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Classic Comics/Classics Illustrated
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1 hour ago, MattTheDuck said:

Picked these up this morning at a local garage sale

 

 

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Christmas Carol is one of the few issues with only one edition. Looks like yours has a sticker price on it. They clearly kept their print over runs somewhere as they were always advertising back issues for sale. I have a copy I bought at a flea market as a kid; always like this issue.

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I just recovered my scans  from Photobucket

The free version became impossible to work with many years ago,  A few  months ago they forced me into paying $5 a month if I even wanted access.

 

It was relatively painless  to download and delete batches  and have pulled about 1000  images off already

Downloaded all of my classics and related issues.  Here are all of my Classic Comics

 

 

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Was very lucky to come across these Canadian Classics Illustrated. The Westward Ho is beyond rare from what I can see. The two blank ones are theorized to be free giveaways to Canadian and British troops after WWII and the Rip Van Winkle was the 1st Canadian one printed! 

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Cool thread. I've been collecting the Australian landscape format variants for a few years. They are hard to find and often trashed when I do find them, being big comics (there are two different sizes, but the larger ones are bigger than the US editions) and printed on newsprint, including the covers. But here are some of the ones I've found. There are 24 of these, #13 to #36. All of the rest were portrait format editions, but I haven't been actively looking for those.

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On 2/5/2022 at 6:57 AM, AJD said:

Cool thread. I've been collecting the Australian landscape format variants for a few years. They are hard to find and often trashed when I do find them, being big comics (there are two different sizes, but the larger ones are bigger than the US editions) and printed on newsprint, including the covers. But here are some of the ones I've found. There are 24 of these, #13 to #36. All of the rest were portrait format editions, but I haven't been actively looking for those.

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These are GREAT.  I've never seen them before.  Thanks for sharing

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On 2/4/2022 at 12:41 PM, jmg3637 said:

I am sure I have some Canadian  issues due to HRN's  but I dont recall any having the blank inside cover

Here are the CI reprints  of the CC  issues that I have

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What an awesome collection. How did you come by therm?  I’ve got boxes of classics with not many first editions sadly. 
 

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On 2/5/2022 at 3:57 AM, AJD said:

Cool thread. I've been collecting the Australian landscape format variants for a few years. They are hard to find and often trashed when I do find them, being big comics (there are two different sizes, but the larger ones are bigger than the US editions) and printed on newsprint, including the covers. But here are some of the ones I've found. There are 24 of these, #13 to #36. All of the rest were portrait format editions, but I haven't been actively looking for those.

 

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Interesting. The Christmas Carol never had any reprints due to a copyright issue I believe. I didn't realize it had an Australian edition. Fun books and an interesting format.

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On 2/5/2022 at 6:16 AM, ThothAmon said:

What an awesome collection. How did you come by therm?  I’ve got boxes of classics with not many first editions sadly. 
 

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That's got to be the winner for longest word balloon ever! Including footnotes!! In high school I did a comic adaption of Hamlet with the duck characters I called Ducklet or something. Didn't think to include the long soliloquy!

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