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[jmg3637]

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?

 

 

 

 

 

 

[kaculler]

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.

[kaculler]

Four Color #6,42,453

This completes the 400s for me.  

[kaculler]

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.

[jmg3637]

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

 

 

[Galen130]

Had this one up for sale recently…no takers.  So it’s back in the box.

[Galen130]

Here’s another one that I found in the wild…pretty difficult to find, I think.

[kaculler]

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.

[jmg3637]

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

[AJD]

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)

[jmg3637]

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?

[kaculler]

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

[AJD]

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)

[jmg3637]

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

[kaculler]

Four Color #221 arrived in the mail today.

[AJD]

Film Preview #36 Australian edition (Four Color #1183)

[OtherEric]

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.

[Galen130]

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. 

[Galen130]

Here's my first slabbed Four Color, #1243.  Found it on the boards from @arexcrooke. 

[OtherEric]

In today.  Toth Zorro.