OtherEric

Found at a local store today. Other than the miswrap, a very solid copy with nice gloss. So well worth the $30 even if I'm not thrilled with the miswrap... Anybody know if the blot on Thor's face is common? It looks like it's printed, not a stain.

Found at a local store today. Obviously a filler copy... but for $20 bucks, it's well worth it given the current pricing on the book, particularly since I needed to fill the hole:

I’ve shown this before, but since you asked nicely:

Sounds a bit optimistic, but it really is scarce compared to the rest of the run, so I could see it jumping oddly with the general increased interest in EC’s these days. The semi-horror cover could also be getting extra attention

Seems likely. Super happy I've already got a nice copy for myself:

Leering alien?

Welcome to the club! I actually only joined last year, myself... but it's definitely getting trickier to join these days. Glad to have you.

Congratulations! Don't forget to join the club here as well: We know the random image shows the wrong cover in the link, but it is what it is...

I don't have any pulps with the hand sewn binding repairs, but I do have a couple comics. it always seems weird... but it's better than some of the tapes I've seen used, I suppose.

A few more today. 14 issues and the Special to go:

I'm really, REALLY glad I got my Shock #6 when I did... because it's officially impossible for me now, even if that copy was an outlier the book is still crazy overall.

EC's are definitely drying up at affordable prices for me. But I went ahead and got this one, it will do indefinitely... although I'm definitely going to keep my eyes open. Interior is just fine, so maybe I'll be able to get an incomplete copy to marry the cover. Now I just need #18 to finish the Shock Suspenstories run.

I was originally skeptical that any link you could produce on the subject would qualify as "little", but that one seems to fit.

HELP! had about 8 or so Wonder Warthog stories, the first place they got national exposure. If you like other underground artists it also features some early cartoons by Jay Lynch and Skip Williamson, among others, and most importantly it has a few early Robert Crumb pieces, including the first Fritz the Cat. But you're right, it's not a typical Warren mag... although it's a lot closer to the comics than Famous Monsters of Filmland. The book ran 26 issues, I think I paid somewhere around $10-20 an issue with a couple exceptions, such as the first issue. The real trick was finding them... HELP! is such a generic name that searching online took a lot of trying various things and seeing what worked.

I did my best to make it clear with the capitalization and exclamation point, but there's no great way to do it. I think it's a fun book, but I seem to be in the minority... I think I'm the only one here who regularly brags about having the whole run. It's fairly of its time... Kurtzman liked topical humor... and overall is closer to MAD than a regular comic, unsurprisingly. But it does have a lot of comic material, even if you don't count the fumetti stories as comics. I think part of the problem was they tried to include too much in the early issues; 64 pages a month was more than Kurtzman could sustain. By the end, when it was 40 pages every other month, there was a lot more good stuff and less filler. Let me check my boxes in the next couple days, I think I've got a couple low grade dupes. If I can find them and you want them, I'll send them to you so you can see what they look like and make a more informed decision.

You've seen my admission ticket to the Eerie #23 club, right? But it reads fine, and even in the low grade the beauty of the image shines through... just a little less clearly.

Are you looking at getting HELP! or not, or is that decision pending? Also, my latest pickup. @Axe Elf, this is a good example of what I was saying about my collection being ragtag as well. It's not an unattractive copy, but it's certainly not high grade:

Hey, Tower Comics are great reading, even if they're not particularly valuable. Or at least have some beautiful art. Well, some of them, at least... I only have one issue of Tippy Teen and no real desire for more. And I suppose "Fight the Enemy" remains one of the dumbest names for a book ever... who else would you fight? What else do you do with an enemy? Tell you what, if we ever meet up I'll bring something we can use as beer mats. (Seriously, though, I love Thunder Agents and Undersea Agent. Even if Undersea Agent does set a record for Gil Kane "up the nose" angles.)

I’ve been posting my ragtag collection for years. More than enough people appreciate them here, and the magazine fans are even more welcoming than some of the other subforums. We love them all.

It is also, as near as I can tell, the quickest sell-out from Warren's back stock back in the day. It disappears from the ads around the same time the #3 does... but came out between #13 and #14.

Today's book. It doesn't seem to currently have the reputation for scarcity that the #3 or #113 do, but it's not that common either:

Having finished off Vampire Tales a little bit ago, it's time to move on to the big guy himself. In today:

In today:

A couple in today. The #420 is apparently Yosemite Sam's only front cover appearance in the golden age. The #960 is Toth art.