Thursday, January 02, 2025

Tower of Shadows


I see where Marvel is releasing soon a collection of the new stories from their horror mags that began in 1969 with TOWER OF SHADOWS # 1. 

I was 10 years old when that first issue of TOWER OF SHADOWS came out. That Steranko story inside scared me half to death. I had nightmares! Almost immediately, I traded that comic to my pal Terry for something more familiar (but now long forgotten). I read the story again in COMIX! a few years later, albeit small and in black and white. Less intimidating. Some 44 years later, I was pawing through the dollar box at my LCS when I spotted a copy of that ToS # 1 and I decided to buy it again. I was in my 50s by that point and I had met Steranko a couple of times! No way it could creep me out now! So I get it home, I take it out of its bag and open it up and what's the first thing I see? MY INITIALS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE FIRST PAGE!!!!! Back in '69, I wrote my initials in a circle on all my comic books! This was MY original scary copy!!!! I hadn't seen Terry in ages and the book had a price sticker on the front as well as a penciled price on the back. It had clearly been through several sales over the years but it had finally found its way back to me, its original owner!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAA..........!!!!!
 

1 comment:

  1. Well, Fantagraphics is releasing it. Marvel would NEVER have released this on their own.

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