Turns out that this issue, according to Fogel's guide, is worth a cool $100 in Near Mint condition. It's a confluence of great artists, Frazetta, Bode, Adams, I think that makes it worth so much. And the comics really are of pretty stellar quality, both the featured ones and the regular ones in the "Funny Pages" feature.
I got these magazines, as I've said, when I purchased a large magazine collection just before we moved to Calgary. I bought the collection primarily because it was a large run of Heavy Metal, spanning the magazine's whole history, and a full run of Marvel's Epic Illustrated. I'd decided this would be a good window into the European comics my soon-to-be supervisor Bart loved so much. The less said of that the better.
But I also got a fair number of National Lampoon, Creepy, Eerie, and various underground comix. It's only in the last little while that I've realized what a great deal this collection was. I think I paid $200-$300 for the lot, and there's some really amazing comics and magazines in the collection now. I've often fantasized about finding that lost cache of comics in an attic or at a garage sale, but in a lot of ways I have to acknowledge that that's what happened here. The person I bought them from wanted to get rid of them, and I was happy to take them. It's only now, 6 years later, though, that I'm starting to really get an idea of what it is I bought.
More to come...
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