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I've always thought the cover to 5 looked like it was from another publisher... but it actually belongs very directly to a story in the book.

The Unknown Worlds 3 cover is by Whelan.

They're early work by Michael Whelan; who only ever did a few comic covers. He's better known for his book covers, he's won 15 Hugo Awards. He did a couple other covers for Marvel... an issue of Savage Tales, and an Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction cover. I'll try to dig those out to share as well before too long.

Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting...

X-Men to X-Men

Starburst price marvel to starburst price marvel:

Another short run magazine that tends to get lost in the shuffle:

One thing that can matter is if it's a very specialist interest, very rare book. I've seen some items that only show up for sale at all every few years; and then prices don't depend so much on the grade as how many people are looking for a copy in ANY condition.

I only have one at the moment, or I would.

Team-Up to Two-In-One

I'm pretty sure Eclipse normally did a print run of 100 for the Non-3D versions of 3D books, the intent was to make them available for people who were colorblind or otherwise couldn't read the book in 3D.

I'll try to find my copy, but it may be in storage. Mine is signed.

I thought all of those were signed?

I can neither confirm nor deny that I've ordered 14 books with Dave Stevens covers in the last 24 hours...

Here's what I was able to get from the GCD, looking for Dave Stevens cover pencils on US comic books... so a fairly specific set of guidelines. Even with that, there's at least one clear error... the Satanika issue clearly isn't by Stevens:

I'm grabbing a cheap copy, at least. As near as I can tell, and not counting reprints or various Rocketeer variants reusing art, there are only about 40 covers with Stevens pencils. It's not a terribly big set so I won't skip this one.

GCD has the credits reversed on that one, Stevens pencils and Hughes inks. Not sure which is correct just looking at it; it looks more like Hughes than Stevens to me but that could be either a heavy inking job by Hughes or a faithful one by Stevens.

This is my first copy, so it's appreciated!

I don't think that's a bad cover at all, honestly. It would win for "Least likely to be identified as a DS cover if I didn't notice the signature", though.

Unfortunately, the artist on both was Steve Dillon, who passed away in 2016. Just as a guess, these covers don't have new art; just repurposed art from the stories.

In today. Still need to find a #2

I actually did go check MCS's Eerie's based on @Hamlet's post; I order from there all the time but hadn't looked at their Warren mags in a while. A couple other mags from the same order. I'm closing in on the Super Special run; but the last few are going to get harder. Particularly since I don't have either of the Kiss issues yet...

Aha! Pulling the old "Find a nicely presenting reader copy of a hard to find issue of Eerie cheap from MCS" trick, are you? Well, two can play at that game! In today from MCS:

In today. This issue has the story "Bothon"; by Henry S. Whitehead with some involvement of H. P. Lovecraft. Although people can't agree on just what the involvement exactly was; anything from Whitehead was revising a story he and Lovecraft had worked together on to Lovecraft just provided the plot synopsis. Whitehead actually died in 1933, several years before Lovecraft, so August Derleth may have been involved in getting the story into its final shape for its 1946 publication. The point of interest here: the story is normally said to have first appeared in "West India Lights", published by Arkham House. But I've found an ad (in the November 1946 Weird Tales) saying that book was one of five printed between July 1st and October 1st of 1946. I was all ready to argue that an August cover date probably would have been on sale no later than late June, making this the first publication. But now that I have the book in hand, I don't even need to argue... there's a June 11 arrival date penciled right on the cover.

No worries. A few years ago when I got my copy, I wound up posting here trying to figure out how to tell myself. Happy to pass on the wisdom of the boards.