EC ed Posted December 31, 2020 Share Posted December 31, 2020 11 hours ago, Silver said: So what's the one EC you would like to find and add to your collection in 2021? I'll start, would love to find a nice copy of WF 20. I'd like to find a nice VF'ish copy of Vault of Horror #31 - nothing particularly special about that issue, but for some reason nice copies have eluded me... OtherEric, Raze, IngelsFan and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtherEric Posted January 1, 2021 Share Posted January 1, 2021 And 5 more for today. My least favorite of the New Direction books... but the art is frequently amazing, still: KirbyJack, Raze and Larryw7 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KirbyJack Posted January 1, 2021 Share Posted January 1, 2021 I’ve never owned a single issue. I’m sure I could find something to enjoy about the series! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted January 1, 2021 Share Posted January 1, 2021 8 hours ago, EC ed said: I'd like to find a nice VF'ish copy of Vault of Horror #31 - nothing particularly special about that issue, but for some reason nice copies have eluded me... That is still one that has eluded me in any grade. Just haven’t the right copy for the right price. I don’t see it that often. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yrag9591 Posted January 2, 2021 Share Posted January 2, 2021 Sorry if this has been mentioned before. I have recently begun collecting the EC Archives (which are wonderful, by the way). My copy of the Weird Science 3 archive doesn’t include the insert of the cover of WS 18. Does anyone have any ideas where I might be able to get the insert? The guy I bought the WS 3 archive from never had it. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post OtherEric Posted January 2, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted January 2, 2021 5 more covers from my collection. Panic remains one of the most underrated EC's, in my opinion. The humor might not be as brilliant as Kurtzman's best work on MAD... but it's consistently amusing, I think. Mmehdy, Larryw7, conan09279 and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mmehdy Posted January 2, 2021 Share Posted January 2, 2021 I agree Panic is underrated ...cover to #2 is amazing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post OtherEric Posted January 2, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted January 2, 2021 In today: Jasonmorris1000000, Raze, Larryw7 and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Tri-Color Brian Posted January 2, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted January 2, 2021 (edited) Got tired of seeing all the "New Direction" books posted here, so I bought a few more for myself. They should be here once the postal mule train arrives in AZ... This dealer's scanner is always too light, so I expect the books to be much darker and the colors to really pop... This was an ebay buy, so I don't know if the color is accurate or not... Edited January 2, 2021 by Tri-ColorBrian OtherEric, Larryw7, KirbyJack and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtherEric Posted January 3, 2021 Share Posted January 3, 2021 And now we get to the heart of the PANIC run, I really think a lot of Panic's reputation comes from the covers of issues 5-11. Jokes that fall flat, jokes that haven't aged well, 'jokes' that nobody has figured out in 65+ years since they were published, designs that make it impossible to remember which issue is which... With all that said, I do love the Comicfidential cover. KirbyJack, Larryw7, Raze and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tri-Color Brian Posted January 3, 2021 Share Posted January 3, 2021 2 hours ago, OtherEric said: And now we get to the heart of the PANIC run, I really think a lot of Panic's reputation comes from the covers of issues 5-11. Jokes that fall flat, jokes that haven't aged well, 'jokes' that nobody has figured out in 65+ years since they were published, designs that make it impossible to remember which issue is which... With all that said, I do love the Comicfidential cover. I get the jokes on every Panic cover...especially this one. Mad did the same type of stuff with the later comic issues. They were making fun of the persecution of comics by disguising the covers to look like something else. Which jokes don't you get? I'll explain them to you...I'm older... This is my favorite Mad disguise cover... OtherEric 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtherEric Posted January 3, 2021 Share Posted January 3, 2021 47 minutes ago, Tri-ColorBrian said: I get the jokes on every Panic cover...especially this one. Mad did the same type of stuff with the later comic issues. They were making fun of the persecution of comics by disguising the covers to look like something else. Which jokes don't you get? I'll explain them to you...I'm older... This is my favorite Mad disguise cover... The one I don't get is #7... patching torn tigers. Jayman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tri-Color Brian Posted January 3, 2021 Share Posted January 3, 2021 (edited) 4 hours ago, OtherEric said: The one I don't get is #7... patching torn tigers. It's designed to look like a tiger's fur...so you can "patch" a tiger with it. It's just a st*pid, funny idea...tiger's really don't get torn and you can't patch them... Edited January 4, 2021 by Tri-ColorBrian Jayman and OtherEric 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Larryw7 Posted January 4, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted January 4, 2021 I posted this in the first book of 2021 thread, but I think it belongs here. The next EC I'd like to get is a decent copy of TFTC 30. fifties, Raze, KirbyJack and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KirbyJack Posted January 4, 2021 Share Posted January 4, 2021 Very high on my want list! Larryw7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Robot Man Posted January 5, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted January 5, 2021 My first EC of the year! Tri-Color Brian, IngelsFan, conan09279 and 8 others 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post OtherEric Posted January 5, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted January 5, 2021 Continuing the "repost everything I've got" project, even if it's no longer needed since they recovered the images. Panic went out with a couple of their better covers, and the Piracy covers are pretty uniformly great in my opinion: Tri-Color Brian, Larryw7, Raze and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silver Posted January 5, 2021 Share Posted January 5, 2021 I didn't realize Panic had a couple of code approved issues. Was the content noticeably different? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post C. Spaulding Posted January 6, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted January 6, 2021 Latest addition IngelsFan, Raze, Jayman and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtherEric Posted January 6, 2021 Share Posted January 6, 2021 4 hours ago, Silver said: I didn't realize Panic had a couple of code approved issues. Was the content noticeably different? Not terribly so. After the first issue got banned in Boston I think the title in general played it a little safer than most of the EC's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...