jmg3637

Yes  I was talking about Slayor  as well.  I bought a bunch from him about a year ago,  and was  checking back  to see if he had more that were high on my list.

Never bought from Qualitycomix.

I have picked off  at least half dozen of   $GEMs books  from Heritage.

How far along are the Heritage  offerings  Glen?

Nice Tiny Tim 235  that is a book I am still missing ( got my copy of First Series 20  over a decade ago)

I believe  that  we have the same  ebay sellor in comon.

I did a fairly large transaction with him  early in the year, and filled some major holes,  but as you mention  they were not inexpensive.

Working with him on another batch, but sadly  most of what I need  are also among the Not Ready For Prime TIme   issues. 

I have a bunch of books going up on Heritage during November.  Hopefully  thet will do well   so I can afford to buy  more of 4GEMs  gems   like the #37  that I snagged  last month 

Heritage  now has images up of the  13 books I consigned.  They broke them up into two different  auctions, both in November

Hopefully the links  below  work

Items I'm Selling (ha.com)

Items I'm Selling (ha.com)

Hopefully  these go for a good  chunk of change   so I can pay off the advance HA  gave me,  give more to my wife   and still have enough left  over  to  justify  putting more into the FOUR COLOR portioin  of my collection

Dion't think I have posted  these  yet

On 9/25/2022 at 5:06 PM, jmg3637 said:

the decades  channel  is having a Our Miss Brooks  Marathon

They choose a different OLD show to focus on each week.  Was Adventures of Superman  a few weeks back

I will find the four color issue  and post

Finally found it.

I do need to combine all of the partial folders  to make it easier to search

Alan Ladd  Jr  was a studio executive  as well as the Husband  of Cheryl Ladd  of Charlie's Angels  Fame.

He was also the Boss  of my cousin  for about  30 years.

On 9/30/2022 at 9:20 AM, kaculler said:

Four Color #10 arrived in the mail today and I'm happy with it.  Hopefully I can keep filling in some of the other issues that I need.

nice copy of a key book.

My most recent one page want list shows me that I would be happy  to upgrade my 2.0 copy.

Prior to my cataract surgery  I had to develope an oversized presentation so I could actually  read  the list.   had to sacrifice grade and most of the title  in order to have 12 columns of 29 issues  instead of 6 at 58

out of my 348  want list only 73  are actually missing.  

To fill out the available 275 slots for upgrades I have now placed any book where my copy is 3.0  or lower  unless I actually paid over $38 for it

I have a #37 coming so that will bring me down to only missing 8  of the first 200  issues

The three  PGX  graded books  just came back in new CGC holders .

All came back with the same grade,  and will make it into the same signature series auction in mid June.

i will miss having multiples of some keys, especially  the Adventure 247.  My first grail

the decades  channel  is having a Our Miss Brooks  Marathon

They choose a different OLD show to focus on each week.  Was Adventures of Superman  a few weeks back

I will find the four color issue  and post

DId you get that one  in the presentation binder?

GL with the sale

 I just recieved  a schedule  that 10 of these items  will be in the 11/17-11/18  Signature Series  Auction

If anyone from  here wins  one of the listings  I will send you a gift  of 1/2  the price of the sellers  premium

For example  if the Adventure 247  hammers for $2,000   and you pay 2,400  ,  I will send you a gift box  worth at least $200

a few more of the graded additions  

a couple more  recent  slabed additions  to the collection

Wow  back then I only had one of the first 13 of the first series  

the below  is from my OLD sheets  that I got from the bag man.  This must have been the last time I work with this method  before beginning the excel version.  I still have a notebook with each dc and marvel title I collected  tracked this way

Also included is my first WANT?upgrade list  that I had to track  and format manually 

On 9/11/2022 at 2:58 AM, Larryw7 said:

The early black and white episodes are the best.

I was commenting to my wife  that  the first season  was B&W  while the third season from 1955, the year I was born,  were already in color

A scan of a much older version of my HAVE spreadsheet.  This was from 2012  and I was already ( or only) up to having 750 issues.  I am currently at 1276 issues  and each column has 91 or more issues

I had to develop something like this  just to manage my haves  and needs  I had already started using the graphic  of BOLD for hign grade keepers  

While I used italics  for very low UPGRADABLES

I had not yet moved the FIrst Series issues from the bottom of the page  to their current spot of 1371-1395   an otherwise unysed section of the final column

A relatively new Oldies TV channel called Decades  is running a  marathon  of the B&W Adventures of Superman   from 1952 with George Reeves and Phyllis Coates

I saw those in Reruns  when I was a child in  in the early 60's

Working on the Graded books  I added during the Pandemic

Here are the Missing Four Colors that I picked up .  I have to Work these into my spreadsheet again. I spent  a bit of time on that project, but forgot to save it, and lost the upgrades.  Have not wanted to try again.  I think I now have well over 1/2 of these  issues 

finally  updated  my thank you list  which recognizes  where each book in my collection came from.  Working towards having BOLD for every books that is either Graded  or high grade.

Will probably also have italics  for all 200 books that could use an upgrade.

I do not think I have published this  in a few years

On 9/2/2022 at 11:33 AM, kaculler said:

Two more issues arrived today - Four Color #64 and #251.  The Hubert issue doesn't show up very often, though there is another decent copy on eBay now that was just listed.

 

I have 54 issues left - 33 from 1-99, 9 from the 100s, 8 from the 200s, and 1 each from the 300s, 500s, 600s, and 800s.

I went the opposite way.  I have been focusing on higher grades for the later issues  and mainly focusing  on anything acceptable in the under 200 categories.  As such I only need 8 issues below 100  and only missing 110  from that range

More recent additions during the Pandemic years

It has been quite a project to try and collect  all of the four colors,  especially through trading.

In the early days of the quest I would take most any condition in a trade as long as it filled a hole.  At least a Place Holder

AS i brought the missing issues to under 100  I added  maybe 200 hundred books (2.5 or below)  to the want to upgrade  section.  

Now the missing books is closer to 60 and I upgraded nearly 100 of my worst copies so I added quite a few more by raising the upgrade level to 3.0

Did someone ask for some Richard pics?