fifties Posted March 20, 2019 Share Posted March 20, 2019 35 minutes ago, originalisbest said: Two heads are better than one! Great reds on those copies That's 'cuz EC used blood instead of red ink, don'tcha know? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted March 20, 2019 Share Posted March 20, 2019 Yep, two heads are always better than one with horror comics... Raze, originalisbest and Jayman 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KirbyJack Posted March 20, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted March 20, 2019 E.C. For me, too! Two Fisted Tales! The only one I have complete. sacentaur, OtherEric, BuscemasAvengers and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KirbyJack Posted March 20, 2019 Share Posted March 20, 2019 And just to clean things up, here are the last 4 I haven’t yet posted. The remnants of a once-pretty-good New Trend collection. Raze and OtherEric 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtherEric Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 As of this weekend I'm up to 65 New Trend- New Direction books. Not a huge collection, but pretty decent, I think. Here's the only one from this weekend I haven't posted in this thread; I had it over in the Mad Magazines area instead. KirbyJack 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KirbyJack Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 The Mad comic run is really fun to put together! Enjoy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtherEric Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 1 minute ago, KirbyJack said: The Mad comic run is really fun to put together! Enjoy! It really is. That 19 puts me over the half-way mark, so only 11 issues to go. And I've already got 1 and 2, so 5 is the big problem. I've also got the first 8 issues in magazine format, which I believe runs out all the Kurtzman inventory material. I don't count those in my total, of course. KirbyJack 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IngelsFan Posted March 28, 2019 Share Posted March 28, 2019 (edited) Today’s delivery brought a book that made me very happy! Edited March 28, 2019 by IngelsFan Raze, KirbyJack and Randall Dowling 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KirbyJack Posted March 28, 2019 Share Posted March 28, 2019 (edited) Great comic! Edited March 28, 2019 by KirbyJack originalisbest and IngelsFan 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
originalisbest Posted March 28, 2019 Share Posted March 28, 2019 On 3/20/2019 at 6:00 PM, Robot Man said: Yep, two heads are always better than one with horror comics... I find this suspiciously UN-EC like! Not to worry, I have you covered with the two headed EC thing -- from Vault of Horror #36: sacentaur, KirbyJack and Raze 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
originalisbest Posted March 28, 2019 Share Posted March 28, 2019 1 hour ago, KirbyJack said: Great comic, but you may want to crop that scan! Thought the exact same thing last evening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IngelsFan Posted March 28, 2019 Share Posted March 28, 2019 1 hour ago, KirbyJack said: Great comic, but you may want to crop that scan! Thanks for the heads up. I cropped it before upload but for some reason it reverted to the uncropped version? Looks like it worked this time. KirbyJack and originalisbest 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
originalisbest Posted March 28, 2019 Share Posted March 28, 2019 8 minutes ago, IngelsFan said: Thanks for the heads up. I cropped it before upload but for some reason it reverted to the uncropped version? Looks like it worked this time. All good and works on my end too! Nice book and a great cover -- this one, and the Iwo Jima Kurtzman cover (Frontline Combat #7), are among my fave EC war covers. IngelsFan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Robot Man Posted March 28, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted March 28, 2019 11 hours ago, IngelsFan said: Today’s delivery brought a book that made me very happy! Awsome book and my favorite EC war cover. Jack Davis nailed this one. To me, it’s the eyes. And Marie Severin’s coloring on it is superb! I just think she doesn’t get enough recognition for her color work. Maybe the best in the business. As masterful as the EC artists were, Marie’s coloring just finished each piece. sacentaur, IngelsFan, KirbyJack and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
originalisbest Posted March 28, 2019 Share Posted March 28, 2019 13 minutes ago, Robot Man said: Awsome book and my favorite EC war cover. Jack Davis nailed this one. To me, it’s the eyes. And Marie Severin’s coloring on it is superb! I just think she doesn’t get enough recognition for her color work. Maybe the best in the business. As masterful as the EC artists were, Marie’s coloring just finished each piece. True enough, though Wally Wood, in his letters, mentioned at one point (in particular with regard to WSF #27) that he personally always did his own colors, so it wasn't always Marie. Despite this, GCD just generically assumes WSF 27 was colored by Marie, but I'll go with Wally's personal recollections vs. that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted March 28, 2019 Share Posted March 28, 2019 Could be true. But I would have to assume she did the biggest majority of them. I know when the Cochran hardbounds came out, I was a little disappointed that she recolored a lot of them. Specifically Vault of Horror #37. The Johnny Craig hanging guy. The original was dark with a lot of brown and black. The new one had a lot of white in the background. Totally ruined the mood of the cover for me. There are others but that one sticks in my mind. Apparently, since she had the chance, she thought she would “fix” some she didn’t like the first time. originalisbest 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
originalisbest Posted March 28, 2019 Share Posted March 28, 2019 2 minutes ago, Robot Man said: Could be true. But I would have to assume she did the biggest majority of them. I know when the Cochran hardbounds came out, I was a little disappointed that she recolored a lot of them. Specifically Vault of Horror #37. The Johnny Craig hanging guy. The original was dark with a lot of brown and black. The new one had a lot of white in the background. Totally ruined the mood of the cover for me. There are others but that one sticks in my mind. Apparently, since she had the chance, she thought she would “fix” some she didn’t like the first time. Agreed on that, I'm sure she did the majority. I also didn't care for some of her recolorings, but my understanding was she didn't want to just repeat herself, so I can certainly understand that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted March 28, 2019 Share Posted March 28, 2019 She was also the “conscience” of EC and had a lot of reservations about the gruesome out put of the company. I heard she tried to “tone down” some of the original stuff. IngelsFan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IngelsFan Posted March 28, 2019 Share Posted March 28, 2019 5 minutes ago, Robot Man said: She was also the “conscience” of EC and had a lot of reservations about the gruesome out put of the company. I heard she tried to “tone down” some of the original stuff. “Foul Play” being the best example of this. Rather than go for colorful gore she went monochrome for the final scenes. KirbyJack 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted March 28, 2019 Share Posted March 28, 2019 Jack Davis didn’t have much “conscience” God bless him! originalisbest and IngelsFan 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
