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Eerie 36 thoughts Cover: It's one of those covers I don't particularly like, but the fault is all me, not the cover. It's a valid and effective design for a horror comic, very well done. Monster Gallery: Atoms. The subject of the Monster Gallery is "Atoms". Moving on... Bad Moon on the Rise: We haven't seen Tom Sutton in a bit, it seems, but that's partly the Annuals making it seem longer. Amazing art, as usual, and Doug Monech turns in a very good story, once he gets the Creedence Clearwater Revival nods out of his system, but there's a lot of them the first couple pages. The Silence and the Sleep: Jose Rubio only has three credits for Warren that I can see, and not that many total at the GCD. Their style works well for the hallucinatory pages in the middle but doesn't land quite as well at the beginning and the end. But it's the right choice for the more important part, so I'll put this in the win column. Prototype: Very nice art by Bruce Jones, shooting from pencils works well for underwater scenes. The story doesn't quite hold together for me, though. Look What They've Done: The Warren Debut of Esteban Maroto. I'm getting 267 name matches in the index, so clearly one of the major Warren creators, who will be with us all the way to Vampirella 112. He's also known for having designed Red Sonja's famous chainmail bikini. The story is beautifully drawn and wonderfully meta; although it seems like it was likely written for a color, code-approved comic and only wound up at Warren after it didn't sell elsewhere. Crocodile: This seems to be Jose Mascaro's only work for Warren, and indeed his only work for US comics. The story is a decent filler but nothing more. The Trap: Greg Potter has around 15 Warren stories; overall he has a lot less comic credits that I expected, given that I knew him as the creator of Jemm, Son of Saturn and the co-writer of the early George Perez Wonder Woman issues. The story is a clever little four pager that promises good things. Oh, Brother: And the issue goes out on a high note with a science fiction story by Dave Cockrum. It's a clever twist on Bradbury's "A Sound of Thunder" that is better suited to Cockrum's clean style than his story in Creepy last week. This was an excellent issue; with a good mix of material that hit a very high average of quality, even if there weren't any real standout classics in the mix, and a couple of noteworthy creator debuts (along with a couple of less noteworthy ones.)

Since we haven't tracked down @Axe Elf yet, I'm going to post the index info for this weeks book, and then my thoughts, so if it's a temporary absence he can come back and find we're still going here. If we still haven't found out anything near the end of the week we can discuss in more detail how to proceed. Eerie #36- November 1971 According to the Warren Magazine Index: 36. cover: Enrich Torres (Nov. 1971) 1) Eerie’s Monster Gallery: Atoms [T. Casey Brennan/Pablo Marcos] 1p [frontis] 2) Bad Moon On The Rise [Doug Moench/Tom Sutton] 10p 3) The Silence And The Sleep [Steve Skeates/Rubio] 7p 4) Prototype [Steve Skeates/Bruce Jones] 10p 5) Look What They’ve Done! [Steve Skeates/Esteban Maroto] 6p 6) Crocodile [Don Glut/Mascaro] 6p 7) The Trap [Greg Potter/L. M. Roca] 4p 8) Eerie Fanfare: Steve Skeates Profile/House Of Horror/Occupational Hazard [Steve Skeates, Christopher Wolfe & Billie Fowler/Steve Skeates, Steve Lowe & Steve Cassman] 2p [text article/stories] 9) Oh, Brother! [Steve Skeates/Dave Cockrum] 7p Notes: Bruce Jones’ art was reproduced from pencils, something only Warren seemed able to do with any degree of care.

If @Axe Elf doesn't post the intro for the weeks book by 12:01 AM Monday (not Sunday) I'll go ahead and put up the info from the index and post my thoughts, on the assumption that the issue is temporary but serious enough that he won't be able to get to it this week. If he's not here by next week we can discuss matters. I don't have any useful contact info for him outside the boards, if anybody else does and can check in it would be appreciated. I suppose I could post something in the Personal announcements and topics forum if we don't hear anything by about Wednesday.

It is the same publisher, Goodman. But it may have a different indicia publisher. It also has Al Williamson's only illustration for the Pulps that I'm aware of.

Paging @Axe Elf... you haven't posted your thoughts on this week's book and your profile shows you haven't been on since Sunday. Hoping all is well.

I would probably grab the two with visible prices at those prices... and I've got both of them already.

A couple in today. The double was what I think of as a lottery ticket buy, since it was only 11 dollars but no image. I think it's a winner, it's not perfect but I'm quite happy with it. And getting close on the G-series books that are part of the Ace DSG numbering, none of those are terribly hard to get so I figure I might as well fill them in quickly.

August 1928 Amazing Stories... even if it isn't actually Buck Rogers on the cover, it's the Skylark of Space.

Maybe I missed it, but I think this is the first pulp slab I've seen with the "classic cover" notation, or a variant on one at least. And I'm not sure it was really considered a classic cover before they used it as the cover on the @Bookery guide.

And I'll jump in with the only issue I have, the #1. Writing on the inside shows I paid $4 when I grabbed it a few years ago. I may have mentioned how much I love Kayo Books in this thread a few times before?

My copy is pretty beat up as well:

ISFDB has John Schoenherr. I just noticed you can see the signature on your version, but it's cut off on mine. Not that I would have been able to identify the artist from "JS". I've got the earlier edition with this cover:

With that said, three cheers to your neighbor who took the time to deliver the books to you, rather than just send the box back, or dump it due to objection to the contents. She's one of the good ones!

Thank you for the clarification. I think everybody is waiting for somebody else to go first. I mostly buy, while I've sold some items on the forums they've generally been people asking me after I post something.

I've only got one issue of Rex, I think I paid $5 or so for it back in the day because it was low grade but still looked fun.

In today. Nothing major, just a UK variant that somehow made it back to me in the US. Bronze, but in the time frame of the general topic:

I should have thought of this earlier... Are we allowed to make "want to buy" posts as well, or do we need to do those over in the Comics Market- Want to Buy thread?

Two in today. The Hidden Treasure book is a little odd, it's a G-Series prefix back when that still actually meant Giant, but it's only 256 pages, which is what the 35c doubles were at this point still. It seems really pricey for the time frame. The D-340 is the next to last D-series SF book I need. Now the copy I thought I had in storage should turn up the next time I get out to check. On a not unrelated note, does anybody have a copy of the D-110 Special Edition of The 1000 Year Plan by Asimov they're interesting in parting with?

Let's give @Comicjack a big hand for those last two covers!

Ah, Super Science Stories. In many ways, a dumping ground for lesser stories big name writers couldn't place elsewhere. Always worth a look, and most issues have a gem hidden, but they can be underwhelming until you figure out what the magazine is like.

There are several new pages, scattered throughout the story rather than a separate chapter. That's assuming you mean this book:

Another Quantrill you can look for, Darwin, with the flip side for completeness's sake:

It's just a wall of text, mostly, with a small single color cameo of the three faces at the top of the front cover.

Today's books. High Heel Homicide, in particular, is just a classic example of a tastefully lurid paperback, isn't it?