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Indeed. It certainly looks like son Steve's sloppy seconds were shortly to be unzipped, slipped and slobbered over, doesn't it....

Don't bring logic into this! I wasn't a fan of Tom Holland and Zenyatta Mondatta to start with but they did sort of win me over a bit in the last film with a bit of youthful exhuberance. I think you have to be in the right mood sometimes. I couldn't work out whether the foes bickering in the lift was hilarious or disrespectful. Best not to over think it, eh. It's just a film. I don't know what you mean... I was introduced by an existing advisor (Jon McClure) a few years back and hoped to put a feature together about the pence copies but they never replied. I only chase once in life, just in case there's been a mishap, but they clearly weren't interested. Jon did include some of my research in his own report though, so at least some of the things I've been working on, like the Miller Marvels, got a first printed airing. I read somewhere that we are a fortunate generation as we lived through the introduction of the internet and know what it was like before. Today, I can pop online in a bus queue, find a rare comic on eBay, buy and pay for it as the bus arrives and it's on the door mat from the other side of the world a week later. Great though that is, I do miss the days of typed up catalogues and postal orders.

Cool. There are quite a few rogue shilling stamps like that - I pick up nice copies when I see them. Sometimes they're easy to miss on busy covers:

Same here. I've seen J&Ps, and J.A.E.s, but not a JB

Such a familiar scene...

They've had to change to adapt though. No such thing as a secret identity now. Spidey works in his sixties / seventies setting. He works now of course, in a way, but it's so different that he's no longer himself. At least he's not the character that was originally conceived. I know you're right Rich, I'm just talking out loud. Things move on and we can't live in the past, I suppose. Much that I'd like to.

This will interest you, @themagicrobot, and to illustrate my point above, I've identified over a hundred of the Roberts & Vinter stamped Charltons now, just under a third of the issues that existed in my projected date window. Here's a screen shot of my tracking page, if you can make it out (click to enlarge): The likelihood is that they distributed all the Charlton titles of the time after the Miller UKPV arrangement ended and I hope to one day prove just that. Here's a nice dark one, albeit a bit smudged: This RW stamp below however, which I think may be the work of Roberts & Warburton, given what I've read here and there, has only three examples known (to me): I like how it's battling it out with the RV stamp there I've been looking for both stamp types for years now, so with 106 RVs and just 3 RWs, my conclusion at this stage is that the RW stamp wasn't prolific or used for any significant purpose. Just one of those little quirks. Damn interesting, though - to me at least! 15/08 Edit: But clearly to no one else

Some of the market report writers in the latest Overstreet seem to think so, but I don't think the likes of us will be replicated much as the years move on and all the 'off radar' stuff gradually disappears. I've said it often, I personally think everything exciting about comics happened in the twenty or so years from 1959 - certainly from a UK perspective. The actual comics were simple and charming with stories and art of their time. The world is too advanced now for comics, and superheroes. In that 20 years were the first UK arrivals, price variants, stamped copies, inserts and a whole host of production quirks and differences. The fact that US cents priced books exist with multiple fonts just because UKPVs were run off is, I think, bloody marvellous (no pun in 10did). And of course it was all affordable back then. That age will never be replicated, alas, but I'm glad I lived through it and can still just about eke a hobby out of it 50 years later in these dying days of diminishing collecting venues and availability. I've not finished Overstreet, but you wouldn't think we existed, reading it. Everything that appeals to me is absent. Interest in UKPVs and overseas books has never been higher yet you wouldn't know it from that tired old 'US only' format.

I know. It's a good job that few people care about the things we discuss here, or someone would likely have done it by now. If they were to now of course, we'd be wise to it. It's one of the reasons I look for patterns before getting excited about any unusual post production elements and markings that I come across. There are quite a few vintage branded stamps out there in circulation that I have saved images of down the years, but none have sufficient examples to warrant researching or making any observations about. Miller, T&P, Goldstar and RV are the only ones prolific enough to warrant tracking in my view. There are similar scenarios of doubt in other areas of the hobby of course - who can be sure that their double cover is authentic, their price sticker vintage or their insert original to the book? I always found that graded attempt at a Spidey #121 with a Mark Jewelers insert a funny one. It was patently obvious that it was a construct but they authenticated it anyway. You can't beat the certainty of the printed ink difference really, can you.

Imagine doing that years ago. Stamping up some sixties books with a 9d 'GM&I' branded stamp, releasing them into the wild and then watching insufficiently_thoughtful_persons like me try to work out who they were 60 years later as they slowly cropped up on eBay.....

I started reading the HOF section and thought it was a bit off that they hadn't yet included him - turned the page and he was the first new entry!

Outfit number 30 came with a free apple as I recall...

Indeed. One WANG! and he was out cold. What a WANG!ker

The latest Overstreet finally gets around to it:

Cool. Here's another Creature featuring pence copy, this time for Charlton:

I don't recall seeing it before. It's the right price for a UK copy of the time, 10d, and likely stamped in the absence of UKPV copies for that cover month. Here it is magnified, alongside the 10d Goldstar stamp that we normally see in the second Marvel UKPV hiatus: Do you think that minus 10d meant that the newsagent had to pay you?

No wonder Pat took early retirement.

The pages tend to be stuck together.

Teen Confessions #50 Charlton's the winning issue there!

Imagine if I'd broken it Cheers Yorick. The Creature Jughead seems to be worth a bit as it goes, which I didn't realise when I picked it up. It's a nice bonus when that happens. I snagged a cheap Charlton UKPV with a 'Creature' cover too the other month and that seems to sell very well too. The Creature seems to be very popular with collectors.

Mad's a good shout. I used to own a few Richmonds, back in my Spidey collecting days... 'tis a good avatar choice.

I haven't studied this in any detail myself, but I've seen Thurmaston referred to as the 'sales' element of T&P - it was the headquarters according to Wikipeedonya. All the indicias I've seen have been Oadby as far as I can remember. I did a post on the Top Sellers division in my DC thread last year and they used Thurmaston as a contact address (1970 issue below): Is there a different Thurmaston address for the relocated warehouse then, Rich? Coincidentally, I looked over the sci-fi magazines for a bit as I found some with Miller distribution stamps. I didn't spot any with a T&P indicia - will check the copies I picked up - but I did smile at this Sci-Fi title - it wasn't a T&P priced solicitation, but they sure had fun stamping it

@revat @Flex Mentallo @FoggyNelson and all the Registry winners

Ah, bless you Geraldine. The KK episode had every aspect of collecting in it that appeals to me so I'm glad someone else appreciated it