Showcase your Warren mags here!

[jimm]

Soooo many details on the back cover of #30 including the border art, the title art, and the inner piece by Davis, crazy!

[Hepcat]

I agree! The #30 is absolutely fabulous.

[Illoman]

I agree! The #30 is absolutely fabulous.

It was also the first cover appearance of Alfred E Neuman! And I found a copy at a Half Price Book store for a dollar!!!!

[jimm]

Heck I payed 5 for the 2 I got robbed  I believe he was on an earlier cover in a very small pic, this is THE Mad to have since they went to mag format imo

[Hepcat]

and the rest of the score:

I love the Surftoons! They're so difficult to find though. I often wonder whether they might be more plentiful in a place like California.

[marsattacks666]

Surftoons what a cool mag.

[jimm]

NO Hep, not plentiful here. Dragtoons and Cartoons much more so than Surf and Big Daddy mags, those tend to stay in collections

[jimm]

I have some vintage stock car and drag racing mags if they're not too OT for you guys

[Robert W]

Wow! I take it that the print run of that magazine was not much more than 400 copies! Warren rushed that ashcan edition to press with five reprinted stories from FMM in order to secure the copyright to the name in the States. James Warren had heard a rumour that the U.K. magazine of the same name was planning to expand its distribution network to the States and wanted to forestall the possibility! Forest Ackerman somehow ended up with the bulk of the copies and he once again profited over the next few decades from his possession of an instant collector's item.

And this cover ended up as an FM cover as well.

[jimm]

Tons of great art in these Wood, Corben, Wrightson, etc. all in color too.

[Hepcat]

I have some vintage stock car and drag racing mags if they're not too OT for you guys.

Sure! Let's see them!

Tons of great art in these Wood, Corben, Wrightson, etc. all in color too.

Yes, that's already clear from the covers! The Comix International magazines are tougher to find than most other Warrens.

[MDG]

IIRC Comix International (#1 anyway) was rushed out w/ a low print run because Warren wanted to trademark the title which was being considered for the Marvel B&W that became Comix Book.

[jimm]

local shop finds...6 bucks!

[dlhenderson]

The Kelly Freas MAD covers had a huge affect on me as a kid. I had an older brother who used to bring those home in the late 50's early 60's. I always liked his work for MAD better than his sci-fi work. A great painter he was. Other iconic images that nailed me as a tot were John Severin's insanely detailed covers for Cracked. Anybody have the one with the giant open mouth, full of Bosch-like detail? I'd love to see a decent scan of that...

[ChrisW]

The Kelly Freas MAD covers had a huge affect on me as a kid. I had an older brother who used to bring those home in the late 50's early 60's. I always liked his work for MAD better than his sci-fi work. A great painter he was. Other iconic images that nailed me as a tot were John Severin's insanely detailed covers for Cracked. Anybody have the one with the giant open mouth, full of Bosch-like detail? I'd love to see a decent scan of that...

I have to agree with you.Without a doubt Freas did some striking, even iconic, SciFi covers. But there were quite a few that didn't quite do it for me. But his paintings for MAD were first class, and you can chart his experimenting with mediums and styles in them. 2 extreme examples - his Headless Horseman cover, which was rendered pretty loose. Compare that to his "Great moments in Medicine" spoof, "Presenting the Bill". Meticulously rendered!