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The Ghost of Distribution Past....

Add me to your list please, I've had a stroke.

I waited nigh on four years for that!

Judging by the smell in the car on the way home just now, that bum is definitely broken

Here's one - go find t'other (The tape pull was me )

I agree. It moves about too much from copy to copy. It does - as does the now obscured date.

Copies on Heritage have it too - seems to be unique to that 'first' issue as it is the only one with a date on the cover as far as I can see. You can see the uneven application up close:

Very cool. The copy on the GCD has the same ink block: https://www.comics.org/issue/260660/cover/4/

Love it! I don't mind miswraps one bit. Part of comics, part of what they are.

On quality of content, I think a straw pole would put you as the leader of this thread, Reggie. I'm just the honorary founding member

Yes, wake up @Kevin.J Anyway, what are we talking about here again? I'm a bit lost. Here are the 20 titles Marvel were producing in 1960, showing which had UKPVs: Does that help?

You don't see this one often, with or without a Miller stamp

Different dudes, Andru hands on both.

CGC Announces In-House Private Signing Event with Dave the Milkman!

Maybe it wouldn't be quite so excessive if they held off from touting for it on a daily basis...

That was a different dude Reggie, unless I'm losing my mind. Which I might be.

Here's an observation which may or may not be telling. The 15c variants have four less wraps, coming in at 36 pages to their regular edition's 52. In the majority of cases, it is the first four wraps that are missing. When looking through a few copies today, it struck me that the removal of the first four wraps effectively removed all the ad pages. Here is an internal snapshot of the 25c regular edition of Richie Rich #116 (September 1972), which has a unique indicia in the 15c variant owing the the first four wraps being absent. The first and last internal 15c pages are highlighted in the middle: As we can see, the internal pages of the first four wraps contain all the ads. There are no ads among the 34 internal 15c variant pages, in the copies I have checked so far. This may be a coincidence, or it may be by design, consciously removing ads that would not apply to a UK audience. I'm erring on the side of coincidence, as these US focussed ads have always appeared in comics imported to the UK, even when they had printed UK prices. But it's an interesting coincidence, isn't it and, if it were a deliberate act, it would yet again support a UK distribution argument as being the reason they exist. Hmmmm

Here's a bit of fun I saw these images online of a newsstand in the UK taken from the 1972 Hitchcock film Frenzy : The two discernible Harvey comics are Wendy #68 and Spooky #125, both cover dated August 1971: The Creepy Worlds you can see there is #123, which is undated but believed to have been on sale in 1971: Happily, I was able to find an image of the Punch Magazine, and it is the 10th August 1971 issue: So unless the newsstand was failing to pull his punches, heh heh, it seems that our Harveys were on sale in the UK in the actual month they were dated. And we now know when that Alan was on sale too! Cosmic or what

Still on fanzines, although we all know that the UKPVs of Amazing Spider-Man stopped in 1973 to make way for Spider-Man Comics Weekly, it's nice to actually see a written confirmation of it - these clips from issues 3 and 7 of the UK fanzine Comic Media News: Spot on with the cover dates too!

This would have been a nice issue to snag cheap - someone beat me to it Fortunately, we can read it here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cYiyR4m9_vzrEkciN3u1GnnCd6s3AA4k/view

I did quite well at the last London fair, but there were a few dealers who didn't turn up. Next one is in March so fingers crossed they'll be there and may have something. Jim told me you were a big Harvey fan so any dupes I find have got your name on them. We seem to be the only ones collecting them!

Speaking of early Andru & Esposito's, any guesses on this one? It's got the Andru 'look':

Not sure, but it looks like they put their heart and soul into it