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Wish I had a daughter who arranged Spidey surprises.

I'm not sure Albert, I think it's been trimmed...... Did I say trimmed? I meant to say 'driven over in a tractor'. Meanwhile, three in a line: One more for connect four!

Indeed. Bob's your uncle to a blind man's dog.

From the same seller as the 8d stamp I posted yesterday, another fine example of an early Spidey UKPV with a late 10d / obliterator stamp combination:

I thought you'd forgotten me. Thanks Albert. That Holland fella knew his stuff, didn't he

That is amazing. Your daughter is AMAZING! How many times have I suggested you publish a book, and she goes and does it for you! Treasure that, my friend. And a Spidey shirt buying wife too. You are blessed, Reggie. Blessed

It looks like Spidey's doing a magic trick with a massive pool ball and some webbing

Nice I've seen stamped stickers on quite a few Tower comics - here's my old NoMan: Either / or!

I've not seen this massive 6 stamp before, on eBay currently: Nor this unusual 8d one, also on the bay today: Eye eye! Velly nice

I always loved the actual feel of them, too. Solid, stable, like having an inbuilt double backing board. The aerial view of a run with the tell tale blue lines running along the centres. And being a completist probably has something to do with it, I think. Collecting doesn't have to make sense, happily.

Hans Zimmer's soundtrack is fantastic, too. I saw the film three times on the trot then listened to the CD in the car over and over. Trouble is, when I saw the film a fourth time the arrangements didn't match and I couldn't get on with it. Never overplay your OSTs

Cheers. It's just to confirm it exists really. I've been gathering examples and images and #55 is the only King missing.

Nice Have you ever seen a complimentary #55, kaculler?

o-Wow, o-Wow, o-Wow, o-Wow, o-Wow-Uh! Unbelieveable!

You clearly do care about them, as you seem to have made it your mission to tell everyone here in the insert appreciation thread how much you don't care about inserts. My further recommendation is that you crawl back into your uncultivated warren, Mark.

Some people just love comics and all their wonderful additions and nuances. You don't appear to be one of them, Mark, despite sharing half the insert owner's name. My advice would be to find a thread on the forum discussing something that you like about comics, and post appreciatively there.

It didn't help Billy's #46 here That actually references the indicia though.

Tragedy! Cover placement's wrong and the artwork's gone It's tragedy!

Richard Cranium Gordon B Goode?

I found this snippet in a UK fanzine dated 1975

@Malacoda Rich, I was re-reading some of the online fanzines the other day. Well, trying to re-read them, as I find it hard going reading from the screen. Anyway, I saved a few screen shots with interesting T&P snippets from the fanzines 'Comic Media News' which I think I recall sending you a link on donkeys years ago now. Maybe another check, with more educated eyes, will help with the overall understanding. #10, December 1973 (note the 6% average total print run comment): #11, February 1974: #15, September 1974 (an enterprising concern called Gold Star....): #17, November 1974: #21, July 1975: #22, October 1975: This snippet from #24, 1975, is quite cool - an explanation of the dreaded barcode: Here's the link to the site, if anyone fancies a festive online fanzine nostalgia-fest: https://sites.google.com/view/fanscene/home

Like the GCD, Mike's newsstand site is an absolute must have book mark for anyone trying to muck about with the placing of comics in a timeline. Mike's is an especially fabulous site, so helpful, and I'd buy the guy fifty cherryades in appreciation of all the help it has given me over the years as a starting template, were I to bump into him in a pub in Deptford. I think many of the 'on sale dates' are broadly reliable for the main publishers, and I've used them to good effect many times for Marvel and DC, but for the lesser collected ones, understandably, they can sometimes be a little off when matched to actual live examples (when you can find them). I wouldn't be without it, but if the house was on the line, as you say, I'd want to back up any 'which came first / when' scenarios with some live examples first.

May as well keep up with the thread traditions See you all in 2023!