Such as those featured in Creepshow? I have a variety in mostly much-read condition I would rather sell to folks here than try on eBay or someplace. I don't have a scanner connected to my computer right now but plan to get one. Thanks.
Anyone Collect Vintage Horror Comics?
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I think Muskrat mentioned he had a collection, but you may want to ask him.
Yep, I bet muskrat would be interested! If he doesn't see the tag, send him a conversation, Cori. 
We talkin pre-code? As in pre-1954? The publication year should be in the fine print at either the bottom of the inside cover or first page.
Basically, if they have this wretched stamp on the cover:
Then they're post-code, and no fun at all. Not to be confused with the earlier version of the code, shown in the upper right corner here:
The A.C.M.P. guidelines weren't enforced, thank god.
At any rate, list me a few titles so I know what we're dealing with here.
Oh, and anything by E.C., be it original or reprint, I'm interested.
I have some old EC I am selling. I will find them all tonight and let you know what I have. Anything else you are interested in Muskrat? I am selling a HUGE comic book collection as well as lots of other unique comic related items, signed stuff, toys, original sketches, cards, promos, the list goes on.
By all means. Any E.C. interests me. I'm a Fan-Addict, as us Boils and Ghouls are called.
Sorry, I wasn't born until years after 1954, and was around 11 when I became interested in comics, so we're talking mid-1970s. I wasn't aware of EC Comics' reputation until I showed a friend a list of Ray Bradbury's comic adaptations and he informed me they were all EC, the comic imprint which inspired the creation of the code. I have been to Ray Bradbury's and Forrest J. Ackerman's homes when both were alive and in residence.
How cool is that! Bardo would flip his lid. So, is that to say, you met Bradbury?
I visited Ray Bradbury at his home in 2003. He didn't feel like taking pictures that day, so there are none of me with Ray inside the house. The one of me outside the house, I posted in the thread about that topic. My profile picture, which I am unlikely to change soon, if ever, is of Ray kissing me at his 90th birthday party in 2010.
House Of Mystery? Witching Hour?
B&W Mags? Creepy, Eerie?
I dig them kinds as well. By the 70s the code was pretty much a joke, ever since Stan & Spidey defied em with the Goblin drug issues.
Do these interest you? All bagged and boarded in NM condition with the exception of top center issue. Has some minor flaws.
Every time I see Muskrat on here I can't help but think about a song by a local group here in my neck of the woods. The group is called Whistlin' Rufus and the name of the song is 'Muskrat'. Worth listening to if you don't know about them.....it's good stuff.
I have a box of comics out in my garage. Don't know what I have and I'm sure not valuable, but I've had them since I was a kid and that was in ancient times.
I would be interested to see what you have.
...printed on papyrus I presume.....
Being in the company of Bradbury and Ackerman in their own environments was totally awesome.
Without looking I would say all of the comics I have are in color. I remember a boy with whom my sisters and I used to be friends had some black-and-white ones (and probably still does--do NOT ask!) One in particular which stood out contained a ripoff of The Turn of the Screw by Henry James. In this version, the hauntings were due to an older brother Miles and Flora did not like. They waited till he was outside in icy conditions, caused him to fall and then attacked him with knives. His death was dismissed as an accidental fall--apparently no one noticed the numerous stab wounds through not only the body but the clothing! In the end he returned as a creepy skeleton. When I went to return the comics the kid's father would not take them, claiming they would "scare" his son, and wouldn't believe his son was the one who loaned them to me, so in the end I had to take them back until I could return them to the kid personally. Does anyone else remember this comic? I also had, may still have, one containing a ripoff of D. H. Lawrence's "The Rocking Horse Winner," only this toy was a ship, not a rocking horse, and the ending was similar but appropriately altered.