By: David Lapham, Bill Dubay, Christopher A. Taylor, Bruce Jones (writers), Lapham, Dubay, Rafa Garres & Richard Corben (artists), Nate Piekos (letters)
The Story: Eerie is back (after a long time). Does Dark Horse have enough original material to justify publishing this AND Creepy?
Quick Review: All right…what the heck is going on here? This first issue of Eerie in decades isn’t “bad”, but one does wonder at the publication strategy that Dark Horse is employing with Eerie and its sister publication, Creepy.
The problem with Eerie #1 is reprint material. There are four short stories in this issue and two of them are reprints from the old Warren Publishing Eerie magazine. That is not an appealing strategy. Dark Horse publishes outstanding quality archival reprints of both Creepy and Eerie. Or…..if you’re a traditionalist, through the magic of eBay you can track down almost any issue of the old magazines for $15-20/each (although that ashcan Eerie #1 will set you back a pretty penny). There would even be some merit in reprinting some of the old stories in floppy, single-issue comic format for folks who don’t want to plunk down the bigger bucks for the archival hardcover collections.
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