Eerie Archives

Eerie #2, Avon 1952.
While we've recently discussed how the ACG series Adventures into the Unknown is considered the first ongoing horror title, the first issue of that series is not considered the first horror comic book.  That distinction belongs to Eerie #1 from publisher Avon in 1947.  Like many Avon titles of the period, Eerie (not to be[...]
Eerie #1 CGC Copy Taking Bids At Heritage Auctions
Eerie #1 is a historic comic, the first all-horror comic, as a matter of fact Featuring a classic cover and ticking a lot of boxes as far as crossing over into many different sub-categories for collectors, this is a must-have books for any and all horror fans Taking bids at Heritage Auctions today is a[...]
Tintin Original Art Sells For $3.1 Million - But It's Not A Record
That was reported as selling for $3.4 million, but that's because the dollar is priced lower against the euro now. Frank Frazetta cover for Eerie #23 comic magazine However, both pieces were outmatched by Frank Frazetta's cover to Eerie #23, which recently sold at auction for $5.4 million – and no matter how much the dollar has[...]
Bleeding Cool Celebrates LGBTQ Creators For Pride Month
While the series is named for its homicidal vigilante character, the protagonist is a trans cop navigating her way through the sexism and transphobia of her colleagues while investigation a series of murders before the title character forces her to face her own existential issues. Dan Wickline thinks we should all remember Jeffrey Catherine Jones: Called the[...]
Swipe File: Gamora And A Stranger In Hell
On the left, an 1971 Esteban Maroto illustration from Eerie #38, a story called A Stranger In Hell. And on the right from a couple of years later when Jim Starlin's Gamora appeared in the Warlock comic series… Maybe they share the same tailor too? In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other to[...]
Just In Time For Halloween – It's The Creepy And Eerie Digital Sale From Dark Horse
By Tim Grimm Just in time for Halloween, Dark Horse is having a digital sale on their Creepy and Eerie titles, including their Eisner Award-winning Creepy Archives and Eerie Archives. The Creepy Archives MegaBundle includes volumes 1-19 Metaphorically weighing in at a hefty 5,213 pages and featuring the work of such comics luminaries as Archie Goodwin, Bruce Jones, Al[...]
Cammy's Favorite Covers – Batgirl To Godzilla
Tremendous cover! Eerie #3 by Jim Pavelec That's a seashell I would NOT stick my ear near to hear the ocean I would hear an ocean of pain and sorrows instead, followed by this creepy fishlady emerging and chomping on my face It's such an eerie cover, isn't it? I do like the twisted imagery of the[...]
Fifteen Thoughts About Fifteen Comics – Darkness, Ghosted, Storm Dogs, Eerie, Great Pacific, X, Fabulous Killjoys, Breath Of Bones, Avengers Arena, Wolverine, Nightwing, Superior Spider-Man, East Of West, Peter Panzerfaust And America's Got Powers
Eerie Comics #3 has a different ultimate fate of man To be fair, both are probably bad. And in Great Pacific, there are some things in bed no one wants to wake up to. And X#3 solves that pesky problem of adult masturbation in one. The highly sexually charged True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys rather chooses to[...]