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Thanks for the link. The pictures from FF Annual #3 are interesting: The associated text says: "There was only one panel with Spider-Man in the story drawn by Kirby. It looks like a pose based on Ditko's Amazing Spider-Man #19 cover. I wonder how the original Kirby's pencils looked." The FFA#3 Spidey image looks more like the one from the 1967 cartoon to me: And it's so small and detailed, it looks like it was a photostat cut in rather than drawn by Kirby on the page. Cool.

I'm sure the average drinker or smoker spends the same on their vices. Comics don't kill you though. Then again.... Thanks. I like to champion that which the majority disregard. It's why I'm so popular here, on the CGC boards. I keep posting about the numbering of Charltons, the indicias of pence Marvels, the overprinted prices of Kings and the differences in 1960s US price fonts. That makes me very popular here, I can tell you If you have enjoyed your collecting, and still get a kick out of the obscure, then it was a hundred grand well spent. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. The fringes are were the action is. I mean, where else would you find the question 'Why do some Harveys have a TV screen shape around their cover images?" These are the questions we need in comicdom.

Yes, they can take a bit of getting used to. And there are multiple ways to find the same content. If you have signatures turned on, you'll see the following at the foot of all my posts: Click on any of the seven icons and they'll take you to the relevant pence thread. Morlar takes you to the main page. Or, click on my avatar to go to my main page: From there, the 'About Me' tab has links to most of my threads and the 'Journals' one will take you to the summary pages I've created. Literally hours of fun if you're bored of watching dry paint stay dry Nice books. I've been gathering T&P stamped Dell examples and will add these to the pile - they are few and far between, compared to other publishers. More on that later. Yup

Mad weren't they A lot of my new mini-discoveries relate to Charlton numbering and cover cosmetics coincidentally. Interesting you posted the blank UPC edition above there - I summarised these last year:

Sold it a few years back for fairly little Maurice. Then, after 6 decades of price stagnation, every Marvel cover Alan Class ever made skyrocketed. If you want to make money out of comics, do the exact opposite of whatever I'm about to do.

They're lovely, but you can see through them Maurice. Alan Class on the other hand, well...

Yes, I was wondering how long it would take

I know what you mean Bronze. My favourite covers personally are the almost ridiculously detailed ones. I write about those over in my Charlton thread, and there are quite a few great examples in the 1960-63 run. But I also like a big bold character image too. They can be quite striking - like this one: That cover just makes me want to buy it.

It's actually a double mylite2 Wormboy. I used to cut a Mylite2 to the shape of the comic, add the sticker to the front of that, and then place it against 3 backing boards in a second sealed Mylite2. That way, the sticker was nowhere near the comic and the outer Mylite2 stopped it attracting dust or sticking to the next comic. The end effect was a solid slab and they looked really cool I have to say. Quite costly though - three boards and two Mylites per comic - but I put all 2,000 ASM's into them back in the day with all the variations noted - here's a few more pics from the files: The stickers got gradually more advanced as I went along - here's my current project - issue specific stickers for each of the 26 L Miller distribution variants: It's something to do isn't it

Sorry Maurice, it was more a shout out for this particular thread - you know you're always welcome mate It gets to us all in the end Gary - and it can be quite liberating and enjoyable, oddly Little things here and there that I'd missed along the way. I've plotted Charlton from 1958 all the way to its demise in 1986 as far as UK participation goes and found a few things worth pointing out. Well, to the likes of us at least!

There's no rules - the thread's just a bit of fun. Post what you like whether you own it or nay

There you go @wildgrind, you've got two answers - Shadroch snuck in while I was typing

Hello Wildgrind, and welcome to the forum Web of Spider-Man #119 can be purchased as a Direct Edition, Newsstand Edition or a Polybagged Edition (which has two comics in the bag, Web #119 and a Marvel Milestone reprint of ASM #150): Direct Edition Newsstand Edition Polybagged Copy The 'U' you refer to is almost certainly being used in the eBay auction to signify that the comic in the lot in question is 'unbagged', i.e. it is not the polybagged edition. Some online sellers will do things like that to give the buyer a clue as to the edition type, especially where no image of the comic is present (a 'P' would indicate the Polybag is present for example). In respect of value, most sellers are fairly indifferent when it comes to Direct Editions vs Newsstand Editions. But some collectors seek the newsstand editions and may pay a premium to secure them due to their comparative scarcity around this period (have a check of eBay copies for Web #119 and you'll see the Directs outweigh the Newsstands by some margin). The Polybagged version will appeal to certain collectors too, especially those we call 'completists', i.e. collectors who have to have every type of the same comic. I was once a Spidey completist, and I owned all three versions of this comic. Only you can decide what you want to collect, what appeals to you, and how much you are prepared to pay for items which are comparatively harder to find. In respect of slabbing, CGC do not slab comics in their polybags - if you send one in, they will remove it from the polybag before slabbing it. So you will never see a polybagged comic in a CGC slab. If a slabbed book has scuffing to the inner well that, by definition, is CGC's fault if the case hasn't been tampered with. You can't scratch the inside yourself, only the outside, so that damage would have happened while CGC were encapsulating the comic. Some collectors are rightly fussy about scratches and scuffs on slabs as the cases are meant to showcase the comic, not detract from them. So if scuffing bothers you, look for an unscuffed copy. I don't know if CGC will reholder a slab which has inner scuffing for free if you are not the original owner - you'll have to give them a call on that - but they certainly can reholder a comic without having to regrade it if the comic itself shows no sign of post-slabbing damage. They just replace the case. Hope that helps

I see that, yes. I don't know the way to solve that myself, sorry. This is the thread to register it though, as an issue, and hopefully someone will be able to help. There are a number of outstanding issues so I'm assuming an update of some kind is due.

It looks like a printing error to me Gazelle - quite similar to the fairly common dotty black Marvel Super Action #1 error: Cap really needs to wash his face there, doesn't he. Talk about letting the side down...

@rakehell @Redshade @Mr Thorpe @Kevin.J @themagicrobot @Garystar @porcupine48 @Albert Tatlock @OtherEric Happy New Year to my gang of discerning contributors and thread followers! The coolest guys in the Galaxy. Or Dairy Milk, if you prefer that brand Contrary to viscous black dog rumour , I've been pottering away over Christmas on all things pence and Blighty and made some nice new discoveries which I'll post about soon. I've got charts coming out me ears. I'm just waiting for that board induced monolith to the right to disappear () before I start posting side by side stuff. It mucks it all up, you see, width wise. Any road (Fred Elliott), keep watching, it'll all go off soon

I see what you did there Signatures are working OK as far as I can see MNIL. I updated mine the other day - they look like this: ...and I've seen many other member signatures looking fine. Yours looks like this to me on my desktop: What should it look like? This may help with the removal thing:

Happy New Year I do like a comic with massive people that fill the whole cover on them. Like these: Do you?

Nay. Twenty odd years too late for anything like that to exist I'm afraid, Paqart...

Welcome on board Ken. All we need is a little customary English precipitation and we'll have tiers in rain. Which would be Batty, wouldn't it. Happy New Year!

Whilst I can see the attraction Hepcat, I feel this version may be more in keeping with Brent camp admission standards...

Back passage, sorry, back at ya Jimmery