Get Marwood & I

Always!

I remember them being in a diner in Ellensburg, WA when we drove over the mountains to see my grandparents in the 70's. Pretty sure they were the only comics on the rack, but it wasn't a Christian bookstore as such. Four years he's been waiting for a response to that

Ah, shame, we could've had a laugh. Just me and you then @Albert Tatlock. We'll battle it out over there for the UK subsidiary prize of a can of Tizer, a Texan bar and a bag of pickled onion Monster Munch. To the loser, the spoils!

Probably, but I can't remember now either. I looked at the chart I did and the fog descended.

Hey, no copying! I'm going to change mine now.

Up to a point. And then everything changes. I know, I've been telling you that for the last year

Lively! There's been nothing to report here for a while. Nothing new turning up and still no Ghost Rider #30. This #29 is nicely presented though - I love a seller who puts some effort into their listings....

That's the spirit! Now remember, Albert - grade the books before you drink 15 pints of Newton and Ridleys. Before.

I'm supposed to be on one Enjoy Daphers!

59 Cent Variants, not on the GEECEEDEE!

Channel Five, tomorrow at six, Excalibur's June auction: https://www.channel5.com/show/cash-in-the-attic/season-1/episode-20

Guys, any of you want to play in Point Five's grading contest? https://boards.cgccomics.com/topic/511833-point-fives-3rd-annual-grading-contest-signup-thread/#comments It's a nice and easy one, and we can have a laugh seeing how badly we all do. Or well! Over ten spots left, I think - deadline approaching! @Kevin.J @Malacoda @themagicrobot @rakehell @Yorick @Albert Tatlock @Redshade @OtherEric @Garystar

Missed it!

How about this for a sequence. Redelephantman has an OO collection up on eBay, and I just plotted 16 consecutive issues of T&P stamped My Greatest Adventures as follows: Note how every stamp is in the same cover location, top right. Ethel was on her game. And apart from the consecutive missing '9' and '1', the sequence is perfect. If we believe the stamp numbers broadly represent each monthly UK arrival cycle, the experience for the collector would have been a nice regular monthly purchase for this title with just one two month wait in the middle. Waits like that might explain the gap between the cover months and plotted stamp number months that I did earlier in the thread where there were more stamps than cover months. Factor in a few gaps in arrivals, and the numbers - already broadly consistent - start to close still further. Either way, that cover month to stamp number sequence is inescapable. Over to you, Richmond

A lot of the Milano Intercontinental stamped books have stamps on the back cover too - I've built up quite a collection of Charlton examples - here's a nice one:

Yep, these are they: https://boards.cgccomics.com/blogs/entry/4902-gold-key-comics-uk-price-variants/ I've only ever seen two T&P stamped Gold Key comics and I bought both: I've gathered a gaggle of unbranded UK stamps like the ones in your post, but there's nothing there to suggest a widespread distribution arrangement that I've detected. Aside of the UKPV dates and the 6p stickered run in copies, Gold Key doesn't seem to feature that strongly on the UK distribution front.

@MattrixAlien, this thread is fantastic

They don't count, but an of the time UK sticker on a copy where no UK stamped issue is available indicates something, I think. If you see a few of them, it adds to the feel that they may exist with stickers because the stamped copies don't. They add to the pattern. Cool. I'm fairly confident that Rich's missing Spideys will turn up. Before I really got into all this UK distribution stuff I foolishly sold many of my cents stamped copies for clean, unstamped ones. I did have images on disk, but lost them. I'm as certain as I can be that I had #94 and #76 in cents with UK stamps. Oddly, for me, I can remember buying them in Gosh! all those years back. Never get rid of your comics. Even when you hold them in your hand and objectively conclude that they serve no purpose in your collection, the day will undoubtedly come when they will! I've grown to love and appreciate these 'ugly' T&P stamps and I wish I'd kept every copy I owned now. In my mind at least, they now have their own status - cents copies, UKPVs, stamped cents copies. Love them all.

I don't mind industry date stamps on front covers - as well as being jolly helpful in certain areas of research, I think they add to the history and mystique of collecting. A well placed stamp is a thing of beauty.

At (six) gun point!