OtherEric

A very nice start! Some great Bill Everett work in that one. I actually prefer lower grade books when it comes to Golden Age; they're more affordable and you can actually read them without being terrified you'll drop the value.

I want to say I have 16 of those? 17 if you let me count my 3/4 cover Savage Tales 1.

Just got this in. Noteworthy for part 6 of Genius Jones, a rare non-Doc Savage story by Lester Dent.

Today's book.

Jack Davis doing some SF work is one of the many little gems found in the last year of the EC comics.

I can play too. 80 years ago this month:

Nice. I think I need to find myself at least some small Arkham House run to try and work on beyond the Arkham Sampler run I have. Maybe the Solar Pons books would be a good project...

I have to agree with you, that's clearly a horror story. It reminds me somewhat of the Hero/ Horror hybrid stories in VENUS, actually. Now I'm wondering what the first EC SF story and cover are...

And this one speaks for itself. If this isn't recognized as a classic cover yet it's certainly working it's way there quickly, I think almost everybody who has seen a copy on this thread has instantly wanted one for themselves:

Two items in today. The first is this, which is actually pages from six issues put together to form a complete copy of the story. Pretty nicely done, and was only $10.

I think it's quite possible that a Halloween cover could also be a Horror cover. I think trying to identify the first EC horror cover is actually an interesting discussion, and a Land of the Lost cover is as likely a candidate as any. I do not require that the creators of the book actually consciously thought "This is horror" to count a cover as horror. I also think that, if we do pick a Land of the Lost cover as the first EC horror cover, 6 or (less certainly) 5 are probably better candidates for the honor. Scans from GCD, if anybody has better ones I would love to see them:

An odd question: a listing online claims this is the first EC horror cover. I was wondering if this was generally agreed, or if it was just a certain dealer trying to double their already high price tag on the book.

Today's book. No back cover, $10, sold by the original owner, and a gorgeous Williamson cover & adaptation of Bradbury's "A Sound of Thunder"

Scientifiction, not Sci-Fi. Great pickup!

This. There is also the long term historical inertia... even the Famous First Editions included Sensation 1, not All-Star 8. There may also be a small element of it was not considered the key book of the run for ages, All-Star 3 was.