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Awesome accomplishment. Looking forward to seeing the full run in one place. Even as a long time collector, I have never seen most of these previously

I suppose this group shot fits in this thread. The later Four Color slabs.

Next group shot. Last of my three boxes of graded books. Many of them are formerly 4GEM's.via heritage

This seems to be a good place for this shot. All of my non graded Fout Color First series together

I have bout 20 of each the marvel and the DC stamps sets. Have one of each framed and on display in my office I started collecting coins in the early 60's when you could still occasionally find mercury dimes and even Indian head pennies in change

Putting my various locations of comics together. Decided to do a First Series group shot.

Hate it when my tracking information is not up to date. The Four Color 21 from above was purchased from MCS but when putting everything together ( starting with First Series ) I realized that I had long ago traded for a much nicer graded 3.5 from A-1 comics just had not entered it correctly., so straight into the for sale/trade box It looks like I am only missing 4 5 7 and 15 from the entire First series. Over the last year or two I filed several holes including 6,12 18 as well as the 22 above from the excellent inventory system of MCS

building out my second comic closet, for my permanent collection. First one consists of two walls worth of long drawer boxes of just DC post silver age to where I stopped collecting/reading new at the beginning of Pandemic. about 45 boxes so 10K ish Second closet will house my marvels, gold silver DC,s, Classics, Gold Keys as well as finally curated all of my Four Colors together and accesable. I am guessing it has been at least a year, maybe two since I filled anything other than the now 3 boxes of graded four colors Finding small piles of four colors all around and want to be sur etey are all scanned prior to filing. Most of the ones I am scanning now I am not even rebagging into Milites as they are going straight into the two small gray BCE boxes of "replaceable books" I believe my criteria for those was 3.5 and under and lower priced. For some reason I cannot upload images now. I am guessing that my home wifi sometimes cannot support the bandwidth at the distance. I think the spectrum guy told me we had like 18 devices using it. 10th try after restoring draft they uploaded Main four color is 6 of the gray short boxes and 4 Drawer boxes.

finally getting around to scanning the balance of the books I got in during 2023

Finaly getting around to seeing if I can attend. Are there any SWAP Table left? It looked like it was sold out on the website

Wow is that an old article. Almost 30 year. Flipside, which was my main LCS for new books until the pandemic, sold out and closed over a year ago. Collectors dream (den) was a store I traded with for years until his attitude caused him to lose his lease. I did a long term trade and cash deal for an Xmen #1. When I eventually submitted the book to CGC it came back an 8.5 RESTORED. By then the store had closed. When I ran into Mike and mentioned the undisclosed restoration, his response was "You can't PROVE that I sold you that book", and then rapidly walked away. JUST A CROOK IMHO My first LCS in the valley was passport and Earle Bowman. Sadly both have passed on.

That Margie looks like my old copy

Got a couple of very low grade Fist series issues They are 0.5 and 1.8 respectively, but I am very happy to have them fill early holes in my collection. With these two I am only missing 4 of the first series and 6 more of the second series below 41. I then have a solid run of 42-203jh

Here is a book I had never seen before. As an off shoot of Classics not only were Jr's included so were Fast Fiction , Picture stories in the Bible, American history etc. Another variation was the picture news. That is supposed to be a pre Queen version of ELizabeth and came out prior to her fathers death.77 years ago Found this one at the booth of a local guy I have been working with for many years. He opened a shop in Santa Clarita called Cruzin thru comics. TO make our deal balance we greatly expanded it so I got a very nice Showcase 41 first Tommy TOmorrow. As I was not much into TT, I did not think I had it, and even if I did this would be a nice upgrade. I traded him two silver age DC war books and one of the slabbed books I brought

After circling the rooms looking for FOur Colors and Classics I was at Lady T's booth and noticed a T-Man with a Hitler cover. I have about 1/2 of that series, and fortunatley had added the missing issues onto my Mycomicshop want list. I was quickly able to determine that I actually had issue 34, and that it was a reprint on #6. I recircled the main room looking for the even more obscure T-Man. Low and Behold Bedrock had a nice looking copy that also had the Hitler cover. This one was the original #6 but had several spots of restoration. I was glad to be able to trade for it. Moved around more to Harley and he also had an issue #37 ( last issue?) that was in nice grade but at a high price. He looked at the books I was offering, but could only find 1 book that he wanted and it was for less than a third of the cost of his book. Was unable to make a deal for that one.

Here is the only Four Color I was able to add to my collection. Chalk up another trade with Terry

Organizing the Missing Four Colors a bit better, prior to attempting to incorporate them into the main spreadsheet. Here is my current list. I have the bold ones, but do not have the orange highlighted ones. Have about 30 missing about 15. Most of what I have has come from MCS who has the best inventory system around

thanks for the update. did not look too crowded from the pics. Very nice wall display Dale Who else is planning on going on sunday? DOes it save to buy tickets in advance?

I am planning on attending on Sunday. Bringing a few boxes of books to TRADE, sell or consign. Looking for High Grade and selected Four Colors Hopefully someone will post a report after saturdays event The books attached are a couple of the 80 that have been upgraded and hopefully will find a new home

Nice to see our cousins from downunder I recently etered nearly 20 upgrades that came from either Gneerations or eritage group auctions. I was only able to increase my average grade from 4.816 to 4.858 Even though few if any of these books were over my goal of $50 I was able to increase my cost basis from 48.09 to 48.32 as many of these books replaced low grade copies that I only had invested $5 or less many years earlier. Here are a few of the upgrades

Here are some of the LOW grade Four Colors that I recently picked up from MCS . Almost all of these are going straight into the replaceable boxes without even getting rebagged

there are so many parts to adding books to my collection. I recently received 11 upgrades from generations For upgrades: I need to Find the replacement candidate in my various boxes Compare the two books Up bag the keeper into a mylite bag with Acid free backer insert a comic extender or two if warranted. Scan back raw Scan front in new bag Down bag the replaced book Rename the front and back cover scans Enter the books in my Thank You list Update total thank yous for that list Enter old book into my for sale list with cosy and grade Enter the keeper issue in my master spreadsheet along with grade and cost the spreadsheet automaitcally calculates average grade , and average investment for each one hundred as well as for the entire series preform a 3 step sort and replacement to produce my consolidated want/upgrade list. Actually physically file the books into my two tier filing system ( the two short boxes that are culled for upgrades, the three (soon to be 4 magazine boxes of slabbed books or the main filing of 6 short boxes and three long boxes Oh that reminds me, for any CGC books I need to check them in with the registry Thought of another step in the car . ENter them onto the MyComicShop list of books to trade to them. It is probably a good time to send that box off as they have a few nice books that I added to my order just after buying out all of the low grade hole fillers I wanted to attach scans but for some reason I have been unable to upload any images for most of the day. Any ideas why?

While the last one was sold by generations, it does not have the COA like this one does. Also a pic of my upgraded copy I am sure I have already upgraded well over 100 I got the 144 at a really good price ( probably less than the cost of slabbing)

I have been watching and participaating in the Heritage auctions for Four Colors actively for a while. Seems like 4GEMs books are posting less frequently, but has been replaced with listings from DOugs Dell collection. It appears that some of Dougs were actually won on Heritage from Glen a year or two earlier. I received my heritage wins since the beginning of the year. 5 graded books as well as two small lots. Hope to really look through those by the 4th Here is one of the upgrades I got from ebay seller Generations. upon looking at this one compared to my existing 2.5 copy from Terry I am not sure it is really that much better given the significant tape pull on the front cover. Is this really a 5.0?

Will there be a place to drop off comics for off site grading