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Subway Crawl Classics - Preliminary Thoughts
5 years ago
I have six of the DC issues seen here. Also a bunch of those magazine-sized WEIRD and TERROR TALES titles. DC had the best of the seventies horror comics. WEIRD WAR was always the title to buy! The first issues were comprised of reprinted stories from earlier titles, but the response was good enough that they began writing new stories and then it became a DC staple!
ReplyDeleteOtto! Thanks for the update--actually, I think several of the images posted here were from your collection originally! Thanks!
ReplyDeleteWas there a market for this sort of stuff, back in the 1970's?! With world's pop. reaching over 7b, & with comic book movie adaptations soooo popular these days; they should produce more of this weird, horror, spooky stuff, as opposed to constant super-hero, & vampire themes, that seem to be in vogue, right now.
ReplyDeleteCan old comics like this be found in digital form online?
ReplyDeleteNot sure where they might be available--but I sure hope they are!
ReplyDeleteThanks for reading!
I doubt you'd find these old comics in digital form, but one might get lucky at a comic store or convention.
ReplyDeleteWhat got me from your list was the New Yorker cover. I realized it was about 6 months after the Trade Center bombings, but my heart actually faultered a second & my mind went, "wow, prophetic," before I realized my mistake. Still, it have me chills.
Fun note? I used to read the House of Secrets, House of Mystery, Tales From the Crypt comics religiously. I loved them! That HoM cover with the faces on the fingers reminds me of a Stephen King story. Wonder where he got his idea (lol)?
Thanks for posting these. Really appreciate seeing my youth online.
Great blog you have hhere
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