OtherEric

I would like to partially agree and partially disagree with you on this one. There are plenty of books that are actually reprints or separate editions that are incorrectly labeled variants and I agree, those are extraordinarily annoying. I also dislike books that were printed elsewhere or in slightly different formats being called variants. But books like the Creepy 146 or Vampirella 113, which were apparently part of the same print run, they just changed the plates so there was a different price? That's a variant, just like direct and newsstand are variants. What do others think? More generally, loving this thread, even if I don't have much to add (and only have 4 of the candidates mentioned so far...)

Thought I had already shared the link: https://archive.org/details/Fantastic_Adventures_v03n07_1941-09_Wilddog-DPP

The only Chandler pulp I have. Not the title you would normally expect to find him in!

I believe Rosa is as good- not better, but as good- as Barks.

Never seen the pin in person. I knew one collector who kept his original membership card in his wallet still in the 90’s, though

It’s on the list, to be sure. But I still feel it was $10 very well spent, and there are still so many other EC’s to get... Great memories on your Mad #9, I stood have my first dime comic somewhere. A Looney Tunes I traded some modern book for, that dropped me down the rabbit hole over 30 years ago now.

And another classic EC example, from Panic #1:

A few books I've picked up so far this year, all $30 or less. Not high grade, but some great reading copies of some genuine classic books. A couple were even $10:

Welcome to the club! I actually think a full run is more common among Legion fans than most other titles, we can be a bit obsessive in a way not as many fans of other titles are.

I do. Can post the relevant page when I get home tonight if nobody beats me to it.

It's not always. For St. John, the giants that were part of a regular series, such as Authentic Police Cases 25-28 or Pictorial Romances 17-20, were not rebound books as far as I know... although they are at least partially reprint.

Scribbly was almost completely based on Sheldon Mayer himself.

What issues are these from, Pat?

And I was able to locate a copy today.

Detached and split cover as well. But I still love my mailman as well, for bringing it to me today!

The idea of doing three comics, with three separate Conan-Rune encounters, with three creative teams, at the same time may or may not have been a bad idea given the market at the time. But when one of them actually had Barry Windsor-Smith returning to Conan, the other two were always going to be also-rans.

It directly followed SSOC the very next month. But it raised the price from $2.25 to $2.95, while dropping the page count by 16 pages, which came close to doubling the price per page.

Agreed that the cover on the Brackett side is better. I've always thought Conan actually looks a little like Arnold Schwarzenegger, though.

Taine to Bugs Bunny getting his Bell rung... (genuinely curious if anybody other than Pat will get that connection...)

Ah, it's a LCSD variant. We'll see how much luck I have finding it.

Fantastic Novels to Fantastic Novels

A quick question about the variants on this issue. I have three of them, and according to the barcodes there they are 1, 2, and 5. There is also a blank cover variant that I presume is 3. Does anybody know what the 'missing' variant 4 is, or if there are any other variants? I can't find anything online beyond those four. Thank you in advance for any help.

Found in the wild today. I'm in the Seattle area, so near enough to the border that Canadian books turn up occasionally:

Wolverton to Wolverton