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I have picked up a few  multipacks over the years I have had many of these classics  sets on display in a standing cardboard classics rack

I also have a bunch of the harvey packs  there as well

so we must be about the same vintage Brian  I was also buying from a spinner rack,  or a magazine stand

I know  that i had a subscription to 3 books for a couple of years.  Pretty sure that adventure was one of them 

These two were from a great 2 parter where they introduced 4 great members

Legion is getting another boost on Supergirl this season with Nia Nal  an ancestor of Dreamgirl (Nura Nal) being added to the cast 

Hope the books do not have to be in high grade to be appreciated here.  The green dots indicate that these two are from my original collection, and  less than a year after I got hooked on comics

Thanks for catching that.

Turns out the smudge  is NOT on the comic,  but instead was on the glass of the scanner.

Wonder how many images had this until  it was noticed.  Guess it only really showed against a white background

Trying to develop a better eye for sumbitting potential books for prescreen/grading

I have almost a full set of this run that were untouched file copies.

pages on most are very white.

The number 1  does have a crease on the back cover but it is very hard to see in the scan

Does seem to be some browning on hte back cover

Dont think I have posted these from Terry

So I think I finally have everything contained on the 4 page tracking spreadsheet.

Virtually all Editions are noted,  with their HRN.  O   detones originals with no AD

Changes of Art or Story are noted with the first HRN that contained the change

For all but a few the Titles,  the name is noted

For my tracking Highlight in green  means I have the issue in an acceptable grade

Orange means that I have the issue, but would be happy to upgrade to a F  or better.

At this point I am only looking for first printings  which is the first column

On 9/19/2018 at 11:04 PM, 4GEMWORKS said:

FYI-Quite a few of the FC lots on Heritage this week are my books.

I looked at the lots,  and it seemed like none of them had more than 10%  books that i still need,  so not worth pursuing for me.  How did the lots do?

These two were hanging on the wall at my office until I brought them home to be reunited with the rest of the collection

I started getting back into classics a bit.  With all of the experience I have gained from the 10 years of focusing on Four Colors I have been able to tackle the organization of that genre.  I am enjoying seeing more green shade being added.  I think I am going to do an alternate shading for books that I have, but are in need of an upgrade. But that analysis may need to wait a while 

Decided to add the books in the Classics display rack I have in my office.  I have like 30 of the late 60's  2 for 49 packs .Most with the stiff cover so the books are all NM. These packs are not sealed so you can easily get at the books and even change which ones are together.  During organizing I found that I had 11 packs that were dupes  and will be offering them in my WTTF thread.

Updating my tracking spreadsheet 

For all but some of the earliest issue  I was able to fit the name into the middle of the page.  numbering is accurate prior to the name.  Just count from there for later editions.  For example #68 Julius Caesar  with an HRN of 166 is the 8th printing

 I have now included a notation   where the cover changes.  In the beginning most of the changes were where they had a Line Drawn Cover (LDC)  which to my untrained eyes does not look substantially different than the original, but later on they were an entirely different cover

I have also included a reference to where the story changed.  This could be where the story dropped pages, or where entirely different artwork was used 

In special cases where both occurred at the same time both methods are used.  For example the 4th printing of #52 House of the Seven Gables has an HRN of 142  and it has both a new cover and new art

I am starting to add my green HAVE dots , but I have kept an unmarked version if someone here would like to work with it for their own collecting

I found this inside an issue today when I was adding extenders to some of the better issues.  The website i found while researching it  did not even know this issue was published 

This one was a file copy from Harley.  Still from the LAX show pre ComicCon

here are a few more Legion's in Adventure.  The first series I pursued when I got back into collecting 

Here is page 4 of the tracking.  I went back and adjusted things to only have 50 per page with separate headings.

I also used the middle section to enter the name where i could.  Still have not figured out how I want to represent the variations yet.

Does anybody collect the Acclaim issues?  I am confused about the numbering.  They seemed to be using a numbering system on the spine and internally on the Reorder page until it came to the last one I have War of the Worlds which was 188 while all the rest were between 1 and 57.  Mycomicshop  uses an entirely different numbering system  and Overstreet  makes no attempt at all

5 days since the last post in this thread.  And it had not even fallen off the second page

Here are a few more from Terry

This one should still qualify.  Adult version of the LEGION of Super Villians

On 9/13/2018 at 8:45 AM, Scrooge said:

The wait is over.  This is page one The issue number runs down the side and the edition number runs across the top both in Italics.  The HRN is at the intersection so for example the 11th edition of issue 2 had an HRN of 89, while 18 printing of issue 4  has an HRN of 167 and was from 1964.  O means Original edition that does not have an HRN.  I could only cram in up to the 23rd printing while still using Portrait and onlyneed 4 pages. I actually have all printings on the sheet, but chose to display this way rather than having to print an extra page.  Only a handful have over 23 printings anyway

On the last page I was still able to find room to maintain lists of the associated offshoots like Special Editions,  Classics Juniors, World Around Us, and even Fast Fiction/Famous Authors.  Not sure if I will add the Acclaim pocket issues.

I decided to play with color coding  and used yellow to backshade an issue that I want while Green shade is for one I do have.  I am playing with restarting collecting these and focusing on  first printings only at this point. so that is all i have completed.

I was thinking of somehow modifying the HRN to give some indication of extra information like the change in cover,  story  and perhaps price.  with the change from 10 to 15  or even 25. Italics, Bold, Underscore  or further color of font or background  gives a large variety of codes.

In order to save space I shifted over the multiple HRN 167 to start at column 18 as placing them in exact order would have doubled the width of most columns.  This means that the 1965 printing of issue 16 with an HRN of 167  was actually the 13th printing

Interesting way of deciding which issues to collect.  I had never thought of that.  I might have opted for each cover, but not the  inside.  gives me something to think about

Anyway  here is one of my favorite Classics collectibles.  It came as an unused stand, but I had to open it up, fill it with vintage bagged double issues  and display it in my office

6 hours ago, tth2 said:

#335

Fabulous copy of the book that got me hooked on reading comics as a kid.  My copy was very well read  and is badly in need of an upgrade

Here is a copy of my OLD Classics tracking.  This method is fine  if you are only looking for a single copy of each book.  by the time I had stoped actively pursuing  this method was very hard for even me to understand.

The little numbers under the printed number are the editions that I had.  

I will post the new excel sheet  after i work on it a bit more

Congrats on the amazing collection of Classics.

Prior to switching over to Four Colors I was a Classics collector, and accumulated 600 issues including the offshoots like Jr's  WAU's  and Fast Fiction

Are you planning on selling these off?  If so I would love to finally knock off any of the last 10 Issues in my signature line.

Coincidentally over the weekend I dipped my toe in attempting to upgrade my classics collection.  To that end I created an excel spreadsheet  to track the  various AMERICAN veraions.  If you or anyone else is interested in using/improving it  let me know.

At worst it could summarize the entire list to 5 pages,  but there are over 1600 different issues as I recall

looks like 1958  includes the Four Colors between  about 870  and 961

here are a few more early Legions in Adventure

And a few more from Terry

Here are a few more of the Adventure/Legions that I scanned a couple of years ago

A few more from Terry.  I picked up quite a few Beany and Cecil's from him this time around