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And here's the even earlier Metal Monster cover from the MMM series. And, for @moonpool, the Moon Pool cover as well:

An earlier Metal Monster cover, and a couple other Merritt books. I still don't have any copy of "Creep, Shadow"

At least on my computer, your message just links to pictures, and it states the title five times, one on each picture link.

Looks more like sun fade to me.

As others have said, thank you for sharing the family history, @Pat Calhoun

All I've ever been able to find for myself are the Anchors Andrews and some of the Fightin' Marines issues:

There's always hassle-free to get for free, as well: Complete run Canteen Kate: https://digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?cid=1018 Anchors Andrews #1: https://digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?dlid=4526 Fightin' Marines: https://digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?cid=595

Trying to confine myself to ones that haven't been used in this thread yet:

Vampirella #6 thoughts: Cover: Ken Kelly is one of the major Warren cover artists, he makes his debut here with some help from his uncle Frank. Feary Tales: It feels more like a Monster Gallery, and I don't particularly care for how Adkins draws the centaur... the torso looks way too long. I can't claim the art is wrong on a mythological creature, but it's not a take on the design I care for. The Curse of Circe: A solid start to the issue from Fox and Grandenetti. Grandenetti dials back his usual stylist quirks and I'm torn... I'm less impressed by the art, but I actually enjoy it more than usual. Glad to see this side of Grandenetti's work. The Brothers Death: Cuti's ambition exceeded his grasp here at this stage of his career, but it's still decent even if you need to fill in some of the holes. Great art by Starling. Darkworth: Royer's art is definitely getting better, Cuti's -script is less ambitious than his last effort but works better overall. New Girl in Town: Feels very much like a late 50's post-code story, honestly. Nice art by Adkins, and the -script is solid even as I suspect Fox dusted off something he had left over from 12 or so years earlier. Victim of the Vampire: A fairly generic story, but well executed by the creators. GCD has "Vern Bennett" as a pseudonym for Al Hewetson. One Way Trip: Larry Herndon is another creator who mostly did work in fan created comics, although he does have a half-dozen credits with Warren. The story seems to be leaning fairly hard into the "relevant" craze of early 70's comics, the story is decent but rather heavily of its time. The Wolf-Man: I'll give Saunders full marks for coming up on an unusual twist on the execution of what has to be one of the most generic titles ever, and Bolle is a solid artist. But I'm not sure there's quite enough there for the story to get beyond being just good. Which is something we don't give enough stuff credit for; honestly. Turning out good stories with the occasional great or excellent work is still pretty impressive on an anthology. Overall, a decent issue, but not as good as the #5.

That's the one I still need, I've got the 33 and 35. Heck, I've got two of the 33. @Brock, keep me in mind if you want to let that 34 go.

It's a dumb way to sell that particular batch of comics, that's for sure. Whoever wins it can probably keep the handful of books they want and make back their money or more selling the rest without too much difficulty.

Even if I'm not the person you offered it to, I want to thank you for making the offer. It's the sort of high class act that makes this hobby and these forums so enjoyable. Thank you!

Or my last name of one of my favorite SF writers.

If you keep carping about this we may need to start calling you Albert Haddock instead...

I really should find a somewhat better copy, but it's unsurprisingly a very high demand issue. It's one of the most famous magazine covers of all time, with good reason.

I would argue the first several years of National Lampoon did something very much like that. You keep the branding of the magazine somewhat consistent, then give every issue a distinct theme. It's a little less blatant than the Satire covers were doing, but it's a very similar idea. The separate logos did have to go, though, but each issue built the majority of its content around the selected theme.

Not the same if Wikipedia is to be believed, but who knows ?

I missed one of the Slim Callaghan MMM's last post. I think I have all of the MMM's he did:

The Only Peter Cheyney books I have are from the Murder Mystery Monthly series:

@mycomicshop really is awesome for many reasons, the fact that they'll answer a question like that is just one of them. Lots of sellers would just ignore something like that.