*Vintage Magazine-Sized Comics: In the 1960s, enterprising publisher Jim Warren, inspired by the success of classic monster movies on TV, decided to satiate the American public’s growing taste for terror by launching a line of horror comics. But there was that pesky censorship body, the Comics Code Authority. What to do? Why, launch them as magazines, aimed at an adult audience and not subject to the Comics Code! Beginning with Creepy, followed shortly by Eerie, Warren assembled some of the finest talents in the field, many of them alumni of the classic EC Comics line: Frank Frazetta, Johnny Craig, Reed Crandall, John Severin, Wally Wood – and some ‘new guys’ named Steve Ditko, Neal Adams, Richard Corben, Bernie Wrightson and Gene Colan! For the first few years – apart from an inexplicable weakness for Tony Tallarico – Warren’s publications offered the finest artwork comics had to offer, and paved the way for the eventual liberalisation of the Comics Code and the success of titles such as House of Mystery and House Of Secrets. We are chuffed to present dozens of issues of both Creepy and Eerie new in, filling many gaps in our stock. Three of the choicest examples are shown below. For full details of all issues with prices and grades, go to our catalogue listing.
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CREEPY #32 FN/VF £22 Frazetta cover
EERIE #17 FN £53 Low Distribution
EERIE #23 FN £140 Classic Frazetta cover