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Two and two are four, four and four are nine, nine and nine are nineteen, nineteen and nineteen are eighty six....

You've got some crackers there, Hulk The gap is more or less closed on keys. Indeed, some pence copies have gone for more than comparable cents recently so I would be pricing up with parity myself. Keep an eye on the Alan Class books too. Any that reprint Marvel first appearances are doing very well now. Most are easy to spot where they reproduce the covers but some have key content hidden - Out of This World #17 for example reprints AF#15 and has been selling in the high hundreds recently despite being tucked away behind a Charlton cover. Great books all. Good luck!

Cheers Eric. I like his art. The film was on recently and I caught a bit of it for what must have been the first time in 30-40 years. I'd forgotten how many times I'd seen it as a kid, and every scene was familiar. A trip back in time in many respects.

Thanks Eric. You're one of a tiny number who read my ramblings here at CGC. I sometimes think the only one. Thank you

Ah, the old what if...? eh. Tell you what, that would make a good comic title wouldn't it. What you could do, is take existing characters and......

Evening I was reading a nice article earlier explaining how halftones are created in the four color printing process that our Alan would have put to good use back in the (hey)day. Here's the Doc... ...and his original printing plate (reversed): Zoom in on this section of Ock's ugly mug, and you can see how the glasses are a solid block of colour, sorry, color, but the face is made up of a series of small dots: You can see on the printing plate that the solid block of colour is smooth, as you might expect, but the face area just below it shows all those small dots which achieve the half tone effect: Cool, isn't it

Nice. I've never read that one Eric - is it any good?

Spideyless Andru pages tend to go low Reggie. Makes sense really, doesn't it. Spidey(less) sense.

That some Charlton collecting sucker's house blew up. Talking of which, I've been trying to start the Charlton journal up and I just can't get going on it. Two posts in, and I can't decide whether to go serious, or adopt my usual frippery nonsense style that no one likes anyway. Add to that that all my images in the Flash thread seem to be sequentially disappearing and it all starts to seems a bit hopeless. I may disappear for a bit, to recharge the batteries. Rich, you have my permission to write speculative screeds of text in my absence to keep everything ticking over.

If my house went up in a big explosion thousands of pages of Charlton comics would be scattered in the local area. Then, in 60 years time, someone would start up a blog and say that there was evidence that Charltons were indeed distributed in.....

Handy fire extinguisher on the window sill there Rich, should they catch light.

Not something you see every day Three-Two-Gun Kids

Sorry Panto, I forgot you'd said that. Everything seems to be prohibitively expensive nowadays, doesn't it. Getting hard to collect, it is.....

Some recent raw results here: https://www.andersonandgarland.com/auction/lot/lot-1125---marvel-comics/?lot=275443&so=4&st=amazing spider-man 1&sto=0&au=&ef=&et=&ic=False&sd=1&pp=100&pn=1&g=-1 https://www.andersonandgarland.com/auction/lot/lot-659---marvel-comics/?lot=274509&so=4&st=tales of suspense 39&sto=0&au=&ef=&et=&ic=False&sd=1&pp=100&pn=1&g=-1 https://www.excaliburauctions.com/auction/lot/lot-710---amazing-spider-man-1---1963---marvel---uk/?lot=18734&so=4&st=amazing spider-man 1&sto=0&au=&ef=&et=&ic=False&sd=1&pp=48&pn=1&g=1 https://www.excaliburauctions.com/auction/lot/lot-431---tales-of-suspense-39---iron-man-1963--/?lot=18455&so=4&st=tales of suspense 39&sto=0&au=&ef=&et=&ic=False&sd=1&pp=48&pn=1&g=1 @Pantodude normally has his finger on the pulse of what is going for what. From what I can see myself, a lower mid-grade ASM #1 in pence seems to have tripled in the last few years. The days of a few grand appear to be well and truly over.

Or vice versa, depending on the order of printing Who overprinted who there!? (although the US copy has a 12c over another 12c, not 10d) Work this one out. 10d visible on 12c, 12c blocked out on 10d: These Charltons could be the result of the US 60c prices featuring on one of the colour plates: Unless I'm talking untrained nonsense of course.

Not sure. Coincidentally, I posted these in another thread yesterday: To my untrained eye, that suggests that the 10c on the 'complete' cover is comprised of the blue cyan and black 'K' plate ink. If so, if the black plate price broke off, or was obscured, we'd only see the cyan blue 10 on the finished book. The remaining cents symbol sort of muddies the waters by remaining black, but has clearly slipped, so something went amiss. So maybe they removed the SEPT and ICD from the black plate of the complimentary print run, but forgot to remove it from one of the colour plates, hence its ghostly appearance: Maybe it was laid down as cyan, and then the magenta and yellow plates wiped it out with no black plate to accentuate it. Either that or something else completely!

Good spot Yorick, I missed that - here's my copy, mucked about with:

Here's #1 - the Dutch (second) reprint of the first Flash which has another nice painted cover: Here's an internal shot showing the adapted artwork: And here is the original Raymond art page which, it seems, sold for a pretty penny in 2020: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8099865/Original-artwork-Flash-Gordon-comic-published-1934-listed-sale-465-000.html

Multiple regional distribution hubs? I'm with you though, I think the examples I've seen are from shops.

I enjoyed looking at those Captain. I used to collect ASM misprints and had about a hundred at one point ranging from the dramatic to the barely noticeable. You're a man after my own heart!

Hello Steven. I'm on my phone, struggling like a goodun, but read this earlier post and I'll catch you later: https://boards.cgccomics.com/topic/404397-marvel-australian-price-variants/?do=findComment&comment=12038223

They're cool. Lots of black ink absent from Batman's cloak too in the blue price version - some obstruction on the black printing plate perhaps? And it's a bit off register.

Misprint, I reckon. 2 intentionals.....