OtherEric

Thank you. I'm trying to decide right now just how completest I want to go on Mycroft & Moran... I have Wisconsin Murders on order, I still need Number Seven Queer Street for certain, and I would like a copy of Three Problems for Solar Pons but probably don't want to pay what that goes for, given that the stories are all reprinted in Return. I don't see much point in bothering with the Solar Pons Omnibus in either edition, though... and can claim that the 1st version was actually AH and the second was actually Battered Silicon Dispatch Box. I keep hoping somebody will be able to revive the publisher, but if it is gone for good it had one heck of a run and turned out a lot of excellent books I wonder if AH and its imprints ever made it to over 1 million total books printed? Given that they did about 240 books total, and most print runs were 4000 or lower (frequently MUCH lower) with only a few books getting reprints, it's probably somewhere in that range.

I actually got my uncolored copy of Cap shortly after I found out the books even existed... you sold it to me along with a few others!

Was looking at my attempts to find an uncolored Spider-Man Giant Comics to Color. Realized my two copies were all colored on different wraps, so was able to put together an uncolored frankenbook. I really need to finish off my run of Marvel Treasury Edition, I've got all the DC bronze treasuries and all the Marvel bronze treasuries outside the main numbering.

at $85 shipped.

My Ellison D-series Aces:

Very nice! Ellison remains one of my favorite writers, and that's a gorgeous copy even before the signature.

I've got another question for any Arkham House experts here, hopefully a somewhat simpler one: Was the collection Evermore published in 2006 the last actual Arkham House book? There are a few later items that were co-released with others under the imprint, but I think that's the last actual book from the imprint proper?

As far as I know, the situation with Elfquest magazines is similar to that with underground comics. Other than when the price changes, there’s no way to tell what the actual printing is, so what may be multiple actual printings get lumped together. Perhaps someone has figured out tells for certain differences but if so I’m not aware of them.

I thought I was the only one here both lucky enough and old enough to have seen it in the theater on its original US release. I know it only showed up in a specialty theater near the University of Washington for one week, I actually caught it twice. I convinced some friends that they had to come see it before it left after I saw it the first time. Inexplicably they didn't care for it.

EERIE # 39- April 1972 From the Warren Magazines Index: cover: Ken Kelly (Apr. 1972) 1) Eerie’s Monster Gallery: The Mysterious Men In Black! [Doug Moench/Richard Bassford] 1p [frontis] 2) Head Shop [Don Glut/Jose Bea] 6p 3) Just Passing Through [Steve Skeates/Rafael Auraleon] 8p 4) The Disenfranchised [J. R. Cochran/Tom Sutton] 10p 5) Dax The Warrior [Esteban Maroto & ?/Esteban Maroto] 8p [story credited solely to Maroto] 6) Yesterday Is The Day Before Tomorrow [Doug Moench/Dave Cockrum] 7p 7) Eerie Fanfare: Pity The Stranger/House For Sale/The Coming Of Apollo/Welcoming Committee [Greg Balke, Roy Decker, Gary Henry & Marcus Octavious/Steve Monsanto & Jody Clay] 2p [text stories] 8) Ortaa! [Kevin Pagan/Jaime Brocal] 8p Notes: Another fine Ken Kelly Cover! The best story & art was easily J. R. Cochran & Tom Sutton’s ‘The Disenfranchised!’ Maroto’s Dax character began an eleven chapter run in Eerie. These stories had originally been published in Europe a couple of years earlier. For this Warren run, the stories were translated and rewritten by American writers, none of whom were credited. Apparently, each scripter got only one story to adapt so the quality of the scripts would range from quite good to so-so. _______________________________________ Looking forward to this one quite a bit, with the first installment of Dax I believe we finally enter the era of Eerie being rather heavily driven by relatively short-run serial characters. It's a major shift that I think is what ultimately gives Eerie its own reputation and character, rather than being the book that shows up months when Creepy doesn't. Up to this point, while we could point at small differences and some notable stories, it seems like having two titles was mostly geared to having the books stay on the shelf longer by splitting the content between two titles.

And seeing double in the west:

A few more in today, just a couple more to go for the set. I already have the Avon version of "Daughter" but the Pyramid is pretty nice looking as well. I wonder why Avon only did the one odd book?

A couple M&M's today. Now I want candy...

Most of them are from MCS, the one today was from ABEbooks. Not too difficult, certainly less tricky than I would have expected than I would have expected when I started looking for the Zorro issues.

In today, to go with the rest of the story that came in a few days ago:

Another Argosy in today, in addition to the Zorro story it has part 4 (of 6) of A. Merritt's "Burn Witch Burn"

A couple more to try and hold off Barry's rage:

A couple Other Worlds in today, one with a Bok front cover, one with a Bok back cover:

The only Boys' Life I still have are the Best of Boys' Life from Gilberton, but I had a subscription back when I was active in scouting. This is the only one I've got a cover scan handy for.

In today. Not that big a book on its own terms... but it's the last Ace D-Series SF book I needed. 76 Doubles, 56 Singles, 4 S-Series, and 4 Special Editions. And for all that I've extended the project to include all the D/S/G books, the SF remains the heart of the collection and something I started getting decades before the others. Really pretty copy, too!

A few in today. The first 3 have parts 2-4 of "Zorro Rides Again", the third Zorro story, while the fourth has a stand-alone Zorro tale.

I assume by coverless you mean no dust jacket, not that you paid $100 for just the text block. If so, that was a great deal!

The Triple Detective is the one I've got: