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That’s all a long way around to saying that these three books are relatively unknown to me. I drastically reduced the number of Marvels I was buying around that same time, too. Maybe it all just seemed very ‘Been There, Done That’ to me.

Stories are still all over the place - some excellent, some terrible, many just serviceable. Looking at these 77/ 78 mags now, the interiors are roughly no better or worse than they’d been in the previous few years. But as I said, at the time it seemed like a signal : ‘Boy, is it OVER.’ In retrospect, Maitz’ work improved significantly and rapidly, and I find even his earlier stuff to have a certain charm. Part of it had to do with the preponderance of new cover artists like Maitz and McLaren and McQuaite and Woodruffe - it seemed at the time a distinct drop in quality from Sanjulian and Kelly, both of whom were theoretically too busy doing paperback covers at that point in their careers to do much work for Warren. From that point on, I rarely bought them.

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It was always a treat to find one in the wild.īy the time these three issues went on sale in late ‘77, not only did an actual Comic Book store open for business just a few miles from my house (amazingly it’s still there) but I also had my driver’s license and access to my mom’s car, which meant I could drive over to Fantasy Castle in Woodland Hills or The Paperback Shack in Panorama City and never miss an issue.Īnd suddenly, they just weren’t that interesting to me anymore. Crappy distribution meant I had to ride my bike all over town to the two or three liquor stores that occasionally had them for sale, and I still ended up missing lots of issues. When I first started reading the Warren mags in 1974, they were thin on the ground in my area.