OtherEric

Some of us like to just leave extra copies of stuff like that for others to find once we have our copies. The cutoff on that would vary depending on how in demand the book is, of course.

In today. I’ve never understood how this wound up as a Marvel book... to the point I almost wonder if it was a production error. Anybody know the story?

I think it did keep the prices lower for a very long time. But with our current Golden Age of reprints, more people are turning to the EC’s as the a-list books again. For now it’s heavier on high grade & classic covers, but even that may be shifting somewhat.

Oh, I've seen a reprint of the issue. I agree that the tone of the story doesn't match my response to the cover, and EC being EC I wouldn't want it to. But given Ghastly's "Farewell" with his signature on the first story, and the crying Old Witch on the first page, I would say the mood on the cover was probably quite deliberate.

Looks like it's probably from 1945, since that's when Goldstein ran for mayor. It certainly would be rare as it would have only been distributed in one city. Any chance of better pictures of the inner pages? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonah_J._Goldstein

What a great cover. Has a very heavy vibe of "How much can we suggest Star Wars without being actionable?". That's not Han Solo, that's not Luke's Landspeeder, and that's not C-3PO; but it looks like the 70's version of a DVD mockbuster...

Even if I'm mostly just going for selected examples of the Horror EC's, I wouldn't mind getting a copy of Haunt 28 someday. The hearse pulling away from the reader into what I choose to see as a overcast sunset just has a lovely elegiac feel that fits the end of the EC horror perfectly. Just a beautiful cover.

Is your copy that bright in person? Wow. My copy is perhaps slightly brighter than the scan I showed back there, but not by much. Nothing like yours.

Nice! Another one of those books where it might almost qualify as a classic cover if EC hadn't already gone way over its quota of classic covers... Seriously, the baseline EC cover is so good that it takes a lot to get up to classic status compared to other publishers.

The beauty of this title is I can use it in both the short run pulp thread AND the short run comic thread. The comic sections are considered reprints but given the publication dates I suspect they were part of the same print run bound into the middle of the pulp. The first issue has the same comics as Out of This World #1 and the second has the same comics as Strange Worlds #1

No idea how I missed this one earlier. 100% agreed on your praise of Al Hubbard, in addition to his marvelous work on Mary Jane & Sniffles (I have every MJ&S story he did, even if I'm missing a few of the earlier Armstrong stories) and Scamp (I just finished my run on the Scamp series a month or so ago, next up is working on the run of WDC&S with the character) Hubbard did some wonderful work on Peter Wheat, taking over when Walt Kelly left. I would recommend the FC402 to everybody... except I know from very long experience how hard it is to track down a copy, much less a copy in grade. It took me ages to find a copy at all, and even longer to find one that wasn't mangled. I do want to get this copy slabbed some day:

This is the first issue I've ever actually looked at, and I wouldn't have cared if it wasn't all comix. Interestingly, it's the only Best of Comix book they seem to have done... the first three "best of" issues are not specifically comics.

Today's book. I only need issue #19 to finish off the Two-Fisted Tales run. Just astounding colors on this one!

I still think that the Looney Tunes comics sadly did not capture the brilliance of the cartoons more often than not. I collect them because of the one feature that wasn't particularly memorable in the cartoons but was consistently brilliant in the comics- the overly cutesy Sniffles cartoons inspired the wonderful Mary Jane & Sniffles in the comic book.

Here's a bedsheet Blue Book for you... July, 1947. What makes it of interest to me is that it has a Science Fiction story by John D. MacDonald, several months before his first story in Astounding that the Bookery guide lists as his first SF story.

And end for now with this "Rapidly becoming a classic cover 85 years after the fact" gem:. I'll go through my Argosies and try to find a few that I never wound up showing in the Pound you to a pulp thread later this weekend.

Now that the thread is here, I'll start with a few random issues:

While it does, indeed, fit here, we could probably use a Phantom Detective thread if you felt like starting one.

When I was younger, there was some discussion about how a lot of kids knew of bits of classic culture, not from the originals, but from the Looney Tunes borrowing from them. It's even more true now... there's definitely a lot of people who know Duck Dodgers but would have no clue if you mentioned Buck Rogers.

Nice, you're ahead of me. Then again, if I had spent differently, I could have been down to two or three left... But would still have the #6 looming ahead. Pretty sure Shock is my next project once I finish Two Fisted Tales, since finding the 2nd 3-D book is less a project and more looking for a target of opportunity. Great pickups all, do track down a reprint of #16 if you don't crack it. "A Kind of Justice" is an absolute masterpiece even by EC standards.

If anybody who doesn't have the issue wants to see it, it's available at the Internet Archive. As are, as near as I can tell, ALL the original run of Weird Tales. I love it when the public domain and the internet meet, and Weird Tales was never renewed. https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v13n06_1929-06_AT-sas/mode/2up

Yes, it's a 1:25 variant.

It's the first Gold Lantern cover (2nd print, as discussed); and first appearance where they really do anything, but the character has been in the background for several issues at this point. A look online suggests the first background appearance was a tie between Superman #14 and Supergirl #33, the recalled versions. My LCS pickup for the day; luckily I was the first person to ask for it when it was announced. I was definitely not the last, according to the owner.

Found in the wild today. High Times is miles away from my normal interest but the collection of big name underground talent is most definitely something I like to see: