Saturday, August 28, 2021

Morlock 2001: The Gredown editions

 Gredown's Morlock 2001 #1 was published c.January 1976:


The cover art is likely by Phil Belbin and is adapted from the cover of Seaboard's Morlock 2001 #1


The floating head of Morlock is probably associated with panels in which he appears on city screens.
The contents:

The Coming of Morlock!, originally published in Morlock 2001 #1, February 1975
Morlock Must Be Destroyed!, originally published in Morlock 2001 #2, April 1975 
Then Came the Midnight Man, originally published in Morlock 2001 #3, July 1975 
Minotaur, originally published in The Many Ghosts of Doctor Graves #59, October 1976
Operation: Rotten Apple, originally published in E-Man #1, October 1973

The three Morlock features in this issue comprise the complete run of the feature from the 1975 series.

Gredown recycled this issue a few years later towards the end of their tenure as an unnumbered edition with a $1.00 cover price:


By this time the Adult rating was no longer required, and 68 pages was not something to boast about. Also note the second edition has a distinct purple tone compared to the blue on #1.

Sunday, August 8, 2021

Gunman's Western #5 and #7: Chatto recycled

Keith Chatto illustrated the cover to Page Publications' Gunman's Western #5:


This cover was recycled some time later for Gunman's Western #7:


The contents of Gunman's Western #5 were recycled shortly after the publication of Gunman's Western #7 in Killer Western Library #4:


These contents previously appeared in Gunsmoke Western Picture Library #9

Saturday, August 7, 2021

Great War Stories: The complete Yaffa cover gallery

Here's a cover gallery of my complete run of Page Publications' digest-sized Great War Stories:

Great War Stories #1

Great War Stories #2

Great War Stories #3

The first two issues sport covers by Keith Chatto. The cover of Great War Stories #3 is from page 43 of the story The Desperadoes:


The Desperadoes was originally published in Famepress' Battlecry Picture Library #2



Friday, August 6, 2021

Fear: The complete Yaffa cover gallery

Here's a cover gallery of my complete collection of Page Publications' Fear:

Fear #1, c.May 1978

Fear #2, c.September 1979

Fear #3, c.early/mid-1981 

Fear #4, c.October 1981 

Fear #5, c.December 1981

Fear NN, c.April 1982

Fear #'s 1 and 2 are magazine-sized, the rest are digest-sized. Fear #'s 4 and 5 are 'tall' digest editions, the rest are 'short' editions.

Fear #1 was recycled as Fear #2; Fear #4 was recycled as Fear NN; Fear #5 was recycled as Nightmare:


I expect to find Fear #3 was also recycled, most likely as a retitled edition, however I have not seen a copy. TBA.