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yendor1152 wrote:

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Yeah, the cover of 38 is definitely cool. I had the issue originally when it hit the stands in early 1966, but those wre days of my foolishly cutting out pix and movie ads for a scrapbook I was building. Not only did I destroy my magazines, I eventually tossed out the scrapbook when I became, uh, "machure."

I've actually had three copies of #38. The original, then another in 1986 (which I bought for five dollars, in VF+ condition), and the one I won from Steve's eBay auction. I've also paid high prices for the 67 Fearbook, #35, 40, 46, and 56. The overall condition was VF++. I'm pretty sure $100 was the most I've ever paid for a magazine, which was for #38, though I did cough up some bucks for Monster World #3 and Modern Monsters #4 (Invisible Man cover). Oh, and the two versions of the Don Post Monster calendar set me back some filthy lucre.

I also collect Creepy, the run from #1 through 25. By far, the two rarest issues (as far as my having trouble locating Near Mint copies at decent prices) are #9 and #22. In fact, I still have yet to find a 22 in Near Mint shape!

Rod

God, how I would absolutely LOVE to have my old Warren magazine collection back!

But, much like you, I sold mine off at some point in the early to mid '80s when I figured I'd "matured" beyond wanting them any longer. Though, my interest in genre films & genre film magazines never really waned, I'd "moved on" to stuff like Fango & Cinefantastique. So, I figured I'd make a quick buck off all my old issues of FM, CREEPY, EERIE & VAMPIRELLA. So, off I went with them to a local comic shop & they gave me jjust pennies on the dollar of what they were worth back then. Whiich, wasn't really a whole lot at the time because this was just after the Warren line went kaput & the entire B&W comic mag market pretty much crashed & burned. But, still, I got ripped off!

Being young & stupid though, I welcomed the short stack of tens & fives & used it on beer for the weekend.

Though, honestly, it didn't take me long to regret selling the collection. Especially my beloved FAMOUS MONSTERS.
I didn't have a full collection, but all told, I figure I'd had aboutabout two thirds of a complete run. With many of my earliest issues having come fm my uncle's small collecion that he'd begun when he was a teen in the early to mid 60s then passed down to me when I was a wee lad of about six in 1967 or so. It was just a short stack actually of about eight or ten issues, but when he gave them to me along with his old HP Lovecraft paperbacks before he went off to college, it was a VERY big deal to me.
I NEVER should have parted with them.