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Lemaven:
1) My youngest daughter just got her first University acceptance/scholarship offer so I will have no money left to buy stamps for the next 4 years. 2) "Mrs Lemaven" wants me to clean up the 3 rooms I have stamps lying around in; and says I can only use the sales proceeds for future purchases of stamps and potato chips. 3) I recently added 2 more clients to my consulting practice, and my relaunch of The Holocaust Stamps Project (Canada) is more time-consuming than anticipated. So...I've got to clean out things here and concentrate more on getting my own albums organized.
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"2) "Mrs Lemaven" wants me to clean up the 3 rooms I have stamps lying around in..."
I shared Dave's original post with my wife, and told her, "See--it goes with the territory." And now "Mrs. GeoStamper" is involved:
"I'd like to see the postings dealing with clean and organized stamp rooms/areas, with no overflow into other parts of the house."
Thus the challenge is on. I had cleaned up part of my stamp area over Christmas to the point where my desk was aaaallllmost ready for a picture. And then the last three weeks exploded and I'm back to the status quo.
So are we brave enough to start a thread on photos of stamping areas in our houses? Maybe we already have such a thread? Prizes for the most orderly and least orderly?
But, whether it's organized or cluttered, its my own personal mess and I enjoy it!
-Steve
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"Mrs. GeoStamper" said, "I'd like to see the postings dealing with clean and organized stamp rooms/areas, with no overflow into other parts of the house."
OK, here goes. This is my stamp nook, which takes up part of my study. I always keep it neat and clean, and my wife is very happy. 
And I have some stamp-related "art" as well:
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You're not helping me here Doug... 
Kidding aside, that is one nice stamp nook!
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The desktop space is a bit short, so my overflow area is the dining room table.
And the apartment storage is limited so my storage locker is full top to bottom with banker boxes... a real pain when you need to get to something at the bottom of the pile.
I really need a bigger office!
Indonesian wood carvings floating above, and New Guinea masks from the Sepic region on the small wall at the left. No stamp art on the walls.
I miss my old office, where I had two large desks in an L shaped configuration, and less windows, so more bookcases (which were 12 feet tall!) (as seen on my avatar), but modern condos give you plenty of windows, and few walls. The bookcase here is free standing..two bookcases back to back, floor to ceiling, separating my "office" space from the living room and providing the much needed bookcase space...stamps and stamp albums on one side and books on the other side.
If I had to do it again, I would have moved the bookcase 2 feet to the left, and made the shelves two inches deeper, but a smaller living room did not go well with my wife 
, when suggested!
I just need to downsize my collection and get rid of more stamps!
rrr...
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Doug and Ralph:
Those are great setups that you have!!
Thanks for showing them. Inspiring!
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Thank you, Philatarium. My modest collection is easy to keep neat. I'm much more impressed with the way Ralph has been able to tame his massive holding. 
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Wow! Both stamp areas are very impressive.
rrraphy - I don't see room for a cat on your new desktop area??
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Stamp room in atmospheric black and white and grays (greys if you are British). I tried to stage the cat, but she immediately bolted, as It wasn't her idea. She has a lot of nerve, seeing that her hairs inhabit all my albums.
I thought I was getting carried away with albums, but when I see rrr and Douglas' rooms, I realize I am but a piker.
Cheers,
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Remembered we had a similar thread a couple of years ago.
https://stamporama.com/discboard/disc_main.php?action=20&id=13451#100458
My room has changed little, although a lot more are soaked off now and into envelopes, glassines and stockbooks, with some even mounted in albums.
But hopefully the builders will be in later this year to rip out the internal side of external walls to be sprayfoamed and rebuilt. Amongst a lot of other work.
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Unfortunately Mocha our old,15 year old, cat is no longer stamping with me. And we have gone cat free! Simplifying!!
But I don't know how it would have fit on my current desk.
Anyone ever noticed how cats can spot the valuable stamps on your desk, by always laying on top ( protecting them?), when you are working with a bunch of stuff!
Rrr...
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You are right, Sheepshanks, there is another thread with photos of stamp rooms. Just went back and looked, mine has changed a little.
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As some philosopher is reported to have said;
" ... A neat desk is the sign of a sick mind..."
probably as an excuse to his spouse for;
" A Desk Called Chaos," which will be
the name of my next book.
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There are some nice clean offices.
This is a picture of my door at work.
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Mine is in different spots of the house - spread over 3 rooms.
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If it was up to my wife, this would be my stamp room
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I never realised how many albums I have until I looked at these pictures. There's over 70 albums!
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I have almost 100 5-inch binders, plus a bookshelf full of reference material and smaller binders and stock books. The bedroom looks like a stamp shop without a cash register. I am under instructions to... or else... gulp!
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Wow! You folks don't mess around. Those are some world-class stamping grounds. The area Bunny Marti lets me work in used to be called the larder!!!
Winedrinker: Thank-you for explaining about your cat. I thought it was a turkey. Was wondering, "Why does this person let his turkey around his stamps?" Live and learn.
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We need to dust this thread off. After I snapped the pic I noticed it was a little crooked. I straighten it out. haha
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looking at these rooms, including Charlie's who is no longer with us, was a treat; i'd left many from 2018 go unread.
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Hey guys, I dont wanna be presumptuous here but can I just get a few more likes on my framed art in my stamp room? I'd feel alot better if I could get at least 4 likes. Come on guys, help a brother out.
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What??? I made it! Im up to five likes.
We should do some kind of cool fundraiser for a great cause. Maybe using likes or something like that.
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.... or not. Haha probably even better.
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One of the non-Marvel comics I collect are the several different versions of Tarzan. I have all Marvel Tarzans, most of the Gold Key and almost all of the DC Tarzans. The ones that are very hard to find are the Dell versions and I only have about half of those. It must have taken a while to get all of the Dell Indian Chief comics - congratulations!! Unfortunately there are 131 Dell Tarzan comics. I doubt if I'll live long enough to finish those!! Here are the numbers: Dell - 131, Gold Key - 74, DC - 51 and Marvel - 32 TOTAL of 288 Tarzans!
Sorry, I know this is off topic - my bad!!
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Not that difficult really
But you should also include the Annuals
I'd show you the rest of the Gold Key, DC and Marvel but they are not near as nice covers as the Dell's
I guess now you know the reason I choose the NICK
Harvey you also need the Gold Key Koraks and the Tarzan Family from DC!
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Almost forgot these two !!! 
As we have comic collectors within our membership, can I please ask if anyone has any of the "Pathfinder story/illustrated storyboard style" albums that I think were issued ion the 1950-60's.
They were stories of the pioneer days and battles between English/French/natives, last of the Mohicans style. I think they were issued when the 1952 film was produced.
I have some but not the one in which our hero is on a floating log cabin (named old tom?) and the illustrated story ends with the words, I sort of recall, "He has a love, it's the wind, the rain,the sun, the dew upon soft grass".
Would just love to know the correct order of the words. So on the off chance that someone here may know or possess the books, I would be much obliged.
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Robert,
Thanks for sharing those. Dell comics are a great piece of Americana.
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Dell4c, that is it, my old memory seems to have confused things somewhat, but it was around 70 years ago. Thank you so much, those words always stuck in the memory, even if a bit jumbled.
I even remember the canoe going off into the distance. Do you happen to know when it was published?
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Amazing collections, those Dells make me green with envy. Those comics are quite expensive especially the older ones. Are these newer collections or did you collect them as a kid? I mostly collected Marvels but I really like some of the Gold Key and Dell comics!! Thanks very much for sharing!! I have an agreement with mycomicshop.com that they will get my collection, I really have to get my will fixed up soon to mention specifically some of this stuff!!
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That page is from the Classics Illustrated #17 Deerslayer.
There were twelve versions of this issue. They had two different covers but only one set of interior art work. The inital comic was sixty pages and reduced to a fifty-two page format in the fifth version.
Version 1: O, Jan 1944 - Original
Version 2: HRN 18, Mar 1944 - .10 cover price deleted
Version 3: HRN 22, Oct 1944 - Queens County Times
Version 4: HRN 28, Jun 1946 - 'Motto added under logo
Version 5: HRN 60, Jun 1949 - Ci Logo; Pages reduced to 48
Version 6: HRN 64, Oct 1949 -
Version 7: HRN 85, Jul 1951 - Cover price .15; heavier cover
Version 8: HRN 118, Apr 1954 -
Version 9: HRN 132, May 1956 -
Version 10: HRN 167, Nov 1966 - Last LDC reprint
Version 11: HRN 166, R/1968 - New cover and price .25
Version 12: HRN 169, Spring 1971 - hard cover, letters from parents and educators replace binders
These are the two differtent covers used.
I was interested in collecting a single copy of all the different artworks at one time and there is a catalog listing all this stuff. It only had a print of 500 but a great resource.
Bob
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Harvey, I don't buy comics anymore but collected all my life. Dell was always my favorite and Russ Manning my favorite artist, Although Hogarth is a close second. Stamps are much easier to manage than long boxes of comics and consume most of my hobby time now.
Glad you like the comic covers!
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The comics information posts have been a lot of fun to see. I never collected comics but did read a couple thousand or so over the years so purchased and eventually transferred them to others through one means or another.
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Dell4c, thanks for the list, my memory cell recalls that it was an hardback book, but certainly as a child, so not the 1971 issue. Maybe in UK it was issued differently?
Very much appreciate your efforts and images, stopped an earworm in it's tracks, thank you again, and yes sorry to have hijacked the thread.
Edit: Upon checking, I think the UK books were titled Hawkeye and the last of the Mohicans.
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Bob, I had a fair number of Classics Illustrated years ago but not any more. I must have traded them for others I wanted. Do you remember when groups of kids used to spend afternoons trading comics? I remember a few very rare items I used to own. There was an early copy of Tales To Astonish (#27) that included the origin of Ant Man, about a year before he got his own strip as half of Tales To Astonish (#35). It's worth a fortune now, minimum $5K, and I traded it away!! I wonder what I got for it!!
I'm still looking for the Tarzan comics I'm missing. There are a few other Dell/Gold Key comics I have collections of - Korak Son of Tarzan, Turok Son of Stone, Magnus Robot Fighter, Mighty Sampson (complete) and Super Car (complete). There was something about these early comics I really liked, especially the Mighty Sampson and the Supercar!
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Hi all, I actually have 2 (TWO!) stamp rooms. Since retiring 2 years ago my real office is my email & Ebay room. The Zeps on the wall I bought on Ebay for $1500, 30 years ago, did the high res scans, printed & framed them, then sold the stamps for $1500 on ebay. Blown up the engraving is really fun to stare at. I even found frame material that looks like an engraved pattern! The other room is where I work on my albums. Thanks for sharing - fun to see all the spaces!
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Leif,
Thats EPIC. Thanks for sharing. That would make me smile every time I walked into the room.
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LOVE the Zepps.
A good stamp room is a messy one!
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Lemaven:
1) My youngest daughter just got her first University acceptance/scholarship offer so I will have no money left to buy stamps for the next 4 years. 2) "Mrs Lemaven" wants me to clean up the 3 rooms I have stamps lying around in; and says I can only use the sales proceeds for future purchases of stamps and potato chips. 3) I recently added 2 more clients to my consulting practice, and my relaunch of The Holocaust Stamps Project (Canada) is more time-consuming than anticipated. So...I've got to clean out things here and concentrate more on getting my own albums organized.
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"2) "Mrs Lemaven" wants me to clean up the 3 rooms I have stamps lying around in..."
I shared Dave's original post with my wife, and told her, "See--it goes with the territory." And now "Mrs. GeoStamper" is involved:
"I'd like to see the postings dealing with clean and organized stamp rooms/areas, with no overflow into other parts of the house."
Thus the challenge is on. I had cleaned up part of my stamp area over Christmas to the point where my desk was aaaallllmost ready for a picture. And then the last three weeks exploded and I'm back to the status quo.
So are we brave enough to start a thread on photos of stamping areas in our houses? Maybe we already have such a thread? Prizes for the most orderly and least orderly?
But, whether it's organized or cluttered, its my own personal mess and I enjoy it!
-Steve
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"Mrs. GeoStamper" said, "I'd like to see the postings dealing with clean and organized stamp rooms/areas, with no overflow into other parts of the house."
OK, here goes. This is my stamp nook, which takes up part of my study. I always keep it neat and clean, and my wife is very happy.
And I have some stamp-related "art" as well:
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You're not helping me here Doug...
Kidding aside, that is one nice stamp nook!
-Steve
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The desktop space is a bit short, so my overflow area is the dining room table.
And the apartment storage is limited so my storage locker is full top to bottom with banker boxes... a real pain when you need to get to something at the bottom of the pile.
I really need a bigger office!
Indonesian wood carvings floating above, and New Guinea masks from the Sepic region on the small wall at the left. No stamp art on the walls.
I miss my old office, where I had two large desks in an L shaped configuration, and less windows, so more bookcases (which were 12 feet tall!) (as seen on my avatar), but modern condos give you plenty of windows, and few walls. The bookcase here is free standing..two bookcases back to back, floor to ceiling, separating my "office" space from the living room and providing the much needed bookcase space...stamps and stamp albums on one side and books on the other side.
If I had to do it again, I would have moved the bookcase 2 feet to the left, and made the shelves two inches deeper, but a smaller living room did not go well with my wife , when suggested!
I just need to downsize my collection and get rid of more stamps!
rrr...
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Doug and Ralph:
Those are great setups that you have!!
Thanks for showing them. Inspiring!
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Thank you, Philatarium. My modest collection is easy to keep neat. I'm much more impressed with the way Ralph has been able to tame his massive holding.
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Wow! Both stamp areas are very impressive.
rrraphy - I don't see room for a cat on your new desktop area??
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Stamp room in atmospheric black and white and grays (greys if you are British). I tried to stage the cat, but she immediately bolted, as It wasn't her idea. She has a lot of nerve, seeing that her hairs inhabit all my albums.
I thought I was getting carried away with albums, but when I see rrr and Douglas' rooms, I realize I am but a piker.
Cheers,
Wine
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Remembered we had a similar thread a couple of years ago.
https://stamporama.com/discboard/disc_main.php?action=20&id=13451#100458
My room has changed little, although a lot more are soaked off now and into envelopes, glassines and stockbooks, with some even mounted in albums.
But hopefully the builders will be in later this year to rip out the internal side of external walls to be sprayfoamed and rebuilt. Amongst a lot of other work.
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Unfortunately Mocha our old,15 year old, cat is no longer stamping with me. And we have gone cat free! Simplifying!!
But I don't know how it would have fit on my current desk.
Anyone ever noticed how cats can spot the valuable stamps on your desk, by always laying on top ( protecting them?), when you are working with a bunch of stuff!
Rrr...
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You are right, Sheepshanks, there is another thread with photos of stamp rooms. Just went back and looked, mine has changed a little.
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As some philosopher is reported to have said;
" ... A neat desk is the sign of a sick mind..."
probably as an excuse to his spouse for;
" A Desk Called Chaos," which will be
the name of my next book.
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An update on my Stamp room.
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There are some nice clean offices.
This is a picture of my door at work.
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Mine is in different spots of the house - spread over 3 rooms.
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If it was up to my wife, this would be my stamp room
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I never realised how many albums I have until I looked at these pictures. There's over 70 albums!
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I have almost 100 5-inch binders, plus a bookshelf full of reference material and smaller binders and stock books. The bedroom looks like a stamp shop without a cash register. I am under instructions to... or else... gulp!
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Wow! You folks don't mess around. Those are some world-class stamping grounds. The area Bunny Marti lets me work in used to be called the larder!!!
Winedrinker: Thank-you for explaining about your cat. I thought it was a turkey. Was wondering, "Why does this person let his turkey around his stamps?" Live and learn.
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We need to dust this thread off. After I snapped the pic I noticed it was a little crooked. I straighten it out. haha
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looking at these rooms, including Charlie's who is no longer with us, was a treat; i'd left many from 2018 go unread.
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Hey guys, I dont wanna be presumptuous here but can I just get a few more likes on my framed art in my stamp room? I'd feel alot better if I could get at least 4 likes. Come on guys, help a brother out.
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What??? I made it! Im up to five likes.
We should do some kind of cool fundraiser for a great cause. Maybe using likes or something like that.
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.... or not. Haha probably even better.
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One of the non-Marvel comics I collect are the several different versions of Tarzan. I have all Marvel Tarzans, most of the Gold Key and almost all of the DC Tarzans. The ones that are very hard to find are the Dell versions and I only have about half of those. It must have taken a while to get all of the Dell Indian Chief comics - congratulations!! Unfortunately there are 131 Dell Tarzan comics. I doubt if I'll live long enough to finish those!! Here are the numbers: Dell - 131, Gold Key - 74, DC - 51 and Marvel - 32 TOTAL of 288 Tarzans!
Sorry, I know this is off topic - my bad!!
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Not that difficult really
But you should also include the Annuals
I'd show you the rest of the Gold Key, DC and Marvel but they are not near as nice covers as the Dell's
I guess now you know the reason I choose the NICK
Harvey you also need the Gold Key Koraks and the Tarzan Family from DC!
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As we have comic collectors within our membership, can I please ask if anyone has any of the "Pathfinder story/illustrated storyboard style" albums that I think were issued ion the 1950-60's.
They were stories of the pioneer days and battles between English/French/natives, last of the Mohicans style. I think they were issued when the 1952 film was produced.
I have some but not the one in which our hero is on a floating log cabin (named old tom?) and the illustrated story ends with the words, I sort of recall, "He has a love, it's the wind, the rain,the sun, the dew upon soft grass".
Would just love to know the correct order of the words. So on the off chance that someone here may know or possess the books, I would be much obliged.
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Robert,
Thanks for sharing those. Dell comics are a great piece of Americana.
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Dell4c, that is it, my old memory seems to have confused things somewhat, but it was around 70 years ago. Thank you so much, those words always stuck in the memory, even if a bit jumbled.
I even remember the canoe going off into the distance. Do you happen to know when it was published?
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Amazing collections, those Dells make me green with envy. Those comics are quite expensive especially the older ones. Are these newer collections or did you collect them as a kid? I mostly collected Marvels but I really like some of the Gold Key and Dell comics!! Thanks very much for sharing!! I have an agreement with mycomicshop.com that they will get my collection, I really have to get my will fixed up soon to mention specifically some of this stuff!!
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That page is from the Classics Illustrated #17 Deerslayer.
There were twelve versions of this issue. They had two different covers but only one set of interior art work. The inital comic was sixty pages and reduced to a fifty-two page format in the fifth version.
Version 1: O, Jan 1944 - Original
Version 2: HRN 18, Mar 1944 - .10 cover price deleted
Version 3: HRN 22, Oct 1944 - Queens County Times
Version 4: HRN 28, Jun 1946 - 'Motto added under logo
Version 5: HRN 60, Jun 1949 - Ci Logo; Pages reduced to 48
Version 6: HRN 64, Oct 1949 -
Version 7: HRN 85, Jul 1951 - Cover price .15; heavier cover
Version 8: HRN 118, Apr 1954 -
Version 9: HRN 132, May 1956 -
Version 10: HRN 167, Nov 1966 - Last LDC reprint
Version 11: HRN 166, R/1968 - New cover and price .25
Version 12: HRN 169, Spring 1971 - hard cover, letters from parents and educators replace binders
These are the two differtent covers used.
I was interested in collecting a single copy of all the different artworks at one time and there is a catalog listing all this stuff. It only had a print of 500 but a great resource.
Bob
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Harvey, I don't buy comics anymore but collected all my life. Dell was always my favorite and Russ Manning my favorite artist, Although Hogarth is a close second. Stamps are much easier to manage than long boxes of comics and consume most of my hobby time now.
Glad you like the comic covers!
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The comics information posts have been a lot of fun to see. I never collected comics but did read a couple thousand or so over the years so purchased and eventually transferred them to others through one means or another.
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Dell4c, thanks for the list, my memory cell recalls that it was an hardback book, but certainly as a child, so not the 1971 issue. Maybe in UK it was issued differently?
Very much appreciate your efforts and images, stopped an earworm in it's tracks, thank you again, and yes sorry to have hijacked the thread.
Edit: Upon checking, I think the UK books were titled Hawkeye and the last of the Mohicans.
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Bob, I had a fair number of Classics Illustrated years ago but not any more. I must have traded them for others I wanted. Do you remember when groups of kids used to spend afternoons trading comics? I remember a few very rare items I used to own. There was an early copy of Tales To Astonish (#27) that included the origin of Ant Man, about a year before he got his own strip as half of Tales To Astonish (#35). It's worth a fortune now, minimum $5K, and I traded it away!! I wonder what I got for it!!
I'm still looking for the Tarzan comics I'm missing. There are a few other Dell/Gold Key comics I have collections of - Korak Son of Tarzan, Turok Son of Stone, Magnus Robot Fighter, Mighty Sampson (complete) and Super Car (complete). There was something about these early comics I really liked, especially the Mighty Sampson and the Supercar!
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Hi all, I actually have 2 (TWO!) stamp rooms. Since retiring 2 years ago my real office is my email & Ebay room. The Zeps on the wall I bought on Ebay for $1500, 30 years ago, did the high res scans, printed & framed them, then sold the stamps for $1500 on ebay. Blown up the engraving is really fun to stare at. I even found frame material that looks like an engraved pattern! The other room is where I work on my albums. Thanks for sharing - fun to see all the spaces!
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Leif,
Thats EPIC. Thanks for sharing. That would make me smile every time I walked into the room.
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LOVE the Zepps.
A good stamp room is a messy one!
-Ari
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