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I resemble that remark Albert. I wish I'd cast the net a little wider too now...

Here's mine: Now, while you're showing off, have you got one of these Albert?: Or is it the only one in Englandville?

I wonder if both sisters had their own copies? Two Superman number one's potentially hiding somewhere in Utah....

Cor, is that your copy Albert? Mythical that book is, at Marwood Towers! Read this post if you would: https://www.cgccomics.com/boards/topic/411881-marvel-l-miller-co-uk-distribution-variants-may-1960-~-september-1961/?do=findComment&comment=10932285 And as for the 'PRINTED IN USA', bound to be a legal thing isn't it, given the obliteration of the US indicia opposite it....

Superman #2...

It would have been though, if not for the meddling of those above without flair and imagination. The heart of it remains, despite the clumsy MTU style shoe-horning in of Venom. His awkward scenes with Gwen were a joy, yes. Everything else was a step backwards from the first three where it should have been a big step forwards. I've said this before here, I think, that a final fourth Maguire film with Harry killing MJ as a 'proper' Goblin would have been the most powerful ending. It's a crime that their story wasn't wrapped up in the Spectacular manner that it deserved, and which exists in my minds eye.

Hopefully they did - if our unknown Action Comics recipient was astute enough to save both envelopes, I'm pretty sure they'd have been the type to reply to both

A little hint - if it existed on the web in an article, what would it likely say in the text? I searched "Superman c/o action comics" in inverted commas and up it popped.

Exactly, so the recipient - a worker at Action Comics / DC, kept them and they found their way out into the wilderness from the one source....

Where's Poirot when you need him!

...and it would actually be likely for them both to exist, if the recipient kept them?

Same writing too, isn't it? Look at the 480. Maybe teacher addressed them, and two of her students added their names?

The Maguires got much more right than wrong in my opinion, and they generally nailed the comic book mood. Though I enjoyed elements of the two Garfields, they got more wrong than right and generally missed the mood. The Holland films got nothing right and wouldn't understand the mood if it was delivered to them rectally by the Rhino.

Two, in case you missed the earlier post... Popular in Utah, Superman....

https://lelands.com/bids/1939-postal-cover-to-superman-c~o-action-comics

Odd isn't it, why these would exist alongside pence printed UKPV copies: I wonder could it have been that the unsold US copies were cheaper to buy and import than the printed UKPVs were to solicit and import, and that the unsold cents copies were not sufficient themselves to satisfy the UK's needs. So the distributor took all the returns and supplemented them with printed UKPVs to satisfy the UK demand rather than request the right amount of UKPVs? The unsold copies were, after all, second hand. That said though, and as I noted earlier, the stamped copies must surely have taken longer to arrive in the UK than the printed UKPVs. Taking these two as an example... ....the 15c one was printed to go to the US newsstand, where it would have remained for a period before being returned as unsold. The shilling copy would have been ready to ship to the UK straight from the printers, beating the cents copy by at least whatever the US shelf life period was. So unless the UKPVs sat around for that period to end before being added to the unsold cents copies, they must have arrived in the UK first, no? In theory, this would mean that the UKPV would arrive in the UK and sell out, and the stamped cents copy would arrive later to fill the gaps in the collections of those who missed the UKPVs. Doesn't sound right, does it

Sorry, Stephen, I don't speak French.

Here's a third 3p example, that I spotted online yesterday: I'm not going to buy this one as it has a dirty great marker pen mark on it, but it shows that a little group of G&G copies must have found their way over here at some point. Maybe unsold Australian copies, who knows. I'll keep looking for a 2p T&P stamped comic. Bound to be one, aint there?

You've cleared 1,871 things from the to-do list Dena!?

Thanks. I've not detected any systematic evidence of this on UKPVs myself, no, for any of the seven publishers. I've seen date stamps on UK stamped cents copies, but those are the dates applied by the US newsstands who failed to sell them. We discuss the possible timings to the UK market in my distribution thread here: https://www.cgccomics.com/boards/topic/471133-a-brief-review-of-the-first-official-uk-distribution-of-us-published-comics-in-19591960/ There's some anecdotal evidence and personal recollections but nothing concrete. My plotting exercise for the DC Thorpe & Porter price stamps started well but ended inconclusively in the later stages and once Marvel and Charlton titles were overlaid. The timings may have differed for UKPVs and the stamped distributed copies of course as the UKPVs were printed to come here straight away whereas the stamped copies only came here once they had failed to sell in the US.

Why does the past always seem so much more alive than the present?

Maybe they took delivery of their officially requested UKPV books and still took on the unsold US cents copies too (at probably cheaper rates than the printed UKPVs). They were popular at the time, so the story goes. And maybe some Marvels found their way into the DC shipments too...

I added that Pep to the files yesterday - came up in my eBay searches Robot. I have as many Miller stamped Archie examples in the files as I do T&P - they seemed to share them: If you don't mind @themagicrobot, post any more thoughts over at the general UK Distribution Review thread - I'd like to keep this one to the Marvel variants only

He looks a bit quare doesn't he, in the old sense of the word.

Who's the rather fey looking chap who forgot his boots?