Australia eat your heart out, Southern Ontario is getting a week full of Plus 3 to 4 degrees Celsius weather, I can just see all those Kenora Dinner Jackets being folded up neatly and put away until next year, here come the tank tops! We need some of this white stuff to melt away, we its amazing how small a parking lot becomes when the plow pushes up those huge piles of snow.
Don’t ask me why I forgot to include a pic of our processing area at the warehouse, I’m blaming it on the heat! Besides, I was busy digging through the “going to eBay auction” piles. Out of those piles I found this nice copy of our Cover of the Week, Weird Fantasy #9, published by EC Comics in October 1951, it features cover art by the great Al Feldstein. We have to step back and realize that for the kids reading this book, this scene was true Science Fiction, there was no such thing as space travel, impossible some thought!
You think the cover to Weird Fantasy #9 is good? Check out the our Splash Page of the Week, from the same book, by the legendary Wally Wood. The Spawn of Mars splash is just dripping with artistic talent, maybe even to much so, there’s just so much to take in.
We’ve covered a lot of in house ads on these pages, ads that blow us away with the books they’re advertising as “On Sale Now”, we’ve all fantasized, I’m sure, about running down to the corner store to pick up those beauties. If I was reading House of Secrets #100 in my jammies I don’t think this ad page would have inspired me to go looking for my pants. Hey, they can’t all be winners.
Speaking of winners, our latest weekly icecollectibles eBay auction ended last night with some strong results. Man those early Bronze Age Marvel monster titles sure are hot, Frankenstein, Tomb of Dracula and Werewolf by Night are seeing some strong demand, especially for the early 20 cent issues, our raw lot of Werewolf #11 to 13 sold for $193.50 USD, a strong result!
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