixology version for the reading club.

Pickup at the local store today:

I think they have all the Skywald magazines, like I mentioned the comics are not PD. But some of the scans are somewhat underwhelming quality.

It's interesting how our perspective changes with time, isn't it? I remember when spending $15 on a comic was a HUGE amount of money for me to spend on one book. But in the last couple years I've been involved in four transactions involving books at $500 or higher... and while those may be near the top of my personal limit, I don't consider them particularly huge amounts compared to other people.

I haven’t seen the show. But you lost me at the rolling in his grave comment because Shelton is still with us.

https://www.comics.org/series/16202/ GCD has data on both versions.

It doesn't have FEWER stories, it just has DIFFERENT stories. I suspect what happened at this point with the Comix International was they were printing extra color sections when they did their regular issues to bind together to form the Comix International issues. They wound up with enough of several stories, and a few more where they had extras but not enough for all the copies. So they stuck those sections in multiple versions. I think that's why, in the table of contents for the issue, two of the stories are labeled "A Surprise Bonus Story". What got put in that slot varied from copy to copy.