OtherEric

I don’t think so, but I’m much more familiar with the DC Whitman variants than the Marvels. So I’m not positive. GCD doesn’t show a variant, at least.

I think Spidey Super Stories has had a group of people looking for them for a decade or so now. What it does have is the almost complete rejection by anybody who isn't actually collecting the series; so while there's more interest in the title than a lot on the list, there's also a larger number of people going "Why?" or "You're kidding, right?". For myself, I love them. 7 issues left to go...

eBay is one source. Abebooks is another, that’s where the Doc issues turned up. KAYO books in San Francisco always has something when I get down to visit my sister. Most comic cons have at least a few. And some local bookstores get some in now and then.

But it called my attention to this thread... and since I've got the scan sitting around already, and since most of the images are gone after the bucket fiasco... Obviously not high grade, but I think it's a really nice looking copy anyway and I'm happy with it. The black cover just shows every flaw; though.

And in this week, a trio of Doc Savage digests. The last one is the first of the brief run where they rebranded the book as "Doc Savage Science Detective". Unlike the Shadow, where the Bruce Elliot Shadow stories are at best poorly regarded, I think the last 2-3 years of Doc Savage it was really an excellent magazine, with some of the best Doc Savage stories Lester Dent ever did. And there's a lot of good backup stories, most notably a lot by John D. MacDonald, one of my favorite writers.

The Second Richest Duck would get my vote for favorite story, personally. But it's NOT an easy choice. I pick the US 15 partly for sentimental reasons- it's one of the first Dell US issues I ever owned; partly just to be slightly eccentric- I think it's not one that people would argue about on a top 5 list, but it's certainly not on all of them; and finally because I just consider the ending brilliant.

They have, with the Mad paperbacks and other reprints some of the stories may even have been more or less continually in print since the fifties. EC’s still read best in original editions, though.

I’m really just trying to put together a run to read. I know I’m somewhat the exception here, but I would rather have 10 lower grade books I can read rather than one high grade I can’t. Not that I don’t like it when I do stumble across affordable high grade books! I’m a little over half way to completing the run I’m looking for, luckily I have issues 1 and 2 already as well as the 24. I think 5 is the trickiest one I still need.

Pickup at the LCS today. Low-Grade, but cheap. Still fun:

It does not. But as the first magazine size issue, it's still a big step towards putting together the Kurtzman edited run, which is what I'm trying for. Not that I don't enjoy later issues when I run across them, I'm just not aggressively trying to collect those.

This one is really underrated, I think. The Finlay covers don't get the attention the Brundage covers do; but I really do think Finlay is the better artist. So when Finlay does a Brundage-esque cover, it's really something special. (I really want to get the Sea-Witch cover sooner rather than later, for that matter.) Inside, there are two Lovecraft stories- one first appearance anywhere, and one first pro publication, having first shown up in a fanzine. And another Howard poem.

Two in today. This one looks better in person- the scan really shows every flaw. The book hits the classic Weird Tales triple- Brundage, Lovecraft, Howard. Admittedly, the Lovecraft is a reprint and the Howard is a poem, but still fun

I was at Kayo last month, it’s obviously smaller but they’re still able to hit my wallet hard. I only get down to SF about once a year. They’ve been great about setting up appointments both times I’ve been since they cut back. You are correct that it’s not really sleazy in the usual sense... although I do think the description fits in that they do proudly sell sleaze. Calling them that just amuses me.

Kayo Books was the one I was thinking of. I've gotten UG's at multiple stores down there, including Aardvark and Green Apple in addition to Kayo, but Kayo is the only one I would call sleazy... In part because they would consider it a compliment, I think. It's definitely the classiest sleazy bookstore I've ever seen, though. Kayo is the only one I've seen more than a very small random handful of UG's at, though.

Sorry if that came across a little rough; it was meant as a complement... the verbal equivalent of . Those are a pair of stunningly beautiful books. I'm actually surprisingly late to the UG game... for some reason, I never really looked into them much until recently. I think it was finding a few in a sleazy bookstore in San Fransisco that I couldn't resist finally giving them a try. (For some reason, it just feels more RIGHT to me to get them down there. Super happy that's where I found the Air Pirates issue in the wild that's further up the page.)

@wpbooks01 You win. I'm still happy to have put together the run for myself.

And this came in today, completing my run of the title. #13 seems to be the hardest issue to track down by a large margin if you're not picky on what printing you get; does anybody know why?

Nice pick-up, I'm all about the reader copies when it comes to EC!

Just in today:

The book says "Cover designs by Frank Durban and Jay Jackson". Neither of those names are particularly familiar to me. One of the credits is probably for the back cover.

And a small pick-up today:

I posted this over in Magazines as well, but too happy to get a copy to limit it to one place:

Tried another Walmart today. They had all 4 giants still, although they were down to their last copy of the Teen Titans issue. Looking for these each month will be an epic pain... but I'm going to want the Tom King Superman story too much not to, and if I'm going there anyway I might as well grab the rest.