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Soul Snatcher Comix from Rory Hayes, S. Clay Wilson, Simon Deitch, Greg Irons, Jeff Hayes, Jayzey Lynch, Spain, Rick Griffin, & The Company & Sons.
from comixjoint:Jay Lynch and Jim Osborne pitch in again to help Rory Hayes with Bogeyman #3. Lynch\'s contribution is \"Phone Call!\", which was pretty funny then and would still be amusing today if it were updated to one of today\'s obsessions, like, well, an iPhone! Hayes seems to indicate that he has already experimented with speed with his two-pager \"Last Hit,\" which features a woman who dies and releases her demons after taking one more injection of speed. Hayes and Rick Griffin collaborate on a three-pager that is mostly decorative, but it\'s still a pleasure to study.
Rory\'s brother Geoffrey Hayes contributes an 11-page story called \"The Rag\" that features, believe it or not, a monstrous dish rag who eats grandmothers and scientists. It\'s actually quite amusing. The story has always been attributed to Rory, but Geoffrey states in a magazine article that he was the one who actually produced \"The Rag\" (though he mistakenly believes it was published in the second issue), and I\'m not doubting him. If you compare the artwork carefully to Rory\'s artwork in this book and from this era, you can spot unique details (certain hatchings and decorative elements) and even characters (a toy-like elephant) that Rory never employed before. The fact that \"The Rag\" was produced by Geoffrey makes me wonder if two other stories in the second issue might\'ve also been done by him, as they seem more similar stylisically to \"The Rag\" than Rory\'s other work.
The Bogeyman series was supposed to have a fourth issue, but for some reason the comic book that was intended for that was published as Laugh in the Dark by Last Gasp.
Bogeyman #3 was unusual in its day because it was reportedly printed with six different-colored versions of the same cover art. After raising this topic among the cognoscenti, I believe there are actually four common versions (that even have variations within themselves) and perhaps dozens of more-obscure versions (see Historical Footnotes below).
HISTORICAL FOOTNOTES:It is currently unknown how many copies of this comic book were printed. It has not been reprinted. Kennedy\'s Price Guide states that there are six different-colored versions of the same cover art. I will repeat Kennedy\'s descriptions of the versions verbatim below and number them in the same order they appear in the Guide:
Version #1: The Bogeyman title and cover price printed in gray, with the Co. & Sons logo printed in yellow.Version #2: The Bogeyman title and cover price printed in gray, with the Co. & Sons logo printed in red.Version #3: The Bogeyman title and cover price printed in yellow, with the Co. & Sons logo printed in orange.Version #4: The Bogeyman title and cover price printed in yellow, with the Co. & Sons logo printed in purple and orange.Version #5: The Bogeyman title and cover price printed in yellow, with the Co. & Sons logo printed in red.Version #6: The Bogeyman title and cover price printed in yellow, with the Co. & Sons logos printed in yellow.
As mentioned in my review, I started a topic on the marvelous CPG message board with underground collectors about the doubts I had that there are six versions of Bogeyman #3, as I had never seen the first two versions that Kennedy describes. The results of that discussion indicate that the first two versions may or may not exist (none of the scans I viewed on the link above match the exact description of Kennedy\'s version 1 or version 2), but there are certainly several more variations of the cover printing that Kennedy did not describe at all.
I now believe that the four versions I currently have are the primary versions (they are more widely available than the other variations, with the orange and yellow versions perhaps being the most common) and beyond that there are multiple variations that occured during the single print run at Company & Sons. It\'s hard to put an exact number on how many variations there are, because it appears that the print operators may have been changing ink colors on the fly during printing, resulting in all manner of blended ink colors. Which might explain why the orange version goes from a yellow-orange to a red-orange; it was on its way to becoming the red version.
Here is a page that shows eight copies of Bogeyman 3 that have distinct variations, including six that I own, with indications of which Kennedy version each one is, as applicable. It includes two orange versions of mine that are quite distinct from one another and two other versions that I borrowed from the CPG message board (linked above). One of the latter is the first copy I have seen with a gray title and cover price, though it appears to me to have a dark orange logo and background, not red as described by Kennedy for version 2.
You can see additional variations at the link, including a couple that were printed out of register (adding even more confusion for those who don\'t understand printing techniques).
COMIC CREATORS:Jack Jackson - 1Rory Hayes - 2, 8-10, 13-15 (collaboration)Jay Lynch - 3-5Simon Deitch - 6, 11Spain Rodgriguez - 7Rick Griffin - 13-15 (collaboration)Geoffrey Hayes - 16-26Greg Irons - 27- 28
