question on Classics Illustrated 0

[joefixit2]

A friend at work has a large lot of the Classics Illustrated comic books, I've only seen a few of them but they look to be first printings I think.  They are looking to sell them and just trying to figure out if they are worth getting graded.  I don't have any experience with these comics so no idea.   The ones I have at my desk have some light creases and light wear and light yellowing of pages.    Would like to get the most money for them but just not sure if CGC graded is worth the investment.

[comicquant]

29 minutes ago, joefixit2 said:

A friend at work has a large lot of the Classics Illustrated comic books, I've only seen a few of them but they look to be first printings I think.  They are looking to sell them and just trying to figure out if they are worth getting graded.  I don't have any experience with these comics so no idea.   The ones I have at my desk have some light creases and light wear and light yellowing of pages.    Would like to get the most money for them but just not sure if CGC graded is worth the investment.

Those are the 1970's printing so they would cost more to grade than what they would fetch!

[Gotham Kid]

If you are looking to sell in bulk, send me a PM.

I'm preferably looking for 15c covers (but will take 25c covers) of the following issues:

3, 8, 14, 17, 20, 21, 33, 34, 40, 41, 43, 53, 58, 65, 66, 73, 74, 78, 81, 84, 86, 90, 94, 95, 108, 114,

116, 117, 126, 129, 131, 137, 145, 149, 152, 159-169

Looking for copies in raw 6.0 condition or better. Don't care for HRN number.

I bought an entire collection from a board member for $500. The numbers above I'm hoping to upgrade.

Edited October 17, 2017 by Gotham Kid

[joefixit2]

20 hours ago, comicquant said:

Those are the 1970's printing so they would cost more to grade than what they would fetch!

thanks, appreciate the info!

[joefixit2]

16 hours ago, Gotham Kid said:

If you are looking to sell in bulk, send me a PM.

I'm preferably looking for 15c covers (but will take 25c covers) of the following issues:

3, 8, 14, 17, 20, 21, 33, 34, 40, 41, 43, 53, 58, 65, 66, 73, 74, 78, 81, 84, 86, 90, 94, 95, 108, 114,

116, 117, 126, 129, 131, 137, 145, 149, 152, 159-169

Looking for copies in raw 6.0 condition or better. Don't care for HRN number.

I bought an entire collection from a board member for $500. The numbers above I'm hoping to upgrade.

Let me get a list of all the ones they have and I will get with you.  Not sure on the condition of all of them but I am assuming they are all in relatively good shape.

 

[W16227]

they reprinted the books all of the time - look at the back cover - that is where they list all available books. If you have issue 50 - and the list goes up to 75, then you have a reprint - 

 

would be called issue 50 HRN 75

[Bomber-Bob]

Even if they are first prints (somehow I doubt it), it's not worth getting them slabbed. There's real not much of a market for this title anymore and the examples you show look to be about 8.0 range. You see them at flea markets all the time and unless they are heavily discounted they sit forever. 

[Gotham Kid]

9 hours ago, joefixit2 said:

Let me get a list of all the ones they have and I will get with you.  Not sure on the condition of all of them but I am assuming they are all in relatively good shape.

I would buy the whole collection if they are indeed in nice shape and if the price is right. Don't mind doubles. The collection I bought had several doubles, even triples.

The vast majority of the collection has 15c covers but there are a handful of 25c covers in there also.

I bought the collection for my daughters to read and enjoy.

Edited October 18, 2017 by Gotham Kid

[Gotham Kid]

1 hour ago, W16227 said:

they reprinted the books all of the time - look at the back cover - that is where they list all available books. If you have issue 50 - and the list goes up to 75, then you have a reprint - 

 

would be called issue 50 HRN 75

Hey thanks for the explanation. Quite honestly I don't care for HRN number, just looking to have a complete collection in relatively nice shape. Again, no intent to slab. For reading and enjoyment only.

Edited October 18, 2017 by Gotham Kid

[Gotham Kid]

7 minutes ago, Bomber-Bob said:

Even if they are first prints (somehow I doubt it), it's not worth getting them slabbed. There's real not much of a market for this title anymore and the examples you show look to be about 8.0 range. You see them at flea markets all the time and unless they are heavily discounted they sit forever. 

[joefixit2]

Here is the list of what my friend has.  I have not seen them but I am assuming they are in similar condition as the pics

Name	Author	Edition	# of copies
The Three Musketeers	Alexandre Dumas	1
Ivanhoe	Sir Walter Scott	2	2
The Count of Monte Cristo	Alexandre Dumas	3
The Last of the Mohicans	James Fenimore Cooper	4
Moby	Herman Melville	5
A Tale of Two Cities	Charles Dickens	6
Robin Hood		7
Les Miserables	Victor Hugo	9
Robinson Crusoe	Daniel Defoe	10
Don Quixote	Miguel de Cervantes	11
Rip Van Winkle	Washington Irving	12	2
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	Robert Louis Stevenson	13
Uncle Tom's Cabin	Harriet Beecher Stowe	15
Gulliver's Travels	Jonathan Swift	16
The Deer Slayer	James Fenimore Cooper	17
The Hunchback of Notre Dame	Victor Hugo	18
Huckleberry Finn	Samuel L. Clemens	19
Oliver Twist	Charles Dickens	23
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court	Samuel L. Clemens	24
Two Years before the Mast	.H. Dana, Jr.	25
Frankenstein	Mary W. Shelley	26
Michael Strogoff	Jules Verne	28
The Prince and the Pauper	Samuel L. Clemens	29
Lorna Doone	R.D. Blackmore	32
The Mysterious Island	Jules Verne	34
The Last Days of Pompeii	Edward Bulwer-Lytton	35
Typee	Herman Melville	36
Adventures of Cellini		38
Jane Eyre	Charlotte Bronte	39
Twenty Years After	Alexandre Dumas	41
Tom Brown's School Days	Thomas Hughes	45
Kidnapped	Robert Louis Stevenson	46
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea	Jules Verne	47
David Copperfield	Charles Dickens	48
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer	Samuel L. Clemens	50
The Spy	James Fenimore Cooper	51
The Song of Hiawatha	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	57
Wuthering Heights	Emily Bronte	59
Black Beauty	Anna Sewell	60
The Woman in White	Wilkie Collins	61
The Man Without a Country	Edward Everett Hale	63
Benjamin Franklin		65
Julius Caesar	William Shakespeare	68
Around the Workd in 80 Days	Jules Verne	69
The Oregon Trail	Francis Parkman	72
The Lady of the Lake	Sir Walter Scott	75
The Prisoner of Zenda	Anthony Hope	76
Joan of Arc		78
White Fang	Jack London	80
The Odyssey	Homer	81
The Master of Ballantrae	Robert Louis Stevenson	82
Sea Wolf	Jack London	85
Under Two Flags	Ouida	86
A Midsummer Night's Dream	William Shakespeare	87
Men of Iron	Howard Pyle	88
Crime and Punishment	Dostoyevsky	89
Green Mansion	W.H. Hudson	90
The Call of the Wild	Jack London	91
Miles Standish	Longfellow	92
Pudd'nhead Wilson	Samuel L. Clemens	93
David Balfour	Robert Louis Stevenson	94
Daniel Boone	John Bakeless	96
King Solomon's Mines	H.Rider Haggard	97
Hamlet	William Shakespeare	99
Mutiny on the Bounty	Nordhoff & Hall	100
William Tell	Frederick Schiller	101
Bring 'Em Back Alive	Frank Buck	104
From the Earth to the Moon	Jules Verne	105
Buffalo Bill		106
Knights of the Round Table		108
The Talisman	Sir Walter Scott	111
Kit Carson		112
Captains Courageous	Rudyard Kipling	117
Soldiers of Fortune	Richard Harding Davis	119
Wild Bill Hickok		121
The War of the Worlds	H.G. Wells	124
The Ox-Bow Incident	Walter Van Tilburg Clark	125
he King of the Mountains	Edmond About	127
Macbeth	William Shakespeare	128
The Covered Wagon	Emerson Hough	131
The Time Machine	H.G. Wells	133
Romeo and Juliet	William Shakespeare	134
Waterloo	Erckmann Chatrian	135
Lord Jim	Joseph Conrad	136
The Little Savage	Frederick Marryat	137
The Reign of Terror	G.A. Henty	139
Abraham Lincoln		142
Kim	Rudyard Kipling	143
The First Men in the Moon	H.G. Wells	144
The Crisis	Winston Churchill	145
Ben Hur	Lew Wallace	147
The Buccaneer		148	2
Off on a Comet	Jules Verne	149
Wild Animals I Have Known	Ernest Thompson Seton	152
The Invisible Man	H.G. Wells	153
The Conquest of Mexico	Bernal Diaz Del Castillo	156
The Cossack Chief	Nikglai Gogol	164
The Queen's Necklace	Alexandre Dumas	165
In Freedom's Cause	G.A. Henty	168
Negro Americans The Early Years		169

[Gotham Kid]

I have the majority of them but there are a handful of issues that I'm missing to have a complete set. Would purchase all the books if the price is right.

Send me a PM if you're interested to see if we can work something out.

Many thanks.

Edited October 28, 2017 by Gotham Kid