Saturday, December 31, 2022

Six-Gun Western Library #7

 

The front cover image on Page Publications' Six-Gun Western Library #7 is from the splash page of His Father's Son!:


His Father's Son! originally appeared in Marvel's Two-Gun Kid #6, September 1956, with art by Matt Baker. This story was reprinted in Australia in Horwitz's Giant Western Gunfighters #1, November 1961.

Six-Gun Western Library #7 is an oft-recycled Yaffa issue. It was originally published as Six-Gun Western Library #1, c.November 1971, and subsequently recycled as Six-Gun Western Library #4, Blazing Western Stories #4 and Western Illustrated Stories #6. 

There may be more editions of this issue but I think this is the final one published.

Wednesday, December 28, 2022

Chamber of Chills: The complete Yaffa cover gallery

Here's a cover gallery of my complete run of Page Publications' Chamber of Chills:

Chamber of Chills #1, c.September 1977 

Chamber of Chills #2, c.April 1978

Chamber of Chills #3, c.June 1978

Chamber of Chills #4, 1979

Chamber of Chills #5, 1980

Chamber of Chills #6, 1980

Chamber of Chills #7, c.November 1980

Chamber of Chills #8, c.April 1981

Chamber of Chills #9, 1981

Chamber of Chills #NN, 1983

The dates are based on the best data to hand and are open to correction.

COC #'s 1-4 are regular/magazine sized. The rest are digest-sized - #9 is a 'tall' digest-sized issue.

Many of these issues were recycled by Yaffa. For example, COC #5 was recycled as Shock Stories:


COC #7 was recycled as Horror Thrillers c.1982-83:

And of course, as you can see in the gallery, COC #1 was reprinted as COC #6, and COC #3 was reprinted as COC #NN. This suggests there are reprints of COC #'s 3, 4 and 6 out there to be unearthed.



Tuesday, June 7, 2022

Sky Riders Picture Adventure Library #5

 Colour Comics' Sport Magazine's Sky Riders Picture Adventure Library was published late 1967:


The cover image appeared around the same time on the cover of the Swedish comic Jet #17:


The lead story is titled Never Have So Many Owed So Much To So Few and is subtitled The Duel Between Dowding and Goering. The cover title is The Duel. Here's a scan of the splash page as it appears in this edition:


This issue also contains a single page feature titled Mercury:


Sky Riders is a digest-sized series.

Sunday, February 6, 2022

All Love Romantic Stories #32

Murray Publishers' All Love Romantic Stories #32 was published c.July 1979:

The cover is illustrated by Sururi Gumen and is a recoloured version of the original publication from  Charlton's For Lovers Only #79:

Monday, January 17, 2022

Lethal Ladies



Lethal Ladies is the Page Publications edition of Marvel's Bizarre Adventures #25:


Lethal Ladies appears to have been published in 1982. Similarly to Moon Knight I don't think there's a pre-$1.10 edition, and similarly to Night Nurse, it's amongst the scarcest of Yaffa's Marvel editions. Until I saw this copy I didn't know it existed.