Popular Post Jayman Posted December 28, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted December 28, 2020 Separate win in the same auction. Same grease mark “L”. Tri-Color Brian, porcupine48, adamstrange and 8 others 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post OtherEric Posted December 28, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted December 28, 2020 5 more... Jayman, KirbyJack, Jasonmorris1000000 and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silver Posted December 28, 2020 Share Posted December 28, 2020 On 12/25/2020 at 3:21 PM, fifties said: I think ISF 33 was Wally Woods' best, or one of his best covers. Inaflash turned me on to the magnificence of ISF 33’s cover. I agree its one of Woods very best and a heck of a swan song! KirbyJack and Larryw7 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Robot Man Posted December 28, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted December 28, 2020 I realized I was missing this one. So one popped up on the bay and I hit it. $11 for this vg copy. Let’s see, Wood cover, interior stories by Ingals, Orlando, Crandall and Krigstein for $11.00! Hard to believe these are still this cheap. And people say GA is un-affordable? Mmehdy, Jayman, OtherEric and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tri-Color Brian Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 7 hours ago, Robot Man said: I realized I was missing this one. So one popped up on the bay and I hit it. $11 for this vg copy. Let’s see, Wood cover, interior stories by Ingals, Orlando, Crandall and Krigstein for $11.00! Hard to believe these are still this cheap. And people say GA is un-affordable? Oh yeah? What was the total with shipping and tax? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silver Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 Valor was about a year earlier than the pre-hero Brave and the Bold which were really great books. I don’t know why Valor couldn’t continue on, the quality was just as good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamstrange Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 8 minutes ago, Silver said: Valor was about a year earlier than the pre-hero Brave and the Bold which were really great books. I don’t know why Valor couldn’t continue on, the quality was just as good. Gaines post-code books lost all the money that he had accumulated with his horror books. Many distributors wouldn't actually place the comics with the newsstands resulting in huge returns. They blamed Gaines for problems with the industry or didn't want anything to do with what he published after his disastrous testimony in front on the Senate. He up-scaled Mad into a magazine selling for 25c and it enabled him to bypass his traditional distribution network. He did not see any opportunity for him to successfully publish standard comics. Raze, Jayman, Larryw7 and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post OtherEric Posted December 29, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted December 29, 2020 5 more. Here we get into the "wildly inventive" stage of Mad covers under Kurtzman. 11 is of course a classic, I find 12 hilarious in its own way even though I know others aren't fans, and I've never seen anybody with a kind word for #13. I'm still unclear on exactly what the joke is. Larryw7, Raze, conan09279 and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post OtherEric Posted December 30, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted December 30, 2020 And the Mad experimentation continues. I think 16 is probably the best cover of this lot, followed by the 14. 15 is, unfortunately, nearly the same joke as the 14, not as well done. 17 is a brilliant gag when you consider the whole book, but the cover on its own is pretty bland on its own terms. And the 18 is, in my opinion, another misfire... although not as bad as the 13 was. One of the reason MAD is so beloved is Kurtzman's willingness to try all sorts of crazy ideas out; but when you're wildly trying new things the fact is not everything is going to work. I also think Kurtzman was hurt by going monthly... he was forced to produce more content than he could really manage comfortably in the time frame. So there's a pretty high number of misses through the series... but the stuff that hits is just brilliant. Larryw7, porcupine48, Raze and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silver Posted December 31, 2020 Share Posted December 31, 2020 So what's the one EC you would like to find and add to your collection in 2021? I'll start, would love to find a nice copy of WF 20. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
divad Posted December 31, 2020 Share Posted December 31, 2020 10 minutes ago, Silver said: So what's the one EC you would like to find and add to your collection in 2021? I'll start, would love to find a nice copy of WF 20. CSS #22 to beat the drum. Larryw7, KirbyJack and conan09279 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post porcupine48 Posted December 31, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted December 31, 2020 13 minutes ago, Silver said: So what's the one EC you would like to find and add to your collection in 2021? I'll start, would love to find a nice copy of WF 20. This one's been on my tops for a while And this Larryw7, KirbyJack, conan09279 and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porcupine48 Posted December 31, 2020 Share Posted December 31, 2020 10 minutes ago, divad said: CSS #22 to beat the drum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
conan09279 Posted December 31, 2020 Share Posted December 31, 2020 1 hour ago, Silver said: So what's the one EC you would like to find and add to your collection in 2021? I'll start, would love to find a nice copy of WF 20. It will hopefully be Shock Suspenstories 10, 11, or 18 so I can complete the run. Then most definitely Crime Suspenstories 22. OtherEric and KirbyJack 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtherEric Posted December 31, 2020 Share Posted December 31, 2020 1 hour ago, Silver said: So what's the one EC you would like to find and add to your collection in 2021? I'll start, would love to find a nice copy of WF 20. Three Dimensional Tales from the Crypt of Terror #2. It's one of the only New Trend books that has never been reprinted, it's an order of magnitude harder to find than #1, and it's the one book I need to complete the (admittedly very short) run. Larryw7, conan09279, KirbyJack and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post OtherEric Posted December 31, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted December 31, 2020 More MADs, finishing off the comic book run. #20 was one of my earliest EC's, and probably the first comic book MAD I ever got. It's definitely the EC I've had continually in my collection longest; it was one of only three EC's I kept when I had to sell books to pay rent. "Sound Effects" is recognized as one of the best stories ever in the MAD comic, and I also think "Cowboy" is hilarious. Raze, KirbyJack, Silver and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KirbyJack Posted December 31, 2020 Share Posted December 31, 2020 I plan to sell or trade my cruddy reading copies of FF 48-50 and find a cruddy horror key. HoF 16, WAC 10, maybe TFTC 20. Larryw7, Robot Man, divad and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted December 31, 2020 Share Posted December 31, 2020 10 hours ago, Silver said: So what's the one EC you would like to find and add to your collection in 2021? I'll start, would love to find a nice copy of WF 20. I’d sure like to find a Crypt of Terror #17 or a Crime Patrol #16. Had ‘em both once but foolishly sold them... KirbyJack and Raze 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EC ed Posted December 31, 2020 Share Posted December 31, 2020 11 hours ago, Silver said: So what's the one EC you would like to find and add to your collection in 2021? I'll start, would love to find a nice copy of WF 20. I'd like to find a nice VF'ish copy of Vault of Horror #31 - nothing particularly special about that issue, but for some reason nice copies have eluded me... Raze, Larryw7, IngelsFan and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtherEric Posted January 1, 2021 Share Posted January 1, 2021 And 5 more for today. My least favorite of the New Direction books... but the art is frequently amazing, still: Larryw7, Raze and KirbyJack 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
