Some neato EC related items that I saw a while back at an antique mall: a very cool 80's re-issue counter display box filled with EC comic reprints! Next, all three, original, 1950's signed EC horror host fan club mail order photos (aka "The Ghoulunatics") of The Vault Keeper, The OG Crypt Keeper, and The Old Witch. (For those of you unaware, each image is a doctored photograph of artist Johnny Craig, with make-up apparently applied by Al Feinstein himself-- *CHOKE GAG!! And finally, a couple of small, but very cute Alfred E. Neuman MAD mag mascot busts, both of which were still available the last time I visited this antique mall, the other items have sold.
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Neat! I really liked the gladstone EC reprints, that's kind of where I started my EC collection and after the big giant sized ones, I subscribed and got a complete EC reprint from them (even the post-code stuff which, outside of impact, wasn't that great.) Eventually I got the big bound editions, too.
I love the Creatures on the Loose peeking out!
I think the Craig/Feldstein photos put an office boy through college? They probably sold quite a lot of those! Cool to see them out in the wild.
Your state must be a mystic magnet of great ephemera, Karswell. I never see great stuff like this in my local antique shops or thrift stores.
I never knew anyone made or sold pre Mad Alfred E. Neuman items, let alone from the 1920s.
The EC counter display was a nice surprise, I can only imagine how many were made and then lost to time (thrown away due to damage, not viewed as worth saving by short sighted comic book sellers, etc.)
Thanks again for taking us vicariously on your antique store hunts.
That display box is really great, and strikes quite an unexpected nostalgic cord since I'm sure I saw it sitting on the bar of my own beloved downtown comics store in the mid-eighties, but had totally forgotten it ever even existed.
The Neuman busts are pretty great too, of course (I especially like the color one). And the EC host photos, well, every time I see those I'm knocked out all over again. I just keep going back and forth between them: "This is my fave; no, wait, this one is... but hold on...". What a cool thing to make and send out to fans.
Great collection of neat stuff.
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