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Spider to spied her

There was a CGC book in there? Such a shame when a collection that has obviously been worked on relatively recently (as opposed to sitting neglected for decades) ends up in the hands of pickers for the lowest price they can negotiate. I'm going to update the "notes for family" regarding my collection so they can at least have a good chance of realising a fair value for it.

Ivanhoe to Ivanhoe

Yeah. It does that whenever you edit the description.

Glad you like them Steve. I would recommend it to people. It's very nice to be able to see my collection in a way that rows of white boxes makes much harder.

At least you didn't do the Ben Doone joke...

Back on Page 39 of this thread I got the Australian Classic Comics edition of Lorna Doone, with a locally drawn landscape cover: When this came up on the 'Bay I assumed it was a later Australian printing, with a 1/3 (one shilling and threepence) cover price and the orignal US cover reinstated to go with the portrait orientation. I had some Australian classic books in this format and with colour interiors at one stage. The high price (1/3 = 15 pennies, so almost the cost of two 8d books at the time) was compensated for by the glossy colour stock, good paper and colour interiors. But this isn't one of those - it turns out that it was printed in the UK, though I think it might have been designed as an export to Australia as well, as the house ads inside the covers have an 'Australian price' as well as a UK price. It looks as if it might have had a price change sticker at some point too. Regardless, it's a Matt Baker cover and interior art (and not a bad read) for $3, so no complaints. In Mr Baker's hands Lorna is quite fetching...

Pith helmet to pith helmet

Yes, I saw a Foster influence there too. I'm afraid I have no idea what issues it ran in. As I said, I only have a handful of those books scattered between 1939 and 1945.

Find me the copy for week ending 27 October 1945 and I can tell you.

CGC or other? I have a #56 with COA from 'those guys who are not Voldemort'. The COA is very nice.

I only have a few of these English Mickey Mouse 'newspapers' but I'm always pleased to get a new one. (Sorry, they don't fit the scanner, so a photo will have to do.) There are only 8 pages (two wraps) - despite being October 1945, shortages ran on for years after the war in the UK. But the printing quality is better than some earlier issues I have. The outer covers and the centrefold are in colour, the reverse of each wrap is B&W and mainly text. The comics in the middle are nicely rendered and coloured, though there's a little bleedthrough of the newsprint stock: This somewhat off-Disney brand 'White King of Arabia" strip is a UK original by Reg Perrott. His bio is here - he was invalided out of the RAF just months before this was published and became the studio manager for the Mickey Mouse title before dying in 1947.

US edition to Australian edition

Rat to mouse

I have a book signed by Barks too - I wish it was a Dell, but I'll certainly settle for this one.

Chest full of money to bin full of money

Ironically the candelabra ain't lit.

Arrow in a hat to fish in a hat