OtherEric

From Borderlands Books in SF today. I let a friend have my copies of Illuminatus back in the 90’s, figuring they were common back then. But I just never see the 3 volume version anymore. It’s only been the last few years I’ve been looking in particular, though.

Today’s find. Visiting my sister in San Francisco, all but one of these were from a record store that has a single small bookshelf of random books:

Found in the wild today for $5:

I really do need to read it one of these years, these are the only two issues I have:

Quick bookkeeping note: I'll be on vacation next week, so @Jayman has agreed to step in and post the starter message Saturday night/ Sunday morning. We're also in the early stages of working on a plan so that running the club is spread out a bit more.

I think I've got a couple dozen of the ones you've posted. And one case of Deja Vu:

A trio of cheap issues in from MCS today. I grabbed the WEST issues for the Zorro stories, and it didn't register until I had it in hand that one of them had an early Louis L'Amour story as well:

We've dropped to page two again. Knowing Barry will unleash mayhem if we get as low as page three, here are some I got today to bump us:

The fact they screwed up production badly enough on issue #1 that they reprinted the Ellison story in #2 to correct the errors couldn't have helped.

I think those are the only two Marvel digests from the 70's, and they're fiction. A few 80's comic digests, I believe. And lots of fiction digests from the Atlas era.

I would have thought the TV show announcement would have brought out a few more.

Although my personal favorite in that style is actually by Finlay:

1st Detective Chimp:

Every rule has exceptions, but you've said this before and it's true 99% of the time with paperbacks and about 98% of the time with comics.

Vampirella #15 thoughts: It's going to be a bit speed round this week, I'm pretty busy getting ready for a vacation next week. Cover: An excellent piece by Sanjulian. The shaped border works much, much better than a boring box, even if I remain uncertain that the border is nearly as good an idea as Warren seems to occasionally believe it is. Feary Tales: Nice art by Corben, but that almost goes without saying. It also seems to me that it highlights some of DuBay's weaknesses in storytelling, with an ill defined situation leading to an out of nowhere twist. To be fair, DuBay does so much for Warren that he's going to wind up all over the board as we work though the club, not infrequently hitting excellent. Just not as often as he hits "so that happened", at least for me. Vampirella: The Resurrection of Papa Voudou: An excellent story by Goodwin & Gonzales. I generally think the Crimson Chronicles is a fairly weak thread tying together the early Vampirella stories, but it's well used here. Quavering Shadows: I actually rather like both the art styles Bea uses here, the near photo-realism, and the more sparse simple line he uses at other points. But using the two together is insanely distracting to me, and I don't think it particularly serves the story. It's something I could see being used to enormous effect on other occasions, but here it works against the story. A House is Not a Home: Not impressed. I am generally not a fan where the lone surviving family member is attacked for the sins of their ancestors, although there are a LOT of exceptions where it's done well. But the basic idea is unpleasant to me, and this one doesn't really do anything to get beyond that. Welcome to the Witches' Coven: Absolutely gorgeous art by Garcia, but the story is a mess, as seems close to universal with stories from this time dealing with Women's Lib. Overall, a decent issue, with a gorgeous cover, very strong Vampirella story and nice art on the others. But a lack of strong storytelling on the others keeps it from getting much higher than a "decent" rating.

In today, after a suggestion from @Darwination:

It was retitled for the book version.

Finally got myself this one, I posted it over in paperbacks but it deserves to be seen here too:

These are mine:

Nice cover, but I'm not really picking up a sense of dread, personally.

I grabbed this with an Amazon card I got for my birthday. Not that new a release, but a beautiful collection:

A check online suggests it may also be Robert Asprin’s first published work as well. I like Asprin’s work a lot more personally but I can’t deny it’s Card driving the asking price on the issue.

1st Ender’s Game. Can’t recall if it’s also Orson Scott Card’s first published work

People ask crazy money for that analog. Not sure if they get it, but they definitely ask.

Our Gang, and a few others here and there.