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[porcupine48]

Or Aussie?

I looked quick and was bummed I saw no poster. Realized it WAS there, just my north American eyes wanted to see GLOSSY MAN-THING!

 

[porcupine48]

And a Spidey.I'm going to cross post in the Aussie thread when I find what one  with some interior pics with adverts and such

[namisgr]

Came across and finally scanned my copy of Mad #100, my oldest issue at the time, personally signed for me by Bill Gaines over 40 years ago at a New York convention.  I think he wrote 'Eecch!':

  

Edited September 21, 2021 by namisgr

[Kramerica]

I've been lax in sharing but today I have the day off and can share some new additions to the family!

 

 

[oakman29]

On 9/21/2021 at 3:19 AM, namisgr said:

Came across and finally scanned my copy of Mad #100, my oldest issue at the time, personally signed for me by Bill Gaines over 40 years ago at a New York convention.  I think he wrote 'Eecch!':

  

[oakman29]

On 9/21/2021 at 3:19 AM, namisgr said:

Came across and finally scanned my copy of Mad #100, my oldest issue at the time, personally signed for me by Bill Gaines over 40 years ago at a New York convention.  I think he wrote 'Eecch!':

  

This is how I like my signatures. The experience of meeting with that someone you admire, and not ruining the cover.

Edited September 21, 2021 by oakman29

[Morganmi]

Some cool Creepy's

[Randall Dowling]

On 9/21/2021 at 6:24 PM, oakman29 said:

This is how I like my signatures. The experience of meeting with that someone you admire, and not ruining the cover.

In other words, you prefer a signature inside the book, not on the front cover like an animal.  

[oakman29]

On 9/21/2021 at 8:20 PM, Randall Dowling said:

In other words, you prefer a signature inside the book, not on the front cover like an animal.  

Yes...

[Stevemmg]

On 9/21/2021 at 10:20 PM, Randall Dowling said:

In other words, you prefer a signature inside the book, not on the front cover like an animal.  

Now where might you have heard that recently?  
 

Here is a bit of insight for our boardie pals from our time at the Windy City show.

We were in the booth on Saturday when we had a visitor who is often in attendance. F. Paul Wilson was quite keen on finding the Creepy issue that he contributed to, and wanted to sign it for me. He required some direction on a proper place to sign, I pointed him to the margin area on the first page of his story.

Keep signatures off of the artwork and in particular off of the covers.  Kids, don’t deface your mags “like an animal”.  Words to live by. 

[Morganmi]

Savage Tales and a couple others.

[OtherEric]

Some Warrens today.  We'll start at the bottom, but they were dirt cheap and do count as Frazetta issues, even if it's just the anti-smoking ad:

[OtherEric]

Then a beat up reader, but also dirt cheap.  This is the version with only two Corben stories, which seems to be much more common.  Does anybody know the story behind the variants, and is there actually a variant on #3 as well like Overstreet suggests?

[OtherEric]

Then a non-magazine, but I think the magazine thread is the right place since it's the only Warren comic (as opposed to magazine) I'm aware of:

[OtherEric]

And finally, the highlights of today's pulls, the Creepy in particular:

[Jayman]

On 9/23/2021 at 12:50 AM, OtherEric said:

Then a beat up reader, but also dirt cheap.  This is the version with only two Corben stories, which seems to be much more common.  Does anybody know the story behind the variants, and is there actually a variant on #3 as well like Overstreet suggests?

Never knew about variants for this series. Is it a US vs UK distribution thing? Is it just the contents? Curious if anyone knows so I can check my copies and see which versions I have.

Edit: Just checked the GCD and it does only mention issue 4 with this notation:

”With two exceptions, the story titles are listed with brief descriptions that vary from or are completely rewritten from the Table of Contents of the issues where they originally appeared. Stories #2 and #7 are listed as "A Surprise Bonus Story" and not by their original titles.”

Now to find out if issue 3 has a variant or not…

Edited September 23, 2021 by Jayman

[OtherEric]

On 9/23/2021 at 5:27 AM, Jayman said:

Never knew about variants for this series. Is it a US vs UK distribution thing? Is it just the contents? Curious if anyone knows so I can check my copies and see which versions I have.

Edit: Just checked the GCD and it does only mention issue 4 with this notation:

”With two exceptions, the story titles are listed with brief descriptions that vary from or are completely rewritten from the Table of Contents of the issues where they originally appeared. Stories #2 and #7 are listed as "A Surprise Bonus Story" and not by their original titles.”

Now to find out if issue 3 has a variant or not…

I really don't know anything about the variants beyond what I shared here, with Overstreet mentioning a possible variant of 3 as well.  The two stories listed as "Surprise Bonus Story" are the ones that vary between the editions, so I think it's possible they were planning the variants from the get-go.  It's very possible the issue wasn't actually reprints, but a bunch of the leftover color signatures from the original magazines bound into a new magazine, and they varied the contents based on how many of the signatures they had left.

[chevalmeow]

This is what Doug Sulipa has posted on his sales website:

"#4-A (1976; REGULAR Edition VARIANT with 3 x CORBEN Stories including "the Woodlik Inheritance" - CORBEN-s/a; Believer! = Budd Lewis & Richard Corben; Power and the Gory = W. Eaton & Rafael Auraleon; The Freaks: A Thin Dime of Pain = Doug Moench & Leopold Sanchez; Child = Greg Potter & Richard Corben; Edgar Allan Poe's Tell-Tale Heart = Archie Goodwin & Reed Crandall; Exterminator One = Bill DuBay & Paul Neary; Vampirella: The Monster Called Vampirella = Bill DuBay & Zesar Lopez. Artist profiles of Richard Corben, Reed Crandall, Rafael Auraleon;);

#4-B (1976; Scarcer VARIANT Edition, approx 1 in 4 copies, with 2 x CORBEN Stories, includes; HUNTER-s text begins "Killing Machines" - Dubay-s, Neary-a, in place of 3rd Corben-s; Believer! = Budd Lewis & Richard Corben; Power and the Gory = W. Eaton & Rafael Auraleon; The Freaks: A Thin Dime of Pain = Doug Moench & Leopold Sanchez; Child = Greg Potter & Richard Corben; Edgar Allan Poe's Tell-Tale Heart = Archie Goodwin & Reed Crandall; Exterminator One = Bill DuBay & Paul Neary; Vampirella: The Monster Called Vampirella = Bill DuBay & Zesar Lopez. Artist profiles of Richard Corben, Reed Crandall, Rafael Auraleon; );

I have not seen what Overstreet has to say but have verified the above with my own copies.

 

[OtherEric]

On 9/23/2021 at 11:22 AM, chevalmeow said:

This is what Doug Sulipa has posted on his sales website:

"#4-A (1976; REGULAR Edition VARIANT with 3 x CORBEN Stories including "the Woodlik Inheritance" - CORBEN-s/a; Believer! = Budd Lewis & Richard Corben; Power and the Gory = W. Eaton & Rafael Auraleon; The Freaks: A Thin Dime of Pain = Doug Moench & Leopold Sanchez; Child = Greg Potter & Richard Corben; Edgar Allan Poe's Tell-Tale Heart = Archie Goodwin & Reed Crandall; Exterminator One = Bill DuBay & Paul Neary; Vampirella: The Monster Called Vampirella = Bill DuBay & Zesar Lopez. Artist profiles of Richard Corben, Reed Crandall, Rafael Auraleon;);

#4-B (1976; Scarcer VARIANT Edition, approx 1 in 4 copies, with 2 x CORBEN Stories, includes; HUNTER-s text begins "Killing Machines" - Dubay-s, Neary-a, in place of 3rd Corben-s; Believer! = Budd Lewis & Richard Corben; Power and the Gory = W. Eaton & Rafael Auraleon; The Freaks: A Thin Dime of Pain = Doug Moench & Leopold Sanchez; Child = Greg Potter & Richard Corben; Edgar Allan Poe's Tell-Tale Heart = Archie Goodwin & Reed Crandall; Exterminator One = Bill DuBay & Paul Neary; Vampirella: The Monster Called Vampirella = Bill DuBay & Zesar Lopez. Artist profiles of Richard Corben, Reed Crandall, Rafael Auraleon; );

I have not seen what Overstreet has to say but have verified the above with my own copies.

 

The Grand Comic Database lists a third variant, with "Pure as Snow" replacing "The Power and the Gory" as well as "The Woodlik Inheritance" instead of the Hunter story, it does not have the 4 -A version Sulipa describes indexed.  I'll triple-check my copy when I get home.  Anybody else have an unslabbed copy handy?

[OtherEric]

On 9/23/2021 at 11:35 AM, OtherEric said:

The Grand Comic Database lists a third variant, with "Pure as Snow" replacing "The Power and the Gory" as well as "The Woodlik Inheritance" instead of the Hunter story, it does not have the 4 -A version Sulipa describes indexed.  I'll triple-check my copy when I get home.  Anybody else have an unslabbed copy handy?

Just checked, my copy matches the "a" variant at the Grand Comics Database exactly, which also matches the scan at the internet archive and Sulpa's 4-B variant. 

And, just to add some color to the thread, and a book that ironically reprints the other two Corben stories in the issue but not "The Woodlik Inheritance", here's the Heavy Metal Corben special; the hardcover version.  I picked this up the week Corben passed but I don't think I posted it here: