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It being the Thanksgiving weekend, I had a little time to get around to de-slabbing this Little Orphan Annie Four Color I picked up to read in a Comic Link auction. I thought you all might enjoy the fun. Careful with those tools! Don't slip!

I haven't read it yet but plan to do so before the weekend is over. There is nothing like the feel of one of these mid-forties Dell books.

Marty that's a great line up of the early Disney Four Colors up there. I've got most of them; picking them up since the early seventies at conventions and through the mail. Buying them off the stands must have been a great experience!!

THANKS! I picked up most of them in the Toy Department of W.T. GRANTS in downtown

Newark. It was always a big treat to dig through the rack looking for something truly different.

https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8087/8547912605_18d61c5627_z.jpg' alt='8547912605_18d61c5627_z.jpg'>IMG ALBERT & POGO FC#105

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Marty that's a great line up of the early Disney Four Colors up there. I've got most of them; picking them up since the early seventies at conventions and through the mail. Buying them off the stands must have been a great experience!!

 

THANKS! I picked up most of them in the Toy Department of W.T. GRANTS in downtown

Newark. It was always a big treat to dig through the rack looking for something truly different.

 

https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8087/8547912605_18d61c5627_z.jpg' alt='8547912605_18d61c5627_z.jpg'>IMG ALBERT & POGO FC#105

 

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This summer I dropped off a rental car at Newark airport and took the local bus to the downtown Newark train station to meet my family and my brother. The bus took the route along Market Street. I was imagining what Newark must have looked like back when it was a bustling center. Perhaps W.T. Grants was on that stretch of road? I got a big kick out of passing the old entrance to the Central Railroad of New Jersey station; long abandoned but with the sign still etched out front. Newark seems to be going through a revival these days; a far cry from the condition it was in when I used to ride the train through there home from college on the weekends in the late seventies and early eighties. In those days you just wanted to get in and out of the station as fast as possible!

It being the Thanksgiving weekend, I had a little time to get around to de-slabbing this Little Orphan Annie Four Color I picked up to read in a Comic Link auction. I thought you all might enjoy the fun. Careful with those tools! Don't slip!

 

I haven't read it yet but plan to do so before the weekend is over. There is nothing like the feel of one of these mid-forties Dell books.

 

You not only rescued a great book from its prison, but you got the end of the Turk Top story where justice is served in the best Harold Gray manner, but also the beginning of the Duke/Maisy story just before Sin Sin (the mind reader) arrives. What a great read.

Sweet book. A round of Punjabs to you.

Haven't got them scanned yet, but got in a box of 30 from Mycomicshop last month. and another 30 will be here next week. ! from the first batch is a first series

Got a Nice Shipment in from 4Gem last week.

Did some trades at the Granada Hills Comic Con a few weeks ago so a few more from there.

Have a couple of other trades in work with other boardies for at least a dozen each.

IU will easily smash through the 1000 book mark prior to the end of 2015, and well on my way to 1100 books for 2016.

It being the Thanksgiving weekend, I had a little time to get around to de-slabbing this Little Orphan Annie Four Color I picked up to read in a Comic Link auction. I thought you all might enjoy the fun. Careful with those tools! Don't slip!

 

I haven't read it yet but plan to do so before the weekend is over. There is nothing like the feel of one of these mid-forties Dell books.

 

 

You not only rescued a great book from its prison, but you got the end of the Turk Top story where justice is served in the best Harold Gray manner, but also the beginning of the Duke/Maisy story just before Sin Sin (the mind reader) arrives. What a great read.

Rich I just finished reading the stories and you are correct in that this is a fantastic bit of story making. While dialogue heavy and the figure drawing is stiff the action is certainly there as Annie moves from one dangerous situation to another.

I can't imagine this sort of strip being allowed to be featured in a paper today. Annie makes her own way in the world; wandering off from foster homes at will and foiling the do-gooders looking out for her "welfare". Great stuff! This book deserved to be set free!!

One for the Holidays.

https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3665/9295072970_e1cb7404a0_z.jpg' alt='9295072970_e1cb7404a0_z.jpg'>IMG FOUR COLOR #91

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One for the Holidays.

 

https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3665/9295072970_e1cb7404a0_z.jpg' alt='9295072970_e1cb7404a0_z.jpg'>IMG FOUR COLOR #91

 

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I think Santa got into the eggnog.

https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3762/8925910375_09e92c0aa2_z.jpg' alt='8925910375_09e92c0aa2_z.jpg'>IMG FOUR COLOR #138

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I've never seen this one! Very cool, Marty.

One for the Holidays.

 

https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3665/9295072970_e1cb7404a0_z.jpg' alt='9295072970_e1cb7404a0_z.jpg'>IMG FOUR COLOR #91

 

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I think Santa got into the eggnog.

I was thinking the same thing. Santa looks a little hammered!

It being the Thanksgiving weekend, I had a little time to get around to de-slabbing this Little Orphan Annie Four Color I picked up to read in a Comic Link auction. I thought you all might enjoy the fun. Careful with those tools! Don't slip!

 

I haven't read it yet but plan to do so before the weekend is over. There is nothing like the feel of one of these mid-forties Dell books.

 

Very cool. The book looks so much better out of the slab. Something about seeing a GA comic sitting next to a knife or sicisors is a little unsettling though...

I was updating my Four Color Collection Description in advance of the annual awards. I thought I'd share the last part which is new this year: I'll post some pictures that will likely be new to a few people.

 

Missing Four Colors:

 

I have previously discussed the missing Four Colors. Here now is a list of comics that might well be the “missing Four Color issues”. These were derived by looking at date marks on the cover and determining if they were part of another numbered series of comics that might have existed. For example if Bonanza #5 was trtuly #5 it would say so in the indica. Most of the missing Four Colors simply used a cryptic code of letters that few people understood. But what could be done was to match up dates and the issues that were not part of another series match up nearly perfectly with the missing issues:

 

1217: Ken and Barbie #1 01-053-207

1228: Bonanza 01-070-207

1292: Cain’s Hundred #1 01-094-207

1314: Donald Duck Album 01-204-207

1315: Follow the Sun 01-280-207

1316: King Leanardo 01-390-207

1317: Laramie: 01-418-207

1318: Leave it to Beaver 01-428-207

1319: Lolly and Pepper 01-459-207

1320: Man From Wells fargo 01-495-207

1321: Marge’s Lulu and Tubby in Japan 01-476-207

1322: The Prince and the Pauper 01-654-207

1323: National Velvet 01-556-207

1324: Pixie Dixie and Mr. Jinx 01-631-207

1325: The Real McCoy’s 01-689-207

1326: The Twilight Zone 01-860-207

1327: The Untouchables 01-879-207

1329 This is unusual. Ben casey seems to fit the spot (#1 ) 12-063-207

However Gyro Gearloose also seems to fit the spot. In fact I have a Gyro Gearloose in a CGC case titled Four Color #1329, despite the fact that 1329 is listed nowhere on the title or indica.

1331: Blue Phantom #1 01-066-208

1334: Dazey’s Diary 01-174-208

1338: Fury 01-292-208

1339 Rawhide 01-684-208

1340: Beany and Cecil 01-057-209

1342: Brenda Lee’s Life Story 01-078-209

1343: Bullwinkle 01-090-209

1344: Drift Marlo #1 01-090-209

1345: Famous Indian Tribes #1 12-264-209

1346; Jungle War Stories #1 01-384-209

1347: King Of Diamonds 01-391-209

1351: The Magic Sword 12-496-209

1352: Ponytail #1 12-641-209

1353: 77 Sunset Strip 01-742-209

One book that seems to be lost and would also fit in this slot (1353), is The Twist 01-864-209

1355: Bonanza 01-070-210

1356: The Three Stooges Meet Hercules 01-828-208

1357: Mickey Mouse Album 12-518-210

1358: National Velvet 12-556-210

1359: The Twilight Zone 12-860-210

1360: The Untouchables 12-879-210

1361 (questionable?) Walt Disney’s Goofy: Scoutmaster

 

I have added a great many of these to my collection, but like a lot of the later Four Colors, many are seriously elusive in high grade or in any grade. Cain’s Hundred. King Of Diamonds, Dazeys Diary, The Twist and Jungle War stories are just a few of the titles that many people have never seen, unless they were really looking. Even Marge’s Lulu and Tubby in Japan is practically impossible to find in higher grade. Frankly, you might not see it show up for months at a time.

After four LONG months I finally got back some of my first missing Four Colors that I have personally submitted.

Here is the first missing # 1314. Not especially tough but always scarce in anything over Fine.

Missing 1315. Not especially tough in general but impossibly scarce in high grade. This is the only graded copy, I think.

1316 Not super scarce but this is probably the best and only highest copy.

missing 1321 This rarely ever shows up on EBay or any other site. Most people will have never seen this, I am guessing.

Missing 1325 You can find beater copies of this on EBay all day long. There are a couple other copies in 9.6 as well. I actually have a couple. If anybodu is interested I'd sell it for about $165

Missing 1331 Scarce in high grade plentiful otherwise.

Missing 1334. You are lucky top see one pop up every 2-3 months, IF you are paying attention. This is another unfamiliar cover to many people .Woggen art.