RE: Blazing Combat #1 question

[RedRaven]

I called Gary Dolgoff today and asked him the same question I put to Doug Sulipa. He felt in no way able to make a guess on the number of copies out there BUT he did say if anyone knows "Doug-ee would!"

[Mark Sielski]

With respect to Doug S.'s statement that 250,000 copies of Blazing Combat #1 were produced....... well, that's just not likely. I shy away from saying it's totally incorrect, because no one really knows, but a 250,000 press run of Blazing Combat #1 would have been bad business for Jim Warren, and Jim Warren was anything but a bad business man.

 

The most prolific press run of Warrens was the FM #1, with two printings. One just needs to take a look at the production figures, required by law, in any Warren Mag circa 1965. From memory, bi monthly FMs were around 150,000 copies - and that was at the height of the monster craze. Creepy and Eerie were running less.

 

Then, why would Warren run off more Blazing Combat #1 than his horror staples? Other non horror entries, Screen Thrills Illustrated, Wildest Westerns, Spacemen were failures, or well on their way. Knowing what history tells us about Warren, the real Blazing Combat #1 production run was well under 250,000 copies - my wild *spoon* guess - 100,000 or less.

[RedRaven]

I've always had the impression that the run was fairly small. 250k seemed high to me as well.

[jonjesper]

I just passed one of these up too last weekend at a LCS I was visiting out of town. Looks like I better make a phone call

[jonjesper]

Also was able to pick up a Spirit Special, really nice copy thanks for the heads up! I had never even seen one before, so was suprised when I came across it!

[Mike B-migration]

Guys,

 

First off I will admit I'm not a collector. I just have a couple that I have come across in an old box in the attic. I have a copy of Blazing Combat #1 and a copy of Psycho vol1 no 1 that both have had the top 3 inches of the covers cut off. I know from my putting a 1957 Baseball set together that condition is everything, so my question is are these 2 mags worth anything to you guys?

 

Mike B

[RedRaven]

Top 3 inches!! That's a serious case of trimming!

 

No value to me.

[Mike B-migration]

I remember back in the 60s, if you had a store, and the magazine or newspaper didn't sell in a certain amout of time, all the shop owner had to do to get a refund for non sales was cut the top header off magazines and the papers. I would guess this is what happened to these...

[Sal]

I remember back in the 60s, if you had a store, and the magazine or newspaper didn't sell in a certain amout of time, all the shop owner had to do to get a refund for non sales was cut the top header off magazines and the papers. I would guess this is what happened to these...

 

sure sounds like it.

 

nice find

[Mike B-migration]

Well I guess there is some value...

 

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