Get Marwood & I

Just wait until you get your 'grades received' reply from the Greenwood

You can't beat a bit of MIKEROSS

Is it me, or is that bloke's head enormous?

That's going to have some poor sod scratching his head on Google in 30 years....

The foist twenny

The poor chap in the background's rather inadequate looking expression says it all, doesn't it.....

It sits on Ben's blog, yes. He the mobilises the mob.

I've been doing these competitions long enough now to know, from Mike's informative 'grades received' emoji, that, alas, my round one grades are probably horsesht

There are some fabulous blogs and sites out there if you look. They fly under the radar, mostly, but the effort some collectors put in is admirable. I may not collect the books myself, but I'm always in appreciative awe of the people who dedicate themselves to discovering as much as they can about the things that sit outside of the circle. Anything that sits aside of the 'main event', in some variant form or another, floats my boat and always has done.

Thissa one, Richmond: https://www.cpvpriceguide.com/ I did a Charlie CPV article for a previous year here: https://rarecomics.wordpress.com/2022/11/07/charlton-canadian-price-variants-cpvs/ As you can see, it followed in the footsteps of all my Charlie related musings and set the world alight in that anti-midas touch sort of way that we've come to expect

Is there another Stephen Cranch that I haven't heard of? UKPV Specialist

Exactly. That's why I've always mucked about with graphics here. One decent graphic beats a block of text every time, at Marwood Towers. The first 20 Marvel UKPVs, in cover date order, one for each thread page post

This was fun to listen to. My kind of collectors talking about my kind of comics

Depends who's looking...

Beautiful. A man of many talents, wasn't he Chris. What a lovely thing to own.

To this

...and closer...

...well, it gets me closer...

I posted some more evidence that WDL distributed Dell UKPVs over in my Dell UKPV thread in the week. Best place to post it, I thought. Anyway, it indicated that the first Dell UKPVs would be on sale in the UK in March 1960. In theory, the first Archie and Marvel UKPVs would have been arriving around the same time. Good times! The first two Marvels, as we know, were the two 58s, Gunsmoke Western and JIM. Only Gunsmoke Western carried the Miller distribution indicia data - the T&P details were absent from their inaugural UKPV issue: So if anyone had their eyes open, and spotted the UK printed pricing in that first period, the only books they'd have been able to identify the distributor on would be the Miller Gunsmoke. What's the point of this rambling...?

Evidence of mucking about, found in the files...

On it!