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I ended up selling most of my Four Color extras through Heritage where they sold them in lots of 1-15 books. I saw that a lot of them ended up on Blizzards site. I recognized the Crippen D copy Bugs Bunny immediately. Looks like you ended up with a good many of my duplicates after all. In fact it's clear to me that one of Blissards top sales methods is to buy the big raw lots from Heritage and sell them off one by one. It's a lot of work but when you can post a couple of hundred books a week it can sharpen your reputation as a seller over time.

Just got this back from CGC, Missing 1351....super tough to find

Tjis is out of my Four Color Set description: Series Highlights Tracy: 10 issues within Four Color, continuing with Dell and finishing with Harvey this would produce another 135 issues. Donald Duck; Starting with First series #4 Donald Duck has 33 Four Color appearances. Carl Barks is born out of the Four Color series. The series continues all the way until 1994 and issue # 305. Many of the Four Color stories were reprinted repeatedly. Hundreds if not thousands of other Duck related titles came out of the original Four Color cauldron. Smilin’ Jack : One of the first stories to appear in Four Color it ran a total of eight issues before branching out on its own for a short run. Tillie the Toiler: Unknown today this series ran in a total of seven Four Color issues. Mickey Mouse: Thirty Three Four Color appearances also puts Mickey Mouse near the top of Four Color appearances. It later breaks off on its own and runs a total of 255 issues into the early 90’s. The original Four color stories were reprinted often, as in the case with Donald Duck. Popeye: Popeye was extremely popular back in the day it was being published. It ran a total of seven Four Color issues before branching out. It would eventually finish at 171 in the late eighties. Marge’s Little Lulu: Lulu was on fire back in the day and this series lasted 11 issues in Four Color before branching off and publishing a total of 205 issues. Bugs Bunny: Bugs showed up 35 times over the course of his Four Color career. It would go on to finish at issue 245 in the mid 80’s. Porky Pig: Porky Pig lasted 27 issues within the Four Color series. It went into its own format and lasted until issue 109. Santa Claus Funnies: This was heavily created by Walt Kelly originally and later had a bigger variety of talent. It ran a total of seventeen appearances within Four Color. It’s one of the few to span nearly the entire stretch of Four Color; from 1944 all the way through to the early sixties. Woody Woodpecker: The series goes 15 issues within Four Color before going its own way. It lasts all the way to # 201 in the mid eighties. Oswald the Rabbit (Walter Lantz): This series lasted 20 issues and covered all the way from 1943 to the early sixties. Yet it never branched off or got any play time anywhere else. Roy Rogers and Gene Autry: These were the first of the Four Color Cowboys. Gene Autry lasts six issues before branching off and going to number 121.Roy Rogers manages to fill out the pages of 14 issues before going it alone. Solo he lasts to issue # 145. These were the first of many cowboys to come. Zane Grey, Stories of the West lasts a surprising total of 27 issues. Zane had another 8 issues published with the “King of the Royal Mounted” storyline. Outside of Four Color, neither went anywhere. Frosty the Snowman: This title last 11 issues within Four Color before shutting down. The Brownies: Started by Walt Kelly this lasted 10 issues. Francis the Famous Talking Mule. Despite the fact that nobody has heard of Francis today. It lasted a respectable 17 issues within Four Color. Goofy: Goofy lasts a solid 15 issues within the Four Color series.

Incidentally, the one reason I am doubtful of even my own numbering series is that the middle three numbers are code for the title. In the link provided by Montezuma you will notice that the alphabetic titling takes the sort preference and thus, the issue numbers are based on alphabetical order of the titles shown. I have no doubt that the missing issues are correct. But if you go back the past couple of years I do not b believe the Four Coloring numbering sequence is alphabetical at all. For example: 1299 Deputy Dawg 1300 The Comanches 1301 Adventures in Paradise 1302 Johnny Jason Teen Reporter Had alphabet had anything to do with issue number it would almost certainly have shown up in earlier years sequencing of numbers. So this leads me to believe that the numbering sequence in the article , as well as my own is speculative at best. I firmly believe that the missing issues all belong in the slots somewhere, I just don't know the exact sequence. Take a look at this link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2sUg2KCMzSBOTE4YmZkZDctMWRlNS00ZDZmLTgyNjgtYzg2MGQ2ZmVmMjFh/view There is no doubt that this unexpected discovery of the cover art for Beany and Cecil had this originally set as FC 1339. Most of the other schemes have it as 1340. Not a lot of difference, but it illustrates the point. The second very important point to me is that the Beany and Cecil issue mentioned her,, as noted in t he article, shows #1 in the indicia. Therefore, it is not a certainty that an issue cannot be missing just because it is given issue #1 status. On the other hand, one thing we can say is that if an issue has a #2 listed, or higher it is not a missing FC.

Most of this is art versus science as you can see. The reason that there are probably not more likely candidates is that Four Color unwound very quickly, within 3-4 months. The primary giveaway is the indicia which uses the coding instead of the issue number, most of the time. You can’t really find many of those past the 207; 209 series. Goofy Scoutmaster , as I recall shows number 1 in the indicia and goes past 209 so I am doubtful it was missing. But I found a good copy with Gene Carpenter and couldn’t resist. i can post a copy later, but one book I though could possibly be missing is “Kit Karter”. Almost impossible to find outside of VG just like many others.

Incidentally, this is the missing issue 1318

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Missing Fc 1320...I got this for a steal on Ebay. Crazy hard book in any grade.

Missing Fc 1277....One of the very toughest of all the Bullwinkle books.

Missing FC 1321

You saw the first Leave it to Beaver in the Four Color run. This was the last and "missing".

Missing FC 1359...Twilight Zone titles rank among my favorites.

Missing FC 1345

Missing FC 1342...I am jealous of the copy Sqeggs had up here though....

Missing FC 1360...I believe that the missing FC's end here.

The indicia shows this as number 1. Still it has a lot of characteristics of a missing FC and Goofy was a regular part of the FC series. I have pegged it as a possible Missing FC 1358, if it were.

Missing FC 1357

Missing Fc 1356

Missing FC 1353 Great title. I only wish I could find a high grade copy of #1 (FC 1106).

Missing FC 1352...I guess this was the Dell response to Archie and teen magazines

Missing FC 1345...Another title bound for obscurity

Missing FC 1343

Missing FC 1340...my only reservation is the CBCS label which I have found to be overtraded versus CGC.

Missing FC 1338