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Pat Boone #1, off the top of my head....

I've amended it to Oct (as per cover date), cheers Gary. Been looking for stamped copies of those two for years!

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Don't be silly, Patricia

Cor, that's cool @L.E. Gill I can feel everyone rushing to eBay now, looking for another copy. Love it @Cpt Kirk will too.

It is a terrific film. And massively underrated as terrific films and things in general often are. The way to look at it, I've come to realise, is while it is indeed immensely frustrating that those in charge always - always - muck everything up, there is still this film here of Superman that is a definitive take. So rather than lament the lack of follow ups, and the squandering of the golden eggs, I prefer now to just rejoice that I was alive when a group of people got it very, very right, if only once or twice. See also Capaldi Who, first three seasons Dexter, Raimi Spidey etc etc as I've said before. We saw the best it could be. That's good enough for me. Man of Steel is a superb rendition of Superman. And just like those other examples I noted, I was there to see it, feel it and appreciate it.

A further coincidence - the first ever DC UKPVs are the same cover month as the last DC 15c issues: A strategic review of US pricing incorporates a test run of UKPV issues, possibly?

Still going strong - on paper (heh, heh) - nearly ten years later!

The fact that DC still have 5p stamped copies cover dated July/August seems to muck this whole theory up Rich. It sounds great on paper, tying T&Ps existential / relocation difficulties to the end product, but the DC books were still stamped whether UKPV bearing or not. It's just another example of where DC and Marvel seem to differ. T&P relocate, no stamped Marvels. But there were stamped DCs. So perhaps the Marvel absence has nothing to do with the relocation. What successful company relocates and fails to recreate the necessary workforce needed to survive, anyway? Five inaugural DC UKPVs for Jul/Aug '71 cover dates. Five Marvels (only, oddly, as it was ten at the time) for cover dates October. Coincidence? Marvels never seem to quite align with DC, date-wise, do they. Maybe there is something in that. Maybe the same event caused the same outcome - five UKPVS each - but manifested in different cover dates. And there's an element of contradiction in your theory - if you say DC did not want their product to be absent from the shelves, why order a measly 5 UKPVs? They were distributing pretty much all DC titles at this point - five isn't going to go unnoticed, is it? To me, the five UKPVs have an experimental air about them. They don't feel forced, to me.

These: And this Flash is the lone August UKPV bearing cover date issue, but still has stamped copies out there: Maybe they were all stamped later when they got back into it? You'll find 5p stamps on non-UKPV bearing July '71 DC issues too, Rich: The UK prices were in the same place as the US ones, so they're not bespokely weird. As for there being only five of them, it's interesting that Marvel only had five for one month very shortly after: Great, thought provoking stuff though Rich. Keep it coming

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If you fast forward to the 1:28:42 mark, Matt tells the 'Foreigns' group of CGC's plans for Newsstands:

...we don't do details here!

Asking Porter might be tough, not being an actual person. Thorpe too though, not being alive.

WTF is going on!

I may have to hand that off to the Task Master.

Would to task be acceptable?

@Malacoda Rich liked my table posts so he's read them Robot @themagicrobot. I can feel a tidal wave of a post brewing. Can you feel it....? 300 Robot Posts!

Mebbe. Being returns, it stands to reason that books would straddle shipments. The overlaps went a bit wild in the end though, so something changed after five years of reasonable sequencing.

It's about time we had a Bored Meeting, Chairman. Can I take the minutes? That would be 40,320. Minutes, I mean.

The above period in days by the way, from Nov 59 to May 70 is 3,863. Divide that by the 149 stamps and that's one stamp (shipment?) roughly every 26 days. Anyone bored yet?

@Malacoda Rich, there's eighteen plotted 1-9 cycles there for DC's Action Comics covering ten years of the title. 149 stamps within an 127 month window. Can you see in any of that where your industry knowledge fits?

...and the other eight cycles for Action Comics. Five issues over nine stamps: Five issues over nine stamps: Fifteen issues over nine stamps (six in stamp 8 alone): Nothing for the first three stamps! They've give up!: In the eight cycles above we have: Issues 337-388 (52) May 1966 - May 1970 (49 months) 52 stamps 52 stamps for 52 issues over 49 calendar months - still broadly tracking but with gaps and bunching all over. Why did it get worse instead of better? If the above eight cycle tables are in any way illustrative of actual sequential monthly shipments, then the kids would be going nuts - no issues for months on end then six arrive in one go! Logic says that the numbering lost it's link to monthly UK issue arrivals long before the tracking shown in these tables. Either that or it was a rotten time to be collecting sequential comics.