The crazy Skywald and Eerie covers are a natural add-on to any hero based magazine collection much like the Pre-Code horror comics are nice additions to superhero comic collections. of mags, these things were downright nasty and had quite a following in the early 1970s.
Skywald and Eerie (the publisher, not the Warren title) I like to call the Pre-Code E.C.
Warren was finding success with its Eerie and Creepy titles and added the very comic bookish Vampirella in 1968. Marvel actually tried out Magazines in 1968 with its two Spectacular Spider-Man releases, I read that they were trying to compete with Warren Publishing.
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Magazines were not covered by the Comics Code Authority and could have much more mature subject matter, perfect for the nasty storytelling needed for a good Conan yarn. Next to the collected Howard books, the best way to read Conan is the black and white mags. Conan is another thing altogether, he went from pulps in the 30s to books in the 50s and 60s to comic books beginning in 1970 then over to magazines in 19 with Savage Sword of Conan. Characters like Iron Fist and Chang Chi had very early and very important runs in Curtis mags. Collect Punisher? Then you need a copy of Marvel Previews #2. Not only did you have important first appearances but you also had vital issues to the canon of other major Marvel characters. You can’t collect Rocket Racoon or the Guardians of the Galaxy and not have a Marvel Previews #7.Ĭurtis is a Marvel Comics brand and it should probably be the most collected of all the publishers precisely because it ties in so much of the Marvel Universe. Some very prominent comic book characters actually make their first appearances in magazines, Starlord in Marvel Preview #4, Rocket Raccoon in Marvel Preview #7, and Man-Thing in Savage Tales #1 are three great examples. The thing is you can’t escape these magazines if you are a comic book collector because they cross over so much, they are practically one and the same. We wondered why they were not collected more because Chris and I both thought these mags more than merited a stronger collector base. Most people I know love these things but not many actually collect them seriously. We were talking about comic book related magazines, so we narrowed the discussion down to the publishers Eerie, Skywald, Warren and Magazine Management (Marvel’s Curtis). We could not figure out why magazines have not exploded in value as collectibles. “If asked to choose a favorite among Parkett’s artist editions over the past 33 years, my definitive answer would be 'All of them.I had a good long talk with my pal, Chris Owen, about magazines recently. Philip Tinari, Director, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
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“…an engine of artistic thought and practice.… the diversity of works on view offer a sense of what artists can do with the challenge of how to distill their practices into a single, compact object or image … “ “A show of the work produced for a revolutionary magazine functions as a mini-museum of the recent time.” a concise survey of contemporary art.”ĭeborah Wye, Chief Curator emer., Prints and illustrated Books, Museum of Modern Art, New York Iwona Blazwick, Director, The Whitechapel Art Gallery, London The works cover every possible medium including painting, photographs, drawings, prints, sculptures, videos, DVDs,and sound pieces.” “Commissioned by PARKETT, the most important artists of our time have created editions that represent the essence of their art or reveal an unexpected dimension.
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