This is my favorite volume so far in the "Creepy" archives series and very nostalgic for me. The early issues were fun and great but with the issues contained in this volume the story telling and art had vastly matured and this volume begins Warren's early seventies golden era. It contains the issues that introduced me to Warren. I love this volume because it contains two of my favorite issues of Creepy, #43 and #45, that I remember from when I was a child when my older brother brought them into the house and I had nightmares for weeks when I snuck a look. When I was a kid I couldn't look at the cover of number 45 of the vampire with blood on his face it scared me so bad.
Creepy number 45, in my opinion, was the all time single best issue of the magazine Warren ever published. I never had as good an experience reading any other issue, though I collected them for years. "For the Sake of Your Children" was probably the best, and scariest, vampire story they ever published, excellently written by someone called E.A. Fedory and brilliantly illustrated by Jaime Brocal, who was one of my favorite Warren artists. "And Horror Crawled From out of the Sea" is one of my all-time favorite Creepy stories. Very suspenseful and I think it was one of Tom Sutton's best illustration jobs. "The Picture of Death" was also excellent and featured one of the best art jobs Jose Bea ever did for the company. "What Rough Beast," and "Targos" were both good. "Dungeons of the Soul" was my favorite story that T. Casey Brennan wrote for Warren with excellent art by the always reliable Felix Mas. Every story was effective, for maybe the only time in the magazine's run, with not one dog among them. This issue had great variety. Never did horror, sci-fi and sword and sorcery stand so well side by side. I loved that "For the Sake of Your Children" was a traditional Hammer-style vampire tale and the twist ending was well-executed and scared the crap out of me as a kid. There would never be a Creepy issue to top this one in my assessment.
Creepy number 43 was also one of my personal favorites. "The Mark of Satan's Claw" was brilliant. I loved both the story and the awesome, moody artwork by Jaime Brocal. "The Men Who Called Him Monster" was another excellent story. Luis Garcia was another of my favorite Warren artists, and this story featured some of his best work. The other stories were more run of the mill but still comprised an above average issue.
Lastly one of the other things I loved about this volume is that it featured Sanjulian's painting from the cover of issue #42 on the cover, which is one of my all-time favorite Creepy covers. If I could own no other volume it would be this one. Though the next several volumes, especially 10 and 11 are very good.
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