In the mid-70s, Marvel embarked on a reprint crusade that saw a relatively huge number of titles flood the market reprinting old horror and adventure comics of the late 50s and early 60s. These reprints served a sort of nefarious part in the conflicts between Marvel and some of its artists, in that I don't think the artists were compensated for these reprints. But my knowledge of that period and its politics is not great, admittedly. That aside, I've always found them to be a wonderful and cheap repository of some stories that otherwise might be unattainable for the thrift-minded collector. The stories in this issue are strange and wonderful, with the last one, "The Old Couple!" a hallucinatory meditation on time and age.
This is why I collect weird, old, and damaged comics - because more often than not I'll get my hands on a story, or stories, that are just wonderful and would not have been something I got to experience if not for these battered old comics.
To be continued.
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