Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN: 9781593079734
Edition: Reprint
ISBN: 1593079737
Label: Dark Horse
Languages: Array
Manufacturer: Dark Horse
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: 2008-09-03
Publisher: Dark Horse
Studio: Dark Horse

Gather up your wooden stakes, your blood-covered hatchets, and all the skeletons in the darkest depths of your closet, and prepare for a horrifying adventure into the darkest corners of comics history. Dark Horse Comics further corners the market on high-quality horror storytelling with one of the most anticipated releases of the decade - a hardcover archive collection of the legendary Creepy Magazine! This groundbreaking material turned the world of graphic storytelling on its head in the early 1960s, as phenomenal young artists like Bernie Wrightson and Neal Adams reached new artistic heights with their fascinating explorations of classic and modern horror stories.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Thanks Dark Horse!
Comment: Ever since I heard that Dark Horse was reprinting the classic Warren horror anthology, Creepy, I have been dying to get it (pun intended!). This lovely hardcover reprint of the first 5 issues of Creepy is a most welcome addition to my comic collection bookshelf. I was too young to collect and read any of these original issues, though I bought some of the later issues in the late seventies and the "Resurrection Issue" in the early eighties. I remember thinking it was cool, but I hardly remember the stories. It is great to finally read these much praised early issues of Creepy, as the writers and artists involved are some of the best in the business. Some of these guys did work on DC's House Mystery too, but after reading the DC Showcase edition of that horror comic, I would say that the early issues of Creepy are much more consistent than HOM - though maybe not quite as fun as the best of the EC stuff from the fifties. Still, this first collection of Creepy is packed with enough thrills and chills to make every night Halloween. NOTE: this comic was originally in B/W, so the reprint is also B/W with color covers. Looking forward to further volumes of Creepy and the upcoming Eerie reprints!

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Customer Rating:
Summary: worth every penny of price
Comment: Finding CREEPY reprints in a bound book was just what my husband looked for for years. He has many of the original CREEP EERIE and VAMPIRELLA magazines but will not break them out. Getting this for him was like watching him act like kid with a new CREEPY. I never heard of such magazines when I was a kid but he grew up reading these. He is so pleased with this reprint. Now when all the others are printed I will order them for him. And, now that EERIE is going to be printed he is just foaming at the mouth....

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Dark Horse gouges again
Comment: While I love the material contained in this volume (and am lucky enough to own the originals), I can't help but be annoyed by the ridiculous price Dark Horse wants for a 240-page b&w reprint book. You only have to look to Fantagraphics' upcoming reprint of "Blazing Combat" to see how inflated Dark Horse's retail price is. Fantagraphics is releasing a hardcover reprint with nearly the same page count (200 pages) for a mere $22.95 -- LESS THAN HALF THE PRICE! And guess what, Fantagraphics will make a profit at that price point without raping aging fanboys who have too much disposable income. This is particularly vexing when you realize that Dark Horse is a much larger publisher than Fantagraphics and thus enjoys even greater economies of scale (thus making their production costs even cheaper than Fantagraphics'). And it's not just this volume. How Dark Horse justifies publishing an "archive" edition of "Herbie," let alone charging $50, is even more perplexing. Worse yet, Dark Horse seems intent on raising the price for some of these collections of highly marginal comics to $59.95 -- check out the upcoming "Magicman Archives Volume 1." DC comics is wisely abandoning the ridiculously overpriced "archives" format for a reason -- they discovered that their own greed ended up outpacing what the aging Batman fan was willing to pay. I would have been willing to take a chance on many of the DC archives over the years if they had been priced more reasonably...

What's even more ridiculous about the price is that this isn't even newly commissioned work, but reprints. Thus, production costs are much lower on a project such as this (they didn't pay a writer, artist, etc). Besides some meager licensing fees, all Dark Horse did was scan pages from old copies of the comics. These volumes weren't even reproduced from photostats, which is particularly evident in the poor reproduction of any of the stories that use a wash technique, such as Frazetta's story in issue #1 (and some of the Neal Adams stories that will appear in later volumes).

At half this price I would have applauded Dark Horse for bringing these back into print. Hell, I might have even bought them despite owning the originals just to have hardbound copies to sit on my shelf, but alas not only will I not buy them for myself, but I can't afford to buy them as gifts in the hopes of turning newcomers onto these great old comics.

Maybe the past couple of decades of greed on Wall street and the subsequent collapse of our financial system will serve as a cautionary tale for folks like Dark Horse. If not, don't expect a bailout from me when you choke the life out of an industry by limiting its future with prices that only a shrinking pool of die-hard, aging fans can afford.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: As good as you remember!
Comment: This long-awaited (by me anyway) first volume of what will hopefully be a complete reprinting of the entire Creepy series is reproduced in glorious black-and-white (just as the original series appeared). An amazing array of artists is featured in these first five issues included here: Frank Frazetta (in his last complete comic book story), Reed Crandall, Al Williamson, Angelo Torres, just to name a few. Great writing by Archie Goodwin (mainly) adds to its appeal. And, in a wonderful move, which helps to give more of the atmosphere of the original magazines, contents pages, letters pages, and even some of the original advertisements are included. A wonderfully faithful reprinting of a comics classic. Highly recommended.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: BOO!!!! Spooky!
Comment: If you are a fan of 70's horror or EC comics you'll love this anthology magazine. Many stories are vampire or werewolf related, great supernatural tales of suspense with expected and unexpected twist endings.

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