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Might be a light week for my bidding.  I have almost all of both of those subsections.  ( of course  any would be any upgrade, so if they end up cheap ......

Gee  since I am in Los Angeles  I could have met them at my office  and been a broker  for all of these amazing transactions

As expected  I was shut out in 4GEMS weekly auctions.  Honestly I do not know how I even won the one that I did

I was high at  the close of internet bidding on all 3 books I was missing.  In most cases already well over guide ( from last year)

Each book over doubled during the live bidding.

Congrats pn another great week Glen

Guess I will have to be satisfied  with my current hoard.  At least I can enjoy the time spent organizing them

SO this weeks offerings  from 4GEM seem to focus on TIllie the Toiler  ( what did she TOIL at?_  and Little orphan Annie  Annie was a comic I read in the daily paper as a kid along with Tracy and Gasoline Alley  which are among the earliest  Four COlors

Annie seems hard to find as I am only missing 3 books this week  and two of them are hers  and I only recently picked up the #18  as well

Since I finished working my way down from 300  among my earliest additions  I will start working my way up from there 

I seemed to have figured out  the naming issue on downloading from Pbucket.  If the name  has no space (i.e. FC301) the name is not altered  of course  that does not make for easy review and sorting so I am changing those.  OTOH  if the name has a space ( i.e.  FC  312 Tonto  )  spmehpw  there is an underscore  and a a string of numbers and digits attached at the end

Is there a thread for Action Comics?  Not the key issues  , more like the more comon ones

I think this is it for my Golden  Adventure comics

On 1/30/2022 at 8:18 AM, Math Teacher said:

I purchased this book from an Ebay user without going through Ebay. Naturally, I would like to have found a higher grade, but this is not the worst looking 1.8 I have ever seen, and it was all that I could afford at the time.

My favorite book.  copy looks much better  than a 1.8.  back in the day when i  was actively buying on ebay i would, more often that not)  greatly expand the transaction  or entirely avoid ebay  on a package deal

On 2/2/2022 at 6:44 PM, dover said:

I nice Chuck Brown and his dog.

Nice book  

I actually  read the funnies in the daily paper way prior to reading comics.  Maybe that is partially  why I switched to FOur Colors bout 15 years ago.  

Is there a thread for Silver age Action Comics?  I paged back about a year and could not find one.

This is one of my earliest original Action comics  recently freed from  photobucket.   guess it was worth it for them to be stored  there as a main repository of my scans  for maybe 2- years.  I remember xcanning and posting images from their  back in the days of the ebay comics chat board

Very bice set Silver.

Here are my pre hero B & B's  Looks like #1 came from my sole Sotheby's win maybe 25 years ago

I have had 3 copies of  #28 traded off the worst ones  and kept the best 

I am sure I have some Canadian  issues due to HRN's  but I dont recall any having the blank inside cover

Here are the CI reprints  of the CC  issues that I have

Somehow I managed to snag one of 4Gems listing last week.  It must have been one of the lower grade issues  because  it did not sell for 5x guide

Hope I can find a few more relative bargains

Lets  see  what I recovered  from photobucket  that fits into this thread.

Wow  this thread had been dead for 5 years until briefly being revived  last year.

Glad I was pointed to it  fro the LSH thread 

Need somewhere to post my recently liberated  images from Photobucket

On 1/30/2022 at 3:21 PM, ttfitz said:

Here ya go:

 

Thanks for the link.   I will check it out  and post there.  The 210  was one of the few DC keys from the silver age that eluded me.  Missed a good shot at one  and still regret it.  The other one was Showcase 22

On 1/30/2022 at 11:07 AM, 50YrsCollctngCmcs said:

I just checked against a pile of books I no longer want to see if I could help you fill in any holes or upgades but no luck!

Thanks for looking.  I am not surprised that you could not find anything I was missing.  The upgrades see easier to find.  In my last deal with Mr Bedrock we were only able to find  one missing,  but about 10  vary nice upgrades.

I have to relearn the New upgrade listings.  with dropping 30+ off  and adding nearly 100  it really id  like s whole new goal

Looks like your listing this week are focusing on fairy tales and Roy Rodgers .  Only missing one of t h e Roy's,  but most of my early ones are 2 or even below.  My faries seem to be in better shape

Playing around with new technology.   Got a new HP all in one and scanned directly from my phone

Newest itteration of my tracking spreadsheet.  Since I gave filled or upgraded so many that if I kept my target upgrades at 2.5. I would have over a column extra.  So I changed my acceptable from 3 to 3.5.  Little did I know I have nearly 100  3.0, so adding them was about 36 too many

I had wanted to incorporate my cost basis into my 1 page and figured out a way to exclude from the upgrade section if my cost was above a selected amount.  I really doubted if I would ever consider upgrading something like  iss2 Don Winslow that I traded with MusterMark to obtain.  Even though it was only a 2.5  we valued it at several hundred  and it simply did not belong on an upgrade list. 

I needed to eliminate 35 to make it fit nicely.  Knocking out 100 books only removed 8.  Even down to 50 was not enough.  A $25 min keeper level went to far .  It turned out that 29 made the columns work out just right

GOt a few additions  for this thread.   What is the approximate issue  for  switching  from GA  to SA  for this title?