OtherEric

I keep saying this is what you want if you're serious about going for Conan magazines. (Admittedly, I've only got 5 of the relevant issues, and at current prices I don't expect to get many if any more.)

And, as I mentioned last page, I had this one as a kid. Finally tracked down a new copy. It's not a particularly common book:

Mike's Amazing World shows Vampirella #13 on sale June 19, 1971; Vampirella Annual on sale July 20, 1971; and #14 on sale August 4, 1971. If we want to track the exact release days, we can start here: http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/features/newsstand.php?type=calendar&month=11&year=1964&publisher=warren&sort=date&checklist=null&variantex=null&collectionex=null

The Vampirella Annual came out between #13 and #14, going by the back issue ads in those issues. I suspect you could get precise positioning on the Creepy/ Eerie annuals the same way for at least some of them, if you dug through the issues.

Not sure on the Creepy/ Eerie Yearbooks having relevant new material; I know the Vampirella annual has a new story (even if it was re-scripted when they reprinted it in the main title later.) Check your PM's, by the way.

In today. As I mentioned in the Record Prices thread recently, this issue seems to have a fair bit of heat relative to the issues around it. Definitely a classic cover. Even if I've seen at least two sellers try to claim it's the first appearance of the Blood Red Queen of Hearts.

Also, did we want to include the first 3 issues of Monster World in the mix, since they have the first Warren horror comics?

If you can get a few others to join, I would be interested, at least in the cases where I have the books- I think I've got over 200 of the issues you listed, so I would be able to join fairly regularly. I would eliminate the following books, though: Creepy & Eerie annuals, Comix International, and Warren presents. While I have no problem with us including all reprint issues in the mix... it's not worth the effort to avoid them, and some of the single creator issues near the end of the runs are amazing... I think we can drop the all-reprint titles from the mix. I'll make an exception for Spirit, since while those are all reprints they're new to Warren.

You talked me into it, by the way... although this is the later edition, which I think is missing one story from the earlier version. In today:

I sometimes think part of the value of the August 1928 Amazing Stories is people think it’s Buck Rogers on the cover.

Even trying for a lower grade run, the 36 is elusive. It’s definitely got some extra heat compared to other issues around it. 19 is also proving scarce in my experience.

I just hope I can snag a #2 before it, too, goes nuts. I think I need to move it to the top of my list

Happy Easter, all!

I'll try to get some better photos to share here in the next day or two... mandatory overtime at work is going to cut into my free time. I don't even get extra pay for the holiday today!

Today's topic: An almost forgotten magazine-sized series by one of the greatest comic creators ever:

CPV is Canadian Price Variant, you got MJI right. If the MJI's were for military bases in the US a CPV makes no sense... but as this thread proves, it's weird. I'm leaning towards sending in the Newsstand/ Direct Market double to CGC once the turnaround times are shorter, I would love to get some expert assessments of its legitimacy.

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi Excellent as a quick reference, but heavily SF, unfortunately.

Howler

We know at least one direct-newsstand hybrid exists, but we've only seen the one here. That's empirical evidence it can happen and, given the total number of double covers we've seen in the thread, an indication it's rare even among double covers.

That's just the beauty of the show... nobody has exactly the same list of favorites and hated episodes or favorite and least favorite doctors. My personal ranking: Troughton, Smith, McCoy are my top 3 in that order. Tom and Capaldi are in a rough tie below that, and then the rest are all about even and well loved... even if I feel some of them were far better served by their respective eras than others.

It's Doctor Who. There are always going to be eras you like and others don't, and vice versa. I'm interested in seeing where RTD goes with it... I can't imagine he would be returning if he didn't think he had something really interesting to do with it. Also: Troughton was The Doctor. Capaldi is around #4 on my all-time list... still one of the greats.

I used to hate store stamps like that, now I tend to love them as a way to track the history of the book, as long as they're not obtrusive. Not fond of most Bonnets books stamps still.

And, after some delays, this finally arrived for me at my local store:

And finishing off the run. Just a wonderful Davis cover, with some nice Severin art inside as well: