Popular Post Robot Man Posted September 6, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted September 6, 2020 Not GA but one cool modern with original EC artists! jimjum12, Funnybooks, OtherEric and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post OtherEric Posted September 7, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted September 7, 2020 (edited) 3 hours ago, Robot Man said: Not GA but one cool modern with original EC artists! That's one of the handful of issues from the series I have, and it's a great one. The flip side is just as awesome in terms of creative teams, only with a Bronze Age flavor: Wolfman/ Colan and Wein/Wrightson. It's not my favorite issue, though. That would be #10, the Monsters of Rock issue. Stories by Gene Simmons, Alice Cooper, Rob Zombie, and Pat Boone. Edit: Since it's the one issue of TFTC I have, I might as well drop in the cover that's being swiped for comparison: Edited September 7, 2020 by OtherEric Larryw7, Raze, KirbyJack and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Black_Adam Posted September 8, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted September 8, 2020 Recent pickup. One of those covers I just can't resist when raw, mid-grade copies appear. No offense to those with Gaines File Copies, but I like my 70 year-old ECs to look 70 years old! Skunkboy, fifties, creaturefan95 and 4 others 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raze Posted September 13, 2020 Share Posted September 13, 2020 (edited) Thanks for everyone giving their opinions on which issue to buy a few weeks ago. I tried wining both auctions but only got MAD 9 and its a mess cover split and detached, first wrap detached and brittle chipping on the spine. As per usual I read it and it went over my head... at least I like the cover! Edited September 13, 2020 by Raze OtherEric and KirbyJack 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fifties Posted September 13, 2020 Share Posted September 13, 2020 11 minutes ago, Raze said: Thanks for everyone giving their opinions on which issue to buy a few weeks ago. I tried wining both auctions but only got MAD 9 and its a mess cover split and detached, first wrap detached and brittle chipping on the spine. As per usual I read it and it went over my head... at least I like the cover! That issue has a great cover, and is loaded with EC talent; Kurtzman, Wood, Elder, Severin & Davis. The last story, "Hah, Noon" was a parody of the 1952 Academy Award winning film, "High Noon"...But you knew that. Raze 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raze Posted September 13, 2020 Share Posted September 13, 2020 1 minute ago, fifties said: That issue has a great cover, and is loaded with EC talent; Kurtzman, Wood, Elder, Severin & Davis. The last story, "Hah, Noon" was a parody of the 1952 Academy Award winning film, "High Noon"...But you knew that. Nope Didnt know about the movie! Now I do. And yes the art is always great! Its just the stories, Im 42 and know a few references and maybe pick up some things hear or there but its mostly lost on me. Thanks for the info! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fifties Posted September 14, 2020 Share Posted September 14, 2020 I can understand that; trying to decipher an actual situation by reading a parody of it would be tough if one wasn't aware. I haven't read a Sunday newspaper this century if not longer, but there used to be a color comics section in The Times, Herald Examiner, and I imagine any other major papers. One long running strip was "Little Orphan Annie", which was the basis for Wood's lead story, "Little Orphan Melvin". Not all their parodies however concern situations present in the early '50's; "Batboy and Rubin" is HILARIOUS, as is "Superduperman", as just two examples of timeless subjects. Raze and Larryw7 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Larryw7 Posted September 15, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted September 15, 2020 Just got this one in the mail. Jayman, bronze johnny, Raze and 9 others 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KirbyJack Posted September 15, 2020 Share Posted September 15, 2020 Excellent! Who is the host? Vault Keeper? Crypt Keeper? Both? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IngelsFan Posted September 15, 2020 Share Posted September 15, 2020 1 hour ago, KirbyJack said: Excellent! Who is the host? Vault Keeper? Crypt Keeper? Both? Just some rando witch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EC ed Posted September 15, 2020 Share Posted September 15, 2020 3 hours ago, IngelsFan said: Who is the host? Vault Keeper? Crypt Keeper? Both? Vault Keeper Raze and KirbyJack 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fifties Posted September 15, 2020 Share Posted September 15, 2020 Actually the first three issues of Haunt didn't appear to have a host. It wasn't until #4 that The Old Witch appeared on the first page. Larryw7 and Raze 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KirbyJack Posted September 15, 2020 Share Posted September 15, 2020 The Old Witch declares herself hostess on the cover and an internal splash in issue 17, but I’ve never read 15 or 16. Larryw7 and Raze 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtherEric Posted September 16, 2020 Share Posted September 16, 2020 So, I wasn't really looking to get anything EC for a bit, due to budget constraints and a couple other opportunities. But then eBay offered a coupon for $25 off anything $25.01 or more, and this was one of the issues most in need of an upgrade I had. It's a Lone Star 1.8, otherwise known as a nicely presenting 2.5 or 3.0: Raze and KirbyJack 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raze Posted September 16, 2020 Share Posted September 16, 2020 9 hours ago, OtherEric said: So, I wasn't really looking to get anything EC for a bit, due to budget constraints and a couple other opportunities. But then eBay offered a coupon for $25 off anything $25.01 or more, and this was one of the issues most in need of an upgrade I had. It's a Lone Star 1.8, otherwise known as a nicely presenting 2.5 or 3.0: When and where is this coupon?!?!? Cool book btw! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtherEric Posted September 16, 2020 Share Posted September 16, 2020 4 hours ago, Raze said: When and where is this coupon?!?!? Cool book btw! I think the coupon was tied to my account; for having been a member for 20 (!) years. Raze 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted September 16, 2020 Share Posted September 16, 2020 Me too. I got an email with about a week to use it which I promptly did as my wife's since she didn't want anything. Got two cool books. One basicaly for free. OtherEric and Raze 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fifties Posted September 16, 2020 Share Posted September 16, 2020 I received coupons for both of my eBay accounts, and used them to reduce the cost for each of two books. OtherEric and Raze 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larryw7 Posted September 17, 2020 Share Posted September 17, 2020 On 9/15/2020 at 10:51 AM, KirbyJack said: Excellent! Who is the host? Vault Keeper? Crypt Keeper? Both? No host for 1. In fact, there are some comic historians who believe the cover and a couple of stories for the first issue actually date to 1948, when Bill Gaines made a deal with. Shelly Moldoff to do horror comics. The deal fell through, but "Zombie Terror" in Moon Girl 5, plus the cover and some of the contents of Haunt 1, make up some of what would have appeared earlier. The Old Witch does appear in the second issue in a story drawn by Jack Women(definitely not Ghastly's Old Witch). And then she's in the rest of 'em. KirbyJack, Stevemmg, Raze and 1 other 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KirbyJack Posted September 17, 2020 Share Posted September 17, 2020 The stories from the unpublished "Tales of the Supernatural" are: 1. "Vampire of the Bayou" / Moon Girl #4 (summer 1948) 2. "Zombie Terror" / Moon Girl #5 (Fall 1948) 3. "The Werewolf's Curse" / Crime Patrol #11 (April-May 1949) 4. "The Hanged Man's Revenge" / Crime Patrol #12 (May-June 1949) 5. "Out of the Grave", a text piece first printed in Haunt of Fear #15 (#1) I like posting this as it forwards my Moon Girl #4 agenda. Raze, OtherEric, Larryw7 and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
