Get Marwood & I

On 4/16/2024 at 4:06 PM, Kevin.J said:

I don't care about the stamps.

On 4/16/2024 at 4:06 PM, Kevin.J said:

I thought I was the only person collecting IW.

Whats going on ?  

There are three other nutters out there Kev. Maybe four. 

Back on Len, I've posted at length, here and elsewhere, about Miller's distribution of Harvey comics from 1960 to 67, but this book below is still the only T&P stamped that I've seen on my travels for the publisher:

The exception that proves the rule, I suppose....

On 4/16/2024 at 8:00 AM, OtherEric said:

Skippy, not Snippy.  And how the heck do I, a Yank, who has never seen the show, and wasn't even alive when it originally aired, know that off the top of my head?

You'll be singing it all day now 

On 4/16/2024 at 7:49 AM, OtherEric said:

I hadn't, but it's been a minute since I ran into a listing I wanted to save... For me, it's mostly Peter Wheat related books I can't afford, and they don't turn up very often.  My only workaround is to suggest "print screen" to get a screenshot can be your friend.  Opening the image in a new tab can help.

Yay for higher resolution monitors these days, so you can actually get something semi-useful like that, and my apologies if I'm just telling you tricks you already know.

Snippy can be handy too..

Wasn't he a bush kangaroo?

On 7/21/2021 at 11:38 AM, Get Marwood & I said:

I wonder how that worked contractually - that split of titles across two different UK distributors? The same as it did with the early Marvels I presume. 

So, in conclusion, the evidence shows that:

• T&P were the first to distribute UK stamped Archie Comics in the UK from mid-1959 cover dates
• T&P were likely responsible for the six months of printed UKPVs
• T&P shared the UK stamped distribution with L Miller from December 1961

Enjoy that Daphne? @rakehell

All good fun 

I added another B&V Fifty Three to the collection, see? And it had no T&P. Whoopee! 

I was a poet, but I was unaware of my natural strengths in that particular field.

On 4/15/2024 at 10:39 PM, makeminemarvel said:

 

...has anyone else noticed that eBeegeebees no longer allows you to save listing images as editable jpgs now? It's been going on for a few weeks - I only seem to be able to save right clicked images as a web file. A pain for us image gathering researching types....

On 1/4/2024 at 10:39 AM, Get Marwood & I said:

When I started this thread back in 2020 my intention was to work through all the publishers of US comics and see for which of them I could find examples of systematic UK distribution, in and around the UKPV date windows. One of those publishers was IW / Super and, although I could prove that they were distributed by L Miller, it was difficult to say much more about them as none of them were dated (hence their absence on MsCN). 

One thing I was able to establish over time was when the books were likely distributed over here based on Miller's switch from the 6d stamp to the 9d one. Using Miller's extensively distributed Harvey comics I was able to match the stamp date switch to the printed Charlton UKPV price change neatly and, therefore, show when the IWs would have been in UK circulation. It's one of those nice occasions where the stamp tells you something that the comic - being undated - doesn't. The books have indicative US dates recorded here and there, and are split by price and the 'Top Quality' / 'Super Comics' blocks, but we wouldn't know anything about when and how they were distributed in the UK if not for Miller's stamps.

There you go, Miller again, distributing original US comics under the radar. 

Here's one LM 6d 'Top Quality', and one LM 9d 'Super'.

 

I pick them up cheaply when I see them and they are nice books to flick through.

As is always the case, you can also find the odd rogue stamped copy, owner unknown. I like this 9d doubled up one, which would have been either 50% dearer than a Miller, if it were timely, or bang on - but bang out of date - if it wasn't:

Where else would you find double 9d stamped fighting frogmen online today?

Answer? Nowhere. Probably.

All good fun. 

I'd have liked to have added these two Miller distributed 'Top Quality' books to my stamped collection but the bidding went higher than I expected:

They're not books that come up often, especially in that shape, but I was still surprised by the sale prices. I wonder if the bidders were oblivious to or encouraged by the LM 6d stamps? Always nice to see the stamp variations in play too - a centred 6d and one to the right of the circle.

Not coming home with me, alas, but still very nice to see.

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On 4/13/2024 at 1:42 PM, themagicrobot said:

Alas it’s not the first time you’ve told me to get out

Hence my reaction this week.

On a couple of occasions, I've gently prompted you to stick to the subject matter in threads that I have created and kept on track for many years. I think that is reasonable.

I've been ticking along nicely here for over seven years. In all that time I've never had a problem or a cross word in a research thread that I have created. I'm not going to sit by and let you post things about me that are unfair or a misrepresentation of the truth. I have not asked you to 'get out'. I have respectfully, sometimes jokingly asked you to stay on track in threads that I have started and kept on track.

If you have more to say, I strongly suggest you consider your own mantra of 'least said, soonest mended', keep it to yourself, and stop ruining this thread for me and the Other participants that have offered me private support since you went off the rails. I don't want division, rancour or ill feeling in threads that I have created.

I'm going to avoid you from this point and would ask you to do the same. 

On 4/13/2024 at 6:35 AM, Hepcat said:

These comics left such a profound impact on my impressionable young mind that Fly, Fly Girl and Jaguar have remained among my very favourite comic book characters and superheroes to this very day!

Nicely done 

On 4/12/2024 at 9:31 PM, themagicrobot said:

@Get Marwood & I Stop and think how it looks for a moment. You quote me (why?) and then say “who cares”

Just because you start a thread doesn’t mean you own it.

I’ve always tried to show some positivity in my posts here. Try it.

PS I would have laughed at the “who cares” if it didn’t contain a link to the dead Class thread. That was just rude.

 

 

 

 

It was not my intention to be rude, far from it. The Class link was to show that I care, but I see now how you interpreted it. You and I don't gel, so I think it's best that we avoid each other from now on.  

On 4/12/2024 at 5:57 PM, themagicrobot said:

I see you're back to your normal mode of telling me I'm posting in the wrong thread. AGAIN. Give it a rest eh??  WHO CARES. 

You just don't get my humour, do you Robot. I don't know what to do with you, I really don't. 

On 4/12/2024 at 10:47 AM, themagicrobot said:

So the material was quite recent. Other Class comics at the time published Spider-Man material from a similar time. How and why did he manage to get hold of this when most of his other stuff was from the late 1950s/early 1960s?

Who cares.

The real question of the day, Robot, is what the focaccia is in Jolly Miller's big yellow jolly sack? 

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Actually, JM looks more like Arnold.

Miller, not Schwarzenegger...

On 4/11/2024 at 9:42 AM, themagicrobot said:

There were a bewildering number of "Jolly Miller" books. I'm not really sure what age group they were aimed at.

I've ordered one for a laugh.

Do we think this is him then...?

He certainly looks jolly, in a Pie in The Sky sort of way.

On 4/11/2024 at 12:56 AM, Malacoda said:

And this also says printed in Italy for Publishers in Italy, so presumably other countries in Europe too. 

I read that as 'printed for the publishers (L Miller) in Italy' 

It's all in the phrasing, I suppose...

On 4/10/2024 at 8:48 AM, themagicrobot said:

This shows Miller's did have national coverage, reaching Scotland, Northern Ireland and remote outposts like Tottenham, Paddington and even Monument Road Birmingham.

And sometimes, The Common Wealth!

Cockneys made good. Not to be confused with The Commonwealth.