TALES OF CREEPY WORLDS OF SUSPENSE (OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT)...

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I remember my dad giving me a notebook one day, and

when I took it into school with me some time later, a girl in

my class called LYNNE SPEED (or Lynn, perhaps) took a

fancy to it for some reason and offered to swap me a copy of

CREEPY WORLDS #68 for it.  I agreed, but several days

later, I felt bad about having parted with the notebook and

asked Lynne if she'd care to swap back.

She was agreeable to the proposition, but it took her 

several more days to bring the notebook into school with

her.  And that's all there is to that little story.  Apart from to

say that the IRON MAN story in this ALAN CLASS reprint

title always reminds me of the annexe huts (where the deal was

sealed) in my school playground and Lynne herself.  The cover

of the comic is from an un-retouched stat of the original art,

as a few changes were made before it was first published in

the pages of TALES Of SUSPENSE #44 (below).

As you'll have noticed, 'pharaoh' on both covers is

misspelt, something that I still see in newspapers today.

When the story was reprinted in recent MASTERWORKS

and OMNIBUS editions, the mistake was restored (it had

been corrected for previous reprints), but in the absence of

uncorrected proofs, it had to be re-lettered the wrong way.

They missed one on the splash page 'though, and the alter-

ations back to the uncorrected text were less skillfully

executed than the original amendments.

    

Lynne Speed in 1967

Not much of a point to this post, admittedly,

but I just wanted to see that KIRBY cover again

and  remember things as they used to be when the

world seemed a much brighter and better place.  If

you've any memories of your own connected to

this particular tale, then feel free to share. 

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