Infinite Bronze Horror Thread 16 16

[nepatkm]

Something about the bronze age Brunner covers to me

[creaturefan95]

[IngelsFan]

I've been picking up DC "double bullets" lately. There's just something cool about these 20 cent beauties:

 

[Jeffro.]

5 hours ago, IngelsFan said:

I've been picking up DC "double bullets" lately. There's just something cool about these 20 cent beauties:

 

I love that era of DCs. Lots of nostalgia

[Jayman]

18 hours ago, IngelsFan said:

I've been picking up DC "double bullets" lately. There's just something cool about these 20 cent beauties:

 

That is a gorgeous book, congrats! 

[RogueRunner]

Picked up a nice copy of HOS 103. Great Wrightson cover:

Edited May 25, 2017 by RogueRunner

[Black_Adam]

1 hour ago, RogueRunner said:

Picked up a nice copy of HOS 103. Great Wrightson cover:

 

Beautiful colors on that timeless cover by one of the greats! Nice pickup

[Jayman]

6 hours ago, RogueRunner said:

Picked up a nice copy of HOS 103. Great Wrightson cover:

Yup, nice tough black cover!

Never quite understood what Abel is doing though. Is he holding dripping candle wax or is he just giving us the finger? 

[bronze_rules]

14 hours ago, Jayman said:

Yup, nice tough black cover!

Never quite understood what Abel is doing though. Is he holding dripping candle wax or is he just giving us the finger? 

Funny you guys should mention this cover. I must have looked at it a zillion times and never really noticed the skull in the smoke.. until I saw this.

Counting the days and salivating till this bad boy goes to press.

re.. what is he doing... my interpretation, is that he often lights his way through the HOS via candlelight. In this case, he's so mesmerized and/or scared by the skull rising in the plumes of smoke, that he

barely notices the candlewax melting over his fingertips!

 

Edited May 26, 2017 by bronze_rules

[Jayman]

7 hours ago, bronze_rules said:

Funny you guys should mention this cover. I must have looked at it a zillion times and never really noticed the skull in the smoke.. until I saw this.

Counting the days and salivating till this bad boy goes to press.

re.. what is he doing... my interpretation, is that he often lights his way through the HOS via candlelight. In this case, he's so mesmerized and/or scared by the skull rising in the plumes of smoke, that he

barely notices the candlewax melting over his fingertips!

 

Interesting. I always noticed the smoke skull but for years as a kid I just assumed he was holding a candle. It still reminds me of candle wax but knowing Berni's love of drawing protoplasmic creatures, it might be some kind of supernatural ooze. A close look at the tip of his fingers and it seems to be rising instead of dripping. 

Kind of reminds me of that scene from Prometheus where David is playing with the black ooze and its dancing around on the end of his fingers.

Edited May 26, 2017 by Jayman

[creaturefan95]

[Jayman]

Very nice! That WBN 9 was the first one I started buying as a kid. Had to find the earlier issues as I got older. I also like that Micronauts cover, never saw that one before. 

[kilowatt]

All nice books! Here`s a few more to add

[oakman29]

On 4/4/2017 at 1:55 PM, Jeffro. said:

A few recent purchases

Beautiful examples of Wrightson work.

[oakman29]

On 5/25/2017 at 4:27 AM, RogueRunner said:

Picked up a nice copy of HOS 103. Great Wrightson cover:

A tough one for high grade collectors, congrats.

[rjrjr]

On 3/23/2017 at 8:11 AM, Jayman said:

There was also a movie or perhaps a tv series (thinking True Blood) that touched on a quirky Vampire trait of having an unnatural compulsion to have to count items. The scene I remember seeing is where someone wanted to slow down a vampires advance and so left a box of matchsticks spilled on the floor. The Vampire had to stop and count them all upon seeing them! 

Sounds like a riff on Sesame Street's count!

[Rip]

On 6/8/2017 at 7:13 PM, oakman29 said:

Beautiful examples of Wrightson work.

Yea I love all 3 of those covers. Looking for all of those in 9.4 or better.

[kilowatt]

Some recent Bronze pick-ups. Does anyone know if there is a Silver Age Horror thread running? Or can I just post a couple here?

[IngelsFan]

Any day the mailman brings me two 20 centers with Wrightson covers is a pretty awesome day:

[Black_Adam]

1 hour ago, IngelsFan said:

Any day the mailman brings me two 20 centers with Wrightson covers is a pretty awesome day:

Now that's a special delivery! Wrightson gold for only 20 cents. How could any kid in the seventies have resisted? Great pickups!