Elson's Presents? 0

[ShieldAgent]

I like poly-bagged comics.  Mostly bronze and copper multi-packs are my thing.  I do like the interesting and oddball items too.

Last week at the Philly show, RCheli brought this stack of books over to the booth I was helping out at, and handed them to me.

I don't do much DC.  I know nothing about these books except for what you can see in the scans.  They are interesting and cool.

Hope this has not been discussed before, but I couldn't find anything.  Any insight?  Any thoughts?  Any discussion?

 

[Get Marwood & I]

They look cool.

Funnily enough, the UK Price Guide website has a page on them here:

https://www.comicpriceguide.co.uk/us_comic.php?tc=elsons

It says:

"A series of six issues of 1981 comics repackaged by DC Comics for Elson's Gift and News shops (typically found in hotels, airports and large office buildings). They consisted of 3 (remaindered?) coverless DC comics glued into a new cover. Each comic has the same cover art, but the background colors and the three-issue interiors are different for each book."

[batmiesta]

The cover is the same as the DC Super Heroes poster book. 

 

[Get Marwood & I]

53 minutes ago, ShieldAgent said:

Any thoughts? 

Yes. I do like your signature comment 

[tv horror]

13 minutes ago, Get Marwood & I said:

I do like your

New Avatar but my goodness Richard E Grant looks very feminine in it. 

[Get Marwood & I]

1 minute ago, tv horror said:

New Avatar but my goodness Richard E Grant looks very feminine in it. 

Not tonight Dear, I've got a headache 

[Brock]

These are also listed and described in Overstreet. They’re pretty cool in my mind, and - in my experience - pretty hard to find in high grade. Yours look pretty nice, and I’ve never seen a polybagged one before.

[ShieldAgent]

2 hours ago, Brock said:

These are also listed and described in Overstreet. They’re pretty cool in my mind, and - in my experience - pretty hard to find in high grade. Yours look pretty nice, and I’ve never seen a polybagged one before.

  you know, I should have dug out an old overstreet.  Thanks for the thought.  I looked it up and it did say what issues were in each volume.  Pretty cool randomness.  

As far as condition, they are as nice as I guess can be for books that were stored in their polybag without any other support.  Other books I got from the same collection (coincidentally 30 something other DC's) all had nice white pages.

[ShieldAgent]

7 hours ago, Get Marwood & I said:

Yes. I do like your signature comment 

I have had signatures turned off for years.  Forgot I even had one.  Still true though.

[RCheli]

I've seen these books before plenty of times, but never polybagged. They all have old price stickers on them that say Elson's too, which is cool. A couple are even discounted. 

Does anyone remember Elson's as a business? I'm 46 and don't. 

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[Qalyar]

Never seen one of these bagged, much less a full set. And I wouldn't sweat the spine tics and such too much, the only copies I remember seeing were utter dogs.

[Qalyar]

For those curious about items like this, there were also 3 issues distributed by Lionel Play World. They are not common books.

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