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1. Australian Disney Comics Vol 1: Giant series G1 - G699

   Australia was a solid market for Disney comics for many years, and the local industry reprinted many issues here until imports replaced them in 1978. Many reprinted Dell/Gold Key comics from the US, but there are also lots of European stories from the 1960s and 1970s. Over the years there were lots of one-offs and specials, but the main series were:
   Donald Duck (2 series - D.D.# and later D.#)
   Film Preview (FP.# - the movie adapations
   Giant Series (G.# - sort of like Dell's Four Color series)
   Jumbo Series (like the Dell Giants J.#)
   Mickey Mouse (M.M.# and later M.#)
   Walt Disney Comics and Stories (No.#)
   Images of almost all of the 2,200 comics (!) can be found on the Ausreprints site as well, but I thought some bigger scans of the ones I have might be nice to have on the web as well.
   This is the first volume of Australian Disneys I will post in the Gallery. It entirely consists of comics from the Giant (G) Series, which was sort of like the Dell Four Color seriesof one-shots, with a wide range of titles within it. There were 698 issues in total, numbered G1 to G699 (G95 does not exist).
   

   • Album created by AJD
   • Updated Monday at 12:24 PM
   • 339 images
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2. Comics submitted 2023/2024

   • Album created by scburdet
   • Updated Sunday at 07:01 PM
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3. Marvel CGCs

   Graded books I purchased
   

   • Album created by scburdet
   • Updated Sunday at 06:59 PM
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4. Unsigned Non-Marvel CGCs

   Non-Marvel books I bought over the years. Some raw & graded, others already slabbed
   

   • Album created by scburdet
   • Updated Sunday at 06:56 PM
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5. Australian Disney Comics Vol 4 Shorter series

   My collection of Australian reprints of Disney comics (1947-1978) has well and truly outgrown a single album. This album contains images of Australian printed Disney comics in the following series. It will grow as I manage to find them! This volume is an 'other' volume that contains the shorter series. You can find the longer running ones in volumes 1 through 3.
   Character Issues CI (26 issues) - many of these reprint parts of Dell Four Color issues
   Christmas Parade CP (15 issues)
   Film Preview (90 issues) Movie and TV tie-ins, reprinted from Dell Four Color and later Gold Key adaptations
   Jumbo series J (57 issues) - these are 64 page books. Some reprint Dell Giants, others are compilations of other Dell material
   Mobil giveaways (24 issues) - given away in 1964 at petrol/gas stations in Australia (there is also a series from New Zealand)
   One shots (? issues) - issues that pre-date or sit outside of established series
   One Shot series OS (65 issues) - most of these reprint parts of Dell Four Color issues
   Vacation Parade VP (7 issues)
   

   • Album created by AJD
   • Updated Sunday at 01:06 PM
   • 98 images
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6. Signed & Sketched books

   • Album created by scburdet
   • Updated July 13
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7. Star Wars CGCs

   All the Star Wars CGCs I own
   

   • Album created by scburdet
   • Updated July 10
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   • 29 images
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8. Group Photos - Rhapsody on a Theme

   Sometimes I just want to see the books all piled up/side-by-side/wall-displayed/etc...  AND I'm also trying to figure out the best way to present a CGC Gallery.  It seems to me that I may need to start a CGC Journal instead (as that format looks a bit better).
   WOW!  Look at all the data that was embedded in that first Frazetta Group Shot.  You've got my crappy camera model, the focus, the aperture speeds, etc.  Kids, you gotta be careful with what you take a picture of...
   I'm going to do thematic group shots here.
   An option to "allow ratings", sure!  Rate my Group Photos!!!
   

   • Album created by Yorick
   • Updated July 7
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9. Australian golden (and a few silver) age comics

   A selection of Australian comics from 1938 - February 1966
   These are all from my collection. Most of them are reprints of American comics, but there are some Australian originals in here as well. Check out the Crimson Comet by Australian artist John Dixon - one of my favourites. The Silver Flash books have some great covers (and not so great interiors, but you're spared that here) and are well worth checking out.
   Australia used a British-style money system until February 1966. The prices translate roughly like this:
   6d = sixpence = 5c
   1/- = one shilling = 10c
   

   • Album created by AJD
   • Updated July 4
   • 281 images
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   • 281 images
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10. Petrifying Picto-Fiction

    • Album created by Artifiction
    • Updated June 25
    • 182 images
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    • 182 images
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11. AJD's "other" golden age album

    Since I already have a fair chunk of my collection in albums, I thought I'd put up the rest just for fun. My EC, Australian, Dell ducks and war bonds covers all have their own albums. This one is a category I have imaginatively called "other". In it you'll find various things, including a Fiction House collection that almost got its own album, and selected covers by Golden Age greats - L. B. Cole, Wolverton, Schomburg and even a Baker or Two.
    

    • Album created by AJD
    • Updated June 21
    • 132 images
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12. Australian Disney Comics Vol 3 - Walt Disney's Comics

    The Australian version of the Dell/Gold Key/Whitman series 'Walt Disney's Comics and Stories'. This series began in October 1946, and so is offset from the 1941 Dell series by approximately 65 issues. There are 380 issues in this series, the final one appearing in 1978.
    

    • Album created by AJD
    • Updated June 5
    • 201 images
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13. Australian Disney Comics Vol 2: Donald Duck (D series)

    There were two series of Donald Duck comics - the first was numbered DD1 - DD22 from 1953 to 1956. The D series ran for 258 issues from 1956 - 1978
    

    • Album created by AJD
    • Updated May 25
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14. Dell comics are good comics!

    My collection of Dell comics. Dell was an incredibly prolific and diverse publisher, so my collection of mostly funny animal and cartoon characters really just scratches the surface. For example, I have none of their many westerns, war or ghost comics, no Tarzan, only a few of the movie and TV tie in books etc.
    There are lots of duck books here, including
    Four Color Comics : the classic Barks stories were run in the Four Color Series for many years, including the first 20 or so Donald Duck stories (until the Donald Duck series started with #26, which wasn't really the 26th...) and the first three Uncle Scrooge issues.
    Walt Disney's Comics and Stories : #1 was published in October 1940 and the final Dell issue was #263 in August 1962. My focus has mainly been on issues 1 - 100, but I'll pick up nice copies of others when I get a chance.
    
    

    • Album created by AJD
    • Updated April 18
    • 321 images
    • 3 album comments
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    • 321 images
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15. This is a Streamline Pictorial Romance Gallery

    Hello 
    Every now and again I like to collect and showcase a group of rare British books. I'm sure there are experts and romance collectors out there, but there doesn't seem to be much information to be found online about these comics, most of which don't even appear on the GCD (there are only five issues listed at the time of writing).
    It is not yet known how many issues exist in the series but I have managed to put the following list of 30 confirmed books together (I have 23 of them):
    Cathy and I For Mother's Sake He Knew My Secret He Scorned Her He Scorned Her (Squarebound) His Love Honeymoon Without Love I Betrayed Him I Dared Not Love I Did Not Love Him I Lied For Love I Lived in Fear I Wanted Both Men Long Distance Wife Love Broke My Heart My Fabulous Past My Jealous Heart My Love Memoirs My Love Secret My Love Story My Love Story (Squarebound) My Second Love My Secret (Cover 1) My Secret (Cover 2) My Secret Life Our Secret The Frightened Bride The Storm in My Heart They Called Me a Flirt True Love I'll add details of the indicias and content against each image entry for the books I own soon, and will of course update the list as and when new examples come in.
    They're crudely made, appealingly basic, rare as hens teeth and I love them.
    

    • Album created by Get Marwood & I
    • Updated April 11
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16. CGC Mike's 60's toy pics

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    • Album created by CGC Mike
    • Updated March 17
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17. CGCs in old school holders

    The first CGC graded books I ever bought. Several from the first year CGC was in operation
    

    • Album created by scburdet
    • Updated January 27
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18. Harvey 15 Cent Variants

    Harvey 15 cent variants exist between the cover months of April to October 1972 
    You can read more about them here:
    Harvey 15 Cent Variant Journal
    Here are the copies I have managed to collect so far - I've added the regular priced copy too for comparison, where I have one. 
    

    • Album created by Get Marwood & I
    • Updated November 25, 2023
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19. The first year

    • Album created by ChanceDuncan
    • Updated September 7, 2023
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20. My comic Virginity

    • Album created by ChanceDuncan
    • Updated September 7, 2023
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21. Ymisbatg's Collection 1980's G.I. Joe

    This is my collection of books.  The wildfires got me concerned about the how flammable these are. 
    

    • Album created by ymisbatg
    • Updated August 13, 2023
    • 246 images
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22. Graded books submitted 2022

    • Album created by scburdet
    • Updated July 18, 2023
    • 61 images
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23. Jamie Tyndall Star Wars Variants

    • Album created by IcedDog
    • Updated July 11, 2023
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24. Other Warranted Warrenesque Warrenness

    Ok, this will likely be my last gallery--I promise--unless I come into a great deal of money and decide to take on Famous Monsters of Filmland after all!
    Barring that, this gallery displays those books in my collection that aren't strictly Warren publications, but which wouldn't exist without the Warren publications that came before them.   In many cases, they provide a forum for several of the same writers and artists that worked on the Warren magazines and characters (although I'm not sure what Harris was thinking with their incarnation of The ROOK).
    With all of the authentic Warren magazines being 40-65 years old now, and many of them showing their age, it's kind of refreshing to see some pristine modern work from the same contributors--chief among them Kelly, Sanjulian, and Frazetta, among whom the first six covers of Warrant's The CREEPS are distributed equally.
    I have posted the Harris issues of the original Warren runs (CREEPY #146 and VAMPIRELLA #113) both here--as they are not actually Warren publications--and in the CREEPY and VAMPIRELLA galleries--as they both fit naturally into those native numbering sequences, and were released relatively shortly after the demise of Warren.   Sorry for the redundancy.  
    In the case of the two ongoing Warrant titles (SHUDDER and VAMPIRESS CARMILLA), I will be updating each year's back issues and annuals every Christmas, so long as they are printed and I am still alive.   All other listed titles are in hand and will be posted shortly, in turn.
    The CREEPS (Warrant): #1 - #32 + 4 Annuals
    CREEPY (Dark Horse): #1 - #24
    CREEPY (Harris): #146
    CREEPY The Classic Years (Harris)
    CREEPY The Limited Series (Harris): #1 - #4 + 1993 Fearbook
    EERIE (Dark Horse): #1 - #8
    EERIE Greatest Hits (Harris)
    FREAKY (Arco): #1
    Pantha (Harris): #0 - #2
    The ROOK (Dark Horse): #1 - #4
    The ROOK (Harris): #0 - #4
    SHUDDER (Warrant): #1 - #7 + 2023 Annual ( #8 - COMING/ONGOING)
    VAMPIRELLA (Harris): #113
    VAMPIRESS CARMILLA (Warrant): #1 - #11 + 2023 Annual (#12 - COMING/ONGOING)
    " COMING/ONGOING " means all previous back issues and annuals will be updated each year around Christmas.
    If it doesn't say anything but the title, it's already posted.
    I hope you have enjoyed this trip through the Warren publications... and beyond!
    

    • Album created by Axe Elf
    • Updated June 2, 2023
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25. Down the WARREN Rabbit Hole

    It's ironic that the Warren magazines became my rabbit hole, because a warren is a place where rabbits live.   A warren is literally a rabbit hole.
    This gallery explores the depths of the Warren Publishing rabbit hole--excluding paperbacks, foreign versions and variants, and of course the four Warren pillars of Famous Monsters of Filmland, CREEPY, EERIE and VAMPIRELLA.   (I have other galleries for 3 of those 4, but don't hold your breath waiting for the Famous Monsters of Filmland gallery.)
    My plan is that eventually this gallery will contain every American version and variant of every other magazine title Warren ever produced:
    1984/1994 : #1 - #10/#11 - #29
    After Hours : #1 - #4
    Blazing Combat : #1 - #4
    Comix International : #1 - #5, #4b
    Famous Films : #1 - #3
    Favorite Westerns of Filmland/Wildest Westerns : #1 - #2/#3 - #6
    The GOBLIN : #1 - #3
    HELP! : #1 - #26 ( MISSING 12b )
    Monster World : #1 - #10
    Movie Specials:
           Alien
           Close Encounters of the Third Kind
           Famous Monsters Star Wars Spectacular
           The Lord of the Rings
           Meteor
           Moonraker
    On the Scene Presents Freak Out USA : #1 - #2
    On The Scene Presents Superheroes : #1
    The ROOK : #1 - #14
    Screen Thrills Illustrated : #1 - #10
    Spacemen : #1 - #8, 1965 Yearbook
    Special Editions:
           Flintstones at the New York World's Fair (1964) 25c
           Flintstones at the New York World's Fair (1964) 29c
           Flintstones at the New York World's Fair (1965)
           Heidi Saha
           House of Horror
            The Best of  Blazing Combat Anthology
           The Odd Comic World of Richard Corben
           The SPIRIT Special
           Tiny Tim
           VAMPIRELLA Special
    The SPIRIT : #1 - #16
    Teen Love Stories : #1 - #3
    Warren Presents:
           #1 UFO and Alien Comix
           #2 Future World Comix
           #3 Star Quest Comix
           #4 Galactic Wars Comix
           #5 Ring of the Warlords
           #6 The ROOK
           #7 Alien Invasion Comix
           #8 Movie Aliens Illustrated
           #9 Dracula '79
           #10 Strange Stories of Vampires Comix
           #11 Pantha
           #12 Empire Encounter Comix
           #13 Sword and Sorcery Comix
           #14 Rex Havoc
           Warren Presents Famous Monsters of Filmland 1981 Horror Movie Yearbook
           Warren Presents Famous Monsters of Filmland 1982 Film Fantasy Yearbook
           Warren Presents Famous Monsters of Filmland 1983 Film Fantasy Yearbook
    

    • Album created by Axe Elf
    • Updated January 27, 2023
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