Brad Tabar

Gold Key had such awesome covers! Thanks for sharing, guys!

I agree!

The last two pages of posts have some of the most disturbing stories I've seen yet. Gruesome and frightening, but very cool. Thanks guys.

This is so bizarre and disturbing. I think this would have scared me as a kid a lot more than most of the stuff in this thread due to its nightmare-like quality.

But they're still better than the ones I make!

 

This reminds me of the Heap a bit.

Playing rough eh, I'll tip your boat funny boy!

Holy cow! What a cover! It's like one of those Norman Rockwell Post covers goner horribly wrong!

quote=Jayman]Sea monsters???

You must be dreaming!

Those are some great looking comics. I've not heard of these guys before.

Great Copy of that Action Comics!

Sutton was my favorite at Charlton for sure, but he wasn't the only one I liked. It's strange though, that I have absolutely no memory of Charlton comics when I was a kid, even though they were definitely around. I suppose the drug stores and convenience stores I used to frequent simply didn't carry them.

Another great set of stories. Thanks guys! Most of these I haven't seen before.

Darth Korgi picked this up for me earlier this year. It is a Charlton (under the Modern Comics logo) which reprints some earlier Charlton stories.

Here are a couple I picked up in August. [/img]

Wow!

Those are great! I have to get those Gray Morrow issues someday. That guy is really talented! Thanks again, Jayman!

Thanks for this information, guys.

Great post! I'd love to have all of those comics, but mostly have Spider-Man issues from 1971 onward, with a handful prior to those thrown in. Luckily Marvel Tales and Essential Spider-Man fills in the holes.

 

But why did you get rid of the issues after 441? Just curious. I'm new to this board and have recently been reading Spider-Man from the very beginning. I've not reached those issues yet (I'm just finishing up the 80's).

 

I've heard some bad things about Marvel in the 90s and am a little worried I won't like them.

 

It's a very easy place to stop because of the renumbering, I haven't bought anything past #441 for my collection either.

 

I know some people out there will think I am crazy for saying this, but for me there is no point in collecting anything beyond McFarlane's run on ASM.

 

You're crazy for saying that.

 

 

Is there really anything between 328 and 441 that you need to own? I am not saying there's nothing worth reading, I am saying that in my opinion there's not really anything worth collecting in the last 25 years. Yes, the first appearance of Carnage might be the exception. Still, that leaves the last 23 years. I guess I'm just old school.

 

#344,361,400,408 Variant, 430,431,432 Variant......and that's just up to #441.

 

410 too...

This looks like a great magazine. Of course, I'm judging by the cover alone. Thanks for sharing!

A few recent Fantastic Story additions...

 

 

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This is a great cover!

Awesome Lovecraft story! Great copy!

And another...

 

 

More to come! (thumbs u

Awesome cover!

WOW!

Thanks for posting these, Fifties. Those were really great. That splash page on the Hangman's Son alone is one of the most horrific things I've seen yet in comics.

Those Savage Swords, especially the first thirty or forty issues, were awesome!

Excellent copy! Great story, too. I liked Ditko ok, but whenever I read these issues I'm glad to see Romita take over. He came in with a bang!

Those were some great tales, Fifties! Thanks for posting! I especially liked the art in Spell of the Black Gloves.

Gray Morrow Rules! His Man-Thing in Savage Tales is still my favorite depiction of that character. Those covers you showed were incredible!

Well Darth Korgi,

I've heard you tell me this before but somehow it is even more resonant in print. Thanks for the list. I have to agree with this assessment.

Some random thoughts on these stories:

 

-a lot of these Precode stories feature cheap and sometimes hack writing and art. That said, McDonakds sure can taste good.

 

I think a lot of the best stories are more unique than the others in idea and or art style and feature an especially brutal panel.

 

Here are some of the most popular and repeated story types... I think these four themes might account for half of the stories in these comics:

 

1. Spouse kills spouse for money (half the time one or both is a vampire or where wolf)

 

2. Travel to Islands or Africa and steals sacred gem/statue which unleashes vengeful voodoo/black magic.

 

3. Business partner, spouse or lover killed and returns as a zombie or ghost to kill the murderer.

 

4. Alien invasion or world takeover using disguise or mind control.

 

And lest we forget (and this was noted in a Simpsons treehouse of horror episode) the one constant in most of these stories - ironic punishment.

Right you are Andy! Are there many Precode references in those episodes?

 

Groening is very much a comic fan, but my guess is that most of the tropes he's used for the treehouse stories would be via The Twilight Zone.

 

The story I'm referencing is when he eats the "soul donut" given to him by Flanders and then is forced to spend the day in hell, ironic punishment division - "So you like donuts, do you? Have all the donuts in the world!!"

 

Ironic for the devil Flanders IIRC as Homer continued to eat as many donuts as was force fed to him!

Great book. I can't even tell where you restored it! Good job!