If anyone out there collects Classic Illustrated from the '40s 1 1

[ThothAmon]

On 6/29/2024 at 10:35 PM, jmg3637 said:

As my Four Colors near completion, I went back to first printings of classics.  Because of the organization I did six years ago I was able to do a couple of nice trades at the SFV  con today.  Picked up at least 20 of the yellow marked issues.  Will have to recode this to green.  

That’s a mind blowing accomplishment. As a kid I studied the latest Overstreet like the Bible and was always amazed at how many four color titles there are. Classics Illustrated are pretty cool too. 
 

[jmg3637]

Using the long holiday weekend  to scan, and likely  rebag  my recent additions.  

Also have to enter them into my various tracking systems

I actually only got  12  first prints at the show.  I am still missing 55 firsts.  Unfortunately most of the first printings  were well read over the years and are in pretty low grade

sometimes the HRN was actually used as intended

[jmg3637]

While organizing comics over the long weekend, I found several more Classics that I had gotten from MCS in the last year.

They probably have the best inventory in the   industry, and CERTAINLY have the best organization system for tracking wantlists

 

[bkopman]

Hello, I'm trying to figure out some values for a few Canadian editions of some early Classic Comics/Illustrated. I understand that they are rarer than their US counterparts. There are a few sales but I could not find any. These have the Canadian indicia showing Toronto. Any help is appreciated.

[jmg3637]

AS soon as I started focusing on the Classics First prints  I have been able to greatly improve my collection of them.

 

Picked up Several from Bedrock at the Torpedo (pre SD) con.  Also got one from Harley.  and all from trading.

 

After a visit to Houston  I was able to get several more from BEDROCK  and now I am down to only 36, most of which are the very early issues

Sad to see my early entries in this thread were wiped out by photobucket.  Glad I finally paid for a couple of months and downloaded everything from there.