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That was about all I saved as well,  but better the money in my pocket  than theirs.

There  is a tab called ON SALE and that is where you enter the code word.

They currently have 24 of the books I am missing in stock,  but I think 20 of them would be below/grade/price point  and would go right from missing  to upgrade.

MCS  seems to have the best website  around  for the average or advanced collector.   I think it is very nice for them to scour the internet ( or at least ebay) to see if your want list books are for sale elsewhere.

Not sure if anybody else took advantage ot the 5% off sale from MCS,  but I did.  I Try to never actually buy  Four colors, but could not resist  the 110  that they had.   So now I have finished  my first two  hundred columns.  The 1000's ( with 1065)   and the 100's .  The only  other column I am close on is the  600's  where I am missing 673.

The others that I picked up are  6 more  of the missing Four COlors.  I dont mind actually paying for those.  

Just thought everybody should know that MCS  is having a 5% off code word sale on Dell Comics inuding Four Colors.  The code word is meatloaf.  It is only good for a few more days

found a copy of this  along with lists of my better boxes .  took and traded a bunch of books at the first torpedo show down by LAX  I think.  At that time I was down to only 170 books  which has now dropped to closer to 60.

The upgradables  was not where near as refined. I am sure that in addition to filling 100+ holes  I have upgraded at least that many.

WHile this list is much easier to look at,  updating it was very cumbersome   and after  I got the names attached  to the issue numbers became useful

HNY

I stumbled on the Generations OO  collection out of Flagstaff  recently.  Interesting story  but their 40,000  pales in comparison to the  400,000  collection  from the OCD father 

It turns out I had obtained one from MCS  earlier in the year

Most of my single pages and the couple of superman stories came from formerly bound books that I purchased many years ago.  they all have many holes on the left where they were laced together.

I think the only bound book I have is of the Citizenship one that came from Blissard 

Struggled with  my HP  all-in-one,  but was eventually  able to get scans of an upgrade  to the 379

While it is certainly much nicer than my existing copy, does not seem to be close to the advertised grade of 6.0.  I would be hard pressed to give it above a 4.0 with the spine roll as well as all of the accumulated damage on the cover

I would certainly say this is a pedigree.  The vast majority of the books are OO.  Heck many of the Church books are not OO 

Wanted to  publish  the newest itteration of my cobmined Missing/Upgradable  want list.

I added a date printed  which I had on earlier sections, but had not included on this refinement.

Also added my name and phone number 

Primariy changed the sorting paramaters

Included 3.5s.  When I started adding upgrades about 5 years ago I think I was only up to 2.5's at that point.

I kicked any book that I have above my minimum price into a separate category.  Actually gave another bump to those that have double that amount.

Still kept the page to  six  columns and 348 issues.  Most of the last column are early low grade books that I have between 25-50 into.

I have 14 Crippen's  among  my Four Color collection.  13 of them came from Steve Ritter  with the last from 4GEMworks

added the first series and the first 99 sections along with a few internal audits,  raised the PPA to 47.82  with all 1280 books entered   .  Current GPA  is 4.812 

Since I last published my combined missing/upgrade list I have knocked off 5 , but more dramatically I have eliminated 25  of  the upgrade candidates.  I am sure that I actually acquired some of those books,  but most were because I increased their cost basis above the minimum hold value of 38 thus they fell off my active update candidate. 

Well soon I will be faced with a dilemma.  Do I keep my want list at a perpetual 6 columns of 58 or let it drop to only 5 columns?  At least with 5 columns I will feel a sense of accomplishment  and  expand some of the remaining columns.  If I keep 6 columns do I increase the grade to 3.5?   do I raise the minimum hold value  and try to upgrade a more expensive book where I already  have 50 into my 2.5 copy?  The current structure filled the empty space in numeric order if the book is either under 3.5  or under the hold value.  This means that all 30 spots are filled with 00's  which I was fortunate to find at all, but will not likely upgrade

On 12/10/2022 at 8:34 AM, 4GEMWORKS said:

Hi All-

 

I hope your year end is going well. This week Heritage is auctioning off my Santa/Frosty related issues. While overall my books have been going at a pretty good price there is always at least one issue a week that goes for less than what I paid. Last weeks the Francis issues were up for auction and given how scarce they are in high grade I'm surprised a few went as cheap as they did. Anyway, here is a link to this week's Santa/Frosty issues if you want to taje a look. These are very tough to find in high grade.

 

You can view  my entire consignment in auction #122250 at the following link: http://comics.ha.com/c/search.zx?saleNo=122250&collection=51&FC=0&type=friend-consignorpreview-notice

Hey Glen

Nice to see you in this thread again, even if it is to pimp your own auctions.  I wwas gonig to comment  the heritage did a nice job in offering your Xmas books right before the holiday

I try to bid on all of your books  that are either missing  or significant upgrades.  Unfortunately I am rarely available to  bid live so i rarely win. I believe I am top bidder on 7 books, mostly upgrades,  as I type this but have tapped out on two of the books that I am still missing.  Adding your former books will certainly raise both the  Grade Point Average (GPA?)  and Price Point Average (PPA?)  of my collection

All but the SHowcase 8  close today  so last bump

Adventure 247 is moving up nicely and is at 1550  with 3 hours 

Remember  if you win anything I will give you books worth at least 10% of the hammer price 

priced and entered the 300's and 200's.  now up to 1201 with "costs"  entered.   FOr these columns I had to enter way more than I had previously  entered  and raised the average  costs significantly,  I found missing books like 386 which I had won off ebay  well prior to my actually collecting the series.  Still one of my favorite covers and likely my first slab purchases  with a PLOD 6.0.  Even with this  the average continued to fall , but only  down to 45.31.  I am projecting  that the additions in the first series  and first 200  of the second  will actually increase the average

coming across many from current or former board members  Reality Consensus, Catrick , fiberbisket, Honky Cat,  ft88, and House of COmics.  All of these trades were totally by mail and email and each of which resulted in the addition of 26+ books 

Included below is one of the lowest grade books.  It has been on my upgrade list since I first created it.  Still have to thank shark for plugging  the 228 hole

I. Think SC 13 was the hardest one for me.  My 8 undercopy closes on Monday and is only at 675 now

Whenever I have multiplesof a book I always keep the nicer copy

On 11/6/2022 at 11:09 PM, Terry E. Gibbs said:

I kind of got carried away. There is a story behind each of them. I now am thinking the Australian SC8 cover is not Cinf. The Nembo Kid is the "Coldest man on Earth" story. I keep thinking I should sell some of them but can never decide which ones so back in the box they go until next time, and if you think this is bad wait until i put up my SC13s.

Quite a group shot there Terry.  I had two of those myself, but both with restoration.  I am currently selling the undercopy on Heritage this weekend.  A nice 6.0  to slot in between the 5 and the 6.5 .  The 8.0  is my Keeper

I have the same handwritten #1 on my JLA 

My undercopy  of Adventure 247  is on sale now at heritage..

I believe it is the one that has been my avatar  since I joined this site.

My undercopy of Showcase 8  is in this weeks listings  from Heritage.

It is only  a 6.0  and has restoration

My keeper  is an 8.0  sadly also  restored.

That green cover  was very hard to keep in any grade

how did the yard sale go?