gadzukes Posted January 19, 2021 Share Posted January 19, 2021 (edited) Post your 1940 Saalfield Puzzles I have a bunch of these and have been assembling them during the pandemic. They are a fun diversion. My favorites are the 300 piece puzzles because they actually "interlock", they have "hidden" shapes like dogs, cats, axes, birds, candles, stars, etc, as pieces. There is also a 300 piece puzzle that has the front cover to Action Comics #1. Most of the time when you find these they are missing pieces. Here's a complete 500 piece that I just got. "Superman Stands Alone": Edited January 19, 2021 by gadzukes davidtere, Chicago Boy and Ghastly542454 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
batman_fan Posted January 19, 2021 Share Posted January 19, 2021 Don’t get me started ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gadzukes Posted January 19, 2021 Author Share Posted January 19, 2021 11 minutes ago, batman_fan said: Don’t Get me started ! I corrected that for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post batman_fan Posted January 19, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted January 19, 2021 A few pics PopKulture, Chicago Boy, KCOComics and 5 others 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gadzukes Posted January 19, 2021 Author Share Posted January 19, 2021 Here's my meager collection of puzzles. I've probably sold 6 of these puzzles thru the years, and now I wish I had them back because I can rarely find them with all the pieces so it's nice to have extras so you can swap out the pieces. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gadzukes Posted January 19, 2021 Author Share Posted January 19, 2021 (edited) 4 minutes ago, batman_fan said: A few pics Nice collection. Well done! Is that a complete set? I don't even know. Edited January 19, 2021 by gadzukes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
batman_fan Posted January 19, 2021 Share Posted January 19, 2021 20 minutes ago, gadzukes said: Nice collection. Well done! Is that a complete set? I don't even know. No, missing at least one 300 piece puzzle and two of the 3 puzzle sets. I long for the days when a complete puzzle in the box could be had for $100 to $150. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gadzukes Posted January 19, 2021 Author Share Posted January 19, 2021 Just now, batman_fan said: No, missing at least one 300 piece puzzle and two of the 3 puzzle sets. I long for the days when a complete puzzle in the box could be had for $100 to $150. Yeah, the Action Comics 1 is tough to find at a good price now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted January 19, 2021 Share Posted January 19, 2021 I have quite a few of those. Nothing like batman_fan’s awsome collection. Haven’t gotton one in a while. This one is my favorite... gadzukes, pemart1966 and Chicago Boy 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gadzukes Posted January 19, 2021 Author Share Posted January 19, 2021 (edited) 47 minutes ago, Robot Man said: I have quite a few of those. Nothing like batman_fan’s awsome collection. Haven’t gotton one in a while. This one is my favorite... SO SWEET with those sigs Robotman. Do I see that one piece is missing? Edited January 19, 2021 by gadzukes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gadzukes Posted January 19, 2021 Author Share Posted January 19, 2021 I WISH they would have made a set of Batman puzzles like these. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
batman_fan Posted January 19, 2021 Share Posted January 19, 2021 11 minutes ago, gadzukes said: I WISH they would have made a set of Batman puzzles like these. I snagged some of the 1960s Batman puzzles. Try to find pictures. These have great artwork Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woowoo Posted January 19, 2021 Share Posted January 19, 2021 All you great friends of mine on these boards might like to know i do not have any of the puzzles and would love to get some Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
batman_fan Posted January 19, 2021 Share Posted January 19, 2021 Couldn’t find the Batman puzzle pictures but I found these. The 300 piece ones is closer to the totalI own, may have one or two not shown. I also have a document I was putting together with a summary of all the puzzles with pictures I will try to find. Quick note, me being the genius I am, I figured buy two incomplete puzzles and boom, one complete puzzle for a bargain price. Turns out, this does NOT always work. The 500 piece puzzles appear to use a single cut pattern but the registration was really crappy so a missing piece can bet taken from another missing puzzle but the artwork won’t align. For the 300 piece puzzles, the cut pattern can be different. So merging puzzles may not work at all. Registration on 300 piece puzzles seems to be better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago Boy Posted January 19, 2021 Share Posted January 19, 2021 1 hour ago, gadzukes said: Yeah, the Action Comics 1 is tough to find at a good price now. Saw it at a store pre pandemic for $15o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago Boy Posted January 19, 2021 Share Posted January 19, 2021 53 minutes ago, gadzukes said: I WISH they would have made a set of Batman puzzles like these. Yeah. DC didn’t want to split the $ with Kane Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gadzukes Posted January 19, 2021 Author Share Posted January 19, 2021 1 hour ago, Chicago Boy said: Yeah. DC didn’t want to split the $ with Kane That's right! KANE! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gadzukes Posted January 19, 2021 Author Share Posted January 19, 2021 1 hour ago, Chicago Boy said: Saw it at a store pre pandemic for $15o Wait. Is that $15 or $150? Either way it's a deal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gadzukes Posted January 19, 2021 Author Share Posted January 19, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, batman_fan said: I figured buy two incomplete puzzles and boom, one complete puzzle for a bargain price. Turns out, this does NOT always work. For the 300 piece puzzles, the cut pattern can be different. So merging puzzles may not work at all. Registration on 300 piece puzzles seems to be better. I have experimented with this too. The die-cut is very close, but sometimes they print it upside down so the die-cut is wrong. Other times they flip the die-cut so it goes the other way. Something that I have done is buy the other (non superman) Saalfield "300" puzzles from 1940 that match the die-cut. When they come up on ebay you can usually get them cheap (as in $10 - $15). Saalfield used the same die-cut on these so you can find the pieces you're missing, but then you have to paint the pieces to match your superman puzzle. Here's an example. There were 3 pieces missing on this one (down in the water) so I took the same shapes from another cheap Saalfield Puzzle and painted them. They are usually a little off so you might have to sand them with a dremel tool. Some day if I find another one of these puzzles and the die cut matches, I'll switch out my painted pieces with the correct ones. One other nice thing about buying the other non-superman 300 puzzles, is...... if the bottom of your Superman box is trashed, you can switch it out with the bottom of the non-superman box (if it's in nice shape of course). They are exactly the same box. Edited January 19, 2021 by gadzukes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted January 19, 2021 Share Posted January 19, 2021 2 hours ago, gadzukes said: SO SWEET with those sigs Robotman. Do I see that one piece is missing? Got ‘em both at SDCC separately myself when they were back at the smaller convention center. Have the box too. Yes, a piece is missing. Actually two. But I won’t kick It off the wall for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
