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Reese’s Pieces                                            Comics Lot
Featuring a 2-issue Science Fiction / Horror Anthology with art by Ralph Reese.  Awesome!!

Ralph Reese is an American artist who has illustrated for books, magazines, trading cards, comic books and comic strips, including a year drawing the Flash Gordon strip for King Features. Prolific from the 1960s to the 1990s, he is best known for his collaboration with Byron Preiss on the continuing feature “One Year Affair”, serialized in the satiric magazine National Lampoon from 1973 to 1975 and then collected into a 1976 book. Reese early in his career worked in the studio of Wally Wood, assisting on both mainstream and alternative-press comics and on trading cards. He went on to do mainly fantasy and horror illustrations for science-fiction magazines and black-and-white horror-comics magazines. He drew many fantasy, horror and science-fiction stories for Marvel Comics, DC Comics and Valiant Comics.

Eclipse Comics presents, “Reese’s Pieces”, a science fiction / horror anthology with art by Ralph Reese. Featuring the macabre stories; Manplant from the Tomb, Midnight Muse, Phantom of the Rock Era, Slime World, Let The Dreamer Beware, Barf The Insurance Salesman, Curse of the Yeti!, & The Skin-Eaters.

Reese’s Pieces Comics Lot contains:

Reese’s Pieces Issue #1
Cover by: Ralph Reese

“Manplant from the Tomb”   6 pages 
Writer: Otto Binder
Artist: Ralph Reese
Colorist: Denis McFarling

Orville Maxon, an exotic plant salesman, is startled with a knock at his door. A man named Dane Crawford asks for Orville’s help as he shows him some unknown seeds. Dane explains that the seeds were discovered in the tomb of Ankho-Met, and wants Orville to make them grow. Dane departs for two weeks as Orville revels in a secret… that the seeds are in fact, the legendary seeds of eternal life. Orville calls Dane back and murders him. He feeds his corpse to the growing tomb plant. Over the course of a week, the tomb plant completely consumes Dane and leaves just his bones. Later that night, the tomb plant swirls around the Dane’s bones and animates the skeleton. The manplant from the tomb then seeks out Orville for a sinister purpose…

“Midnight Muse”   2 pages 
Writer: Michael Cahlin
Artist: Ralph Reese
Colorist: Teresa Bieri

Two drinking buddies on a night out get into a strange conversation of how human life is just a giant “guinea pig” experiment orchestrated by hidden creatures. One single panel in the whole story shows that it’s not just the ramblings of a drunk.

“Phantom of the Rock Era”   8 pages 
Writer: Chuck McNaughton
Artist: Ralph Reese
Colorist: Tim Smith

A young woman named, Lala Love discovers a “zombie”-like band at a local dive and seems to think that the lead singer will be rich and famous. Being a “gold digger”, she formulates a plan to marry the lead singer and take his future wealth. She soon discovers the lead singer, and the band are not just a “zombie act”, but actually the undead. Her plan soon takes a dark turn when things spiral out of her control.

Reprints: Nightmare (1971) Issue #4.  Skywald   

“Slime World”   10 pages 
Writer: Chuck McNaughton
Artist: Ralph Reese
Colorist: Tim Smith

A young couple in Paris are lured deep underground. They think that they are on some kind of historical catacombs tour. The deceitful tour guide lures them deep down, and then traps then behind a gate. The young couple are soon overtaken by hideous, oozing creatures that chain them up. The man escapes and frees the woman, but they soon become separated. The man discovers that the slime people were once normal people that got trapped underground and were exposed to a fume that changed them into the slime people. Now, they lure tourists down to the catacombs to capture them and use them for food. The man also learns that his fiancé did not make it, so he tries to flee… but falls into a another trap. After some time, the man is transformed by the fumes into a slime person and embraces the slime world way of life…

Reprints: Nightmare (1971) Issue #5.  Skywald   
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Reese’s Pieces Issue #2
Cover: Ralph Reese & Tom Yeates

“Let the Dreamer Beware”   7 pages 
Writer: Jerry Siegal
Artist: Ralph Reese
Colorist: Tim Smith

A man that is trapped in a horrible marriage to a manipulative wife escapes to a fantasy dream world where he is tricked by demons, in his dream, to kill his wife. The man soon murders his wife and then the demons come after him.

“Barf the Insurance Salesman”   7 pages 
Writer: Bill Pearson
Artist: Ralph Reese

An insurance salesman standing in line learns that the city of Detroit has been destroyed. He laments because his aunt Thelma lived there and he vows to avenge her. Still selling insurance, the man highlights as a costumed vigilante at night. The man is soon arrested, his wife divorces him, and he is locked away as a lunatic.

“Curse of the Yeti!”   7 pages 
Writer: Otto Binder
Artist: Ralph Reese
Colorist: Denis McFarling

On the towering peaks of the Himalayas, a scientific hunting party stumbles upon the most incredible find in history, the legendary Yeti… aka, The Abominable Snowman. While the scientist decides not to harm the Yeti – Jim Larch, the hired guide, wants to kill the Yeti and make a name for himself. At night he sneaks off to hunt the Yeti and makes the shot. The injured Yeti lures Jim to a sacred spot where Jim shoots the Yeti again and kills him. However, the scared spot curses Jim into becoming the new Yeti. Suspecting that the Yeti has kidnapped their guide, the other scientist sets out to find him.

“The Skin-Eaters”   4 pages 
Writer: Terry Bisson
Artist: Ralph Reese
Colorist: Phil DeWalt

A man, woman, and child become the hunted on a “Planet of the Lizard Creatures”, where their human skins are used for fabric and clothing.

Reprints: Web of Horror (1969) Issue #1.  Major Magazines   
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Comics lot contains: Reese’s Pieces (1985) Issues #1-2.  Eclipse Comics

Comics Lot reprints/collects stories from:
Nightmare (1971) Issues #4-5. Skywald
Web of Horror (1969) Issue #1. Major Magazines

Comics are bagged & boarded and will be carefully / securely packaged then shipped via USPS Priority Mail to ensure that it arrives to you perfectly and quickly.

First Printings
Publisher: Eclipse Comics
Publication Date: 1985
Format per comic: FC, 32 pages, Comic, 10.25″ x 6.5″
UPC: None Stated

Collectible Entertainment note: Comics 1,2 are in Fine condition.  Nice Set!  Please See Scans!!  A must have for any serious Reese’s Pieces collector and/or enthusiast.  A fun & entertaining read.  Recommended.

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