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Post by dem bones on Apr 21, 2022 9:38:16 GMT
Facsimile reprints, mostly comics, but Gwandanaland have recently added a number of vintage horror, ghost, and SF pulp titles to their eclectic repertoire, a small sample of which you'll find below. I believe they print direct from various online archives so quality entirely reliant on that of the source material. Editor Forlance Jones is open to suggestions as to which mags he may like to consider for exhumation. For latest catalogue, write; gwandanaland ATyahoo.com
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Post by helrunar on Apr 21, 2022 16:34:52 GMT
Thank you for pointing these out and posting the images, Dem! I'm very interested in that Chamber of Chills reprint.
cheers, Hel
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Post by dem bones on Apr 21, 2022 17:40:24 GMT
Thank you for pointing these out and posting the images, Dem! I'm very interested in that Chamber of Chills reprint. According to the most recent newsletter they've published the complete stories from all 26 issues over two giant volumes.
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Post by andydecker on Apr 21, 2022 19:07:19 GMT
Thank you for pointing these out and posting the images, Dem! I'm very interested in that Chamber of Chills reprint. cheers, Hel You can find it on the net in complete scans.
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Post by enoch on Apr 22, 2022 17:25:23 GMT
Thank you for pointing these out and posting the images, Dem! I'm very interested in that Chamber of Chills reprint. cheers, Hel For these, I would personally recommend the "Harvey Horrors" line of comic reprints from PSArtbooks. They're reasonably priced and almost certainly have better reproductions of the art. I own several of the Gwandanaland reprints of Skywald magazines and have been pretty disappointed in the poor art reproduction quality. I still own one original Skywald mag (Psycho #16), so got it out to compare it with the reprint and the difference was stark. As dem bones points out, the quality depends on the source material.
I don't mean to criticize Gwandanaland, though. With them, you get what you pay for, and in many instances (like the Skywalds) they are the only reprints to be had, so in that respect they do a good service. I'll certainly be buying more of them. I'm just saying that for Chamber of Chills, you can do better for about the same amount of money. PSArtbooks has also reprinted Witches Tales, Black Cat and some other old horror comics (complete with the original ads, just like in the Gwandanaland reprints).
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Post by andydecker on Apr 22, 2022 17:49:19 GMT
Thank you for pointing these out and posting the images, Dem! I'm very interested in that Chamber of Chills reprint. cheers, Hel For these, I would personally recommend the "Harvey Horrors" line of comic reprints from PSArtbooks. They're reasonably priced and almost certainly have better reproductions of the art. I own several of the Gwandanaland reprints of Skywald magazines and have been pretty disappointed in the poor art reproduction quality. I still own one original Skywald mag (Psycho #16), so got it out to compare it with the reprint and the difference was stark. As dem bones points out, the quality depends on the source material.
I don't mean to criticize Gwandanaland, though. With them, you get what you pay for, and in many instances (like the Skywalds) they are the only reprints to be had, so in that respect they do a good service. I'll certainly be buying more of them. I'm just saying that for Chamber of Chills, you can do better for about the same amount of money. PSArtbooks has also reprinted Witches Tales, Black Cat and some other old horror comics (complete with the original ads, just like in the Gwandanaland reprints).
I read a few Skywald comics online. The only thing I really liked was The Saga of the Victims. Ahead of its time.
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Post by jamesdoig on Apr 22, 2022 20:51:21 GMT
For these, I would personally recommend the "Harvey Horrors" line of comic reprints from PSArtbooks. I've one Harvey Horrors, and it is a wonderful complete facsimile with all the ads etc - probably cheaper to buy it online than at a comic shop which I did.
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Post by helrunar on Apr 22, 2022 21:04:53 GMT
Thanks Enoch, James and Andreas--the Harvey reprints definitely sound like the way to go if I decide to pick up some Chamber of Chills. I've read a few issues via the scans on that Comics Plus site and it's wonderful that folks have shared their collections there.
H.
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Post by enoch on Apr 23, 2022 15:49:42 GMT
The Skywald magazines are definitely hit-or-miss for me, but mostly "miss." Stephen Sennitt in his book Ghastly Terror (recommended for horror comics fans, btw) ranks the Skywalds higher than the Warren magazines. I disagree. When a Skywald story was good though, it was as good as anything you'd encounter in an issue of Creepy or Eerie.
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Post by andydecker on Apr 23, 2022 18:40:52 GMT
The Skywald magazines are definitely hit-or-miss for me, but mostly "miss." Stephen Sennitt in his book Ghastly Terror (recommended for horror comics fans, btw) ranks the Skywalds higher than the Warren magazines. I disagree. When a Skywald story was good though, it was as good as anything you'd encounter in an issue of Creepy or Eerie.
It is kind of sobering re-reading Creepy or Eerie. Over at Barebones Blog Peter Enfantino and Jack Seabrock are reviewing every story of Warren in their Warren Report. And it is surprising how few stories are actually still readable. The art is often so much superior to the writing. Not because it is decidedly un-PC, which of course it is, but because it is more often than not plain bad. Pretentious purple prose for tired and often nonsensical and badly realised plots.
Warren had better art than Skywald. For a long time. And a better distribution.
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Post by enoch on Apr 23, 2022 20:23:12 GMT
Wasn't aware of the "Warren Report," I am going to definitely check that out! My favorite Warren years were the early ones, when they concentrated on EC-style horror and Archie Goodwin was the editor. And even then it was mostly for the art. By the early to mid-Seventies the stories were getting awfully pretentious and self-important. I totally agree with Stephen Sennitt on that part. I had quit reading them many years before they finally folded.
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Post by andydecker on Apr 23, 2022 20:58:21 GMT
The Warren Report is here at Barebones. Next part is on Monday. No. 83. They began chronologically with 1964 and Creepy 1 and it is online bi-weekly.
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