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    This week in your Magazine collection.

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    8 hours ago, evilskip said:

    I remember buying this at the grocery store as they kept it right at the checkout aisle. The lady at the cash register started b------g about how disgusting the cover was. I told her to just ring it up or get the manager and have him check me out.

     

    I found Fangoria pretty young (around 13 ish, so I missed this issue and really didn't get into them till about issue 65) But I had a many similar experiences trying to buy them. In retrospect as a parent I get it now as some of the covers we're brutal but looking back it was all in good fun. I even had one lady threaten to call the police because they we're so shocked that the grocery store she worked at would even consider selling such a lurid book in the first place let alone to me. (I got my older brother to buy it for me a minute later lol)

    This week in your Magazine collection.

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    8 hours ago, evilskip said:

    I remember buying this at the grocery store as they kept it right at the checkout aisle. The lady at the cash register started b------g about how disgusting the cover was. I told her to just ring it up or get the manager and have him check me out.

     

    I found Fangoria pretty young (around 13 ish, so I missed this issue and really didn't get into them till about issue 65) But I had a many similar experiences trying to buy them. In retrospect as a parent I get it now as some of the covers we're brutal but looking back it was all in good fun. I even had one lady threaten to call the police because they we're so shocked that the grocery store she worked at would even consider selling such a lurid book in the first place let alone to me. (I got my older brother to buy it for me a minute later lol)

    This week in your Magazine collection.

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    As a kid this was the holy grail of Fangoria issues, the infamous issue 9. I've been snapping them up for years on the cheap but its starting to climb in value again. (nothing huge but it's not $25 anymore) as a kid it was issue 1, 10 and this as the grails to get in your Fango collection. Now as I work hard to complete my high grade Fango collection I have discovered some issues are actually rare in high grade... I'm looking at you issue 22 and and 15. Anyway-- I present this new copy(to me) of Fangoria issue 9. All hail!

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    This week in your Magazine collection.

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    Found a few things recently that I thought would be fun to share, first up... This beautiful Wrightson cover to one of the first price guides for Monster mags from the mid 70's. I honestly had never seen this piece of art before and had to own it the second I saw it. This may be one of my fave pen and ink Wrightson pieces I have ever seen. Considering its a fanzine and a thicker newsprint cover its in pretty sweet shape.

     

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    Collecting Goals for 2018

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    Complete my 9.4 run of X-men from 50-150 (so close). Finish my Warlock keys with an eye on trading up a few low/mid grade Thor 165's to get a sharper copy. Continue my NM run of Fangoria from issues 1-100 (way harder than you could ever imagine, they printed them on the worst paper). Upgrade a few of my lower number Famous Monsters and finish the few gaps in my high grade run of them. Hmmm... what else?... I'm currently fighting this incredible love for high grade Kirby covers from the mid to late 60's. Those Thors and FF covers just blow my mind but know the rabbit hole it'll take me down. Also-- stop buying every horror comic I can get my hands on. I have a problem and some form of 12 step program might be in order. (I took a break from comics for about 8 years and it hit me hard again this year, really loving being a collector again)

    Fangoria

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    I am back on the Fangoria wagon-- Been quietly buying the odd high grade issue (which has been a real chore to find anything in the 9.4 and up range) so many people just outright lie about condition. I am stunned at how many people call a fango near mint when it would be lucky to be a Fine plus to VF minus. But yesterday i scored something that has taken me 5 years to find in the wild... A truly Near Mint copy of The Bloody Best Of Fangoria. They aren't worth much at all and I have considered at least 30 over the past few years and finally found a copy that met my goals. The black cover added to Fangoria's horrible and cheap printing practises in the 80's makes finding a good spine next to impossible. I have picked up a few big books over the years for my comic collection but this piddly little 12 dollar issue has got to be the one that made me the happiest to finally find after all these years. Now to dig up a pristine issue 15 and 22-- anyone? lol

    So if anyone has any or knows any dealers/collectors with  NM or better copies of Fango pre issue 90, I would love to hear about it. Thanks in advance.

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    Show Us Your 3D Comics

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    3D comics we're a huge thing to me when I first started collecting-- My first real idea that comics we're worth money was finding an Overstreet Price guide as a very young kid at a local bookstore that had an article on 3D comics (I have since learned this article actually pumped the prices up of all 50's 3D comics) -- I had no idea what a 3D comic even meant until I found a copy of Three Dimensional Alien Worlds in I think '84.

     

    I'm stoked to see this thread-- When I get back home (On a long work trip) I'll crack out some of my 3D babies.

    Fangoria

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    If anyone is interested there is an incredible book that came out about a year back called 'Xerox-Ferox'. It is a massive 800 page history (in interview format) of all the great horror fanzines and magazines.

     

    It really woke me to how cool Fango's and other horror zines we're and are. Any fan should snap a copy up if they can find it.

    REMEMBERING THAT FIRST LCS...

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    I grew up in Lethbridge Alberta and back in the mid 80's it was a pretty one horse town (Great place to be FROM) anyway-- A new mall opened and they had indoor water slides on the north side. My brother and I went berserk and just had to go, eventually Mom and Dad relented and took us. It was pretty much the greatest afternoon for a 10 year old kid until-- We walked back to the car through the mall and my brother and I experienced a near out of body experience when we saw a little store in there called COMIC CITY.

     

    The vision of walking in the front doors still sits with me. First time I saw bagged and boarded books, first time I saw racks upon untold racks of comics from new till all the way back to the 50's. It was surreal. They had a Hulk#1 in VG (wow!!!). Runs of pretty much every Marvel book, even the expensive ones(in lower grades) those glorious Byrne Xmens on the walls for huge bucks to a kid like me. GI Joes for as far as the eye could see. Miller Ronin posters. TMNT was hitting huge and it was cool. Zeck Punisher posters. Indy books. Gawd, it was a gold mine of new things to this kid-- The owner(Neil) talked me into buying a copy of Kamandi no1 for the massive sum of $2.50 and it started my Kirby addiction. But the thing that really blew me away was this...

     

    He showed me the somewhat R-rated cover to Three Dimensional Alien Worlds. I had no idea what a 3D comic was and he said I had to buy it to find out. I couldn't afford it and the other books I had but it sent my mind reeling into that 'Must Have' state. (kind of insane he would try and sell this book to a 10 year old in retrospect)

     

    But-- I walked out of there a comic collector for life. I ended up getting that issue of Alien Worlds along with all the horrific Pacific titles by bruce Jones.

     

    Great memories.