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List Price: $49.95
Our Price: $32.97
Your Save: $ 16.98 ( 34% )
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Manufacturer: Dark Horse
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PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN: 9781593079734
ISBN: 1593079737
Label: Dark Horse
Manufacturer: Dark Horse
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: 2008-09-03
Publisher: Dark Horse
Studio: Dark Horse
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Gather up your wooden stakes, your blood-covered hatchets, and all the skeletons in the darkest depths of your closet, and prepare for a horrifying adventure into the darkest corners of comics history. Dark Horse Comics further corners the market on high-quality horror storytelling with one of the most anticipated releases of the decade - a hardcover archive collection of the legendary Creepy Magazine! This groundbreaking material turned the world of graphic storytelling on its head in the early 1960s, as phenomenal young artists like Bernie Wrightson and Neal Adams reached new artistic heights with their fascinating explorations of classic and modern horror stories.
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Summary: Dark Horse gouges again
Comment: While I love the material contained in this volume (and am lucky enough to own the originals), I can't help but be annoyed by the ridiculous price Dark Horse wants for a 240-page b&w reprint book. You only have to look to Fantagraphics' upcoming reprint of "Blazing Combat" to see how inflated Dark Horse's retail price is. Fantagraphics is releasing a hardcover reprint with nearly the same page count (200 pages) for a mere $22.95 -- LESS THAN HALF THE PRICE! And guess what, Fantagraphics will make a profit at that price point without raping aging fanboys who have too much disposable income. This is particularly vexing when you realize that Dark Horse is a much larger publisher than Fantagraphics and thus enjoys even greater economies of scale (thus making their production costs even cheaper than Fantagraphics'). And it's not just this volume. How Dark Horse justifies publishing an "archive" edition of "Herbie," let alone charging $50, is even more perplexing. Worse yet, Dark Horse seems intent on raising the price for some of these collections of highly marginal comics to $59.95 -- check out the upcoming "Magicman Archives Volume 1." DC comics is wisely abandoning the ridiculously overpriced "archives" format for a reason -- they discovered that their own greed ended up outpacing what the aging Batman fan was willing to pay. I would have been willing to take a chance on many of the DC archives over the years if they had been priced more reasonably...
What's even more ridiculous about the price is that this isn't even newly commissioned work, but reprints. Thus, production costs are much lower on a project such as this (they didn't pay a writer, artist, etc). Besides some meager licensing fees, all Dark Horse did was scan pages from old copies of the comics. These volumes weren't even reproduced from photostats, which is particularly evident in the poor reproduction of any of the stories that use a wash technique, such as Frazetta's story in issue #1 (and some of the Neal Adams stories that will appear in later volumes).
At half this price I would have applauded Dark Horse for bringing these back into print. Hell, I might have even bought them despite owning the originals just to have hardbound copies to sit on my shelf, but alas not only will I not buy them for myself, but I can't afford to buy them as gifts in the hopes of turning newcomers onto these great old comics.
Maybe the past couple of decades of greed on Wall street and the subsequent collapse of our financial system will serve as a cautionary tale for folks like Dark Horse. If not, don't expect a bailout from me when you choke the life out of an industry by limiting its future with prices that only a shrinking pool of die-hard, aging fans can afford.
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Summary: As good as you remember!
Comment: This long-awaited (by me anyway) first volume of what will hopefully be a complete reprinting of the entire Creepy series is reproduced in glorious black-and-white (just as the original series appeared). An amazing array of artists is featured in these first five issues included here: Frank Frazetta (in his last complete comic book story), Reed Crandall, Al Williamson, Angelo Torres, just to name a few. Great writing by Archie Goodwin (mainly) adds to its appeal. And, in a wonderful move, which helps to give more of the atmosphere of the original magazines, contents pages, letters pages, and even some of the original advertisements are included. A wonderfully faithful reprinting of a comics classic. Highly recommended.
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Summary: BOO!!!! Spooky!
Comment: If you are a fan of 70's horror or EC comics you'll love this anthology magazine. Many stories are vampire or werewolf related, great supernatural tales of suspense with expected and unexpected twist endings.
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Summary: My Personal Halloween Treat
Comment: I did a search on the off-chance that I might be able to buy an old Creepy magazine from Amazon. To my amazement, the first five issues were compiled into a beautiful, shrink-wrapped book available from Amazon. I am thrilled that I have a part of my past back again. (I think my mom tossed my magazines on one of my family's many moves.)
The descriptions given by the other reviewers were right on the mark! After reading them, I did not hesitate to buy this beautifully done volume and am anxious for volume 2 to be released. I am thankful that this book arrived in time for Halloween--perfect!
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Summary: In glorious black and white!!!!
Comment: Wow, the price is right for this compilation. There is some beautiful work here by Al Williamson, Gray Morrow, Joe Orlando, Frank Frazetta, Reed Crandall, Alex Toth. Frazetta does the bulk of the covers which are reproduced in color but everything else is in varying shades of black and white. There are a few clunkers with the stories but the art is really the main reason to buy these anyway. beautiful artwork with twist endings and bad puns. The first five issues of Creepy reproduced at the original magazine size. Don't sit on the fence, BUY IT!!
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