4GEMWORKS Posted August 31, 2018 Share Posted August 31, 2018 On 8/29/2018 at 11:24 PM, jmg3637 said: I also read the funny pages as a kid, especially enjoyed them on Sunday when there was a whole section and it was in color. I read those for years prior to finding out about comic books. here are a few more from Blissard. I wonder what was the earliest comic that was devoted to a real horse? I ended up selling most of my Four Color extras through Heritage where they sold them in lots of 1-15 books. I saw that a lot of them ended up on Blizzards site. I recognized the Crippen D copy Bugs Bunny immediately. Looks like you ended up with a good many of my duplicates after all. In fact it's clear to me that one of Blissards top sales methods is to buy the big raw lots from Heritage and sell them off one by one. It's a lot of work but when you can post a couple of hundred books a week it can sharpen your reputation as a seller over time. Gnasher 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4GEMWORKS Posted August 31, 2018 Share Posted August 31, 2018 On 8/28/2018 at 1:07 PM, Sqeggs said: This one is a little tougher to find. Long-forgotten now, but I think silent Henry was still on the comics pages when I was a kid. Henry was indeed a staple in our local paper up until at least 1070-75 or so. great book! Gnasher 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sqeggs Posted August 31, 2018 Share Posted August 31, 2018 10 hours ago, 4GEMWORKS said: I ended up selling most of my Four Color extras through Heritage where they sold them in lots of 1-15 books. I saw that a lot of them ended up on Blizzards site. I recognized the Crippen D copy Bugs Bunny immediately. Looks like you ended up with a good many of my duplicates after all. In fact it's clear to me that one of Blissards top sales methods is to buy the big raw lots from Heritage and sell them off one by one. It's a lot of work but when you can post a couple of hundred books a week it can sharpen your reputation as a seller over time. Yes, I think you are right. It may explain why raw lots (of all kinds of books) on Heritage have tended to do better than you might expect. Of course, there must be another dealer (or collector) that's bidding along with him for prices to be pushed up as much as they have been. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tri-Color Brian Posted August 31, 2018 Share Posted August 31, 2018 On 8/6/2018 at 9:13 PM, sfcityduck said: Close, but no cigar. FC 353 (October 1951) is the first time Carl Barks' penciled Scrooge on a cover, but it was a mere cameo (actually, the very definition of a cameo, e.g., a small portrait). The first time that Scrooge ever appeared on a comic cover was actually Walt Disney's Vacation Parade (July 1951), but that was a mere crowd shot where he straddled the fold: The chronology is this: * Vacation Parade 2 (July 1951) - 1st Cover Appearance (cameo crowd shot) * FC 353 (Oct. 1951) - 2nd Cover Appearance (cameo), 1st by Barks * FC 379 (March-April 1952) - 3rd Cover Appearance, 1st time featured on Cover * FC 386 (March 1952) - 4th Cover Appearance; 2nd by Barks, 2nd featured * WDC&S 140 (May 1952) - 5th Cover Appearance, 3rd by Barks, 3rd featured, 1st on title,1st by Barks on WDC&S Which just goes to illustrate that you should be skeptical of what the auction houses say. For example, Heritage states: "Only a Poor Old Man is the first Uncle Scrooge solo story, Scrooge's first cover appearance, and the book that counts as Uncle Scrooge #1" https://comics.ha.com/itm/golden-age-1938-1955-/four-color-386-uncle-scrooge-dell-1952-cgc-nm-94-off-white-to-white-pages/a/825-44210.s?ic4=OtherResults-SampleItem-071515&tab=ArchiveSearchResults-012417 The first two representations are both wrong. FC 386 is also not the first Scrooge solo story or even the first story without Donald Duck. Thanks for the great info sfcity...I guess if you want to know about a duck you need to ask one... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmg3637 Posted September 1, 2018 Share Posted September 1, 2018 4GEM I'll bet we both would have done better if you and I had dealt directly with each other on those under copies of yours. finally reached the end of that Blissard batch with these last two Gnasher 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmg3637 Posted September 3, 2018 Share Posted September 3, 2018 Time to move on to the batch from Terry O'Neil from the LAX show in July If any body has extra Four Colors check out mt WTTF thread in the want to buy section. Gnasher 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmg3637 Posted September 5, 2018 Share Posted September 5, 2018 A few more from Terry sagii and Gnasher 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmg3637 Posted September 7, 2018 Share Posted September 7, 2018 A few more from Terry via the hopefully annual pre-COMIC-CON LAX show Sure hope that somebody who looks at this thread can find books to trade to me. Between Totally missing and up-gradable copies I can still use almost 400. sagii and Gnasher 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmg3637 Posted September 9, 2018 Share Posted September 9, 2018 A few more from Terry. I picked up quite a few Beany and Cecil's from him this time around sagii 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmg3637 Posted September 10, 2018 Share Posted September 10, 2018 And a few more from Terry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmg3637 Posted September 15, 2018 Share Posted September 15, 2018 5 days since the last post in this thread. And it had not even fallen off the second page Here are a few more from Terry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmg3637 Posted September 19, 2018 Share Posted September 19, 2018 This one was a file copy from Harley. Still from the LAX show pre ComicCon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4GEMWORKS Posted September 20, 2018 Share Posted September 20, 2018 23 hours ago, jmg3637 said: This one was a file copy from Harley. Still from the LAX show pre ComicCon FYI-Quite a few of the FC lots on Heritage this week are my books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4GEMWORKS Posted September 20, 2018 Share Posted September 20, 2018 I take that back, they start on Sunday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmg3637 Posted September 26, 2018 Share Posted September 26, 2018 On 9/19/2018 at 11:04 PM, 4GEMWORKS said: FYI-Quite a few of the FC lots on Heritage this week are my books. I looked at the lots, and it seemed like none of them had more than 10% books that i still need, so not worth pursuing for me. How did the lots do? These two were hanging on the wall at my office until I brought them home to be reunited with the rest of the collection Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4GEMWORKS Posted September 28, 2018 Share Posted September 28, 2018 they actually close this Sunday On 9/26/2018 at 12:47 AM, jmg3637 said: I looked at the lots, and it seemed like none of them had more than 10% books that i still need, so not worth pursuing for me. How did the lots do? These two were hanging on the wall at my office until I brought them home to be reunited with the rest of the collection day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmg3637 Posted October 4, 2018 Share Posted October 4, 2018 Dont think I have posted these from Terry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted October 11, 2018 Share Posted October 11, 2018 Revive the thread with a fun mid-grade I bought at Oafcon in Norman, Oklahoma last weekend. Sqeggs and AJD 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sagii Posted October 11, 2018 Share Posted October 11, 2018 8 hours ago, Badger said: Revive the thread with a fun mid-grade I bought at Oafcon in Norman, Oklahoma last weekend. ...One of the best covers in the Bugs series Badger 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sqeggs Posted October 12, 2018 Share Posted October 12, 2018 11 hours ago, sagii said: 20 hours ago, Badger said: Revive the thread with a fun mid-grade I bought at Oafcon in Norman, Oklahoma last weekend. ...One of the best covers in the Bugs series I love it! One of the Bugs FCs that I'm missing. Badger 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
