Cushing Fan

Thanks for the link to your Post - I check it out. Here is a real rarity from my collection - a 1950s collector card from a British insurance company featuring Peter Cushing - and he had signed it :-)

I should mention that I got the chance to be a guest speaker at two Doctor Who conventions held here on Long Island. I did a presentation on the first one all on Cushing's Who and we screened the two Who films. For the second one I did a presentation all on K-9's greatest episodes ;-)

Cushing was playing a sort of eccentric scientist in the Dr. Who films - not even an alien which is why they are considered non-cannon. I find the first Dr. Who film way too slow and rather dreadful but the second was somewhat enjoyable. A third film was planned but the second's profits didn't justify it. Cushing played a very similar character in the Amicus film At The Earth's Core. For great Cushing films I would recommend Hammer's Horror of Dracula, Brides of Dracula, Frankenstein Created Woman, Frankenstein Must be Destroyed, Cash on Demand, and Captain Clegg. Cushing's role in the Amicus film Tales from the Crypt is excellent, and two independent films with great Cushing performances are The Creeping Flesh and Horror Express. Of course you cannot mention Cushing without Christopher Lee and three of the films I mentioned feature the two horror stars together - they were perfect foils for each other. On a related comic book related note - Cushing was supposed to star in Hammer's 1975 film adaptation of Vampirella (Barbara Leigh would have played Vampirella) but Hammer was falling apart by that time.

Thanks for the heads up! Sounds like a must have :-)

I'm a HUGE Peter Cushing fan. I run a FB group on him and he was the subject of the first biography that I wrote - "In All Sincerity... Peter Cushing". Of course besides comics I collect all things Cushing related :-)

Thank you everyone for chiming in with your thoughts. Just pulled the trigger on an Amazing Spiderman 135 CGC 9.2 Now, when I build some funds again I will have to choose between Giant Size Spiderman 4 and Marvel Preview 2 ;-)

Thank you for the comments everyone - never knew about the pocket folder!

Hello forum members, I am looking to get a Punisher key comic as I got back into the character after watching the Netflix series. I don't have enough for an Amazing Spiderman 129 so I am instead focusing on either Amazing Spiderman 135 (Punisher's full second appearance) or Marvel Preview 2 (origin of the Punisher). Which book do you members think would be the better buy? Chris