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I remember back when I was a little sprout and my dad bought me a comic book. I thought (and I believe he did too) that it was a regular-type book, though he also bought some adult ones and bio ones (like Amy Fisher and people like that). Anyway, this one was filled with horrible things like seductive flesh-eating mermaids, a living medical-display cadaver (the ones that are sliced really fine) ...

When were you a little sprout? The leading publisher of black and white horror comics was Warren Publications, with its twin magazines Creepy (1964-1983) and Eerie (1966-1983). They were definitely not under the Comics Code Authority seal of approval.

In the interim, content thyself with this-- http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/14...glance&n=283 155 It is top drawer. BTW--nicely priced, too.

Eerie looks somehow familiar, so that might well have been it. I'll drop them an email and check. I was reading it at about..I want to say 1986-87? I was 9 or ten, anyway. Good stuff.

Since both Creepy and Eerie folded in 1983, neither could have been bought new for you circa 1986-87.

Or early 90s since he mentions his dad buying the Amy Fisher comic.

Quote: Originally Posted by Walloon Since both Creepy and Eerie folded in 1983, neither could have been bought new for you circa 1986-87. Yeah, but they would have been easy to stumble across at yard sales or used book stores in that time frame. --Cliffy

In the early 90s there was a spate of B&W indy comics, including Revolutionary Comics which specializd in biographical comics about rock stars and groups (Guns 'n' Roses, Aerosmith, Kiss, Madonna, etc.). Some of the subjects sued the publisher, Todd Loren, but since these looked like (and basically were) incompetent fan projects, nothing came of the lawsuits. (The Grateful Dead in particular ...

There were a lot of other black and white horror comics that were lower-class imitators of Creepy and Eerie. You might have seen one of them. creepy and eerie featured art by some pretty impressive folks -- Frank Frazetta did some covers. Wally Wood and Mike ploog and others the stories. They did a few adaptations of classics -- edgar Allan Poe and Bram Soker's "Dracula's Guest", and Ambrose ...

The bio ones I recall were double-sided. That means that you'd read one side for, say, Mia Farrow's tale of woe and misery, then flip it over for Woody's. The drawing in the horror comics were b&w too, and very detailed. Ah, what other happy memory could I have used those brain cells to store for years.....