Out With The Old Comic Shop News

I have been on a purging spree for the past two weeks since we had to put in a new floor furnace. I tossed out a lot of catalogs, newsletters, TV Guides and scrapbook material that I will never get around to actually putting into a scrapbook. I had about fifty issues of Comic Shop News that I tossed out yesterday. They were mostly from 1991. I also tossed out several years worth of newsletters from the Science Fiction Book Club. I actually reclaimed a full dresser drawer by doing so. Yeah, I should have taken some pictures or scanned in a few of the Comic Shop News but then I would have never gotten any purging done.

2008 Halloween Countdown 17: The Elvira Examiner Volume III

In 1987, I finally joined the Elvira Fan Club. One of the items that I received was volume III of The Elvira Examiner. This edition features articles, comic strips, fan art, pictures of Cassandra Peterson with and without the Elvira make up, letters and horrorscope. This is the only newsletter that I received since I never renewed my membership.

The Elvira Examiner volume III page 1

The Elvira Examiner volume III page 2

The Elvira Examiner volume III page 3

The Elvira Examiner volume III page 4

The Elvira Examiner volume III page 5

The Elvira Examiner volume III page 6
I found the following picture of The Elvira Examiner from the 1990s on eBay (I'm so tempted to bid on it). Notice that the header has a picture of the Mistress of the Dark instead of a drawn figure and the paper is white instead of brownish.

The Elvira Examiner newsletters from the 1990s