Wow! That's a LIS I could get into, nice Joe Jusko cover too.

Nice cover full of superheroes. And for some reason, that "Still only 35 cents" price tag is really nostalgic to me, I guess I was buying a ton of Marvel comics off the spinner racks in the late 70s.

Anybody have any Baby Huey comics as a kid? Looking at it now, talk about a strange comic...

I remember watching Baby Huey cartoons on TV, but can't say I ever read the comics. I wasn't a big fan of Harvey Comics to begin with (other than their pre-code horror titles like Chamber of Chills and Black Cat Mystery).

Speaking of the latter title, here's my comic cover of the day, a real charmer from the publishers of Richie Rich and Casper the Friendly Ghost.

That looks painful.

Richie Rich is not impressed!

Didn’t receive too many funny animal comics as a kid, but like them now and rarely pass them up in the dollar bins.

I think once when I was sick my mom picked up some comics ... Baby Huey, Hot Stuff, Casper ... I was pretty young but didn't get into them at all. Even as a kid I thought they were cheesy.

I grew up reading Carl Barks' Donald Duck/Uncle Scrooge comics, so most other funny animal/kids' comics paled quite a bit in comparison. Most were not good.

Nice, those Skywald b&w comic mags were pretty good, and I'm a huge fan of 60s and 70s b&w horror magazines in general.

I was really into the b&w horror mags around 1970-72. Creepy, Eerie, etc. Especially the Stanley mags. Horror Tales, Voodoo Tales, etc.Wasn't aware then that they were pre-code reprints. Used to read them on Saturday nights waiting for the Creature Feature to come on at midnight. There was one story I'll never forget as long as I live:

Young couple go on camping trip with their little baby. Staying in a cabin that's off by itself. Baby is in separate room. The couple is awakened by the baby crying. They run into the baby's room and there is a giant rat in the crib. It's eaten off the baby's arms and legs, just bloody stumps. They chase the rat off through the window. Baby is dead. Wife is depressed and distraught. Bedridden so they can't leave. Husband rat proofs the cabin. Boards up the windows. Takes a closet door and builds a giant mousetrap and puts it in front bedroom door so rat can't get to wife. Husband is outside chopping wood with long handled ax. He hears wife scream. He runs into cabin, ax in hand, and sees rat on the bed chowing down on wife's guts, her stomach ripped open. Husband runs toward rat with ax, forgot about mouse trap, trips over it, lands on it and springs it. trap cuts husband apart at waist. His top half, guts falling out, flies through the air and plant's ax in the rat's head. Rat brains squirting out.

I need to read that story. Do you remember what issue it was in? Sounds like something from Eerie Publications, bottom of the barrel horror mags with repulsive covers and stories, including redrawn/reworked pre-code horror reprints. I've been collecting issues with particularly violent/gory/crazy covers. I was obsessed with monsters and horror since I was a little kid (my dad's influence) and when I was around 7 years old, my uncle (you know, that cool uncle that a lot of kids have) gave me this comic. It almost melted my brain, don't know how many times I read and reread it.



"The Skin Crawlers", holy shit that was a crazy story.

The original art for this one just sold at auction a few months ago for the low, low price of $840,000.

Someone must have been a huge fan because that wasn't a rational investment even for the original art field.

Wish I did. I'd like to read it again. It was early on. First couple years these mags were being put out.

Yeah, that's an absolute classic pre-code horror cover, one of the best, and apparently a CGC 9.6 graded issue sold for over $70,000 a few years back, it's that iconic. I have no idea what original cover art sells for these days but it does seem a bit high, but what do I know.

The cover is so iconic, Super 7 even made an action figure based on it.

It's maybe the best non-EC 50's horror cover. At least the most well known. I think most collectors were surprised it went for that much, but that's kind of a monthly thing now. Prices for this stuff just keep going up and up and up. Whether anyone cares about 50's horror comics 20 years from now is probably the biggest concern when it comes to investment, because content wise, it's an A+.

It's really up there for me as well. First time I saw a picture of it when I was a teenager I thought "Holy shit, that is awesome!" And good point about the continued value of 50s horror comics in the future. The golden age Marvel and DC stuff will be evergreen but the horror stuff? Hard to say, but those books came out after my time, but as a horror fan in general I discovered them long after they were originally published, and loved them. Maybe future horror fans will as well?

These covers – especially that one for Weird – remind me of a series of U.S. DVDs put out during that era by grey-market-ish distributor VideoAsia called TERROR TALES and TALES VOODOO, which all had artwork largely appropriated from these old comics (likewise published by Eerie) but in the service of selling double features of ratty prints of old Hong Kong (and some Euro) horror movies. Never got the connection there, other than horror, but they certainly stood out in store shelves back when store shelves actually had DVDs on them.

I’ve have some Something Weird DVDs that had bonus feature image galleries packed with cover images from the original comics.