tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post7879303481599168494..comments2024-03-27T05:54:38.797-07:00Comments on <i>bare</i>•bones e-zine: The Warren Report Issue 3: Blazing Combat! Creepy! October-December 1965John Scolerihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14082147756474762000noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-48145080501103420072019-06-19T12:50:27.228-07:002019-06-19T12:50:27.228-07:00Welcome back, Tom! Good to hear from you and hope ...Welcome back, Tom! Good to hear from you and hope you're doing well. If you want to read our feelings about the EC war titles, you're in luck and it's absolutely free. Just scroll through the past two or three years of bare bones website. We dissected every single issue of every single title EC issued! It was a lot of fun to do so.Peter Enfantinohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04317575598411394944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-59307075457297850972019-06-18T23:04:40.197-07:002019-06-18T23:04:40.197-07:00Wow....I just bought the paperback of Blazing Comb...Wow....I just bought the paperback of Blazing Combat and read issue #1 today. I decided to Google reviews for it on blogs and lo and behold my old friends from Marvel University popped up. Nice to see you guys still going strong! <br /><br />Peter, I loved the first issue. If you say the stories in Frontline and Two Fisted are even better then I know what my next purchases will be. Hope everyone is doing well. Tom McMillionnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-70272625576500859762019-03-14T08:28:26.051-07:002019-03-14T08:28:26.051-07:00That's funny. I probably started buying The Sp...That's funny. I probably started buying The Spirit after seeing Will Eisner give a long slideshow at the '74 Seuling Con in NYC. He spent over an hour showing slides of his Spirit splash pages to a packed room.Jack Seabrookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02216640325305820140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-20378282794334294432019-03-13T18:26:21.979-07:002019-03-13T18:26:21.979-07:00It's just the opposite with me. I bought every...It's just the opposite with me. I bought every Warren magazine EXCEPT The Spirit, but that wasn't from any dislike of it.Granthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09603892208775996594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-78632660321507718032019-03-13T17:17:03.826-07:002019-03-13T17:17:03.826-07:00Andy! I feel like I may have bought super 8 movies...Andy! I feel like I may have bought super 8 movies from the back of Warren mags in the early '70s before I discovered Ken Films and Blackhawk Films catalogs. My Warren purchases were limited to The Spirit and Famous Monsters, but I dug those groovy ads!Jack Seabrookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02216640325305820140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-57636641694970746872019-03-12T10:37:32.563-07:002019-03-12T10:37:32.563-07:00Warren's Captain Company was wonderful. At the...Warren's Captain Company was wonderful. At the end of the 70s I ordered the Robert Lory's Dracula novels from Pinnacle, some issues of Comix International and the lifesize Vampirella poster from overseas. First time I tried something like that. Back then it was even 4 to 6 weeks until the money arrived at the company in the US and the charge was steep. Still they delivered. The poster has vanished in the mists of time, but I still have the novels and the comics 40 years later.<br /><br />John-<br />Thanks for the tip! This looks good.andydeckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01312309519462680892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-84309765632876633472019-03-11T21:41:47.429-07:002019-03-11T21:41:47.429-07:00
I think monkeys were no longer an option by the t...<br />I think monkeys were no longer an option by the time I was reading comics and magazines, but if you want to find out about what folks received when they mailed away for such things, I highly recommend MAIL-ORDER MYSTERIES by Kirk Demarais.John Scolerihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15830334036783163702noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-46470683086344715052019-03-11T19:47:44.061-07:002019-03-11T19:47:44.061-07:00Quid-
You're right about the two errors. "...Quid-<br />You're right about the two errors. "Mad Anthony" is a six-pager and, even though the GCD lists Jeff Jones as artist (signing his work as Russ Jones for some reason), David Horne notes that Jeff Jones lists his first published work as "Angel of Doom" in Creepy #16. I'll correct that credit and thanks for bringing it to our attention!<br /><br />Andy-<br />Never ordered any animals but I did order a whopping 18 back issues of FM for Christmas of 72 (or rather, my mom did). I've still got the mailing box! 35 cents to send four pounds from New York to California. Those were the days!Peter Enfantinohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04317575598411394944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-54412602765412569222019-03-11T15:49:34.425-07:002019-03-11T15:49:34.425-07:00"Family Reunion" reminds me much of &quo..."Family Reunion" reminds me much of "Twin Bill" from EC's The Vault of Horror #36, with the 2 murdered people fusing together into a two headed corpse and coming back for revenge. Although Twin Bill had the amazing art and atmosphere of Johnny Craig, whose still yet to appear in Warren (but will be here soon!), versus the mediocre job done by Joe Orlando. I agree with the wonder of why he of all artists gets to lead the issue several times. On the subject of Crandall, I do think he had improved a bit from his EC days now that we're here in the early days of Warren, although he is the EC artist that I remember above all others that has a big decline in his work later on, which we'll see as we get to some of his stories in the 70s (I'd say around the late 40's/50's of Creepy).<br /><br />Overall though I think Creepy #5 is probably the best issue yet, with excellent art jobs from everyone other than Orlando, and the first Warren appearance of Alex Toth, who did a few war stories for EC, but never a horror one. Surprisingly enough, Toth ends up being the former EC artist that lasts the absolute longest at Warren; he'll have many lengthy absenses but I think they still had stome stories of his going into issue 120+ of Creepy.<br /><br />I think your credit for "Mad Anthony" is wrong, it wasn't Jeff Jones, but rather (now former) Warren editor Russ Jones who got part of the credit for that story. I think that same art team shows up in an issue or two of Creepy, with a mediocre job again. Also, this story is 6 pages, not 5. It has an intro page before the title, maybe you missed that. Anyway, overall this is a fairly good issue of Blazing Combat, and I'd agree with you on your choice for best story of the issue.<br /><br />Creepy #6 I think is slightly weaker than Creepy #5, but does at least have what I'd consider the best Creepy cover yet (Roy Krenkel also helped Frazetta with this one). I enjoy "The Thing in the Pit" quite a lot, especially the artwork. Those two mutants are quite crazy! "Thumbs Down!" is a decent story with good art, but what I'll always remember most about it is the absurd amount of times that Warren will reprint this story. Perhaps reprinted more than any other story from my recollection. Quality stuff from Toth, Severin and Torres here too. As for Adam Link, we're finally over with them redoing the stories EC already did, but the quality will continue to be quite mediocre.Quiddity99https://www.blogger.com/profile/17809157926893454731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-32926835277067891902019-03-11T11:04:40.507-07:002019-03-11T11:04:40.507-07:00Was it really necessary to spice A Cask of Amontil...Was it really necessary to spice A Cask of Amontillado up with another ending of revenge from beyond? Which is not in the original Poe. Was it mandatory that the evil guys had to get their punishment? Weird. But the art is wonderful.<br /><br />Adam Link is truly awful. They put a robot on the electric chair? Huh?<br /><br />The sameness of the stories is noticable. At least there was no vampire or werewolf this time.<br /><br />I sampled most of DC's war comics, but I never came upon an issue of Blazing Combat. <br /><br />The Dark Horse reprint also features the ads. I wonder if they really send you a monkey with cage and leash for 20 bucks :-) Venus Fly Trap I believe in a second, but a live animal?andydeckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01312309519462680892noreply@blogger.com