Eerie Archives, Vol. 3

Eerie Archives #3

by Archie Goodwin, Shawna Gore (Editor), Jim Warren (Editor)

Cousin Eerie is back with dozens of blood-chilling tales of terror and the macabre! Dark Horse Comics continues its groundbreaking archival reprint series, and this third installment of Eerie Archives is the spookiest yet! Eerie magazine was a newsstand fan-favorite for years, but the original issues have long since been expensive and hard to find. Reprinted in its original size, this collection of classic horror storytelling and astonishing artwork from such luminaries as Jeff Jones, Wallace Wood, Tom Sutton, and Gene Colan is a fine addition to any horror fan's library.

Includes adaptations of stories by Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Bloch, and H.P. Lovecraft & August Derleth.

Genres: Horror, Comics, Graphic Novels, Science Fiction, Fiction, Vampires, Supernatural

256 pages, Hardcover

First published May 12, 2010

About the author

Archie Goodwin was an American comic book writer, editor, and artist. He worked on a number of comic strips in addition to comic books, and is best known for his Warren and Marvel Comics work. For Warren he was chief writer and editor of landmark horror anthology titles Creepy and Eerie, and for Marvel he set up the creator-owned Epic Comics as well as adapting Star Wars into both comics and newspaper strips. He is regularly cited as the "best-loved comic book editor, ever."

Reviews

[Ryan · Rating 2 out of 5]

Never have I been more disappointed in one of the Eerie/Creepy collections. The main problem here is one that mostly goes away when Dark Horse figured out how to fix the problem. At this point in the magazine run, the company really struggled to pay their bills, so most of their talent went away. What readers got were (mostly) sub-par cover art from artists with cover art that more looked like it belonged on a Gold Key comic than Warren. Also, old stories from the early Creepy issues were being reprinted. Now the majority of these stories are pretty good, but us collectors already got them in previous books. I'm not an expert and I didn't research every story. But it feels like about half these stories are already stories that I already have. After this volume, Dark Horse figured that this double-dipping is not cool. So they will list the reprinted stories in the various tables of contents and note which previous Archive volume that the story can be found in - there it is, problem solved!

[Brandt · Rating 2 out of 5]

Gail Simone (Birds of Prey) warns you in the preface that this isn't going to be good. The volume contains issues of Eerie after the late, great Archie Goodwin left Warren publishing. The end result is not just a collection of no-names like Simone describes in the preface, but also reprints of stories by Goodwin and Otto Binder which you will have already read if you have been checking out the Creepy Archives. Since I had seen most of this before, then end result is pretty disappointing, although the reprinted material from Goodwin is good--I had just seen it before.

[Martin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Amazingly good art. It's too bad more of today's comic artist's don't find their lessons in books like this.

The stories are of widely varying quality. Overall good fun.

Here is one SF story in here.

[Angel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Quick impressions: I continue reading this series and enjoying it. If you enjoy suspense and horror tales with a twist, this volume may be for you.

(Detailed review available on my blog.)

[Al McCarty · Rating 4 out of 5]

I breezed through many of the stories, but loved much of the art.

[Little Timmy · Rating 4 out of 5]

I was lucky and collected a full set of these magazines and got a chance to read the fantastic stories and enjoy the incredible art from many of the greats, many of who got their start here, from the comic world. If you like offbeat horror, supernatural, SiFi and just plan different stories then these are the magazines for you. Very recommended

[Kris Shaw · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another stellar collection of black and white old school Horror comics by the all-time greats. Too numerous to name.