jmg3637

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

I have two from the 1994 warehouse find.  Coincidently I just dropped one off for a grading.  Could be a9:8 

I agree,  this had to be someone who was aware of the collection, and likely also aware of when Frank would be not be around.

If these are the same small gray acid free boxes  that I use ( from Bill cole around 30 years ago)   they only hold less than 100 books each.

Given 1200 four colors  and hundreds of other books mentioned  we are looking at 20+ of these boxes and even with a dolly  it would take several trips  to transport and load all of these books into a vehicle.

AS an avid Four Color Collector I agree  that  most of these books are not high dollar, unless very high grade  and\or slabbed. 

If I lost my collection  I would not have the heart  to begin again  after collecting these almost exclusively for the last 15 years.

So sorry for your loss,  and hoping that the community  helps find  the scum who took them from you  

Nice OLD  book.  I had my first copy sitting out in my office for quite a while.   Now I have my slabbed copy of Pirate Gold  on display.

I am sending off my undercopy of #17  to MCS  in my next lot. .  Even though it is a bit lower than yours, it should reach the consigment value

I am also including  in the MCS box   are some Promotional Harvey comics  such as American Airlines  and Weather Bird SHoes.  Won a bunch of stuff like that  off ebay  from our owm Blissard.  They were advertised as files copies, and they are beautiful.  Wonder how the MCS graders will view them?

was very happy  to fill this hole.  From a fairly recent transaction with MCS

I think this completes the entire run of Little Lulu's  

I even have two  that I have upgraded  and I will be sending off to trade  with MCS  for some new additions soon

I have  that Nellie  on my upgrade list as my copy is only a 3.0

So, upon reviewing further  I found that with getting 1335 Aggie Mack  I have actually completed all of the "Standard" Four Colors in the 1300 range.  There are not many of the potential 54 that are actually in the real Four Color system  instead of the "missing Four Color".  In the spreadsheet  I had active space sfor 1329 and  1334.  I knew 1329 was really a missing, but had not realized that the name filling in 1334  was repeated form a few issues earlier .

I also only need 673, 740  and 835 to complete each of those 100's  and have a string of  over 300 in a row.  

I have a copy , or maybe still two, of the Your United States mentioned as a :good Comic"

SO after adding 23 FOur Colors I am I am down to only 42 left.  Of those 6 are first series  and another 6 are among the first 50 issues in second series.  That is followed by my best streak   of completed between 42 and 203.

I was surprised that with so many additions and how few are left  that I did not finish any other 100 columns

I will do a deeper dive into the stats  over the weekend

I just pulled the trigger  on a large purchaase  from MCS.  I won a  First Series # 12  Little Orphan Annie .  Now down to only 6 missing  in the First Series.

They issued a store wide 10-20% discount  that is running now but for only maybe a few more days.  If you are not a member  sign up through the link below  I will get a credit and will send you comics  as a thank you.  SOmebody did this last year and I got a $$ credit, but they forgot  to tell me so I cannot respond. I do think they have the best  collector website in the business.  Is there anybody even close?

Anyway this  discount prompted me to add most of the items  in my basket to the order  and have a total of 28 books coming.  3 of my missing Classics , 5 Missing Four Colors  and 20 Actual Four COlors that I was missing.  I went against my principles  as only 5 of htese books will be EITHER 4.0 or above or cost over $25. and 15 of the 20  will move from missing section right to the UPgradable  section.  In the process I will decrease  both my average cost and average grade.

Once these arrive I will be down to about 40 holes in  both runs combined

Last weeks Riverdale  was loaded  with comic books,  Really  this entire Final year/retroboot  is loaded with them.  From what I can tell  all of the characters  have a comicbook eel to their images.  Just look at Archies  skin and hair

Drawer boxes is the way to go.  you can have access to all of the books even in  a stack 6 high of boxes.

The magazine size  fit  slabs  very nicely

I was/am A claccis illustrated collector before beginning  on the four colors.  As I neared completion of the much easier any HRN  copy i switched to the four colors.  Picked up another 3  on my list fro. The ebay seller Generations. Very nice copies  at reasonable prices.  Earliest  copy was a 529 little beaver from 1954

Got me wondering where the character originated.  I know that Robert Blake played him in some kind of shorts after his days in the little rascals

I was actually  reading/collecting  from about 1965  through 1969.  Mostly  DC.

Gave it up for about 15 years  until Crisis drew  me back into reading.  and that quickly grew into buying collections  to "fill in"  the gaps.

Stopped reading and buying new issues  with the onset of the pandemic 

I restarted collecting  in about 1985.

While I am closing in on retirement, HOPEFULLY I AM NOWHERE near dying.

Also  I tried to get my daughters interested in the hobby.  One of them enjoyed reading Archie  and Mad,  but neither of them are interested in the work it would require  to slowly sell off my collection

So the Adventure 247 ( my original grail)  sold for only 2100 or relisting.  quite a hit from the previous 3,000>  At least it was my undercopy

This is a link  to the remaining book that failed to be paid for.  Still wondering what kind of penalty applies to the bidder  who fails to pay.  I asked my reps  but have not gotten an answer.

You can view and bid on my entire consignment in auction #7339 at the following link: https://www.ha.com/c/search.zx?saleNo=7339&collection=121&type=friend-consignorlive-notice&FC=0

If the link does not work it is the freshly graded version of the All Flash 2  pictured above.  Closes in 5 days and is currently at 525 .  Dont actually remember what it closed for originally

How about calling  him Conserved

I am looking forward to this show.

In past years  this was the best  show  in the Los Angeles area.

I had no problem with the Paladium.  Plenty of parking in a secure lot  right at the event.

I did not like the earlier venue down by LAX.  Felt like a dungeon

Hope more information is posted soon

New HP  All-in-one replacement  has the same problem   the other one had.  It will not maintain a direct connection  to the primary home PC  to send scans to

It is at least bow working  where the PC can access and order  the scan.  A couple of added benefits of this method are that  the settings are all saved.  JPG,   with a time/datestamp   and the ability to save multiple images 

I am sure I have some extra hawk an, but likely  not high grade as they are my under copies.

Dont forget the Atom/hawkman issue at the end of the Atom run

Since I posted last  I have had  and recovered from COVID

We have also recarpeted  about 1/3rd of the house.

So that means I am finally able to build out  another Walk-in Comic closet in the bedroom  where my youngest  daughter ( 28) lived until a year and a half ago.

I was able to convince HP to replace the  awful printer I had purchased from them as it kept loosing connection almost every time I went to use it.

Got the new one  installed and  my PC computer moved upstairs as well ( My wife got a Apple so we no longer have to share.)

These scans are the first with the new setup.  Worked very easy.  Most of these books are  from the 4GEM collection being auctioned off at Heritage on a Weekly basis

On 8/12/2022 at 8:59 AM, jmg3637 said:

How do you think I will do?

 

Most of these I purchased off ebay in the early days.

The CGC ones are in old labels and purchased graded.  The PGX ones I had graded in 2005 while I just had the CBCS ones  graded last year

 

I think this is the raw 247.  I kept the 8.0  for myself

 

ACE COMICS	1	3		PGX
ADVENTURE	247	3		CBCS
ALL-FLASH QUARTERLY	2	5		PGX
ALL-FLASH QUARTERLY	3	3		CBCS
COMIC CAVALCADE	1	6		CGC
COMIC CAVALCADE	4	2.5		CBCS
GREEN LANTERN	14	7		PGX
GREEN MASK	1	6.5		CBCS
HOUSE OF SECRETS	1	2.5		CBCS
MORE FUN	19	5		CBCS
SAMSON	1	4		CBCS
SHOWCASE	8	6	M/E PRO	CBCS
WORLD'S FINEST	13	7		CGC

Two of my 13 listings   did not get paid for.

The Adventure 247 had closed at $3,000.  When I  checked yesterday  it was  under $700 with 2 days to go

So now is your chance to get an affordable  GRAIL

On 11/30/2022 at 1:34 PM, jmg3637 said:

My undercopy  of Adventure 247  is on sale now at heritage..

 

I believe it is the one that has been my avatar  since I joined this site.

This book is BACK up for Auction at heritage.

For some reason  the winning bidder s on two of my  lots failed to pay.

Hard to believe this thread  has had NO action in over 3 months

LONG LIVE LEGION!

based on the way MCS listed this one (#208 as in August of '62) I thought it might have been a missing Four Color and added it to my want list along with dozens of other Missing Four Colors  years ago 

Turns out it was actually a spun off series  which was listed as Jonny Jason Teen Reporter #2 inside.  Bht a fun book to look at.  How many issues did the series run anyway?

Finally got a chance to start scanning  the additions from MCS.  Mostly the Missing Four COlors

Not sure why, but having trouble uploading newly scanned jpegs

Well actually the entire post  did not work.  Looks like  it is working correctly  now