yep...original owner..his name was Earnest, and he was from France and learned to read from comics....the lovely 71 year old lady (yes, it really was a "little old lady") that sold them to me, inherited them when Earnest recently passed...
virtually all comics have 2 "w" penciled on the front cover, and the date of the comic written on each...so, I have dubbed it the "ww" collection...
Earnest lived/grew up in San Fran, where all the copies were purchased by him (some pq like the rileys, really white...others not so good...all the books were well read)...they moved to GA a few years back, and when he passed, Wattie (the lovely lady whom lives 5 minutes from me) got the comics because she and Earnest used to both read them as a child (or something along those lines)...
280 or so books from 1943 to 1955...Wattie's daughter's (Rebecca) husband (Clay) did a wonderful job organizing, researching, and contacting perspective buyers in the area...just so happened that Brent from quality and I were really the only 2 interested in taking time to view them (isn't that so funny)...since I was only 5 minutes away, I got to view them today.... they asked me to make an offer, I did, they were happy (I bought most as a collector would ) and I have 2 wonderful boxes of comics that Brent is coming down Saturday to look at with me!
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That's why I love pedigrees----the story!!
Congrats!