OtherEric

Let's get a better look at that one as well, then...

Ah, the NatLamp encyclopedia of Humor back cover. Always a nice one. The book has a lot of great art; besides the Frazetta back cover it has a Wrightson front cover and material by Heath, Bode, and Gorey. Here's a better view.

You might want to try the Spare A Grade forum as well.

Found at a local store today. Honestly, one of the least interesting Gnome Press books to me... but it's the first time I ever recall seeing a Gnome Press book in the wild.

Not a cover theme I'm particularly a fan of, but here are a few more examples:

In today. First Star Hawkins, and the last Star Hawkins issue I needed. Getting very close on the 100-up run.

Welcome to the forums, glad to have you! I personally only have about 30 issues of Eerie, but it's only recently that I started working on the major Warren titles. I've got complete runs of Help!, The Spirit, and The Rook... but nowhere close on Creepy or Eerie. There's always more to look for, no collector I've ever heard of has everything. But the hunt is a large part of the fun!

Anybody have a lower grade copy of Blazing Combat #1 for sale? I'm looking for a complete reading copy with a decently but not necessarily perfectly presenting cover image, but I don't care how many color breaking creases the black area on the cover has.

Canadian edition was my guess as well. Lots of them were slightly taller than the US versions, so they had room for the extra text band without rearranging the rest of the cover elements.

Happy Birthday, Emsh:

I would have paid 5x that without blinking, assuming no major hidden flaws. Great pickup!

War of the Bounty Hunters is where I finally dropped all the Star Wars titles other than Doctor Aphra. Not that I felt it was particularly bad; it just seemed to put a good stopping point on everything. I had too many issues just piling up to be read eventually.

I'm plenty interested, I just don't have anything to contribute. Although i am keeping an eye open for books in the time frame I can check for the secondary indicia.

To follow up, Comixology coincidentally has the EC archives on sale for the next week. I did say they did that pretty often, I grabbed the Crime Illustrated collection.

I think that's more a function that Legion fans tend to be a little obsessive, even relative to other comic collectors, so there are more locked up in long term collections than an actual scarcity of the book relative to other DC Keys. At the very least, I'm aware of more Legion collectors with complete runs than most other series that go that far back.

In today. This gives me the complete run of Eerie 2-11, the classic Archie Goodwin edited run. There are a lot of good stories and covers later in the run. But the very early Goodwin issues of Eerie (and Creepy, and Blazing Combat) are truly something very special.

Not sure, it's not even the first Thanos cover (that's #26).

These seem to be worth posting today...

Which version of 3 is rarer, with or without the Enterprise Logs subtitle?

I've actually got a lot of these off Comixology, they're handy and inexpensive. They go on sale there a LOT, so if you wait a few months you can normally get them at $7 each if you don't mind digital. I prefer print, but at those prices they definitely have a place.

I've got a copy of All-Great Jungle Adventures that includes a rebound copy of Phantom Lady #23 as the 4th and final book. The possible game-breaker there is that when Fox rebound the giants, they trimmed all the edges a bit. Still, if you're interested in details, let me know and we may be able to work something out.

Sugar & Spike #1- one copy currently on ebay, one on heritage. No sales at heritage in 2021.

By a mile.

And another two in today. Only need one story each to complete the Star Hawkins and Space Museum runs now:

Today's book. This one has been at the top of my want list for Vampi since I finished the Frazetta covers. Wood's only Warren cover that I know of, Boris's first cover, Barry Smith's only Warren story, the second serious Vampi story, and most importantly the incredible Wood story. It's very rare for me to agree when a publisher proclaims the first publication of a story a masterpiece on the cover; but this one is.