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Weekly Comic Shopping List 7/28/10 addendum-- Vampire Tales

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I just got back from the shop and I found an incredible book from Marvel-- Vampire Tales V1 (cover is above.)  That's a really ugly and generic cover.  Sure, it's a nice image in and of itself but it's weak when compared to the original Vampire Tales covers (check here for the cover gallery.) This book reprints for first 3 issues of Marvel's 1973 Vampire Tales magazine.  There's names like Romita, Thomas, Steranko, Bernet, Maroto and Marcos contributing stories in this collection. 

The book itself if interesting.  It's about 3/4 the size of a standard comic, well smaller than the original magazines I assume.  But the printing is really nice and clear, much better than any of the Marvel Essentials which have collected Marvel's magazines.  I would love to see Marvel use this format though to get all that stuff in print.  Heck, I'd love for Dark Horse to go back and start putting the Creepy and Eerie stuff out like this as well.

I wasn't really that excited about hitting the comic shop today but I'm glad I did and found this book.  I can't wait to get home and start reading it.