OtherEric

I already claimed The End of Eternity, I believe. But with the way the boards have been acting for me today, I could just about believe that I'm the only one who can see that post.

Definitely want, if it’s available.

Or I would have, but I was about a second too slow… Or maybe the boards are acting up, I thought I saw someone else get it but now I don’t see the post

That's sort of what I was thinking, but I'm not sure at this point how much it's design and how much it's coincidence. Certainly by the time the Rook shows up Eerie is a book they never would have named Eerie if they were starting from scratch. No idea what they would have called it, though.

Eerie #27 Thoughts: Cover: Another Bode/ Jones masterpiece. Not that my current copy is high grade, but it is an upgrade I grabbed because I felt the cover deserved it. Monster Gallery: Oh, hey! Sutton gives us a Monster Gallery that's actually unambiguously a Monster Gallery, and the text is accurate as far as it goes even if I feel it misses the most interesting bits of the Golem legend. Journey into Wonder: I think this is the first time we've seen Ken Barr, he has about a dozen Warren credits including some covers. It looks like most of his work was done in the UK (assuming it's the same Ken Barr). He illustrates one of the better scripts from Parente we've gotten in a while. A charming little fantasy, not an all-time classic but quite enjoyable. Amazonia: Miguel Fernandez seems to be a one-time Warren artist, most of their credits on the GCD seem to be for European Disney books. Which somewhat fits the art we get... it looks fairly well done, but doesn't seem to quite fit the story being told. Gardner Fox is a legendary comic writer, starting with a story in Action Comics #1, with 6,964 writing credits at the GCD. (Admittedly including reprints, but still...) He does about 15 or so stories for Warren. Here we get one of the earliest continuing Warren characters other than the Vampirella cast, who will go on to star in a couple stories in Vampirella later. I'll go with the generous description and say the writing here is being done in a deliberately purple prose, pulpy style. I'm underwhelmed with the end result, but looking forward to seeing what Billy Graham does with the character over in Vampirella in a few months. The Machine God's Slave: A solid SF story by Saunders and Colon, nothing spectacular but much better than average filler. It's worth noting we haven't gotten a horror story yet in this issue, it's been fantasy, sword & sorcery, and SF so far. Swallowed in Space: A psychedelic philosophic SF story from Parente with great art by Sutton. Again, not an all-time classic, but a great story in its own way. Enter... Dr. Laernu: This feels like they're trying to introduce a new recurring character, but they never appear again. It's a solid introduction to an occult detective type character, losing some points because what it introduces never actually gets a followup. All Sewed Up: A fairly slight story, but it has a morbidly amusing twist at the end that lands well, and it actually is a change of pace as the first horror story in the issue. Face It: Not a bad story as far as it goes, but still the weakest one in the issue. This was an excellent issue, I don't really have much to say beyond that. A nice change after my underwhelmed reaction to the Vampirella last week.

Not normal, but the US issues at that point were a prestige format book, so it wasn't cheap but wasn't crazy either. Definitely aimed at the higher end market at that point, though.

So, I was asking about this in another thread, trying to figure out how to verify it, since I have zero provenance. Still working on that, short answer is it won't be cheap, but still in the realm of worthwhile in that the return could be 5-10x or more what the verification would cost. Thought the group in this thread might find it interesting, as well:

A stray question for this group, since I just grabbed several of them over on @Surfing Alien's sale thread: Does anybody know exactly which Tarzan books had Ace editions with (or even without) the Frazetta covers?

Ever since I got this "5.0" I've been joking about their grading...

Thought some people here might like hearing this today. Not a lot of songs I know of that name check John D. MacDonald in the opening line:

What did MCS have that graded as? Looks nice enough that they might have called it a 5.0...

Just for you, my friend, a few re-runs from my collection. I actually didn't realize I had so many already...

Agreed, nothing at all wrong with you or what you said, and glad the subject came up here so now I know about it. This is one of the best sub-forums here and I love how much I've learned here, even if some of the specific knowledge is unhappy I'm glad I'm now aware. You guys are all awesome.

Take as per PM.

I actually found it a quite brisk read... because immediately prior to reading it I read Churchill's 6 volume history of the war. Only by comparison was it quicker, but for me it really was. That was an interesting project, I started with Churchill's History, then Rise and Fall, then My Three Years With Eisenhower, so I had a view of the European theater of the war from a British perspective, a German perspective, and an American perspective.

And only 11 Eeries to go... or 10, if I don't count the impossible #1:

Today's books. Down to four issues of 1984/1994 to go:

In today. Just 1, 2, and 12 to go... but since those would all cost something similar to a low grade actual EC, it will probably be a while before I fill them in:

In today: