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.