Get Marwood & I

Me anticipating being the one who got the two bullseyes: Me then seeing the actual result:

I can't see her being first.

40% off!

I can't see her being first.

I've got about twenty Charlton examples, ranging from July 64 to November 1966 cover dates. Not enough to make any meaningful observations of course, but my money is on them being just a group of unsold books rather than anything more systematic. I'm too young to remember the time, but Charltons were regional anyway, so you may have missed them even if you were old enough to have seen them. Given how often I look for all publishers, the one or two Dell/Gold Key and Archie 10d oblong examples sort of indicate that there was nothing meaningful going on there. If there was, they have conspicuously failed to remain extant. For Marvel however, the arrival of the stamps to fill the precise UKPV absence issues has enough examples to now be considered intentional / uncoincidental. It would appear that someone at Goldstar either anticipated the gap to come or, more likely, noted the Marvel absence and arranged to fill it possibly months after the books would otherwise have been due as UKPVs. Maybe they just gathered up some other unsold Charltons and Marvels at the same time, and a handful for the other publishers. As usual, Albert, it's all speculation!

Sooper. So while it's clear the 10d oblongs filled up the second Marvel UKPV hiatus issue gaps (Oct-Dec 1966), they clearly extended to issues across a wider time frame, and included other publishers too. Who knows what was in that first Goldstar suitcase, on what basis, and when....

Alright, don't get all catty about it (losing grades in )

In this picture from a UK auction house are two books with the title "Authentic Police Cases" - @gadzukes book and another 6d priced book.... ...which is attributed to the the UK publisher 'Locker' who I've never heard of. So it may be a Locker, Gad. Let us know when it arrives, won't you

It's staggering how many of these old reprints are out there, undocumented. Oh for a Tardis......

There's about fifty thousand versions of those Classics Illustrated it seems. Fancy trying to gather all those

I've found an image of another 6d priced book that's a reprint of issue #32 of the title and that is attributed to Cartoon Art of Glasgow:

It can get you in a lot of trouble, thinking, FTG. I shouldn't do so much of it

Still got this though

Indeed. I had a CGC 9.4 run of ASM #100-200 at one point. I picked the cheaper ones off first when I should have got the big guns first. That cost me in the long run. Anyway, all gone now, so it doesn't really matter.

Show off

Fifty sesterces! Five HUNDRED sesterces! Oh, he hasn't bid.

Fifty sesterces!

You and I and Marwood?

Is there an echo in here?

It looks like all the imported DCs and US ACGs are stamped by Thorpe & Porter, as you would expect. The handful of Marvel/Charlton UKPVs aren't, also as expected. The 12c Charlton HR&RC #79 is too late for a R&V UK distribution stamp. The rest are UK titles, so wouldn't be stamped as a rule. Nice haul, Gad!

Barrrrn in the USA! Oh, sorry. I see it was a barn in the UK.

I was just about to post it! https://www.comics.org/issue/527227/cover/4/

I've seen stickers like it, but I think that's the first Streamline one I've seen. 'tis a cracker, Gad. Never even think of trying to remove it

You can imagine the discussion at the tailors, can't you. "Yes, you heard me. A big skull mask on the chest and everything else is blue. Yes, including the boots" Suddenly, he doesn't seem as Punishing.