OtherEric

As opposed to Orange:

Went with the yellow variant, I see.

You could do worse than that issue as an alternative if you've given up on the Black Hush cover.

That's a special feeling, isn't it? I had a couple scans in an issue of Alter Ego, Roy was great about getting me a comp copy. Same with one of the PS hardcovers, where I only provided one small scan for the intro material and he still got me a comp of the HC.

Only thing I have of note is Hardcovers of the Dark Tower series, I've got the 1st three in the collected slipcase and the 4th in the Grant edition. (3rd print 1st book, 2nd print 2nd, 1st print 3rd).

I remember having dismissed King as one of those popular but unreadable writers for a long time; when a friend finally convinced me to read The Dark Tower I was surprised by how good he actually is. I'm not a fan of all his stuff by any means, but the man can write.

Pickups today at the local store:

Found at a local store today. Always nice to hit wanted magazines (even fairly minor ones) in the wild:

I think he said that was $285, because of the fading on the spines. I can PM you contact info for the store if you want.

At my local bookstore today, I’m not grabbing any of these:

I'm not aware of any Warren Vampirella's with variations in contents. There's the usual mish-mash of Newsstand, Direct, and Canadian variants on the latter part of the run, and the GCD shows a slight variant cover on #4, but I'm not sure that's not just an ink running out issue looking at it.

Just checked, my copy matches the "a" variant at the Grand Comics Database exactly, which also matches the scan at the internet archive and Sulpa's 4-B variant. And, just to add some color to the thread, and a book that ironically reprints the other two Corben stories in the issue but not "The Woodlik Inheritance", here's the Heavy Metal Corben special; the hardcover version. I picked this up the week Corben passed but I don't think I posted it here:

The Grand Comic Database lists a third variant, with "Pure as Snow" replacing "The Power and the Gory" as well as "The Woodlik Inheritance" instead of the Hunter story, it does not have the 4 -A version Sulipa describes indexed. I'll triple-check my copy when I get home. Anybody else have an unslabbed copy handy?

I really don't know anything about the variants beyond what I shared here, with Overstreet mentioning a possible variant of 3 as well. The two stories listed as "Surprise Bonus Story" are the ones that vary between the editions, so I think it's possible they were planning the variants from the get-go. It's very possible the issue wasn't actually reprints, but a bunch of the leftover color signatures from the original magazines bound into a new magazine, and they varied the contents based on how many of the signatures they had left.

As promised, only slightly late:

And, since nobody else jumped in, as promised:

Found one of them, at least; I already had the Unknown Worlds:

And finally, the highlights of today's pulls, the Creepy in particular:

Then a non-magazine, but I think the magazine thread is the right place since it's the only Warren comic (as opposed to magazine) I'm aware of:

Then a beat up reader, but also dirt cheap. This is the version with only two Corben stories, which seems to be much more common. Does anybody know the story behind the variants, and is there actually a variant on #3 as well like Overstreet suggests?

Some Warrens today. We'll start at the bottom, but they were dirt cheap and do count as Frazetta issues, even if it's just the anti-smoking ad:

A handful in today:

In today. A rare example of Frazetta work for Atlas, inking Williamson:

I know there's one by Klein and Alex Ross that I like, I'll take a picture when I get home unless someone beats me to it.