Rick Griffin TALES FROM THE TUBE

Rick Griffin was an artist who made his reputation during the golden age of the poster craze for rock shows. He did album covers and other commercial jobs, and the art world took notice. It is a true tragedy that he died young, at age 47 after a motorcycle crash.

In 1971 SURFER magazine had this giveaway comic produced by Griffin (there are other artists represented as well, including R. Crumb who provided a page that is racially offensive. You have been warned.) The comic was 20 pages, and in a large 8 1/4" x 11" format.

In 1973 Print Mint did a standard-sized reprint, adding pages. These are the new pages:

EERIE TALES #1, 1959

EERIE TALES #1 is a one-shot published by Hastings Associates Inc in 1959. It features stories drawn by several comic book artists who had worked on horror comics before the Comics Code killed those books in 1955.

EERIE TALES is not always successful in what it was trying to do. The typeset balloons and captions often crowd out the artwork. But it's a scarce magazine and published five years before Warren took over the black and white horror comics market with CREEPY and EERIE.