Title: The Black Master Author: Walter B. Gibson as Maxwell Grant Imprint & Number: Pyramid N3478 Cover price: .95 Publication date: 10/1974 Cover artist: Jim Steranko Originally published in Shadow Magazine, 3/32. From the back cover: Who Knows What Evil … Continue reading
Savage Tales #4, 5/74 Curtis (Marvel), 75¢ Neal Adams cover P Craig Russell interior front & back covers (forms poster) Marvel’s second magazine-sized title developed to compete with Warren’s Creepy, Eerie & Vampirella. Includes: Night Of The Dark God – … Continue reading
Dracula Lives! #9, 11/74 Curtis (Marvel), 75¢ Bondage cover by Luis Dominguez Magazine-size B&W comic magazine with articles & text stories. Includes an unfavorable review of the latest Dracula film from Hammer Studios, The Scars Of Dracula, with photos from … Continue reading
The Haunt Of Horror #1, May/1974 Curtis (Marvel), 75¢ Bob Larkin cover Alfredo Alcala frontispiece Standard B&W horror fare from the early ’70s, except for an original short story by SF author George Alec Effinger. *Get it at Amazon.com* Includes: … Continue reading
The Deadly Hands Of Kung Fu #4, 9/74 Curtis (Marvel), 75¢ Neal Adams cover featuring David Carradine of TV’s Kung Fu Kung Fu mania hit the U.S. hard in the early ’70s. Interest in martial arts grew astronomically, thanks to … Continue reading
Weird Worlds Vol 3 #10, 10-11/1974 DC Comics, 20¢ *Get this issue at Amazon.com* Cover by Mike Kaluta DC’s moderately successful SF-Fantasy title featuring Howard Chaykin‘s Ironwolf. Home World story & art by Chaykin, Denny O’Neil script Tales Of The … Continue reading
The Spirit #1, 4/1974 Warren, $1.00 Cover by Basil Gogos Written & illustrated by Will Eisner except where noted Magazine-size B&W newspaper reprints of The Spirit color newspaper sections, with a single color story. *Get Will Eisner stuff at Amazon.com* … Continue reading
The Lacquer Screen finds Judge Dee consorting with criminals as he goes incognito into the underworld of Weiping. Bargaining with thieves, sharing beds with prostitutes, he discovers the evidence to expose among the upper classes fraud, perversion – and murder. … Continue reading
Carson Napier, Earth’s first astronaut, found more trouble than he’d bargained for when he helped Duare, princess of Vepaja, escape her captors on the unmapped, cloud-shrouded planet of Venus. They found Mypos, the country of the amphibians; they found the … Continue reading
A juvenile book profiling the Corvette, Model-T, Jeep, Chaparral, Indy jet car, Volkswagen Beetle, and the Ford GT40. Edited by Patricia McCarthy. *Copies available from Amazon.com* Title: The ‘Vette And Other Great Cars You Won’t Forget Author: Jay Schleifer Imprint … Continue reading
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