Warren Piece

What's this? Another cover post immediately following a cover post?
Yup.

I've spoken a few times of Warren's use of painted covers - let's pull up a pile and take a look. We'll stick to just Creepy and Eerie this time, and we'll still wind up with too many covers to fit in a single post.

First, an odd bit, just because - Odd. Check out the first issue of Eerie:

 With that cheaper-to-print black & white image giving it a small press feel, you might think this was perhaps the first Warren publication. But, as noted on the cover, Eerie came after Creepy, and Creepy had painted covers from the first issue. Not to mention that Warren had been publishing magazine for quite some time before Creepy debuted.

So why the stark b&w image? Sure, it's a great piece from  Joe Orlando  Jack Davis,  a great artist, but still... it's quite the anomaly and i'm left to wonder how the decision came about. I may not have that answer, but we do have 42 covers here so we need only find the question.

With a name like -3-, it's no surprise that i like things in threes, so next up - another cover post!
But one with a bit of purpose...

covers from the indicated issues of Creepy & Eerie (1964-1982)