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LastDodo number
8617453
Area
Comic Books
Title
Creepy 79
Collection / set
Issue Number
79
Addition to number
Release Year
1976
Cover Type
Soft cover
Edition
First edition
Colouring
Not coloured
ISBN
-
Barcode / EAN / UPC
-
Print run
Number of Pages
70
Dimensions
20.7 x 27.6 cm
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Translator
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The Louise Jones era began with one of Creepy's best singles! With DuBay gone, no real editor is listed. Instead, James Warren was listed as editor-in-chief, while Jones was still listed as associate editor. In fact, Warren was nervous about promoting Jones to the position of editor and she had dared him to let her do the job in secret for a while to convince him. In reality, she acted as an editor here. Sanjulian turned in his best cover for Warren Publications, a beautiful young blonde standing in front of a tombstone, clutching a bloodied, severed hand tightly to her bosom. All of the stories are good, but two of them are easily in the top twenty Warren stories. 'The Super-Abnormal Phenomena Survival Kit!' by Stenstrum & Severin was a very funny spoof of the kind of ads that Warren, among others, placed himself in the back of their magazines. In fact, this spoof reportedly bothered Jim Warren a bit for his mockery of those ads, until someone pointed out that readers who enjoyed the spoof might take a closer look at the ads. John Severin was the perfect choice to illustrate this story, having created hundreds of comic parodies for Mad, Cracked and Sick! Stenstrum's script is perfect and actually rather ferocious in raking the often silly ads over the coals. It must have been a very popular story for both the writer and the readers, because from then on Stenstrum's scripts were more humorous than serious. The other great story, and my personal favorite of all the Warren stories, was 'The Shadow Of The Axe!'. Once again, the perfect performer was chosen for this gruesome tale that centered on a late 19th century ax murderer, his wife and their young son. The son slowly becomes aware that something is seriously wrong with dad, while mom seems to languish with the same unspoken knowledge. In just six pages, artist Russ Heath quickly captured the location, characters, and living conditions appropriate to the time period, including accurate depictions of the family, the chores, the daily life of a 19th-century farm and town, then artfully brought to the before the son slowly became aware of the circumstances surrounding a serial killer's rampage, but all the while still telling a clear story that left no doubt in the reader's mind about what happened, when it happened, and why it happened . Sim, the future writer/artist of Cerebus, was just getting started {his professional debut was just the year before in a Skywald magazine} but you'd never know from the witty, clever script. This, along with 'Gamal And The Cockatrice', 'Collector's Edition' and 'Thrillkill' are probably the best four scripts Warren ever bought. The last three panels of the story take everything you expected from the story and give them not so much an O. Henry twist, but rather a subtle adjustment. Delicious and thoroughly satisfying. The 1975 Warren Awards went to Ken Kelly for Best Cover, Berni Wrightson for Best Artwork for "The Muck Monster," Best Writer/Artist for Fernando Fernandez for "Good-Bye, My Love, Good-Bye!", Best Story for Jim Stenstrum for "Thrillkill," John Severin's Best All-Around Artist, Bruce Bezaire's Best All-Around Writer, and Special Awards for Excellence for Manuel Sanjulian and Alex Toth.

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Stories in this album9

Story title
Cover Creepy 79
Story number
00
Story title
Uncle Creepy’s Introduction
Story number
01
Writer / scripter
Story title
As Ye Sow…
Story number
02
Writer / scripter
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