kaculler

4 hours ago, Get Marwood & I said:

Mandrake 

Thanks for posting all these kaculler. I'm enjoying hunting down the 9d copies where they exist. They're great books aren't they.  

They are great books.  I have quite a few Four Colors in my 'To read' pile, but I've fallen behind on reading my backlog as other things have taken precedence.  I'll get back to them eventually.

I now need 185 out of the 1322 Four Color issues for the set.  I picked up #12 Bambi, #16 Porky Pig, #27 Mickey Mouse and #29 Donald Duck recently plus a few others.  The biggest ones that I still need are #9 Donald Duck, #62 Donald Duck, #33 Bugs Bunny, #38 Roy Rogers and #74 Little Lulu.

1 hour ago, 707comics said:

I use it, and it works for me. I can print it, view it, edit it and not have to worry about where the "last" edits I made were.

That said, I am old. I have no real connection with what is happening at the leading edge of things and what that might bring in the way of collectible apps and whatnot

If a collectible app works for somebody and they like it, I think that's cool.  I just think it's way too much work.  I used index cards when I first started collecting in the 1970s.  My brother and I started using a word processor to keep track of the collection in 1982 and that's what I've used ever since with some refinement along the way.  If it ain't broke...

I can't remember when I made my first want list, but it was probably sometime in the late 80s/early 90s.  I started the current want list in the late 90s and just update it a couple of times each year as I cross things off.  Here's a sample page from the DC section, though it probably won't be of much interest to most.

A spreadsheet is a good idea.  I use a word processing document.  I have a big one that includes all of the comics that I have, but I have a smaller want list with just the issues that I am looking for.  I just cross out issues as I buy them so that I don't buy them again. 

One nice thing about the document is that I can make it into three columns and fit a lot of data on a sheet and not have it so small that I can't read it.  When I first started doing this about 20 years ago, my list was 5 pages front and back.  Now it is down to 2 pages front and back.

I've read about 95% of the comics I have.  I currently have around 90,000 comics and am a couple of months behind on some of the recent books plus 4000 or so back issues that have piled up over the last 5 years.  I'm retired now, so I'm working on it.

1 hour ago, Hudson said:

I would probably spend a small fortune on an Action 1 in hopes of putting it away and treasuring it always.   

 

I would probably spend a small fortune for a decent copy of Action Comics #1 in hopes of turning it into a large fortune.

This weekend's reading

My latest Four Color acquisition

The Four Color issues with Rocky and Bullwinkle:

Some more recent reading

The first couple of Tom Corbett comics, the first Tweety and Sylvester, I Love Lucy and Annie Oakley from Dell.

Dark Horse put out a Roy Rogers Archive a decade ago that collected the first five Four Color appearances.

Hermes Press published a Roy Rogers newspaper strip collection. that collected dailies and Sundays from the 1970s.  They also have an Alex Toth/John Buscema hardcover Roy Rogers book scheduled for next January, though their books are always late.

Doug Wildey's Rio is pretty good.

DC just solicited for the first Jonah Hex Bronze Age Omnibus and it is definitely worth picking up, but won't be out until next May.

My Sunday reading

I just picked up this one.  Now I only need Laugh #134 for a complete set, though I would like to upgrade #143 as well.

32 minutes ago, marvelmaniac said:

OMG!!!    

A very "Well Loved" copy that should be cherished and you should be proud to own since it seems to be EXTREMELY hard to find.

That is the first time I have ever seen the cover of #12 and now I know it actually exists... 

The hunt is back on.   

 Maybe I should hire Indiana Jones to find it for me.     

We'd had the discussion about Sad Sack HD #12 a few times in one of the Harvey Comics groups on Facebook and the only listings we could find were a couple of old Heritage auctions that each had a copy of #12 as part of the contents.  I was going through $3 boxes at a store in Pittsburgh while on vacation when it just jumped out at me.  If one exists, there should be more...somewhere.  I still need #1,2,11,13,14,26,29,39,40.  I've seen copies of some of these on occasion, but usually priced at more than I am willing to pay.

Good luck in your hunt!

On 6/1/2019 at 1:54 PM, skypinkblu said:

I think I lost my mind. I have not bought books like this for a lot of years, lol...but I couldn't help myself. I have not even gone through all the boxes yet. There are lots of Richie Riches.

Supposedly 1400 comics

 

Very nice.  Is the entire collection humor/kids books?   That is probably my favorite genre.

On 5/17/2018 at 7:17 AM, marvelmaniac said:

Sad Sack Complimentary 1-40 (less #12 which it seems never existed)

 

I know that this thread has been dormant since last year, but I just ran across it and was curious if you ever ran across Sad Sack HD #12.  I found a beat up copy in Pittsburgh a few years ago that I bought until I can find a better copy.  I still need 10 more issues for this set, 9 for Sad Sack and the Sarge, 8 for Sad Sack's Funny Friends and 1 for Sad Sack Laugh Special.  I have a ways to go on the main Sad Sack title with 51 issues still on my want list.

I found it funny that I collect or have collected at some point almost every title mentioned in this thread.  I guess that I don't collect many of them now because I completed my runs of Richie Rich, Warlord, Savage Sword of Conan, Kamandi and others a long time ago.

I am also probably one of the few people who collects Treasure Chest.  I have over 450 of the 508 issues and read through the entire title back in March/April.  The issues that I am missing are all available online.

I also collect Four Color Series II and have around 200 issues to go to complete the set.  I know two people that have complete runs of the title.

I wouldn't mind seeing New Funnies return with Andy Panda, Woody Woodpecker, Oswald the Rabbit (the Walter Lantz version) and others.

This bag has worked pretty well for me over the past decade or so.  I used a similar one before that.  I keep the comics in FCBD bags inside the bag and they stay in nice shape.  There's enough padding, space around the sides.  When it gets too heavy, I take it out to the car and put the comics in a magazine box.

1 hour ago, G.A.tor said:

Funny stuff 1-79

Very cool.  I've never collected the DC humor books to the same extent that I collect those from Dell, Harvey, Gold Key and others, but I've thought about adding Funny Stuff and Peter Porkchops and a couple of others to my want list.  I'm 13 issues away from a complete set of New Funnies and 9 issues away from a complete set of Looney Tunes.  Funny Stuff would fit right in.

49 minutes ago, csaag said:

Out of curiousity, how do you go about selling that quantity of comics?  I wouldn't think you have 10000 ebay auctions going around the same time.

Ny

I've sold a few things on ebay, though not comic books.  I don't have a whole lot of interest in selling regularly on ebay.  I have a friend who got back into collecting comics in the past decade and I've been helping him build runs of Fantastic Four, Superman and Batman, among others.  He's expressed an interest in purchasing some of my runs of books.  I expect that he will take my X-Men, Aquaman and others should I choose to sell them.  I'll give him a fair price on them so we both benefit and I won't have to go through the hassle of ebay.

For books that he doesn't want, I may go the ebay route for some of them or if there is a lot of bulk left, I might investigate Mycomicshop or setting up at a local show.  I won't necessarily be in a great hurry to get rid of them.  While the extra space would be nice, it isn't critical and I can afford to wait if need be for the right opportunity.

My collection is somewhere north of 90,000, though I plan to downsize it somewhat in the near future (probably starting next year) and sell off titles I'm not that interested in any more.  I figure it will reduce my collection by about 1/3 to 1/2.

The collection is pretty diverse with lots of Archies, Harveys, Dells, Gold Keys and others in addition to large runs of DC and Marvel books.  I don't get too many Marvel books these days with most of the purchases falling into the Spider-Man, FF and Daredevil families of books plus Star Wars and Conan.

I have 10-20 books in slabs, mostly because they came that way when I bought them.  

I've found that Mycomicshop does a really nice job packing their books, both new ones and back issues.  DCBS also does a pretty nice job packing their comics and trades.

5 hours ago, oakman29 said:

My mother was supportive,  but my father? He was a different story.

My parents were both teachers who read a lot so that probably helped.  They also read comics quite a bit when they were kids back in the 1940s/early 1950s.  Unfortunately their comics all got passed on  to relatives after they read them and the only ones that they still had were come of the cereal premiums from that era.