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Wonder what they all did once they'd finished tying her down Jim. You'd have to have a quick look wouldn't you

Indeed. Difficult to imagine how it could get any better really...

I like the way you quietly slipped the stunning blonde in there MR SigS

Rodney's in Barking did that to my youth - massive 2 and 3p marker pen cover prices on all my UK weeklies

This one's my favourite:

I had a quick look online and found: eBay sold: eBay BIN: Heritage (in order of last sale): Quality Comix: They collectively indicate that it's likely in the hundreds, not thousands of dollars. Good luck

This never happens, two in one day! 218 The 219th may be only a Silveracre sticker away.....

Same as any other Double Cover, I presume; only it happened exactly as they were changing plates from the Direct Editions to the Newsstand Editions. I'm not sure about this specific period, but I always understood that the covers were printed separately - all the interiors were printed the same and then the covers added. In practice, maybe a pile of covers was added to the cover-adding apparatus (I know all the technical terms ) which comprised the last batch of one cover type and the first of the next. The usual double cover causing glitch kicked in at the point the first and last were fed through, hence the result of one newsstand, one direct. A rare occurrence I'll bet, but maybe the presence of two separate cover groups added together actually increased the possibility, through some tiny mid-run paper misalignment, of the double covers happening in the first place. I may have just speculated a load of old ill-informed rubbish there - which wouldn't be the first time - but that's how I see it happening in my mind.

Further to my earlier ACG, here's another good example of a book that has been stamped to death: The Popular Book Centre gets in on the act as usual

I saw this book on eBay in the week - two star stamps, one circled: Quite an early book to be stamped thus, I thought?

This doesn't happen often - a new Dell find - The Rifleman #8: It completes the pence set... ...and brings us up to 217 confirmed books.

I noticed an ebay seller tonight with a few RV stamped Charltons. I sent him a message on the off chance he might know who they were, where he bought them, that kind of thing. He said "Sorry, no, but I found this info on the web", and sent me an extract from my Charlton thread. It cheered me up I have to say, after an otherwise miserable evening online...

You're a good man Reggie, with a commendable aproach.

It's reasonable to feel that way because it is bad form, plain and simple. If they were going to use your creations for lengthy periods in their presentation, a namecheck would have been the bare minimum I'd have expected. They actually say a number of online people have done it, don't they? I don't see the others in the video, do you?

That's a good way to look at it Reggie. I've always shared all my research and have never been too fussed about others using it. There are some that would be spitting feathers though, that they wasn't asked or credited. The individual images were freely available, yes, but it was your detective work, vision and presentation skills that pulled them together.

Do you think they'll read them on route? You must have some insight, being a magic robot and all.

Jim! Thought you were dead.

£2 aint bad! I got stung for £4 postage the other week. It came second class Large Letter with no card and in a recycled envelope. I calculated they made about £2.30 profit, the bar stewards. I'll post my comic when it comes Robot.

I went to the Book & Comic Exchange in Notting Hill this morning, just for something to do really. I got lucky there once with some Charltons but no joy this time. They did have four of the Spidey pocket books though coincidentally. I was tempted. On the way back I remembered I was supposed to bid on a comic on eBay but had no signal. As the train pulled into Edgware my mobile sparked into life and I logged on to find 18 seconds to go. I bid and won with a second to spare. Big outlay though, so maybe I'd have been better off missing it Still, what else would I have spent the £2.20 on...

Nice clean back cover Bob. I'm at 6.0/6.5 but could see CGC going to a 7.0.

I'd say about a 3.5/4.0, Up in the Shed. It doesn't seem to be worth much alas, judging by eBay sold results.

I can understand why Spidey finds might be more prevalent as he tends to be more fiercely collected, researched, preserved in my experience. It's hard to make any meaningful guesses on the numbers distributed when we have so little to go on though. Maybe one day someone will unearth some documentation and we'll all go "ahhh, right".

Decisions, provisions... I had a full set of the Spideys, yes. I liked the other compendium books too - I'll have to dig the old photos out as I can't for the life of me remember what to call them. So you know what I'm talking about I mean, if you don't already.

They're nice. I had my eye on the Mandrakes a while back. Always liked Mandrake. Good luck, Robot, with your pocket sized Batmans