Classics Illustrated Questions

[ramrodcar]

i just bought 100 classics illustrated books and they came in the binders you could specially order from them. how the hell do i take them out? are they permanently in there?

thanks

mike

[shiverbones]

never saw those binders, but if you are flipping, you might want to keep them in the binders. Classics people tend to like the odd variations and side products, so that might go well.

[FlyingDonut]

The books are held on with rubber bands that hook on to the pins - just unhook the rubber bands from the little silver pins at the top and bottom. Be careful that you don't pop yourself in the mouth. The binders sell for $10-20 on eBay, depending on the mood of the buyers at the time. Any first print Classics in there? Let me know!

[ramrodcar]

no they are different then that, they look as if they are permanently bound. here's some pictures. i ripped up one of the binders trying to get them out but i couldn't.

[mrwoogieman]

Doesn't look like the special binders, looks more like the comics were bound into volumes privately, common enough back in the day. But the way they are bound all but ruins the individual books, sometimes the spines are shaved completely and cannot be removed, other times they can be removed but the resulting spine wear (and stiching holes) leaves the comics in low grade condition only.

 

If you have some that have a 10-cent cover price (the first prints) they might be worth removing from the binders for individual sale. Otherwise leave them bound and sell them as a lot.

[FlyingDonut]

Those are private binders, somebody went to the expense of putting them together into books. From the images, you have later printings - the Benjamin Franklin, for example, is a 1969 printing. They are essentially worthless individually, but somebody might want the set. If there is a 70 or a 73 in there, those only had one printing, so that would pop the value of the book up.