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And, since I mentioned the ad for it. I'm not generally a fan of the paperback reprints like this, they always do some real damage to the artwork rearranging it to fit in the paperback format, and reading sideways is a bit annoying. It seemed to work OK for those Mad paperbacks I got as a kid, but for more serious comics it's never been a great fit. (Mad probably had an advantage in that the artists knew the stories had a good chance of being reprinted in the paperbacks and could arrange the art to work both ways.)

Creepy #40 thoughts: Cover: A great cover by Todd & Bode. I find it interesting that they credit the creators of the interior story on the cover, given that this is McGregor's first pro story, so his name probably wouldn't be expected to sell copies. My guess is they hoped Sutton's name would, and it would have been weird to just credit one creator on a specific story. Loathsome Lore: Clif Jackson continues to do nice work on these. Table of Contents: Billy Graham and Nick Cuti are the editors now, with Goodwin having moved on again. The Fade-Away Walk: As mentioned above, we get the debut of Don McGregor. He has over 1000 credits at the GCD, and is probably best known for his work on Black Panther and Killraven. He does several dozen stories for Warren and will be here until the very end, with new stories in the last Warren Creepy and the next to last issue of Eerie. The story itself is very good, with excellent art by Sutton and a fairly high page count so it has some room to breathe. The Impersonation: Marcos turns in some nice art in something of a Neal Adams style. The story, however, is ludicrous, to the point where I almost wonder if Skeates was going for a parody of some sort and missed the mark. Swamp Demon: Nice art & story by Cockrum, undercut by a ridiculous last panel twist. The Disintegrator: A solid story by Barr & Cuti. It's worth noting that we haven't really gotten a straightforward horror story yet this issue. Lost and Found: At 5 pages, this story doesn't really have much room for its multiple time frame plot. Skeates used "Warren Savin" as a pen name once or twice on other stories. Warren Awards: I've always found the Warren Awards to be rather odd and self-congratulatory, but maybe I'm missing something given that this was the period when comic awards were just starting to come into existence. Dual Dragon: A solid bit of work by Kaufman, with nice use of negative space. Ads: I may not have been paying attention and they appeared earlier, but we get an ad for the Best of Creepy paperback on the inside back cover as well as the comic strip format Aurora ad on the back cover. I recognize the Aurora ad from lots of regular comics around this time, and I've actually got a copy of the Best of Creepy paperback. Not sure if @Axe Elf has that one or considers it necessary for the complete Warren collection.

And the Ace Doubles from @Surfing Alien today. I already had a copy of D-193, but the cover was damaged, so this is a notable improvement:

A couple in today, the Ubik is courtesy @Surfing Alien:

Some in today, courtesy of @Surfing Alien's latest sale. I'll have more to post later once I scan them:

And, having gotten my own copy (not as nice as yours) I see that it's a weird middle size, bigger than a typical digest but smaller than a typical pulp.

I think I have one book that's bigger in terms of page size, but much thinner.

And since I posted that, it's never a bad time to post this either. The three front covers Frazetta did for EC:

I'm regretting not having grabbed the Frazetta book during the sale, but I already had the EC one. Need to finish reading it eventually...

I would love to eventually get a copy of Outsider and Others, or even Beyond the Wall of Sleep. At least I have the next few:

The only version I have:

Interesting, I missed that that was a thought balloon somehow. I just read it as fog or mist hinting at the magical nature of the tent they were entering. Good catch!

as you say, love me some Bronze Gil Kane!

The earliest UK comic strip that I know for sure got US distribution was Andy Capp. Doesn't mean there weren't earlier examples, it's just the one I remember from the funny pages when I was a kid.

I fully respect the smart-arse answer, as long as we continue to look for the non smart-arse answer as well. Also, Gulliver’s Travels showed up in New Comics #1, in December of 1935. Illustrated by Walt Kelly, even.

The spacing between the numbers is also off, but fair enough, it's not just the kerning. I find it interesting that we seem to have different views on what the more obvious part of the problem is!

That's what's known as keming. What's keming? Bad kerning. I assure you if you're the one person in 1000 who knows what the heck I'm talking about there's at least a 1 in 3 chance you would be mildly amused by that...

I've got a few nice condition Argosy issues with Burroughs stories but not covers, I'll test the waters with those. Anyone know off hand if they'll have on site drop off at ECCC at the end of the month?

GCD shows the Danger Man issue as US created material, but the reliability of the GCD on something like this can be spotty at times. They list Tony Tallarico as the artist, and he did a lot of work for Dell at the time, though.

A question that somebody here might have an answer to, that is completely off topic... to the point of being the opposite of the topic, in fact. Does anybody know a) the first time UK produced material was printed in an US comic, and b) the first time a UK produced comic was distributed in the US? The earliest examples I'm aware of for a)... and in both cases I may be way off on the actual books... are the John Steed & Emma Peel comic produced by Gold Key, which reprints material originally printed in TV comic. The earliest example for b) would be Warrior #1, or at least it's the earliest UK produced book I'm aware of with dual US pricing. I suppose it's far from impossible that US distribution of 2000 AD had started earlier, but that doesn't have the printed US price so it's harder to figure out when it started.

Aha! I thought I had a couple more issues hiding in a box somewhere, although I had no clue which issues they might be... Both April 1967, I like to imagine these started out in a three-pack bag together, since I know I got them at the same time; they're in a box that was given to me by a relative that I've never completely sorted separately.