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Your Price: $ 6.00
Item Number: 1512 |
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Manufacturer: Famous Authors, Ltd.
Vintage Classics Illustrated Junior comic book published by Famous Authors, Ltd., which was a division of Gilberton Company, Inc. or Gilberton Publications. This is The House in the Woods comic book, No. 543 (Number 543), with 15 cents price on cover. This comic does not show a date on the bottom inside cover as many of the others do. It is not a first edition as the listing on the back cover of other comic books available in the series ends with No. 556 The Elf Mound (HRN #556). This book is not the new reprint (there is no UPC block on this book).
All the Classics Illustrated and Classics Illustrated Junior comic books we are listing came out of the same home where they were purchased as new items for their children in the 1950's and 1960's, so these are not recent reprints. The Classics Illustrated Junior comic books are generally in good/very good or acceptable reading condition but are definitely not mint, showing varying levels of age and wear which will be detailed. All were read and handled by children and thus show expected handling wear. All have interior pages which are browned at the edges, looking overall with an aged paper look, that is, the interior pages are not white as they would have been originally. All have an old comic book smell, not bad, but there if you go sniffing. Many have a child's name or initial noticeably written on the front cover in ink or crayon (and a few have more writing on the cover). For many the interior "connect the dots" illustration has been done or the interior coloring page has been colored.
This The House in the Woods comic is a very nice copy overall, and one of the better condition ones we are listing, but does have a light/partial capital letter of a child's first name prominently written in crayon on the front cover under the title (see image). The connect the dots picture on the inside front cover has been lightly done in pencil (you don't see any indication of this on the front cover as with some of the other comics where this has been done in heavy pencil). The coloring page on the inside back cover is clean/has not been colored. The comic does have some of the usual age reading use/wear but less of it and not objectionable. You can see in the image that the cover as printed was slightly off with the color not going all the way to the top edge (there is a band of uncolored paper at the top of the front cover). There is handling wear to the cover with some light creasing/wrinkling, creases to white along the bound/stapled edge with other paper wear to this edge, corner fold line creasing in the lower right corner, wear/tip bending/chipping to the both right corners, wear/slight bending along the top and bottom edges, etc. The back cover has a largely clean look, with some evidence of handling particularly with bending/creasing along the top edge, but the back cover is very nice overall. The inside pages are clean with some having folding in the lower right corner and some pin holes/small holes in some pages (we believe this is from how the paper was made/handled in printing). This copy includes two pages after the story illustrating and telling Aesop's Fables The Treasure in the Vineyard, followed by one page illustrating and telling the nursery rhyme The Broom, The Shovel, The Poker and the Tongs, with an illustrated page The Animal World, The Skunk on the reverse side.
This collectible comic book measures about 6 7/8 x 10 1/4 inches in size. Given that this is an old or vintage comic book, we do not know what kind of ink was used in the printing (and particularly, whether any lead based inks were used). As such, we will only sell this comic to adult collectors, it should be handled with care, and it should not be given to/handled by children due to concerns with lead exposure.
We have many other comic books listed separately for sale. If you wish to purchase more than one comic book, please e-mail us before placing the order since the shipping information has been inputted for a purchase of just one and will not calculate the savings you would get when purchasing more than one shipped together in the same package (we will need to handle this for you).
Please Note: Comic books must be shipped via U.S.P.S. First Class Mail Package rate; they cannot be shipped via U.S.P.S. Media Mail. The post office does not permit comic books to be shipped via Media Mail due to the advertising that many include in their books. Please choose First Class Mail Package rate shipping for this item (also known as First Class Mail Parcel rate). Thank you. |
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