Creepy Presents Richard Corben Variations
Creepy Presents Richard Corben is a compilation book which collects all stories Richard Corben has made for Warren’s magazines Creepy and Eerie. It will not contain any Vampirella, 1984 or other Warren magazine stories. Though several Creepy and Eerie stories has been reprinted in other Warren magazines, like Comix International.
All color restoration (except French add ons) by José Villarrubia. B&W restoration, and digital production by Ryan Jorgensen.
The USA version:
Creepy Presents Richard Corben
1st: July 18, 2012, 2nd: 2013. Dark Horse. $29.99. 352[+8] pgs. 8-3/8″x10-7/8″. Hard Bound. No dust jacket. [id]Reprints all Richard Corben comic stories from Creepy & Eerie.
Color cover restoration, and digital production by Ryan Jorgensen.
2nd print: Some color and info corrections made by José Villarrubia.
1st print says on the top of the contents page, “ALL ART BY RICHARD CORBEN UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED”, 2nd says nothing.
Front Cover: “Creepy Presents Richard Corben”
Stories scanned from the original art plates:
| The Butcher, Part 2(2): “Bye-Bye, Miss American Dream” | “Instinct” | “Oval Portrait!” | “Shadow” | “Unprovoked Attack on a Hilton Hotel” |
| “Child”, Part 1 (for the first time in the 2nd print) |
The Finnish version:
Shokki [II] tekijänä Richard Corben
Volume #1 (of 2)
Sept. 2013. €27.00. 176[+8] pgs.
The full bleed pages as close to the USA version as possible.
Stories in different order than in the Dark Horse print.
Stories scanned from the original art plates:
| Apparently similar with the 2nd print of Dark Horse stories |
Volume #2 (of 2)
March 19, 2014. €27.00. 176[+8] pgs.
The full bleed pages as close to the USA version as possible.
Stories scanned from the original art plates:
| Apparently similar with the 2nd print of Dark Horse stories |
Altered page order:
|“Bowser” (the only known version where title page on pg 2 and a prologue before it) |
Stories in different order than in the Dark Horse print.
The French version:
Eerie & Creepy présentent Richard Corben
Volume #1: Nov. 15, 2013. €24,00. 176 pgs.
Big size, shows more edge art in the full bleed pages like in the cases of the splash pages.
Will be printed in two volumes.
Front Cover of #1: “Treed by Triceratops”
Front Cover of #2 (undefined)
Stories scanned from the original art plates:
Same as in the USA version but the followings only in this version restored in-house (18 new pages):
| Child #3: “Childhood’s End” | “Bright Eyes” | the last page of “Bookworm” (with the original cousin Eerie portrait, instead of the patch by Jack Davis that saw print) | Creepy’s Loathsome Lore! #34: “The Golden Sun Disk of the Incas” | Creepy’s Loathsome Lore! #35: “Astrology” |
The Italian version:
Creepy Presenta Richard Corben [ITA]
2013.
No known differences. Reprints in one volume as is the original USA version.
Front Cover: “Creepy Presents Richard Corben”
The Spanish version:
Creepy Presenta Richard Corben [SPA]
Reprints in one volume as is the original USA version except cropped tighter (show less edge art in the full bleed pages like in the cases of the splash pages).
Front Cover: “Creepy Presents Richard Corben”
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Created: December 15, 2013. Last updated: July 18, 2020 at 10:11 am
