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[Tri-Color Brian]

 

[Tri-Color Brian]

 

[Tri-Color Brian]

 

[Tri-Color Brian]

[jimbo_7071]

I picked this one up more for the back cover than the front cover.

[jmg3637]

nice books Brian and Jimbo

I think at least part of this project of including cost into the spreadsheet  is just an excuse to look through the books  again.  So many of the images are burned into my brain that when I see a Four COlor that does not look familiar  I can tell if it is missing  without even knowing the number.

I am also finding minor entries to correct such as the name I had for issue 662 needed to me changed to "When Knighthood was in Flower", or a few books where the grade was way off  or I had entered price as an estimate  and had found correct documentation.

So I have now entered  the 900s and 800s  .  the priced books are now up to 895, but the average continue to fall and is now down to 47.96.  It would have been worse but I entered the 7 books  that are at Heritage from recent wins in 4GEMs  listings.  three of those filled holes  and the others were upgrades

 

Since I can easily track it  I am now looking at  the totals investment my 100's  as well as by last two digits , but  any one big book will really impact this ( with the  addition of 9.2 Bringing up father, the  37's jumped from 27 to 111 and the average for the first one hundred jumped from 139 to 151)

The below books are the first ones I obtained in the under 100 section.  They must have been very early on as several I do not have the trading partner identified.  I have upgraded  the 17  in a deal with Harley last year

[jmg3637]

i have estimated cost and entered the 700s  and 600s and am now up to 997 books evaluated.  Even though I am raising the average values entered and have several books over $100,  the average continued to fall to 46.62.  maybe the trend will change when I get to  first series and first 200 of the second series.  Other than those sections all other hundreds are currently below a 40 average.

Here are some of the early additions   from the low 100 section

Keep running across  boardie trading partners like Montezuma, whose books were all his under copies , and Catrick who I did several trades with,  each of those added at least 50 books to my quest, but the details of which were not tracked at the time.  For Catrick I know  I ended up sending him many of my unusual items that I had picked up in the early days of ebay including many of the books I had won from an ebay seller named Grapevine.  I used to troll his auctions looking for bargains , much like I am   now doing  on 4gems books on heritage.  I have actually won 4 of Glans books with bids under 25 ( of course with  the 29 fee, tax and shipping  the actual cost  nearly triples) 

[PopKulture]

On 11/27/2022 at 9:50 AM, jmg3637 said:

i have estimated cost and entered the 700s  and 600s and am now up to 997 books evaluated.  Even though I am raising the average values entered and have several books over $100,  the average continued to fall to 46.62.  maybe the trend will change when I get to  first series and first 200 of the second series.  Other than those sections all other hundreds are currently below a 40 average.

Here are some of the early additions   from the low 100 section

Keep running across  boardie trading partners like Montezuma, whose books were all his under copies , and Catrick who I did several trades with,  each of those added at least 50 books to my quest, but the details of which were not tracked at the time.  For Catrick I know  I ended up sending him many of my unusual items that I had picked up in the early days of ebay including many of the books I had won from an ebay seller named Grapevine.  I used to troll his auctions looking for bargains , much like I am   now doing  on 4gems books on heritage.  I have actually won 4 of Glans books with bids under 25 ( of course with  the 29 fee, tax and shipping  the actual cost  nearly triples) 

Great stuff - from the best run in comics! That Albert the Alligator number 105 is one of my favorites of the whole run, and yours is in great shape. Even the television books, at which I used to turn my nose up, now appeal to me more and more. I say it all the time: Four Color is the broadest survey of Americana there is!

Sure, Life magazine, for example, had the later 30’s through about the early 60’s (when it lost some of its luster) covered with some great photojournalism by Bourke-White and others, but it was aimed chiefly at adults, thus ignoring too great a slice of the entertainment equation. 

[jmg3637]

Blissard's  listings  were what brought me out of long imposed avoidance of ebay .  I was trolling bidding on  many of his listings  and have a lot of fun file copies, wherehouse finds etc. I have many of the books like Dagwood Splits the Atom  and the caspar major league baseball promotional books in IKEA frames hung in a dozen individual offices at my company and my hallway at home.  Also was bidding on almost all of his auctions that had Four colors.  so far have 85  from him.  hard to hone in values since his listings often had several issues some filling holes and others serving as upgrades.  

The average grade of the books is 4.81 and , except for the 0's @ 3.64, all of the other hundreds were tightly grouped between the 200's @ 4.19  and the 800's @ 5.54

 

In the early days  of my project i tended to avoid Christmas themed issues as well as TV westerns that were before my time, like Cheyene and Lawman.  Now I watch the reruns of those shows on MeTV  since I have the comics.  

 

 

[AJD]

Just for fun, in slow time I'm trying to map the Four Color series into Australian editions. It's complicated by the fact that they split into many series by many publishers. So far I've identified 119 issues, including these 'Movie Classics' by Ace Comics. This pic is from eBay (I didn't buy them) but I now know there were 20 in the series, all FC movie adaptations.

[Get Marwood & I]

On 11/28/2022 at 3:48 AM, AJD said:

Just for fun, in slow time I'm trying to map the Four Color series into Australian editions. It's complicated by the fact that they split into many series by many publishers. So far I've identified 119 issues, including these 'Movie Classics' by Ace Comics. This pic is from eBay (I didn't buy them) but I now know there were 20 in the series, all FC movie adaptations.

I gathered images of the UK 'Movie Classics' reprints by World Distributors a few years back (there were gaps on the GCD at the time). We'll have to cross reference for any triples Andy 

    

[Robot Man]

Love those round logo Dell books with the matte covers. Around 1947? Really the high spot for them and the matte covers really make the colors pop!

[Tri-Color Brian]

I am far from being a Four-color collector, but I really like the few I've picked up here and there, especially the Duck books.  The most I've ever paid for a Four-color was $50ea, and that was for 2 Duck books.  Most of them have been between $3 and $10 at comic shops.  It's funny, I see these (especially the TV show comics) as being very nostalgic, but my serious comic collector friends look at me like I'm insane when I buy them. 

[OtherEric]

On 11/29/2022 at 1:38 PM, Tri-ColorBrian said:

I am far from being a Four-color collector, but I really like the few I've picked up here and there, especially the Duck books.  The most I've ever paid for a Four-color was $50ea, and that was for 2 Duck books.  Most of them have been between $3 and $10 at comic shops.  It's funny, I see these (especially the TV show comics) as being very nostalgic, but my serious comic collector friends look at me like I'm insane when I buy them. 

I think the most I ever paid for a Four Color was $75.  Which, at the time, was the most I had ever paid for a comic.  

It’s looking like the me from 30 years ago made a good call.

[Tri-Color Brian]

@OtherEric  I think you did.  And I think mine were a good buy too...but I doubt I will ever want to sell them...

 

[AJD]

Some more 'Australian Four Colors' I just got in. I've been surprised at just how many 'Duck Album' issues there were.

G19 (FC #450)

G25 (FC #531)

G35 (FC #595)

G36 (FC #611)

G38 (FC #627)

G50 (FC #649)

 

[50YrsCollctngCmcs]

On 11/30/2022 at 6:58 AM, Tri-ColorBrian said:

@OtherEric  I think you did.  And I think mine were a good buy too...but I doubt I will ever want to sell them...

 

Two of the best stories right there! I loved Barks’ fake Latin in Golden Helmet and on occasion will still quote it today!

[damonwad]

A couple Four Color "#1's".

 

[AJD]

Four Color 'number 1s' is a great idea for a subset. here are two more

[OtherEric]

A few more Four Color first issues: