OtherEric

Why not go for both?

That really is a good explanation on the various variants. The only ones that come to mind as missed on the list are Justice League #3 and Fury of Firestorm #61... and those are pretty much the extent of that category as far as I'm aware.

The run that started around then ran 12 issues, had a 2 issue "Future State" tie-in, then was gone for about 8 months before coming back just now with a JLA vs. LSH series, the 2nd of 6 issues shipped this week. One of these years I keep meaning to just re-read the entire LSH series from Adventure 247 to now.

Today's book. This gives me the full run of Marvel Preview and Bizarre Adventures.

Nice! I don't have either of the Atlas 3D books, they're near the top of my 3D want list now that I've got both the DC's, both the EC's, and I think all the 3D Gerber 7's and higher... not that the Gerber numbers seem particularly correct on the 3D books in my experience.

In today. The last Creepy with a new Frazetta cover I needed; just need Blazing Combat #1 for all the Warren Frazettas:

It's missing "Rock God" from Creepy #32 and "The Sweet, Soft Lips of Hell" from Vampirella #10, I believe. Would still be a nice issue to have, even if I've got all the originals.

$89 for a 5.0 Creepy 4 seems optimistic, given that they had a 5.5 at MCS for $35 last week. On a not unrelated note, what is taking the mailman so long today!?!

Nice! I really need to track down the last 3 issues of the run I'm missing before they go nuts, I stopped for a while once I got all the Lovecraft issues.

Goblin is 3 issues, more or less replaced Rook on the schedule, #4 was advertised but never released, I believe.

Help! is a bit earlier than the main Warren books, and only has a few comic pages in a given issue. But some fun stuff from Harvey Kurtzman. Another nice Warren mini-run I'm looking for is Monster World 1-3, which have some of Warren's earliest horror comics (one story per issue). The #1 is actually Warren's first horror comic story, I believe.

Nice work in such a short time. I haven't been moving nearly as fast, although I've gotten well over half the Vampi run in roughly the last three months, at least. The only full Warren runs I have so far are Help!, The Rook, and The Spirit. The last two aren't too tricky, but with Help! I'm not sure I've seen anybody else on the forums claim the full run. Mine is just reading copies, but I've got it, at least.

I have Weird Shadow but need this one. A beautiful copy!

Today's pickup at a local store. I like the idea of Kurtzman in Heavy Metal, even if it's a reprint from Harvey Kurtzman's Strange Adventures. A classic cover, as well... was this used on something else, because I definitely recognize it from somewhere?

Today's pickup at a local store:

It would be a boring world indeed if everybody agreed all the time. And I freely admit I'm taking a bit of a contrarian position on Psychoanalysis. I think one other reason I like it is it's so clearly succeeding in what it's trying to do, all the other New Direction books are either hamstrung by the code or still figuring out what they want to be to some degree. Aces High is an EC war book firmly in the Kurtzman tradition, even if he's not the editor. It's excellent. Valor falls right in the middle for me... the stories are way too often bland or undercut by the code, while the art is uniformly excellent. I may only rank it fourth but I won't disagree with anybody who puts it higher.

Your take on MD and Psychoanalysis is opposite mine. MD is worth the effort for the art, but I think with a couple of exceptions it's a horribly boring book, and easily my least favorite of the New Direction titles. Psychoanalysis actually is probably my third favorite New Direction book, after Aces High and Piracy. It reads like it's decades ahead of its time, a well reviewed but poorly selling indy book from around the early 90's, only done in the 50's. I doubt I would want any more than four issues, but I think it takes an obviously horrible concept and presents the absolute best version of what that concept could ever be. It plays to EC's strengths of getting into the character's heads and Kamen's incredible skill at showing people's emotions on their face. Other than the fact it was an obviously horrible idea it wasn't a horrible idea.

I like the idea of this thread but don't have much to contribute at the moment, so consider this a thumbs up on the concept at least. The most I've ever spent on a paperback was $100. Given that it was Ace D-15, I got a great deal!

And here's my attempts at stitching together the Stargrazers covers, along with scans of the front & back for more detail: