Duffman_Comics Posted October 27, 2022 Share Posted October 27, 2022 I have never seen this comic. I think you're right regarding rebound remaindered copies - no indicia and the fact VERY few comics here were printed in colour - except for Disneys. "I Aim at the Stars", Werner von Braun's biopic, quite accurately had a tag added during production as "But sometimes I hit London" AJD 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post AJD Posted October 27, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted October 27, 2022 So I can now reveal the contents of the copy of Film Classics #2, which arrived today. Other copies presumably vary, as with #1 I was hoping to get another three Four Colors, but alas I only got 1.875 FC books. To explain the decimals there, here's what I found when I opened the book The first comic is Dondi, Four Color 1276. But the first page is missing, so the story starts part way through. At first I thought it had been removed but that didn't look to be the case. And the last page of that issue is also missing, with the third story stopping part way through. I think the outer wrap was removed as well as the cover, and nobody cared (or maybe didn't even notice)*. The second book isn't a Four Color - it's Mike Shayne Private Eye #1. The last book bound in is Sherlock Holmes (Four Color 1245) The oddest thing is that none of these comics are film adaptations. There was a Dondi film in 1961, but this is not an adaptation, rather three short stories - or one and two partials in the case of this copy! Mike Shayne was a character in a series of 1940s films, but the story here is a new one. The Sherlock Holmes book is three short stories. So none the three Dells bound into this 'film classics' are movie adaptations. It's a shame this series never made it to #3. I'd love to see just how bad it could get. *The descendants of the production team now work in the encapsulation area at CGC. kaculler, Get Marwood & I, Scrooge and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJD Posted November 10, 2022 Share Posted November 10, 2022 Australian G253 (1962) = Four Color 1248 The Dell edition has a plain pale green background. This one is certainly more colourful! OtherEric, PopKulture and Get Marwood & I 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Get Marwood & I Posted November 10, 2022 Share Posted November 10, 2022 OtherEric, AJD, damonwad and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post jmg3637 Posted November 12, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted November 12, 2022 finally going back to try and fill in some sort of cost for the books I obtained prior to greatly expanding my tracking maybe 7 years ago. I added a section for numerical grade as well as cost, and have added most all books ever since. More things that I can track and do statistical info on, like tracking the % completed for each 100 and then calculating a standard deviation on those ( I am between 91 and 99% completed on each section ) I was missing info on maybe 600 books. I entered grades first as it was far more important than cost/value Now the project of back tracking. Some will be easy like the batches I failed to enter from MCS Their system is excellant and I was easily able to obtain all of the info on any transaction. Far more difficult will be to break down the transaction I did with Flaming carrot, an ebay seller who I traded my very low grade 3rd copy of B&B28 for 16 books over 15 years ago. OtherEric, kaculler, PopKulture and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaculler Posted November 12, 2022 Share Posted November 12, 2022 Four Color #65 Scrooge, OtherEric, jmg3637 and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post jmg3637 Posted November 12, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted November 12, 2022 (edited) I was grabbing the last few issues in one of my older scan sections. I was thinking that they were actual last four numbered issues Little did I know th none of those issues had prices associated and came in separate transactions with Reality Consensus( I believe a bordie) Mile High, Moe's Attic ( a trade at SDCC involving 47 issues for my other undercopy of B&B 28) and ft88 Edited November 12, 2022 by jmg3637 Get Marwood & I, AJD, OtherEric and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmg3637 Posted November 13, 2022 Share Posted November 13, 2022 I recently upgraded The Corruptors show above at some level this tracking is just to play with my collection again, and reminisce I was able to fill in maybe 20 books from MCS as most of the 104 books came after I had expanded my tracking to include grade and price information which must have been at the end of 2015. When I put all of the boxes together I continued on the process of pulling out the low grade ones that were candidates for upgrade. I now have two full short boxes with those books ( that also opened up room for more books in the keepers for many more to be sorted in. Decided to start with those two boxes in reverse order for adding prices. came across the first of the 53 undercopies I traded with Montezuma very early on in my collecting/trading quest. I wonder what all was involved in those transactions. His copy6 is the Phantom planet shown here Get Marwood & I, AJD and OtherEric 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmg3637 Posted November 14, 2022 Share Posted November 14, 2022 One of these weekends when I am feeling ambitious I will work in the missing Four colors into my spreadsheet and slot them in where they most likely belong. Will take extra thinking as I had built in logic to handle the missing ones when calculating the various percentages. So as of now, between the first and second Series I have 1277 unique issues of which 1276 are graded. The average grade is now 4.797. moving that number up is quite difficult. I would have to upgrade 26 books by 5 full grades to even push that to 4.9 As far as pricing I only have 647 books entered with an average of 54.35 A single book like the First Series #1 I got off heritage a few months ago raised the average by nearly $3 per book, but it would take would only take 14 $5 books to drop the average by a dollar. While there were some valuable books entered from MCS, almost all of the books I penciled in are well below $25 this would certainly lower the average "investment" . I am planning on first entering the numbers on paper as I go through the books and then go back and enter several hundred for at least a first pass on the project. MusterMark, OtherEric and PopKulture 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PopKulture Posted November 14, 2022 Share Posted November 14, 2022 On 11/12/2022 at 1:48 PM, jmg3637 said: So many great covers, from the simple line-drawn to the photo covers, but I have a soft spot for the painted covers and this one is really striking!! AJD and OtherEric 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJD Posted November 20, 2022 Share Posted November 20, 2022 Australian G54 (1956) = Four Color #659 OtherEric, Get Marwood & I and kaculler 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtherEric Posted November 20, 2022 Share Posted November 20, 2022 In this week: PopKulture, Get Marwood & I and AJD 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post jmg3637 Posted November 20, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted November 20, 2022 Going back and RETCONing my paid pricing to fill in the gaps I have gone through and estimated paid prices for first the two short boxes of upgrades. that added about 80 books Then went through the ending long box( 1150-end), and now working on long box 2 (1149- 961) out of four OtherEric, MusterMark, AJD and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Get Marwood & I Posted November 21, 2022 Share Posted November 21, 2022 On 11/20/2022 at 10:55 PM, OtherEric said: In this week: AJD and OtherEric 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmg3637 Posted November 24, 2022 Share Posted November 24, 2022 I have finished the second long box and am working on the third those go down to 760 I have entered most books from 1000 and up, so about 1/3 of the run My spread sheet says I have 798 books evaluated for cost. As expected these new additions were mostly added through board trades many years ago and the vast majority were entered as well under the $50. So the average per book has fallen to 49.6 . I have a small batch of 4GEMS books at Heritage. when those come in they will raise the ave value by at least 1 since I filed a hard hole with a beautiful #37 MusterMark, PopKulture, damonwad and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southern cross Posted November 25, 2022 Share Posted November 25, 2022 OtherEric, PopKulture and damonwad 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tri-Color Brian Posted November 25, 2022 Share Posted November 25, 2022 (edited) Edited November 25, 2022 by Tri-ColorBrian OtherEric, PopKulture and damonwad 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tri-Color Brian Posted November 25, 2022 Share Posted November 25, 2022 PopKulture and OtherEric 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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