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Yes, that tear came with the book. The 8.0 - 8.5 is what I would have guessed as well. Thanks for your opinion. Anyway, my friend Busted Flush mocked my talking up this book for many years. Maybe in ten years when the kids are in college I will CGC and help defray expenses and I will have the last laugh, God knows my other savings may not be worth anything.

What is Overstreet on this these days and what do you guys think this would grade out at CGC, not that I am going to do that but just wondered.

As I mentioned earlier it was claimed to be a file copy. This would have been about '75 or '76 in New York. I didn't even know what a file copy was but I remember the guy telling me that not that it mattered, I just thought it was a very cool book. In this condition I would have to believe it was a file copy or a book that someone had somehow put aside and took care of over the years. We'll never know but it has been in my care for over thirty years now! I cut my finger on those edges once!

A little off topic from ducks but there are enough Dell collectors here to appreciate this. My earlier mentioned Peter Pan Treasure Chest a huge Dell Giant that appeared (I would assume) concurrent with the release of the animated feature. Why Dell thought that this book deserved the 50 cent treatment is a story I have never read but would like to someday. There is a knockoff of Pirates Gold in here too, It doesn't hold a candle to the original in terms of art or presentation. In all my years of collecting I have rarely seen these in grade. I have had a couple of beater copies over the years but this is the only nice one I have ever seen and picked it up many years ago. The back cover is a still from the film, very nicely done. Enjoy.

I have seen a few copies of the Peter Pan Treasure Chest but they were usually beat up. That is a great buy if in 6.0-8.0. bb Yes, they are rarely found in high grade. I will shoot some pictures and post, the beauty is in the square binding!

I also picked up for $20 what was claimed to be a file copy of Peter Pan Treasure Chest back in New York. I don't know about that but it is certainly the nicest copy I have ever seen and with the squarest binding you can imagine. I should just post a picture of the edge, all 256 glorious pages! It is actually not the greatest comic but it was an early 50's 50 cent giant,not the kind of book you see every day and this Disney fan couldn't resist dropping that $20. which was probably something like 6-7 hours of work to me then.

You have inspired me, I will pull my copy of 127 to re-read and post a scan. I followed a similar duck trail (pun!) after those early WDC&S purchases; moving on to buy the majority of the Barks Four Color run in the mid 70's. I remember coming home from one New York show with a valise I had borrowed from my Dad completly stuffed with Bark's books. Still missing 4 Four Color issues (9,29,62,159) with the 62 being a personal grail. Later, I picked up an original owner run of most of the Four Colors from 178 forward around 1978. These are my prized copies. I may post my doubles for sale on the boards one of these weekends. All lower grade reader copies. On the other hand those reader copies are fun to read! I have multiple copies of coverless 178's that always seemed to pop up back then, Anyone want one? Make an offer I can't refuse. I went looking for my WDCS 127 but couldn't find it. Instead I couldn't help but scan the following. The WDCS 119 was purchased along with that 127 for about $1. in '72. The WDCS 110 was purchased in the late 70's at a Seuling show in Philadelphia (he had moved the July 4th New York show there at the end) and was claimed to be a file copy. It was certainly the nicest issue I had had to that point. It probably cost about $20. Somewhere in between I picked up the DD 26 which is also one of the best Barks stories in the DD series. I don't remember but I would imagine I paid about $15. or so at the time. Enjoy!

I think that WDCS 127 was also my first purchase when I started collecting again in the 70s. I purchased it in Houston at one of the comic book and sci fi conventions. I purchased a lots of Four Colors after that but there were always bargain copies of WDCS to be found and some great stories. High grade was a little tougher to find. I was going to post my copy but that may be the one in the GCD. I don't recognize it for sure but a lot of my Uncle Scrooge copies are in there. bb You have inspired me, I will pull my copy of 127 to re-read and post a scan. I followed a similar duck trail (pun!) after those early WDC&S purchases; moving on to buy the majority of the Barks Four Color run in the mid 70's. I remember coming home from one New York show with a valise I had borrowed from my Dad completly stuffed with Bark's books. Still missing 4 Four Color issues (9,29,62,159) with the 62 being a personal grail. Later, I picked up an original owner run of most of the Four Colors from 178 forward around 1978. These are my prized copies. I may post my doubles for sale on the boards one of these weekends. All lower grade reader copies. On the other hand those reader copies are fun to read! I have multiple copies of coverless 178's that always seemed to pop up back then, Anyone want one? Make an offer I can't refuse.

Thanks for posting these great covers. Issue 127 has always been a personal favorite of mine as I bought my copy for $1. at one of Seuling's New York shows in the early 70's. Until this point I had only been able to read the old Bark's tales in reprint form, but now I had an original in my hands! My copy has no staples, an original printing defect but it didn't stop me from being transfixed by this cover and the great stories inside! I am a long way from having a complete run of these books but I think I will someday. Scan courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.

Aren't those Mickey's nephew's Morty and Ferdy in the ad below, not Mickey and Minnie? Might explain the solid eyes. Great books all around though!

That is such a great story! I still remember getting my first issue of that comic in the mail as a kid. I was sick and had an awful day at school, got dropped off at the wrong place by the school bus in the rain and miserably walked home only to find, "Voodoo Hoodoo!" Changed my whole outlook on the day as I recall. Probably paid all of five bucks for it too, but condition wasn't so important in those days so yours is a tad better!

Funny bird-on-bird violence too, kind of like the Thanksgiving dinner covers. Jack at least Donald's beak escaped unscathed Speaking of Bird on Bird violence, we used to have a guy at work here who would feed his parrots scrambled eggs for breakfast. Sounds like a great imaginary Walt Kelly cover!

Thanks, do you have a booth or are you an attendee?

At every show I go to I look to pick up a nice F-VF Comics and Stories from the mid forties for about $50. It is getting a little harder these days but I am usually successful. I usually poke around in the boxes of the book dealers who have the offhand box of comics. There is usually interesting stuff in there and quite often some old WDC&S. A great book to collect! I got turned onto these early Comics and Stories books by Gary Sassaman who had a table at a Seuling show in the early 70's and was selling early 50's Comics and Stories for $1. I picked up several and still have them. Gary is currently the program and communications director for Comic Con and a pretty talented guy. He also had a fanzine for awhile called Innocent Bystander.

These are great books, I highly recommend them if your interest in comics goes beyond the simple story. Disney or Western was trying to make a run at the educational market with these and some of the other fifties books like those about Space. I have some great Disney soft bounds from the True Life Adventure series as well as the Space series that are pictorial educational books. I still refer to them today at times as they are so well done.

I have issue 13 and it also has a very funky cover. Not at all like the later covers. Issues 11-14 all seems a little off the game by comparison to the other covers before and after.

Do you really expect him to let loose with that information? The only reason he has to reveal it would be if he does NOT have multiple high grade copies. Otherwise, one can infer the alternative from any silence. It goes back to tth's point. It's a huge amount of HG Ducks coming to market at one time. I'll be watching to see how they do. Hi, I've been catching up on this thread and reading comments from some of the more opinionated posters on this issue. I would like to acquire an issue or two (or three) of those amazing High Grade WDCS books that Heritage has coming up. Obviously it will take multiples of guide to win those higher grade examples but like anyone who will be bidding, the dilemma is fearing that other high grade books from Geppis collection (or this mystery collector with the warehouse) will release others into the market IF indeed there are others. A couple of questions, has there been a list complied (I know that Moondog mentioned that he would post a list, was this ever posted) ? And regardless of the multiples of these books, what is the opinion of those out there whether the ones listed now at Heritage are the highest OR are the highest examples being held until the lower grade ones sell (which makes the most sense for the owner(s) of these high grade books as to max-out, dollar wise …. i.e. sell the 9.2’s first while they are the current highest and then wait a few auctions, grade the better batch next and then sell those 9.4’s which would then be the highest). Appreciate any thoughts on this …Thanks, Hank Hi GAFan, Great to hear from other people who enjoy these books. The February auction is a great opportunity, my message is just to factor in some risk. There are uncertainties about the supply of high grade Dell books that don't seem to apply to most other areas of GA comics. In his most recent market report, Bob Overstreet wrote about how the sudden influx of warehouse finds can affect the market significantly. In the same article, he mentioned how two copies of FC 386 sold for over $25,000 each. Unfortunately, he left out the paragraph about the known quantities of Poughkeepsie and other file copies by mistake. I am sure it will be corrected in the new guide. Thanks ttg2 and tb for the valuable input. While I love high grade condition Golden/Atom age books, and just wanted to add a couple of Ducks to my collection of GA high grade Bats and Supes collection to round it out, it sounds like I better just pick one example that tickles my fancy and stick to my max bid as it sounds like a risk buying these, especially the multiples of guide they will fetch come auction day and the unknown quanties that are yet to be slabbed. Worst thing for any collector is being blinded by pereceived rarity and spending multiples, say $2000 for example, on a 'current' highest graded example of a book that lists in Overstreet for $400 and a year later or two, others are slabbed that are equal or better than my copy. Then that $2000 will never be seen again. - HANK Lots of commentary on the sources and extant of the file copies. Have there been any previous threads dealing with that, where they came from, who got them, where they might be today? I could see where Western could have easily kept an extensive library for many years. They were making a lot of money on these books for a long time and keeping the institutional memory alive is a part of any organization. Only two years ago, my own company (large multi-national entertainment company who you all know) got around to shredding a warehouse full of blueprints that had been in storage for up to five decades. The original pencil-drawn vellums were put into long term storage but we spent a small fortune storing blueprints for many decades. Of course the advent of computer storage of this data had a lot to do with the ability to dispose of blueprints. I have a great photo I took of the storage facility which looks like a small version of the Indy storage facility. Alas it is now gone! Anyway, I could see those file copies lasting at Western into the late seventies or eighties when the comic division finally had expired. Since Western was into so much material does anyone know if a similar situation exists for their other material, playing cards, puzzles, toys etc?

I was showing my daughter my duck collection last weekend and I have a nice copy of the 27 too. The color gradation on the book really caught my eye and I wondered how they did that. That is common today with computers but back in the fifties when this came out that would have been a labor intensive effort. I guess that is why Dell comics are Good comics!

it's not that bizarre - it's just a full nelson. "Bizarre" would be try try to apply a full nelson to a surly gorilla. Not as bizarre as applying that full nelson to a surly Gorilla wearing Sunglasses!!

Nice pick up! I've always wondered whether anyone has ever tried to return a copy to the editorial dept in Racine, WI? If you are looking to make that return in Racine here are pictures of the old offices! Western moved out a long time ago though so good luck on delivery!

Great books! Where is Joe Simon signing? He is getting up there in age these days. I had him sign my Brother Power the Geek once, nice guy.

A nice original edition reading copy of an old Classic Comics. The back cover highlights the next issue. Some great and funky artwork in these early issues. I always wanted one of the original "Classic Comics" as opposed to the later "Classics Illustrated" and this is my first courtesy of E-Bay's RedMelvin (aka the Dentist.)

I woner if Geoff Jones would be interested in researching those records, he put a lot of time into research for his DC book. Didn't Max Gaines get started with Eastern as a salesman? I believe I met Iger as a kid at one of Seuling's shows in New York. A short guy as I recall, I think I might have got an autograph.

Jay, I assume you are reading Alter-Ego, volumes and volumes of history in each issue and back issues are available at cover price. Most issues are themed so you can pick a subject you want to read about. I highly recommend reading this fanzine. If you have never read Steranko's History of Comics you owe it to yourself to read both of those volumes too. Frank