patgacvan

Including ones with the snipe torn at least half a dozen, most of them throughout the 1970's and early 1980's (there was a hoard of Golden Age comics that was available locally at that time), The one with the insert came to me in 1999 in the Chinatown collection, the same collection that had the 9.4 Active 13, Commando 16, and several Funny Comics (Dizzy Don's) I have not seen one since. I have only seen one copy without the snipe.

I always thought that it might have been remainders bought up by Spotless, but it's a total conjecture, Vancouver was a small town in those days, it could easily been an investment or partnership to get the colour comics printed. The quality of the book is very high, good paper, good printing, professional art, nice layout, wouldn't look out of place on a U.S. newsstand. It's also worth noting that the word coloured on the cover uses the American spelling 'colored' not the English, so it is easy to speculate that they were hoping to get copies into the States, however I have never noticed any with U.S. newsstand marks or coming out of the pedigree collections. You think I would have ended up ballast and sent to England like some of the others at this time. That probably didn't happen because it was in Vancouver.

Perhaps its just a West Coast thing, but I have seen enough of these to wonder if it should be considered a variant even though it's a paper snipe attached to the cover, rather than printed. In any case it was part of a bigger ad campaign. For those who like minutia this particular copy. probably unread, had an advertising insert placed (not glued) inside. Anyone with information or thoughts?