OtherEric

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.

I do, but it's a more recent pickup, not one I picked up off the shelf new back in the day. Besides, I want to see if somebody else can complete the set. If nobody hops in I'll share it tomorrow.

My old beater SW2

I really do think my pack only had the three books. I don’t recall the price exactly, other than dirt cheap. It could have been under a dollar.

I currently like the Dark Horse Archives, although I generally get the digital versions. Very cheap when they go on sale, leaves me money to buy original issues instead!

I have seen a bagged copy of these, it had, I think, Super Goof #1, Zorro #1, and Snow White & the Seven Dwarves. I picked it up, still bagged and dirt cheap (although I don't remember the exact price), at a Toys 'R' Us in the early 90's or thereabouts. And stupidly opened it. I with I had grabbed every one of them they had; I think the were all the same mix of three books or I would have gotten more. I remember wondering at the time how long the books had been sitting in a warehouse somewhere; I'm 99% certain they were the original bags.

Also, some more EC SF covers because we can never have enough of them:

Agreed that you can't go wrong with EC's! The SF are some of their best books; I actually think the EC horror is the least impressive of the stuff they did. Still incredibly good, but the least of what they did. You can find a lot of the titles mentioned in the thread (not the EC or Atlas books) here: https://digitalcomicmuseum.com/

I could be wrong, but is the UK cover of #1 new art, while all the US covers are repurposed from elsewhere? Also, the paperback thread in gold wouldn't mind seeing these as well if you feel like crossposting.

I do think the Bizarro World series in Adventure took the joke about as far as it could go, with this as a neat epilogue a couple years later. But it was a hoot while it lasted.

Today's semi-random "support my LCS by buying cool inexpensive readers when they turn up" book:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/313446202279 One of my favorite examples of misplaced optimism

I think that depends on what you consider significant; as a percentage the bump was fairly noticeable. But, given how cheap most of the SF pulps were, it wasn't much in actual dollars. And there were at least a few ringers even in the SF books. (Thinking of the 1st Dianetics issue of Astounding in particular, here; and a couple of his more famous stories in Unknown.)

Thank you. I would note that the story in Unknown Worlds is a reprint from Witzend #1; although it certainly counts as an answer to my question it is unusual. Just in general, I don't think Unknown Worlds of SF gets quite enough attention for including some creator owned material.

No argument there; I think there have been lots of of comics as good or better over the years but no publisher has ever hit the linewide level of quality the EC's managed from 1950-1956, or even come within an order or two of magnitude.

The ASM signatures were over a decade apart. I have some other double signed books, but they were at the same Emerald City Comic Con that year:

It's a great cover. I think it's the only thing by Frazetta Marvel ever published; or am I forgetting something?

At this point, it’s the cover, I believe. The Hubbard story doesn’t hurt. I originally tracked it down for the John D. MacDonald story.

Good luck on the search! Do you have the January 1950 issue yet? It’s not terribly rare but it’s almost too hot to touch these days.

There are quite a few of us with complete runs of Epic, aren’t there?

I've shown this one elsewhere, still one of my favorite books.

It's my first Picto-Fiction issue, although I've got a few other EC magazines. Only the first 3 magazine have an EC logo:

In today, courtesy of @Raze. I have the impression that this is one of the better of the Picto-Fiction books in terms of stories and art, although I've never heard too much praise for any of them: