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Another Holy Grail Acquired!!!!!!!!!!!

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Bo_Hogg

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Some people have only one Holy Grail but I have many. This is 7 issues of Red Falcon Adventures from 1937. They are labeled as Big little books but I feel as though they don't fit the criteria for a BLB. They are 8 page giveaways hardly a BLB. I have never before seen even one for sale. When 7 became available all at once, I could not believe it! I cannot stress how rare these things are. These books are probably the 3rd rarest items in my collection. When the UPS man pulled up to my house yesterday, I almost had tears in my eyes!!!!! lol

 

 

 

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Point Five

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Wow, fascinating!

 

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+1!

 

Not a format that had a lot of staying power I guess lol but very cool to see.

 

Are they accordian-fold format inside (i.e. a bunch of circles diecut & folded from one continuous sheet of paper) ?

 

 

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More about these here via HAKES:

 

http://www.hakes.com/item.asp?Auction=209&ItemNo=124946

 

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Lot of seven 2-1/8x2-3/8" paper booklets that unfold to 8.5" in length. ©1937 Sealright Co. Inc. ACC# F61-1 and also listed in the Hake Pop Culture Guide on page 322. Each front cover features image of Red Falcon and/or his plane. One additional panel has bw art, all other panels have story text. Back cover text notes "Every Red Falcon Cup Has A Complete Story Attached-Fifty Different Episodes." This lot includes numbers 1,3,4,6-8 and 10. #10 is the highest we have seen in this series so unsure if all 50 were actually produced. Lightly age toning but overall lot is Exc. to NM. A very rare series. From the Robert M. Overstreet Collection and comes with COA

 

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Bo_Hogg

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Thanx everyone!!!!! These booklets are quite unknown. I think they are ice cream caps. They unfold to 8 pages and have text and one picture on the cover and one picture on the inside. I had been looking for these ever since a friend told me about this guide called The Hake's guide and told me there are plenty of interesting things in there for comic collectors. Little did I know and years later, I found out The Red Falcon is listed under BLB in the Overstreet. The interesting thing is I know of no other comics or blb that The Red Falcon appears in.

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Congratulations, what a neat find and a perfect match for your collection. It is fun to see the innovative uses of comics in marketing back then; this particular idea obviously didn't catch on which is why these books are so cool.

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