jmg3637 Posted July 31, 2022 Share Posted July 31, 2022 Finally was able to physically sort in the additions during the last three years. I added 65 books, 18 graded and 47 raw, but mostly higher ( for me) grade. Many of the Graded books were intended to be significant upgrades, but one ended up being a slight downgrade ( from MCS 6.0 to CGC 5.5) which do I keep? OtherEric, AJD and kaculler 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaculler Posted August 2, 2022 Share Posted August 2, 2022 Four Color #1297. The highest number left on my want list now is #859. I have 63 issues left with four more issues on the way. AJD and OtherEric 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaculler Posted August 3, 2022 Share Posted August 3, 2022 Four Color #6,42,453 This completes the 400s for me. Sarg, Badger and OtherEric 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaculler Posted August 3, 2022 Share Posted August 3, 2022 The mail arrived with one more issue that I'd been waiting on. Four Color #134. There are obvious issues with the top of the front cover, but the rest of the issue is pretty solid and it was well below guide. Maybe I'll find a better copy someday, but this will do for now. OtherEric, Sarg and Scrooge 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post jmg3637 Posted August 4, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted August 4, 2022 On 8/3/2022 at 9:19 AM, kaculler said: The mail arrived with one more issue that I'd been waiting on. Four Color #134. There are obvious issues with the top of the front cover, but the rest of the issue is pretty solid and it was well below guide. Maybe I'll find a better copy someday, but this will do for now. Place holders and waiting for potential upgrades Or holding out for an accpetable copy in the first place After getting a shot in my eye for my diabetic retinopathy I took the rest of the day off and stopped at what is likely the nicest shop in the SFV Galaxy Comics. An employee there is a pretty good grader and I think we both had fun looking through the pages of these dups. I am keeping the Bedrock copy from an earlier post as well as these two I will post the undercopies for comparison later. I think brings up my box to over 50 issues that I have upgraded since i sent a box along with another dozen long boxes to MCS for a trade several years ago OtherEric, damonwad, Ltpink2002 and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galen130 Posted August 5, 2022 Share Posted August 5, 2022 Had this one up for sale recently…no takers. So it’s back in the box. jmg3637 and OtherEric 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Galen130 Posted August 5, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted August 5, 2022 Here’s another one that I found in the wild…pretty difficult to find, I think. Sarg, jmg3637, kaculler and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaculler Posted August 5, 2022 Share Posted August 5, 2022 On 8/4/2022 at 7:26 PM, jmg3637 said: Place holders and waiting for potential upgrades Or holding out for an accpetable copy in the first place I generally don't buy placeholders these days, at least not intentionally. Sometimes I'll buy an issue that has a defect that I was unaware of such as a detached staple and I will keep it and add the book to my replace list. The Tarzan is borderline for me with the cover damage, but is one that I don't mind keeping it in my collection. However, I certainly won't turn down the opportunity to upgrade it for a better copy. I've had many comics that I passed on because the centerfold was detached or the cover was detached at a staple or there was excess water damage, etc. I was less choosy when I was in my teens and early 20s and would buy placeholders, but those have almost all been replaced by now. Now if I found a number of hard to find issues that were complete, but with a number of problems in a 50 cent box somewhere, I likely would not pass them up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmg3637 Posted August 5, 2022 Share Posted August 5, 2022 In the beginning I would take almost anything just in trade. And my beginning 70+ were all in low grde so I have many easy upgrades. These are the passing on copies of the books posted above. The Left hand Gun has really bad damage at the lower right kaculler 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJD Posted August 5, 2022 Share Posted August 5, 2022 I'm really just starting on my "G series' collection - 153 of 698 so far - but I'm trying to avoid filling the box with 'placeholders'. I might have to for the very early single digit ones which are hard to find in any grade, but for now I'm trying to stick to nice ones, like this G28 (Four Color #560) kaculler, Ltpink2002, Galen130 and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmg3637 Posted August 5, 2022 Share Posted August 5, 2022 enjoying seeing the Australian version. Were all of the 698 issues a part of the FC series? which ones did they omit? the early ones? the later Western/TV issues? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post kaculler Posted August 5, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted August 5, 2022 One of the issues that I was waiting on arrived today. The other issue I'm waiting on should arrive next week. Four Color #237 Galen130, Sarg, AJD and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJD Posted August 6, 2022 Share Posted August 6, 2022 On 8/6/2022 at 5:32 AM, jmg3637 said: enjoying seeing the Australian version. Were all of the 698 issues a part of the FC series? which ones did they omit? the early ones? the later Western/TV issues? The G series isn't an Australian version of the FC series, though it contains many overlaps (maybe 200? I haven't done a detailed comparison). G1 appeared in 1950, so well into the FC run, and it was a WDC title at first before branching out into FC reprints in 1952. It has only Disney material, as that's the license that WG Publications had, so many of the non-Disney Four Colors appeared in series by other Australian publishers. Also, some of the Four Color Disneys appeared in other WG series, like the White Wilderness from the FP (film preview) series I posted here a while ago. Another difference is that Uncle Scrooge only lasted for three Four Colors (386, 456 and 495) before breaking out, but stayed in the G series - so 132 of the 698 issues are Uncle Scrooge. You can see the G series in thumbnail form here. But here are some more that overlap between the two runs. G11 (Four Color #408) G108 (Four Colour #826) G177 (Four Color #1055) kaculler, Get Marwood & I and PopKulture 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post jmg3637 Posted August 7, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted August 7, 2022 As I got to over one thousand issues I started being more picky in grades. Unless the book is in the first 200 issues I try ot to add it if the book is less than F- Books that are very first 25 either series I am happy to have most any copy of, but now upgradingable includes anything below VG I started making two want lists one for actual missing and the other for Upgrade. Now the lists are built into my master spreadsheet and I can sort for books under any grade for adjusting the upgrade list I could easily fill half of my missing books from the online inventory of MCS, but most of those would just jump from want to upgrade Here are two of the recent books from MCS. one was from an auction and the other was in inventory A pair of 18's must be good luck PopKulture, damonwad, kaculler and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaculler Posted August 11, 2022 Share Posted August 11, 2022 Four Color #221 arrived in the mail today. Scrooge, damonwad, AJD and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJD Posted August 11, 2022 Share Posted August 11, 2022 Film Preview #36 Australian edition (Four Color #1183) Get Marwood & I, Galen130 and kaculler 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtherEric Posted August 11, 2022 Share Posted August 11, 2022 On 8/4/2022 at 5:02 PM, Galen130 said: Here’s another one that I found in the wild…pretty difficult to find, I think. It's one I would like to get, there's demand from Oz collectors as well as Four Color collectors. I'm not sure I've ever seen a copy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galen130 Posted August 11, 2022 Share Posted August 11, 2022 On 8/10/2022 at 10:47 PM, OtherEric said: It's one I would like to get, there's demand from Oz collectors as well as Four Color collectors. I'm not sure I've ever seen a copy. I actually had it up for sale in a now closed thread. PM me if you’d like to see the listing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galen130 Posted August 11, 2022 Share Posted August 11, 2022 Here's my first slabbed Four Color, #1243. Found it on the boards from @arexcrooke. jmg3637, Treco and OtherEric 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post OtherEric Posted August 12, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted August 12, 2022 In today. Toth Zorro. kaculler, Galen130, damonwad and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...