OtherEric

I must disagree; before you I've never seen anybody discuss this issue as particularly desirable, and it's not broken out in Bookery's guide. Until you mentioned it, I figured it was a mock-up, similar to the "Tales from Space" comic in the movie. With that said, I agree it's an issue to watch... I can easily see the pop culture connection being something new pulp collectors gravitate towards in the current market. But right now I don't think it's on the list. Thank you for calling the book to my attention!

Another PKD first for the collection. I've already got the BCE in storage somewhere, it was one of the earliest PKD books I found decades ago when I first started looking. Amazingly, this and the BCE seem to be the only US editions ever, there were multiple versions in the UK and Germany.

We shall respectfully need to agree to disagree on this point. Mind you, I maintain that there are only a very few Marvel Whitman Variants, but recognize that the term has spread to include the diamond price books.

A useful, if incomplete, resource to research variant covers is the Grand Comics Database. You can look up any given issue and it will have information and often scans of the covers. The limitation is it's an entirely volunteer operation, so if nobody adds the info or scans the cover it won't be there. https://www.comics.org/

There are also some books with additional contents. The major one is the Mark Jeweler variants, which started in the early bronze age. They have a 4-page advertising insert in the middle of the book that other copies do not:

Nice, although I think I prefer this cover for the second one:

Was there a corrected edition released? May I take your scan and use it on the Grand Comics Database?

He also did some amazing war covers. But I'll take a Ghastly HoF cover over a Davis TftC cover almost any day. With that said, I think the Crypt Keeper origin cover is one of his better ones.

I was just quoting what the person at my local store told me! I was trying to get you to target them! With that said, if I failed to make myself clear that I was just relaying information on a target, I accept your ruling and will present myself for the warrant to be carried out at any date after April 1, 3217 you care to submit.

They want to keep us confused, so we don't know where to go and therefore see and impulse buy more items. It's deeply annoying.

Eerie 19 thoughts: Cover: Willow's only Warren cover doesn't really impress me. The corpse looks pretty good, at least for a corpse, but the ghoul? werewolf? rabid cookie monster, to go by the color scheme? looks goofy and weird to me. And the layout doesn't really make sense, it looks like the monster is standing next to the coffin in a narrow, slanted hole while the coffin is on the ground. Monster gallery: I love what Sutton was trying to do with this, but I really don't think it works in practice, starting with the fact that "The Castle of the Frankenstein" rubs me wrong. "The Castle of Frankenstein!" or "The Castle of the Frankensteins!" would have both been acceptable, but as is it's like fingernails on a blackboard to me. Tom Morrow's (sic) Reminder: Some nice art by Williamsune but, while I sort of get what the story was trying for, I can't really make it fit together with what we've got. Reprints: I'm just flagging the whole lot as "solid but not all-time classics". They're all from Creepy, so good on being new to people only reading Eerie Monstrous Mistake: I think the art is an improvement over Rockwell's first story, had he stayed with it he could have been an interesting artist in a Corbenesque vein. But this is his last work for Warren, so we'll never know where it could have gone. Unfeeling Heart: The highlight of the issue from Haggenmiller & Colon. Not a masterpiece, but a strong note for the issue to go out on. Overall, this issue is a couple steps up from the previous issue of Eerie but not, I think, quite as good as the most recent issue of Creepy.

Goodness knows my earliest Bradbury book isn't in great shape:

If books like this are what you consider spam, I think I speak for most of us here when I say keep spamming!

Pretty sure I've shown this before, but closing in on my PKD paperback collection makes me want to show it again. It's NOT a paperback original, it reprints the hardcover. But it's probably worth more than any 10 or so of my PKD originals put together. A very generous gift from a co-worker who had bought it new off the shelf and knew I would appreciate it more than he ever did:

Lots.

OK, this is not actually a Sugar & Spike book. But I figure people in this thread will appreciate it none the less. Popular Comics #6, first Scribbly:

You've got it!

And I'll end with another double. I want to highlight the weird title on this one, it looks like they changed the name of one half of the book last second. I've never seen a while spine on a D-series double like this before:

And some Ace singles. A huge thank you again to @Surfing Alien for throwing in the S-93 and D-336 as an incredibly generous bonus!

And now we're off to the Aces. We'll start with a couple early doubles:

Continuing with JDM, Area of Suspicion and Cry Hard, Cry Fast are firsts, Soft Touch is a 2nd.

Now we move onto John D. MacDonald. We'll start with his 2nd, 3rd, and 4th books. Murder for the Bride is a 3rd print, the 1st is insanely hard to find and the 3rd has a much better cover than the 2nd. Planet of the Dreamers is the 1st paperback edition, it's more commonly published as Wine of the Dreamers. And Judge Me Not is a 1st.

From here on, all of today's books are courtesy our own wonderful @Surfing Alien, who I cannot thank enough for letting me buy these off him! We'll start with a fun Robert E. Howard collection from the 80's and a PKD first edition. I've got the SFBC version that matches this already, but the collector impulse always wants the true firsts, doesn't it? I think I'm down to only needing three of the PKD paperback originals.