{"id":37080,"date":"2022-01-12T08:01:13","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T13:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=37080"},"modified":"2022-01-12T14:36:27","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T19:36:27","slug":"a-hundred-horrific-pages-for-half-a-buck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/01\/12\/a-hundred-horrific-pages-for-half-a-buck\/","title":{"rendered":"A Hundred Horrific Pages for Half a Buck!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4243\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/09\/12\/goofy-ideas\/comics-head-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/COMICS-HEAD.jpg?fit=640%2C144&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,144\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"COMICS-HEAD\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/COMICS-HEAD.jpg?fit=640%2C144&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4243\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/COMICS-HEAD.jpg?resize=640%2C144&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/COMICS-HEAD.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/COMICS-HEAD.jpg?resize=300%2C67&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><br \/>\n<a title=\"DC 100-Page Super Spectacular #4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/51804058091\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51804058091_327e912d42_z.jpg?resize=441%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"DC 100-Page Super Spectacular #4\" width=\"441\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>A buddy of mine chased down a well-worn and well loved comic that he had once owned and lost to the vagaries of time and fortune. It&#8217;s <em>DC Super Spectacular No. 4<\/em> and was published by DC Comics in 1971. It features a number of reprinted horror stories along with a number of new for 1971 pages illustrated by the late, great master of the macabre <em>Bernie Wrightson.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I had never seen this or heard of it before, but flipping through it&#8217;s 50 year old pages was a treat. What was unusual is that it had no ads and the image on the cover was repeated on the back. You really got a hundred pages out of this! What a bargain!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A buddy of mine chased down a well-worn and well loved comic that he had once owned and lost to the vagaries of time and fortune. It&#8217;s DC Super Spectacular No. 4 and was published by DC Comics in 1971. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/01\/12\/a-hundred-horrific-pages-for-half-a-buck\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[335],"tags":[204,5245,312,76],"class_list":["post-37080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-i-miss-about-comics","tag-204","tag-bernie-wrightson","tag-comic","tag-horror"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-9E4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":42249,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2024\/01\/04\/you-cant-keep-a-good-vampire-down\/","url_meta":{"origin":37080,"position":0},"title":"You Can&#8217;t Keep a Good Vampire Down","author":"Joe","date":"January 4, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Although the TV series ended in 1971, vampire Barnabas Collins continued to haunt the comic book racks of newsstands and convenience stores well into the 1970s. 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Was the HEIGHT INCREASE BUREAU an official governmental organization up in the Great White North? and 2. What was the Canadian equivalent to 25\u00a2 back in 1971?","rel":"","context":"In &quot;What I Miss About Comics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"What I Miss About Comics","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/what-i-miss-about-comics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/height.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/height.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/height.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":40964,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2023\/07\/20\/barnabas-dark-shadows-paperbacks\/","url_meta":{"origin":37080,"position":3},"title":"BARNABAS! 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