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The only Lev Gleason Library I have, I found it at my local store several months ago.

Fantucchio copy:

Eerie #37- January 1972 From the Warren Magazine Index: 37. cover: Enrich Torres (Jan. 1972) 1) Eerie’s Monster Gallery: Air Serpent [Bill DuBay] 1p [frontis] 2) The Other Side Of Atlantis [Steve Skeates/Jaime Brocal] 10p 3) Horror At Hamilton House [Lynn Marron/Ken Barr] 7p 4) The Ones Who Stole It From You [Don McGregor/Rafael Auraleon] 14p 5) A Rush Of Wings [Larry Herndon/Jaime Brocal] 8p 6) Eerie Fanfare: The Message!/Theory/My, Oh, My!/Final Conqueror/Interchange! [Ted Dasen, Phill Jones, Vernon Shelton, Michael E. Tierney & Steven Taggart/Michael Gilbert, Anthony DeSensi, Solano Lopez & James Kanhard] 2p [text stories] 7) Dethslaker [Doug Moench/Ernie Colon] 11p Notes: Nice cover from Enrich. The best story and art was the ghoul story ‘The Ones Who Stole It From You’ by Don McGregor and Rafael Auraleon. McGregor was asked by J. R. Cochran to add the first two pages to the story as a prologue. Ernie Colon’s lettering for his story’s title was so ornate that it is impossible to read! Still, it was one of his best {and sexiest} art jobs for Warren. Brocal’s two art jobs clearly show the difference between an artist fully engaged in the story he’s illustrating {Atlantis} and one he’s just doing for the buck {Wings}. Michael Gilbert made his comics debut on the fan page, with a sample from a college comic strip he was drawing. Solano Lopez’s sample pages again landed up on the fan page. _________________________ I've got nothing to add, other than I've got my comments ready to go tomorrow already. But let's see if anybody else has a thought or two to add first.

1st Goofy as Super Goof

I think many of us here agree... but we're not the ones who need to be convinced!

Nice, but why isn't it on the couch?

The cover is by Chiodo Stevens inks the first story, three pages.

Checking in late, it's been a hectic week for me. Nothing bad, just hectic. Creepy 43 thoughts: Cover: Maybe it's just me, but Ken Kelly's art is really stiff on this cover. Loathsome Lore: Nice Corben art, but not much to say about this one. Three Way Split: Neither Junot nor Galvez seem to have many credits, although this isn't their only Warren work for either of them. A decent but not spectacular story, with art that looks like they were trying to look like Neal Adams, but not always successfully. The Mark of Satan's Claw: Fred Ott does a decent number of stories for Warren, but the GCD is confusing him with Fred Ottenheimer. Which is only possible if they had a career running from 1947 to 2018 with less than a hundred total credits. It's a clever twist with nice art. The Men Who Called him Monster: Luis Garcia does around two dozen stories for Warren. I can't find other credits at the GCD because searching for his name pulls up thousands of credits for Jose Luis Garcia Lopez. Some very nice artwork, even if it does seem a bit heavily referenced at points. Not sure the story really needed the extra length, though. Quest of the Bigfoot: My usual dislike of Grandenetti is strong on this one, although I've got to give props for using a Bigfoot design that wasn't ripping off the Patterson- Gimlin film. (And my comment earlier this week, while meant to be amusing, was not actually a joke: Bob Gimlin is actually my not-too-distant cousin, although I only met him once or twice when I was a little kid at family funerals.) Mirage: Felix Mas is another artist making their debut for Warren. They have a few hundred credits at the GCD, although most of their work in the US was for Warren. His artwork here is very well suited to the mix of desert and illusion, although I'm underwhelmed by Conway's twist at the end. I can't say this is an outstanding issue, but this is an excellent example of the series maintaining a high baseline of quality. It doesn't have anything that stands out to me as a classic, but there's nothing that drops below "very good", either. It's issues like this that keep the whole project ticking along successfully.

I wish any of us knew... I don't mind admitting I fear the worst at this point.

I can't judge the application because I'm not a member myself, but is this one also required?

I think that one might be partly driven by the Lovecraft story with Bok art inside... not all the heat on pulps is cover based yet. Or it could be the poor man's January 1950 Startling Stories.

An awesome pick-up and a classic cover! But also, I'm amazed that we've reached a point where Famous Fantastic Mysteries is a book that warrants the happy dance emoji. For so long it was a mostly worthless title, and now there are several issues that are genuinely red hot.

I've got the Hey Look reprint collection, and a few odd issues here and there. I don't consider his pre-EC work nearly as essential as his 1950-1950 output. Not that I'll pass it up if I see it, but it's not as vital as his work once he hits EC. His 1950-1965 output, I can unironically argue for Kurtzman being one of the most important forces in the development of popular culture that lasts to this day.

I'm getting close on my Kurtzman collection. Complete runs of Two Fisted Tales, Frontline Combat, every MAD he worked on, both issues of Trump, I still need a couple Humbug issues, complete run of Help!, Jungle Book, and a complete run of Little Annie Fanny.

That is an amazing image! I could nearly duplicate the bottom 2/3 but the top 1/3 is mostly absent from my collection so far. And thanks for the reminder, I just ordered one of the two issues I'm still missing in the bottom 2/3

Today's addition is a flat-out classic that I don't recall seeing in the thread before, although I might just not remember it:

First Uncle Scrooge, but he's not on the cover.

One more:

Just looking for books I have scans handy for:

And some Fredric Brown, a Lion, and a Pennant to finish things off.

Some Pockets (or imprints thereof), including a couple non-fiction books thrown in as a most welcome bonus:

And today I've got a box from @Surfing Alien's latest sale, and as usual the mail delivered some stunners from Lowell. Let's start with the Aces:

Dollar bin find a few years back

In today. And that gives me all 13 issues of the main Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers series, with Feds & Heads and the FCBD book from last year as bookends. Lots of them are later printings, although all the issues with color I have printings early enough to have the color.

A minor addition today. Except... Find scans of this one online. I'll wait. Neither Bookscans or the Ace Double Library have it, and the only ones I found were very tiny and in separate locations. Although the Ace 42925 reprint, which uses the same art even to the green banners at the top, is on both sites and common elsewhere. I've mailed scans to Bookscans already.