Frank Frazetta drew evocative "Creepy"/"Eerie" covers. There were dark ancient temples, sea serpents rising from storm-tossed waves, mighty warriors battling winged demons, ill-clad, voluptuous women — with and without leopards. He sure knew what appealed to 11- year-old me. Frazetta also illustrated covers for the paperback reissue of Robert E. Howard's Conan series. My friends and I were big Conan fans and traded around the books like baseball cards.
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Do you realize you've now done so many posts that your first one has scrolled off of the "previous posts" sidebar?
Yes.Thank you for noting, Attilla Girl. Like torn pages from a calendar it is a sign of time passing.
I got in trouble in grade school for bringing home a Creepy with a somewhat salacious Frazetta cover. I can still recall my mom: "That's TERRIBLE." I never even got to read it.
PS This thread is kind of incestuous
OMG, that's the one! I just clicked the link!
I am so sending this to my mom
In junior high, I once gave an oral book report based
on a story out of "Eerie."
It involved an evil wizard transfering his soul into
the body of a newborn who grew to maturity in three
years. The wizard suffered a grim, satisfiying ending.
The class mostly stared. You could hear them blink in
the pauses.
I realized at that moment that Warren Publications may
not be for everyone.
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