The Undead Thread: Pre-Code Horror 21 21

[precodekeith]

Hot chick in bondage...

 

And what does the first woman have in her hand?! Looks like a c......., oh it's just a candle!

 

Edited May 13, 2005 by precodekeith

[precodekeith]

Hey! Another EERIE #1 !!!

 

Bummer, it's just an IW reprint book.

 

Has a nice Wood cover, though.

So really, there are FOUR Eerie #1's out there. Two from Avon, one from IW, and one from Warren if you count comic mags.

 

Edited May 13, 2005 by precodekeith

[precodekeith]

A really cool title.

 

Oh, and "Be My Ghost!" What a fine sense of humor! They slay me!

 

Edited May 13, 2005 by precodekeith

[Scrooge]

Hey! Another EERIE #1 !!!

 

Bummer, it's just an IW reprint book.

 

Has a nice Wood cover, though.

So really, there are FOUR Eerie #1's out there. Two from Avon, one from IW, and one from Warren if you count comic mags.

 

 

 

 

 

Now should you play Find the 10 differences? Actually I should go at the extent of these differences. I think I like the dark eyes on the IW reprint better. Also we have the guy at right shrunk, more arms, more small tendrils, loss of mohawk, ...

[adamstrange]

I think I like the coloring better on the IW Reprint -- I'm always sucker for a rich green.

 

Scrooge,

 

Thanks for posting the original. I would have passed right by the difference if you hadn't mentioned them. Does anyone know whey IW did that? Was it an attempt to make the cover more appealing in the 60s? Or, were they trying to disguise the original art? That is, was there anything underhanded about their publishing that they had to worry about getting recognized/caught?

[Jayman]

It's also interesting that the reprint shows more of the artwork rather than less. Did they have the original art or simply redraw the B.E.M. and add to what could not be seen? We get to see behind the text box and more on top and sides.

[rjpb]

It actually looks redrawn - the spaceman on the right is smaller in the reprint and a cloud has been added - the creature has grown a third arm and his left hand is now showing - and his eyes have changed - and his legs are sprouting roots, and the shading in a couple areas on the cover is different.

[precodekeith]

I'd say a lot of it was completely redrawn. This was probably a cut/paste, cut/trace job. Look real close at the detail on the walls of the mechanical equipment. There are plenty more differences there.

 

It's weird, but I like the IW cover better, I think!

[Scrooge]

I'd say a lot of it was completely redrawn. This was probably a cut/paste, cut/trace job. Look real close at the detail on the walls of the mechanical equipment. There are plenty more differences there.

 

It's weird, but I like the IW cover better, I think!

 

Actually I had been looking at the mechanical equipment detail myself and while different looking it seemed that those differences could directly be attributed to different coloring not different line art. Give it another close look and you might see what I mean.

 

As far as liking one over the other, are the contents in the IW reprint the same as the Strange Worlds or is it filled with random reprint?

[precodekeith]

Check out the equipment running along the floor on the bottom right between man and monster, that stuff looks like a complete redraw to me.

 

As for the content, it is not a reprint of the Strange Worlds.

[Scrooge]

Wowsa You're right. Everything else was pretty well copied to the line but that area (which I obviously overlooked) is definitely different.

[precodekeith]

"Hey! This isn't medium rare! Take this back, it's not how we ordered it!"

 

Edited May 16, 2005 by precodekeith

[Scrooge]

Hey! Another EERIE #1 !!!

 

Bummer, it's just an IW reprint book.

 

Has a nice Wood cover, though.

So really, there are FOUR Eerie #1's out there. Two from Avon, one from IW, and one from Warren if you count comic mags.

 

Actually you could almost make that 5 if you count the book in this ad and it's from Ziff-Davis:

 

 

You can see the book (ran only one issue) in the Gerber. Cool actual cover. Anyone has a copy?

[originalisbest]

I have a nice copy I got from Ed Jaster, but alas I don't have a scan to share right now, so someone will beat me to it. Besides the cool Death n' chess front cover, there's a nice Krigstein cover on the back as well. Rather unusual for pre-code horror - I can't think of another issue from any publisher that does that, though there might be one.

[adamstrange]

Fawcett Worlds of Fear -- although they aren't "original" back covers but reprints of front covers of prior issues.

[precodekeith]

Without digging through my boxes for confirmation I seem to think some other title did this as well. Can't think of it off the top of my skull...

[precodekeith]

Just for good measure, here's another IW (and I'm still in alphabetical order! )

Nice to see IW stirring up some conversation, I bet that's the most their books have been talked about in years!

 

Oh, and sorry for lagging on my scans, but I recently got Doom 3 for the X-Box. Honestly, a game horror fans should be eating up.

 

Edited May 20, 2005 by precodekeith

[precodekeith]

Sorry so long in editing the previous post, the power went out for a couple hours yesterday and I had to shimmy on to other preoccupations for awhile. Anybody know where that IW cover came from originally?

[originalisbest]

I have no frame of reference, but it seems like an "all-new" cover drawn for that IW issue.

[precodekeith]

Maybe it was on a pulp? I thought it looked familiar for some reason.