Warren's Creepy and Eerie was a worldwide horror comics phenomenon.
Here's some links for the Finnish version, Shokki.
http://www.antikvariaattimakedonia.fi/moog/index.php?sivu=lehti&moog_lehti_id=16465
https://muuta.net/Shokki/Shokki1973.html
I collected all the first runs of Creepy and Eerie in the Noughties and these are stored away in the loft. I adored these comics as a kid, reading my older brothers' copies, in the Sixties and early Seventies. I wanted my own set when I grew up!
Arto very kindly sent me a copy of the Finnish Shokki and it makes a fine addition to my collection.
Did you read Creepy and Eerie? Do you collect them in the country you live in?
I only ever picked up one issue of Creepy at the time it was published - #71, all Luis Bermejo reprints. Fantastic stuff! The thumbnail images of the back issues all looked so enticing and exotic - as did all those goodies in the ad section - but it wasn't until the 90's, when we started going to comic cons, that I began collecting Warren titles in earnest. I don't think they get the recognition they deserve, sadly. Most artists did some of their best ever work for Jim Warren.
ReplyDeleteSo glad you like them too Paul. There's something magical about Creepy and Eerie for me, they sum up my childhood in their gruesome pages. I am what I am because of those comics from Jim Warren. Do you have the initial runs of Creepy and Eerie, the Sixties?
DeleteI picked up as many issues of Marvel's black and white magazines as I could when they appeared in the newsagent's, as well as Skywald's Nightmare, Psycho and Scream, but Creepy and Eerie eluded me until the 90's. Got full runs of both, now, except for Eerie #1, of course... and a few issues need upgrading... because I'm a bit of an anorak when it comes to condition... sad but true!
ReplyDeleteThats some collection Paul! I've only the early runs that I read in the Sixties. Well done getting the lot! I've a lot of Tales of Terror and Witches Tales too with very gory covers. My Dad once threw two of them in the bin when he saw me reading them. Such was the effect of horror on adults in the early Seventies! Needless to say I retrieved my comics later!
DeleteI picked up a few Terror Tales, Witches Tales and the like (Stanley Publications, I think) from those seaside back-street newsagents where all sorts of obscure delights might be discovered. Did you ever come across Web Of Horror, another would-be challenger to Warren. It only lasted three issues but featured fantastic artwork by Berni Wrightson, Jeff Jones, Mike Kaluta, amongst others.
ReplyDeleteWhat a trio of great artists Paul! They're all in the Studio book and I've admired them ever since I got a copy in the Seventies. Yeah, Terror Tales and co really go together with those back street shops! ha ha. Made me chuckle that. The covers were so gory! Far gorier than Creepy and Eerie, almost video nasty covers! As for Web of Horror, just imagining it I see a cover with maybe Ingrid Pit on the cover but that might be something else. I certainly don't have any. I do have reference books to horror comics including the very first one published. I used to read my horror comics if I was ill as a kid. It was part of the treatment! Germolene and horror!
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