Dark Shadows: The Complete Newspaper Strips

It finally came -- my very, VERY special copy of Hermes Press' new edition of the Dark Shadows comic strips that ran from 1971-1972 (and that inspired my very own comic strip series, which you can find by clicking on the "comic strip" link to the right).  Mine is 25 out of 125, containing a GORGEOUS colorized plate of K. Bruce Bald's illustration of Angelique, autographed by Lara Parker.

As a sidenote -- and since I've never encountered anyone noticing this in print, so I'm going to claim to be the first one -- Bald's artwork is much (and deservedly) ballyhooed, and it's been pointed out several times that he used both Seaview Terrace (the original Collinwood on the television series) and Lyndhurst (the mansion on the Hudson River used in House and Night of Dark Shadows) as the model for the comic strip Collinwood, but as I was flipping through my new copy, I discovered that Bald also used Ettington Hall in a few panels, which keen-eyed horror movie fans may recognize as Hill House from Robert Wise's 1963 adaptation of my favorite Shirley Jackson novel, The Haunting of Hill House.  Observe:

The panel from the DS comic strip ...

... and Ettington Hall posing as Hill House in The Haunting.

I'm a giant nerd.  A giant, happy nerd.