Monster Comics

[horrorhunter]

But that's just it. It's a fairly plentiful comic. You can always find several listings, as opposed to comics for which you can seldom find any listings. What makes it command the prices it does is simply very high demand for the reasons you've given.

I suspect the reason for so many listings of HOS 92 is that sellers are more energetic about listing it than other comics from that time period because they know it will sell and bring big bucks.

When something gets established in the public psyche as very desirable it just continues to escalate in value as long as that particular type of collectible is popular. Comics have seen renewed popularity what with all the recent blockbuster movies based on comic book characters.

[Hepcat]

I suspect the reason for so many listings of HOS 92 is that sellers are more energetic about listing it than other comics from that time period because they know it will sell and bring big bucks.

Oh absolutely! High prices bring out the quantity supplied. It's standard economics.

[Wicked Lester]

I found this cool cover while looking for something way different. Weird how that works.

[Flower]

Great cover, thanks for posting .. 

[Wich2]

That one's a classic, Lester - from back when any such image on paper was a treat, as you couldn't just Google hundreds in a second!

-Craig

[Hepcat]

I found this cool cover while looking for something way different.

Zombywoof has been using that cover as an avatar for over three years now.

[vayapues]

Thx Hepcat for uploading that beautiful, evocative Kubert cover from Brave & Bold #34. You have no idea what a sight for my parched monster-boomer eyes it was to find this in a Supe comic back in 1961. In my little head, it felt almost like a tantalizing poster for a never-to-be movie.

Found this link: some Silver Age DC horror/fantasy covers (among other genres) done in elaborately rendered wash technique, which I've never seen before in comics of this vintage. Beautiful stuff, have a look. http://thegoldenagesite.blogspot.ca/2014/01/some-dc-wash-covers-1954-1965.html

[horrorhunter]

Found this link: some Silver Age DC horror/fantasy covers (among other genres) done in elaborately rendered wash technique, which I've never seen before in comics of this vintage. Beautiful stuff, have a look. http://thegoldenagesite.blogspot.ca/2014/01/some-dc-wash-covers-1954-1965.html

I fondly remember those DC wash covers. Beautiful. Thanks for the link.

[Hepcat]

Thx Hepcat for uploading that beautiful, evocative Kubert cover from Brave & Bold #34. You have no idea what a sight for my parched monster-boomer eyes it was to find this in a Supe comic back in 1961. In my little head, it felt almost like a tantalizing poster for a never-to-be movie.

This ad by DC's letterer and logo designer Ira Schnapp must have been the one you saw:



The return of the villain Blyth spawned another great cover just over a year later:

Found this link: some Silver Age DC horror/fantasy covers (among other genres) done in elaborately rendered wash technique, which I've never seen before in comics of this vintage. Beautiful stuff....

I fondly remember those DC wash covers. Beautiful.

If you like wash sci-fi/horror covers, check out these scans of my early Sea Devils comics:

[horrorhunter]

I bought a couple of those Sea Devils off the spinner rack when I was a kid. Another DC I really liked was Challengers Of The Unknown.

Now that we're discussing '60s comics I lament that I never started building a proper collection of Turok, Son Of Stone. I really loved all the dino action in that book but my favorite part was Turok and Andar always encountering some weird tribe of humanoids like the Spider Tribe or the Monkey Men. And, dude, they had some powerful poison on those arrows to bring down the big dinos. Good times.

[Flower]

I'm a big fan of the Sea Devils .. love the giant seahorse .. 

[vayapues]

Thx again, Hepcat, for that last largesse. And what an elegant preview ad for Brave/Bold #34 -- I might've seen something like that, but as I recall scaled down to half-pg format.

On the subject of Turok, the 1950s painted covers I've seen are like small dino movie posters in the style of Reynold Brown out of James Avati (would that Avati had ever done SF covers) -- dynamic, stark, beautifully rendered.

[Hepcat]

Now that we're discussing '60s comics I lament that I never started building a proper collection of Turok, Son Of Stone. I really loved all the dino action in that book but my favorite part was Turok and Andar always encountering some weird tribe of humanoids like the Spider Tribe or the Monkey Men. And, dude, they had some powerful poison on those arrows to bring down the big dinos.

On the subject of Turok, the 1950s painted covers I've seen are like small dino movie posters in the style of Reynold Brown out of James Avati (would that Avati had ever done SF covers) -- dynamic, stark, beautifully rendered.

If you want Turok, you have to say but the word. Here are scans of my Dell Turok comics:

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[vayapues]

Thank you!

[horrorhunter]

Those Turoks are gorgeous, Hep.