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[narfstar]

A new section has been added for Big Little Books. Many of these are public domain. They are frequently based on comic strip characters. They are a pain to scan so please let me know you enjoy them as I have more to scan. Ghost Avenger and Maximo are next up.

[Menticide]

Do you have any of the ones featuring b-western stars? I know that both Gene Autry and Roy Rogers were both featured in big little books.

[josemas]

They are a pain to scan so please let me know you enjoy them as I have more to scan. Ghost Avenger and Maximo are next up.

I can imagine.  Those BLBs must run a couple hundred pages.  Lotsa' scanning there.

Appreciate the extra effort.

Best

Joe

[narfstar]

I just received two Tailspin Tommy a Radio Patrol and Dan Dunn. I do not think that I have any westerns

[Menticide]

I just received two Tailspin Tommy a Radio Patrol and Dan Dunn. I do not think that I have any westerns

I think actually had a few big little books as a kid, but I can't for the life of me remember which ones. I do have a stack of vintage Golden Books, but they're really my daughter's books, even though some of them are quite ancient.

[josemas]

Somewhere, boxed away, I have a few vintage BLBs.  I vaguely remember The Gumps, Radio Patrol and Don Winslow, maybe one or two more.  Odd items I picked up here or there.  I never really collected them.

I do have one featuring a B Western star (Buck Jones) sitting up on my book shelf facing outwards.  It looks kinda' neat sitting there.  It was given to me for free and when you take it off the shelf you can see why.  Bugs and/or rodents chewed away the whole last section of the book and damaged much more of the book but just seeing it sitting there on the shelf you'd never guess.

Best

Joe

[narfstar]

If you take the time to read these things many of them are pretty good. If I can find it I got one several years ago that was very violent, I am thinking it was a Wash Tubbs. They are written at a variety of age levels so some are more juvenile. I hope people are enjoying these. The better the spine the harder to scan. The text is too close to the spine and with a good spine they will not lay flat. There is a reason not many are scanned.

[The Jax]

I'm enjoying these a lot... I only wish there were more!

[Big Book Joe]

Wish there was a button to post a new comment.

I have come into some BLB I would like to sell for a friend, to whose father these had belongs. Five Tarzans, some Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, Shadow, Phantom, some western, some crime/gman type things.

I tried posting on eBay and could get a bid. I contacted an auction house and the guy respondign said they were worth $900-$1500, but since they were not worth $5,000, he wouldn't touch them. (But he did offer me $100 for one of them).

In grading there are a couple of fair, but most are good to very good. A couple sat in awkward positions for more than 50 years, so a couple of books have a "curve" but the rest are flat.

Where would be a good play to seel them. She could use the money.

[mr_goldenage]

check for comparative prices on ebay....but the ones you seem to have are not that rare... of course it depends on the individual books themselves. some could be worth more than others. I have 5 bbl's. 2 Maximo's, 2 Scarlet O'Neil's and a Ghost Avenger.... most go in the 50 dollar range and they are not even that common among BBL's... good luck Sir.

[OtherEric]

The BLB market, as near as I can tell, is pretty flat and stagnant right now.  In the past couple months I got a decent condition (not high grade, but structurally solid) copy of Laughing Dragon of Oz for $40, and a low grade copy of one of the Shadow BLB's for $10. 

I've got less than a dozen, but other than Laughing Dragon I've never paid over $10 for them.