OtherEric

Sorry if I came across a bit cranky. It's really not a bad mix unless you're in the middle of a crazy project like rereading all of Warren's comic output, but who would be nuts enough to do something like that?

Going through this one a bit lightning round style, since it's all reprints. Creepy Annual 1972 thoughts: Cover: Honestly, possibly my least favorite Warren cover, although I'm sure some others will underwhelm me going forward Intro: The green ink is certainly a bold choice, and it's still a nice illo. No Fair: Still a decent story, but less of a highlight when we're no longer in the dark ages and it doesn't have the striking cover to go with it. Spawn of the Cat People: Still a great story, but I'm not sure it's worthy of a third appearance quite yet. Then again, the earlier two printings were 1965 and 1968, so the timing is probably OK. On the Wings of a Bird: A solid choice, but only a few months old... which is fine if you have a themed issue, even if the theme is "The best stories of the past year." But when you lead with something from issue #2, that's not your theme. Tough Customers: See above, good but recent. Loathsome Lore: And again, good but recent. Pursuit of the Vampire: It's a great story from Creepy #1. And Eerie #14. And Eerie #24. And enough already! The Judge's House: Another 3-peat. Grub: A good choice, a decent story that's neither too new, too old, or too many reprints already. Monster Rally: Another third appearance, and the third story this issue that turned up in Creepy #22... No Fair made its debut there, and The Judge's House and this both were reprinted therein. Overall: I can't see much to recommend this one. A cover that's in the running for Warren's worst ever, and WAY too many re-reprinted stories. If this was somehow your first Warren magazine ever it might be OK once you're past the cover, but otherwise skip this unless you're a completest.

As far as I know, that's the one and only "Pitman" book, and it looks identical to the Pocket version. I'm guessing it was some sort of end run around paper rationing.

Glad we have quite a few of us here, then!

And is it the Pocket or the Pitman version?

I've got my copy, but this is the issue with "Vacation '58" by John Hughes, which was the basis of National Lampoon's Vacation.

It's the ISBN number on the back cover that's weird, that doesn't seem to be on the legit copies.

The bedsheet issues of Amazing Stories were all factory trimmed, as far as I know. The very few I have:

I posted this in the Love & Rockets thread, but figured I would ask here too, since this is a more highly trafficked thread. Does anybody recognize this? I'm 99% certain it's a reprint, given the ISBN on the back cover, but I can't find any info on it online at all. Does anybody recognize where this came from?

A few from ECCC today:

Can anybody tell me what I've got here? I'm 95% sure that it's a reprint... the ISBN on the back cover doesn't seem to be on the original... but I also can't find anything indicating where the book was reprinted like this, rather than with the new cover.

In today. A weird one even by late Dell standards:

A couple from ECCC this weekend. It's cooled down a lot but $25 for the #7 feels like it may be my grab of the weekend nonetheless:

How does the slab handle the insert schematic? On my (unslabbed) copy it's loose, not bound in.

But to make up for that, here's a couple more issues from the show today, and the Mandrake 10 shows an obscured pence price in addition to the US price:

Sadly, it's nothing more than a sign I need to clean my scanner glass. Sorry for the false hope!

Quick question: has anybody heard from @Get Marwood & I recently? I haven't seen them online in quite a while, and I'm hoping all is well.

It was horrible for vintage dealers this year, to the point we're I'm toying with skipping Sunday already. According to the one dealer I spoke with, it was partly due to a fiasco last year, where each dealer was only provided one table to set up on, creating a scramble to find folding tables. (It was the first year in the new building.) I want to be clear: for anybody looking for anything other than vintage comics, the show is awesome, with a spectacular artist's alley and tons of other vendors. But the vintage comic selection, while still providing enough for me to blow my budget, is underwhelming.

November 1990

Found at ECCC today. Putting it in comics rather than non-comics since it has Kirby's "Street Code" story.

No back cover, but it was a cheap pickup from Harley at ECCC today:

A couple from ECCC today:

Grabbed at ECCC today. The first time I've gotten one of the pre-renumbering issues of the SF titles:

Two in today. The complimentary #1 was compliments of @Yorick, for which many thanks. The #11 was found at ECCC. And the two of them give me the entire King run of Flash Gordon, unless you insist on having all the various complimentary versions of #1 to be complete. For myself, I'm quite happy with both the standard and one of the complimentary variants. And to any pedants who try to claim I'm not done, because of the Charlton/ Gold Key/ Whitman continuation of the numbering: I've got those all as well.

A few pickups at ECCC today: