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Eerie 1970 Yearbook thoughts: Cover: I actually think whoever created the collage of previous Frazetta covers did a really good job. It's not flawless, but it works as a composition reasonably well, and is a lot more interesting than the Creepy 1970 yearbook cover. I also want to note the back cover here: Moving the ad for the book from the inside front cover to the back cover, unlike the Creepy 1970, makes much more sense as far as selling the book to somebody looking at it on the newsstand goes. Inside front cover: A very nice Jack Davis piece that I assume was probably originally used in Famous Monsters, or possibly found in a drawer somewhere. I'm certain it was several years old at this point, Warren couldn't afford Davis at this point and wouldn't waste him on an IFC if they could. But it's new to us and it's a fun bonus. I don't see much point in going story by story through this issue; writing my notes on the Creepy 1970 felt like I was mostly repeating myself. But my overall reaction is similar: This is a solid package, but it's backward-looking in a way that feels odd as we're approaching the rebuilding era. A final thought: Why, given the known demand for the book, didn't they reprint Eerie #1 at magazine size as part of the contents of this issue? They could have typed up an intro page explaining the overall situation, and then had the Eerie #1 at full size as the next 24 pages of the book. I think it would have gone over well, and perhaps gotten people off Warren's back over the #1 (which, to greater or lesser degree, is going to be a frustration pretty much until the end of the Warren magazines, and even until today.) I almost forgot the most important detail! Easy Way to a Tuff Surfboard count: 5

Two books in today. I THINK the #2 is the first publication of the Death Dealer painting, can anybody confirm or deny that?

Here's something you don't see every day: A Skip Williamson paperback cover. As far as I know, this was his only one; even Bode had two:

What an incredible cover on the Pyramid, and the Weird Show seems to be Skip Williamson's only paperback cover:

Today's aces:

And my earlier posts seem to be lost. Anyway, all of today's books are courtesy of @Surfing Alien. A couple Avons:

I thought I had just posted, but it doesn't seem to have gone through. So starting at the end, then waiting to see if my other posts show up. Two books with Frazetta covers, I think the 2 is the first publication of the Death Dealer image:

New this week. Hughes has an interior story in this one, as well:

Looks like the Rip Off Comics was the original and FFFB 13 is the reprint. Which reminds me... I still need FFFB 13 to finish my run.

As Axe Elf said, I stopped at 12. Was going to say I didn't bother with a lot of magazine sized UG's, only Arcade, Comix Book, Wonder Wart-Hog, and the magazine sized issue of Junkwaffel...then realized that really was a fair number of the magazine sized UG's!

If you can find the Classic Comics edition rather than the Classics Illustrated it's 52 pages.

I've got the complete run of The Twelve: Spearhead with double covers... all one issue of it.

I maintain this is an underrated issue... It's the ONLY Weird Tales with a new Howard story, a new Lovecraft story, and a Brundage cover. Every other one with all three names in the credits is either a poem by one or the other authors, or a reprint from somewhere (normally an amateur magazine in Lovecraft's case.) Then, as a bonus, you have a second Lovecraft story (a revision with Hazel Heald) and Ubbo-Sathla by Smith. That makes it the only 30's magazine with three Mythos stories.

Went in to get my new books for the week and the owner said he had just gotten in something I would be interested in. He was right, I love affordable GA readers:

Like I said, @Warlord posting the Signet 1149 was enough to send me looking quickly for my own copy:

Mail call today:

You can see the interiors here: https://digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?dlid=17945

It’s wibbly wobbly timey wimey maths, clearly.

After your initial search, pick “golden age” for era. You’ll still get lots of reprints, but it cuts them down substantially.

Fine. On this subject, 99.000000000000000000002% Happy now?

I actually think my first copy of #38 was the Fat Diamond variant. (Do NOT get me started on the whole "were 100% of Fat Diamond variants distributed by Whitman" argument.) But the book, while physically solid, STANK. Not even sure how to describe it... it didn't smell of mildew or smoke or any of the more common scents comics pick up. But it's the only comic I can recall simply throwing away because of the smell. Luckily, I think I only paid $2 for it, so it wasn't even worth the effort to return when the rest of the lot was fine. This has been today's installment of "Weird collecting tales". Tune in tomorrow when there's an off chance we'll have another thrilling episode! Did Spidey ever get UK distribution, anyway? I don't know if Electric Company ever made it over there.

I have little to add to the discussion here... you may safely assume that in 99% of cases I agree with @Get Marwood & I- at least on this subject. But I'm loving the debate even if I don't have anything to contribute to it.

Bok was awesome. I’ve been looking for that one for a while now.