Get Marwood & I

One was enough Ken.

'Taserface', I ask you...

You just made him up Ken.

...went to sea on a beautiful pea green boat.

On purpose.

No need to swear.

Always had Doom down as an Abbott and Costello type. Goom would've been watching Laurel and Hardy of course.

Does that left sock say Goom?

Any chance Namtak could put a sock in it, do you think?

That was my Lee Van Cleef reply Rich. I'd have added a gif, but I'm on me tablet. Should be on more tablets probably, as it goes

Please don't fix this one:

Mebbe.

Hopefully not a typo...

Dunno. Shops I would've thought. The date is meaningless otherwise, isn't it? And why send stock to a local wholesaler if he isn't going to send them to his shops to try and sell? Does he send them back, unused, for you to then sell to the UK?

Why do we see so many stamped cents copies with US shop arrival dates then? That indicates that shop returns were involved, if only in part.

This is how we get to the truth Rich - smashing each others wild conjecture to bits Seriously, you're leading the field with the who did what, when research. Same reason it took them years to twig dual printed pricing when Charlton had been at it for years? Stupidity. It's good info though, supportive of the conclusion the books weren't second hand, if that's where we end up. Indeed. It's never bothered me personally, and I've always thought the order likely changed. All part of the same run at the end of the day. Some get hung up on it though.

Just back from the usual Friday jaunt, expecting a flood of posts, and there's nothing doing. @Malacoda Rich, you watching football or drawing some charts for us?

Four to collect

Dunno, not clear enough, with the reflection of the carpet and all. And it's 'maths'

I've never seen a satisfactory explanation for overprinting to that scale, have you? Trouble is, as ever, if the overprinted copies were what was sent here, and not the unsold US shop returns, then we wouldn't see stamped copies with US arrival dates in the UK - and we do. There's always a fly isn't there... P.S. Superboy #207 any good was it? And what was the colossal mistake?

They'd probably say that a 1.5 difference is a normal and acceptable variance between graders

Nice lot Mikey - cover stamp heaven on the Suspense #29

I don't really know how CGC grade - I'm not comfortable myself with the trade off approach - the good front / bad back average etc. The comic is one entity, and the spine ticks take it out of the VFN/NM range for me regardless of how nice the front looks. This from their site: Your book only has good eye appeal from the front, and would you call those spine ticks minor handling wear? Maybe the guy in front of you in the queue has a lovely looking 7.5.....

Not trying to bash either, but are you really delighted when an obvious gift grade comes in like that? I wouldn't be happy with that at all, either as a copy to own or if I planned to sell it. You rightly thought 7.5ish, as that is much more accurate for that amount of spine ticks. Is a manifestly overgraded book ever a good thing? How could you sell that with a straight face (not you, just in general)?