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I've been looking for those two for a while now. I also want to find the Dell Eternal Champion with the Frazetta cover. Does anybody know if that's the first use of the Death Dealer painting? It's definitely a very early one.

Too easy to fake on an uncertified copy, can't be certified in a polybag, too common to worry much about... All you can really do is go "neat" and carry on. I do think it's neat, though!

Grabbed this yesterday, ISFDB says it's Enric:

Creepy 1970 Yearbook thoughts: Cover: The box of earlier covers is a somewhat 'meh' design, although I like it better than the original art we got on the 1969 Yearbook. The fact all four covers are Frazetta brings a nice consistency to the design, and I appreciate that they reworked the 16 to get rid of the black border, so the art was not even smaller. With all that said, points off for only one of the issues actually having a reprint in the annual. Inside Front Cover: This is actually a pretty well done ad for the issue, for somebody picking it up and flipping through it at the newsstand, actually. A selection of diverse and exciting images from the stories. The Body Snatchers: Same problem as the original encounter: I hit the name "Toddy MacFarlane" at the top of page one and I'm snickering too hard to properly assess. But as near as I can tell through the unintentional comedy, it's a good adaptation by Goodwin & Crandall. Blood of the Werewolf: Goodwin/ Ditko is always excellent, even if this particular story is one of their less excellent ones. Where Sorcery Lives: I stand by my initial assessment of magnificent; the better of the two Goodwin/ Ditko pieces in the issue. The Terror Beyond Time: Probably the highlight of the annual for a lot of people. Neal Adams' profile had risen precipitously in the couple years since the story originally appeared. Revenge of the Beast: A reminder of how good Morrow's work for Warren was. I think we only have one more new story by him, in the far distant future of 1977. The Invitation: I think this is our first multiply reprinted story. But most people wouldn't have seen the Eerie #1. They missed that this one wasn't Goodwin when they did the credits at the front of the Yearbook. Blood of Krylon: Still marvelous Morrow artwork here. Overall, this issue seems like a very solid package, but it's also a bit more backwards-looking than we might hope at this point. It shows what the magazine was like two years ago, not what it is now nor what it will be very soon. Still, I think it would be a decent expenditure of 60 cents back in 1969.

Nothing, I probably would have picked #100 as a stopping point... but I already had #105 with the classic Batman & Alfred cover, and #106 with the Frazetta back cover, so it seemed like a good stopping point.

And a couple anthologies to wrap up the day. The Pennant, in particular, looks unread, with blinding white pages:

Then had to get this pair for the spectacular Jones covers:

So, hit the local store today. It's past time I resumed working on my post-D series SF doubles, which I have neglected in favor of the D Series the last year or so.

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Adding my voice to the grab Dancing Sandwiches crowd.

33, 35, 36, 37, 42. They're lumped up closer than they might have been otherwise because I had already completed the 1-31 run before I extended it forward, and when I did I got a LOT of books from @Tri-ColorBrian in the 38-up range.

Lovecraft actually had a surprisingly large number of paperbacks in the 40's for a horror writer (3, 4 with the ASE) as well as an inexpensive hardcover. But there was pretty much nothing other than Cry Horror! (the re-named Lurking Fear) in the 50's and very little in the 60's.

One of my favorite pedigrees, even if I only have one book from it. They were so important to the history of comic collecting.

We met Bhob back in Creepy #13, with "Scream Test". But there he had a writer credit. Bhob is his preferred spelling.

Two in today from MCS:

In today. Only 5 issues to go for the 1-106 run:

Found at Half Price Books today. I think I already have this one... but nowhere near as nice as this copy. There's a white line on the spine that looks like a crease but doesn't feel like one, I almost wonder if it's a print glitch rather than a crease.