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Post by ripper on Jan 5, 2013 16:53:34 GMT
On our local market there was a stall that sold imported US comics of the Skywald, Warren and Eerie Publications type, plus some rather lurid "true crime/confessions" mags, which is where I got my copies of the Skywalds in the early 1970s, though his stock varied quite a bit from month to month. I think that Eerie published Witch's Tales, and a cover that sticks in my mind showed a girl laying on a table as a hunchbacked man drove a stake into her chest. Her eyes were popping out of her head and there was blood trickling from her mouth and chest. I also think that a further staked figure was hanging or perhaps staked to a wall. Does anyone know if the stories in the Eerie Publications titles were originals, reprints from the 1950s or a mixture of both?
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Post by ripper on Jan 5, 2013 17:34:30 GMT
Doug, I just saw your post about the Eerie titles containing pre-code reprints after I posted my query, so thanks for the information and links :-). I only had a couple: one each from Witch's Tales and Horror Tales. I am sure I still have them in one of the umpteen boxes in our attic, along with my surviving Warrens and Skywalds.
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Post by mcannon on Jan 6, 2013 10:18:11 GMT
Doug: >>I hardly ever got my hands on the Skywald titles as a kid. For some odd reason the only news dealer who even carried the Black and White horror comics had only the Warren and eerie Publications titles. The only times ever saw the Skywalds was down in North Carolina when we would drive down in the summer to visit my mom's people. They weren't up to par with the Warren titles, but they sure did stand head and shoulders above the comics from Eerie Publications. To be fair though, when it came to pure garrishness, the covers of the Eerie Publications comics couldn't be beat.>> In the late '70s, a lot of Eerie material was reprinted here in Australia by a local publisher, Gredown, in a series of one shots and short-lived tittles with over the top titles and wonderfully garish covers. As well as Eerie they featured a wide range of pre and post-Code horror comics publishers - everyone from Ajax-Farrell and ACG to Skywald and Warren - as well as a lot of Spanish material. The following links give some idea of what they were like: comicsdownunder.blogspot.com.au/2007/11/horror-comics-of-1970s-australian.htmlnotesfromthejunkyard.blogspot.com.au/2007_07_01_archive.htmlohdannyboy.blogspot.com.au/2007/09/atlasseaboard-down-under.htmlOne interesting thing about Eerie - they produced a lot of stories that were straightforward redos of existing pre-Code horror, with new art and only slightly rejigged scripts. The reuse was completely uncredited, of course! MarkC
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Post by ripper on Jan 6, 2013 16:22:12 GMT
Hi Mark...very interesting to learn that Eerie etc stories were re-printed in Australia. I wonder if they were also re-printed in other countries as well.
It was the wonderfully lurid covers that attracted me to the Eerie titles when I was a youngster back in the early 1970s, though availability of them and other US imports from Skywald, Warren and others was always haphazard and unreliable aroumd here.
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Post by doug on Jan 6, 2013 17:02:16 GMT
Doug: >>I hardly ever got my hands on the Skywald titles as a kid. For some odd reason the only news dealer who even carried the Black and White horror comics had only the Warren and eerie Publications titles. The only times ever saw the Skywalds was down in North Carolina when we would drive down in the summer to visit my mom's people. They weren't up to par with the Warren titles, but they sure did stand head and shoulders above the comics from Eerie Publications. To be fair though, when it came to pure garrishness, the covers of the Eerie Publications comics couldn't be beat.>> In the late '70s, a lot of Eerie material was reprinted here in Australia by a local publisher, Gredown, in a series of one shots and short-lived tittles with over the top titles and wonderfully garish covers. As well as Eerie they featured a wide range of pre and post-Code horror comics publishers - everyone from Ajax-Farrell and ACG to Skywald and Warren - as well as a lot of Spanish material. The following links give some idea of what they were like: comicsdownunder.blogspot.com.au/2007/11/horror-comics-of-1970s-australian.htmlnotesfromthejunkyard.blogspot.com.au/2007_07_01_archive.htmlohdannyboy.blogspot.com.au/2007/09/atlasseaboard-down-under.htmlOne interesting thing about Eerie - they produced a lot of stories that were straightforward redos of existing pre-Code horror, with new art and only slightly rejigged scripts. The reuse was completely uncredited, of course! MarkC Thanks! I love those covers. you have to admire the folks who knew exactly how to get you to part with your allowance! I actualy had to sneak a lot of the EErie Pubs" into the house. My Dad hated tthem with a passion. He wasn't real fond of the Warrens either. But man, I thought that those vomics were the greatest when I was a kid. And looking back at especialy the Warrens, they really were well done. Take care. Doug
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Post by cliver on Aug 22, 2014 21:15:47 GMT
If anyone wants to see what the skywald stuff looked like, may I recommend the link below? The PDF versions seem to work best on my ipad. I am not sure how secure the site is by the way so those attempting to access via windows based machines may wish to check out its risk re malware. archive.org/details/skywald-comics-Nightmare-01
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Post by jamesdoig on Aug 23, 2014 4:31:02 GMT
If anyone wants to see what the skywald stuff looked like, may I recommend the link below? Nice!
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Post by dem bones on Sept 14, 2018 7:52:00 GMT
God, that is so '70s. Loved Nightmare as a kid. It is terrific isn't it. And it reminded me that a thirty foot high mechanical mummy featured (very briefly) in Monster Fun's wonderful "March of the Mighty Ones" strip. Look closely and you'll see him in the first panel of the second page of the first episode: As I remember it, he's seen striding off in the second episode but was never encountered again. He certainly wasn't part of the army of fifty monsters that was destroyed in the last strip. Presumably he's still out there somewhere. Punting probably. A mini-gallery of personal favourites. Phantom of the Rock Era, ( Nightmare #4, June 1971) Cover: Harry Rosenbaum. Artwork: Ralph Reese: script: Chuck McNaughton
Hag Of The Blood Basket (Nightmare #4). Artwork: Tom Sutton: script: Al Hewetson
Ad for Berenice (Scream #7, July 1974). Artwork: Ricardo Villamonte: script: Al Hewetson
The Circle Of Circe!, (Nightmare #2, June 1971) Cover: Boris Vallejo. The Haunted Strangler (Nightmare #7, June 1972). Artwork: Pablo Marcos: script: Al Hewetson
Detail from Within The Torture Chamber, (Nightmare #5, Aug 1971). Artwork: Doug Wildey: script: Kevin Pagan.
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Post by mattofthespurs on Sept 14, 2018 14:37:39 GMT
I would love to see a collected set of books of this magazines. Thankfully Dark Horse have restarted, after almost a 2 year hiatus, the Creepy and Eerie books. Only 3, maybe 4, volumes away from completing both.
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Post by andydecker on Sept 15, 2018 21:23:00 GMT
I would love to see a collected set of books of this magazines. Thankfully Dark Horse have restarted, after almost a 2 year hiatus, the Creepy and Eerie books. Only 3, maybe 4, volumes away from completing both. Out of nostalgia I bought the Vampirella set from Dynamite. But I have to confess I had a hard time reading this again. Not the Vampirella stuff, I knew what to expect. But the rest I mostly just browsed the still great artwork and skipped the text.
Also bought 2 of the Dark Horse editions, Eerie 1 and 6. 6 I bought alone for the Doug Moench interview.
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Post by andydecker on Sept 15, 2018 21:26:26 GMT
A mini-gallery of personal favourites. Thanks for the scans! This looks much better then I imagined.
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Post by dem bones on Sept 16, 2018 16:03:23 GMT
Thanks for the scans! This looks much better then I imagined. They're a great read. The French Revolution epic, Hag of the Blood Basket, is an accomplished EC comic throwback/ tribute, but for the most part, as Dr Strange has it, so early seventies. Not yet checked but am pretty sure Nightmare had artists in common with Misty - their groovy post-hippie girls sure look like Misty heroines who've misspent a summer hanging out at Black Sabbath/ Deep Purple/ Hawkwind gigs. Have counted at least five text stories sprinkled throughout the 23 issues, mostly in the early ones.
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Post by mattofthespurs on Sept 17, 2018 15:22:26 GMT
I got the Vampirella 15 volumes too. Found the first volume hard going but after that I really enjoyed it. They screwed up some of the issues, and left out a few stories, but can't complain too much. Don't think I paid too much over £20 per volume.
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Post by andydecker on Sept 17, 2018 16:01:29 GMT
I got the Vampirella 15 volumes too. Found the first volume hard going but after that I really enjoyed it. They screwed up some of the issues, and left out a few stories, but can't complain too much. Don't think I paid too much over £20 per volume. Don't put them near any kind of heating. This kind of paper - or whatever it is - doesn't take kindly to warmth, as I had to discover to my eternal annoyance. But I was truly 'delighted' when the whole batch was sold digitally a few month ago for 9 dollar a volume in one of Comixology's discount sales. With the right artwork and Comixology's enhanced viewing it can be a new and different experience to re-read the old stuff. Ah, well, who would have thought that this edition would ever be digitalised when they started it? But did they have to leave out Bermejo's The Fox of all things? I guess it was a license thing and therefore understandable, still, this was the only good series in the last issues with great artwork before the magazine went belly-up.
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Post by ripper on Sept 19, 2018 12:37:57 GMT
Thanks for the scans! This looks much better then I imagined. They're a great read. The French Revolution epic, Hag of the Blood Basket, is an accomplished EC comic throwback/ tribute, but for the most part, as Dr Strange has it, so early seventies. Not yet checked but am pretty sure Nightmare had artists in common with Misty - their groovy post-hippie girls sure look like Misty heroines who've misspent a summer hanging out at Black Sabbath/ Deep Purple/ Hawkwind gigs. Have counted at least five text stories sprinkled throughout the 23 issues, mostly in the early ones. I can't be sure, but I don't remember any text stories in the Top Sellers version.
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