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Off topic for this thread specifically, but since it's a direct response to your post: Have you seen this Playboy before?

I would choose All-American Comics #16, it's easily the most difficult Scribbly appearance to track down. I've actually got the Scribbly story from the Big All-American Comic Book as tear sheets, I would love to get the Scribbly story from AA 16 the same way if that's the only way I can find it.

Today, I proudly present the antepenultimate pulp! Ranch Romances was famously the last pulp to stay in the classic format, all the way to 1971, after most of the pulps changed to digests or stopped altogether in the mid-50's. There were a few attempts to revive the format- Fantastic Universe published its last few issues in pulp format in 59-60, and Weird Tales would have a short revival in the classic pulp format in 73-74 are two I'm aware of off the top of my head. But when you're considering the classic pulps, this was the last survivor, and this is from its last year. Which makes my goal of having every pulp cover dated the month I was born very simple: This it is.

The Hot Wheels series is just crazy hard to find and, from what little I've seen, has jaw-droppingly good Toth art. But I've only got one issue, and it's the one Toth didn't work on.

There are a lot of Gold and Silver age books available at the Digital Comic Museum and Comic Book Plus; the catch is they only have material that's in the public domain. So no Marvel or DC books, although they do have books from Quality or Fawcett that later were bought by DC. https://digitalcomicmuseum.com/ https://comicbookplus.com/

I've got a few of those Australian digests:

https://digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?dlid=33080 I only gave the story a very cursory glance, so I can't tell you how it was the key to the door of love. I can tell you that the last panel of the story directs you to a promo elsewhere in the issue where you can actually get a scarf like the one in the story, though. But you need to cut the red corner off the book to do it.

I do find it interesting how Gaines felt the name to slap his name on several volumes after Kurtzman left...

I've definitely seen a few other paperbacks like that, but I'm not sure if they were MAD paperbacks or not. I'll keep my eyes out for more like it, just for the discussion here.

Is that a reprint, or did someone rebind a copy of the paperback? From the bottom of the image, it looks like that might be the edge of the original cover slightly above the new board.

Eerie #28 thoughts: Cover: I like Boyette's artwork well enough, but the color choices wind up making the whole thing look too brown- even if there really isn't that much actual brown on it, when you look closer. Monster Gallery: Sutton really has made the front page feature his own the last several months, hasn't he? The Hidden Evils: A fairly ridiculous twist, but written and drawn with enough conviction that it actually works surprisingly well. A solid start to the issue. The Beast in the Swamp: More enjoyable for Graham's art than for the story, but even there Bill Warren tries to do something creative with the B&W format. Not necessarily entirely successfully, but I do respect the effort The Rescue Party: Sparling continues to impress me. Saunders story doesn't fare so well, mostly because the main character isn't enough of a villain... for the story to work, you really need the sense of justice being served on an evil man, and the sense I get of the main character is that, while he didn't do enough for mine safety or rescue attempts, he did as much, or even slightly more, than a lot of mine owners did in real life situations. Follow Apollo: Decent but somewhat uninspired art by Sutton on an uninspired story by Rosen. Ice Scream: Seven pages just to pull off a horrible, horrible pun at the end. I'm fond enough of bad jokes that I really do admire the effort, but I can't say that the joke was bad enough to justify the use of the space. Pit of Evil: Excellent effort on an underlying concept that really wasn't strong enough to warrant the effort. The Last Train to Orion: This feels like bits of about 5 different stories crammed into 6 pages. I could almost see Alan Moore making something like this work as a Future Shock in 2000 AD, with a continuing change of focus on what the story is about, but it's beyond Boyette to make it work here. I can't fault it for lack of ambition, though. And, finally, the most important bit of the review: Easy Way to a Tuff Surfboard count: 8 It seems like the initial plotting session came up with a bunch of fairly weak ideas for the stories this issue. I suppose that could be down to Warren taking over as editor as he looks for somebody else to take the job. But then everybody gave maximum effort on the art & scripts, so it's certainly not a bad issue while you're reading it. I bet I forget everything about it 15 minutes after I save my notes, though. A heads up for anybody looking to participate more in the reading club but who doesn't have the books: for the next 20 days, Humble Bundle has the entire run of the Eerie Archives in digital format available for just $18, and part of that goes to support the Hero Initiative.

I think the prices on eBay are probably pretty reasonable, given their scarcity and size. I just need to actually budget myself to get one, I haven't paid that much for any of my undergrounds so far.

And this one in from MCS today. They had it as an 8.0, which 98% of the time is the highest grade they'll give an unslabbed back issue:

In today. I've always thought this was a particularly striking cover design.

PKD is one of my favorite writers, I just recently finished putting together a set of first editions of all his paperback originals. I've only got one original hardcover, though. My collection of his pulp and digest work is spotty, he was incredibly prolific and in high demand. There's at least 3 digests with his work on page 1 of the thread, though.

And today's haul ends with the Signets:

Avons:

If I can ever decide for sure which copy I prefer I'll let my extra go cheap.

And some pockets:

And this gives me all the Ace F-Series Tarzans. It still seems very weird to me that they only published a semi-random 10 of the 24 books.

A huge box from @Surfing Alien's $10 sale last weekend, here's the first several: The first one actually wasn't from the sale, you thought my when SA posted it was a joke?

Two digests in today, courtesy of @Surfing Alien. The Galaxy is squarebound and the Stork is stapled:

In today, courtesy of @Surfing Alien. It contains "The Music of Erich Zahn":

In today, courtesy of @Surfing Alien

Agreed, I like this one quite a bit. Thank you @Brock for calling it to my attention so I could snag a copy.