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Darryl's got one: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SUPER-HEROES-VS-SUPER-VILLAINS-1-FN-5-5-ARCHIE-RADIO-COMICS-JULY-1966/141795399237?hash=item2103aa1645:g:~~QAAOSwvc9WFZH- He can keep it though, can't he

....which is why I wish this poxy virus would sod off so that I can get back into the field and dig some more out Kevin will probably have about a hundred of them somewhere though @Kevin.J

Probably, but who knows? At the moment it doesn't, along with a few other publishers that I've gathered images for. MCG (Mighty, not Marvel) have too few copies available to inspect however to make any reasonable judgement at this point. There are a few of the unique 7d stamps out there - here's another: ...but then we have these two stamp types which mirror those of the Gold Star window - one oblong, one circular - the same as those on the two ASM #43s that I posted: Whilst interesting, these books are fairly late into the UK distribution window for me and are of less significance as a result. They're cool, but don't play any meaningful role I feel - more of a foot note in the timeline (that I'll finally get around to summarising one day). Just my opinion in the overall context of my the thread though, speaking as I do as the usual champion of the obscure.

T&P. Well, at least one of them, anyway.

I added quite a few more examples to the table today courtesy of one helpful eBay seller, including another 'first 6' candidate: He expands the probable second cycle group to six books now, with December 59 taking over as the majority cover month: I'm going to leave them there for now until I have looked for a lot more examples.

One and three was a bargain, yes. I have quite a few M.F.s saved with T&P stamps on, so they distributed them at least in part. This one has a one and six and a 2 shilling diamond stamp: Split the difference? (ahem) And here's another of those triangular stamps, but this a more appropriate one and six: I've never bought one - were they as fun as they looked?

There are quite a few publishers that I have folders for which I haven't mentioned so far in this thread. One such publisher is 'Lightning Comics' who, according to the GCD managed a grand total of 5 comics across 2 titles in 1967, the year of King Pence Copies: I've seen it mentioned in a few places that the Lightnings were Accordingly, the Font of all UK Comic Knowledge couldn't even be arsed to acknowledge their existence, leaving their website's 'L' section as empty as a greyed out empty L thing (flippin L): However, those with the 'eyes of the eagle' as Poirot might have said if he wasn't fictional and dead would have spotted the following three examples which may tell a different story (one of them is our aforeposted, priced, GSP): So, three examples out of five comics with stamped prices and / or a sticker consistent with the times. The next time someone tells you that Lightning Comics 'weren't distributed in the UK', or were ENDEE as the hip cats would say, tell that they are filthy lying liars. Probably.

@porcupine48

Two I used to have...

Did you see the GSP sticker Albert? @Albert Tatlock - it looks the same shape and size as the one absent from our ASM #43 there doesn't it

I like this advert inside one of the books that came this morning: The use of 'Blazing' (Sixguns) and 'Two-Fisted' (Tales) seems to stand out in a non-Charltony titley kind of way, whilst Six-Gun is mentioned but with no sign of Charlton's titular gun wielding 'Heroes'. Anyway, a June 2 blanking so back to obscurity for Brent....

I told you it was a ing sticker! I don't mind actually. It has a nice red look to it and the issue has a bit of a miscut. The other two Chapences in the lot were in better nick than my existing copies too, which was nice. All that plus a Black Fury reading copy. What's not to like?

Yes. It's either this or death. Assuming one could tell the difference of course. Me? Considered using my skills for evil? Bwa-ha-ha-ha-hah! No, I haven't actually. Although some would likely say a proliferation of pence threads are evil I suppose. A murder of crows.... An evil of pence threads.

56 titles in the first four cycles!

Hmmm. Good point Gertrude Do you think I could market it as a cure for insomnia?

I've got that sticker type on a Charlton or two Cheers Albert - missed that one. Will add it in. See you all tomorrow!

We don't know each other but from one collector to another, one human to another, I'm sorry to hear this Cat-Man. My thoughts are with you tonight and with and all those who have posted here who have lost their loved ones.

This just popped up on ebay, a BATB #27: I'm still adding new copies to the table as I see them. If anyone has an earlier stamped copy than any of these, dive in:

Yes, I'll let you know what I need later Gary if that's OK, thanks (and you @Kevin.J - cheers for the examples) Why not, have you got something better to do? We've had the triangular sale price stamps but I think that's the first sticker example, if my memory serves. 'Half price comics week' would have been cool wouldn't it. Say, 51 weeks of the year maybe Talking of stickers, we've seen the dual decimalisation stamps.... ...here's a dual sticker:

....slowly but surely I'm getting there with the numbered stamp grids. Here's the v2 one shilling one: The one and three / one and six / one and nine's are hard work. Getting there though. New stamp type alert - not seen one of these before: Jimmy and Perry? John and Paul? And you don't often see a numbered stamp minus the tee and pee: Finally, and still on wigwams, I find the 9d Tee & Pee stickers to be a lot harder to come by than the shillings: Odd to see that shilling sticker on a 10d printed Marvel. And why use a sticker anyway and not a stamp, if stamping was your thing? And why spend a morning bothering to post this drivel? Who knows....

Talking of Davids, this one made me smile. Either operator error or it's the Welsh spelling or something...

Any particular year? I can keep an eye out. I currently have two June 13, but no June 12 at the moment. I have a spreadsheet of my date stamps in case someone needs one.

You'll get a gold star from me, if he does Albert.

There are no printed UKPVs for Kid Colt #130, 131 and 132: 131 is missing as expected as it sits in the second hiatus 3 month window, and the other two are absent, presumably, as they are 25c copies vs the normal 12c price for which 10d pence copies exist. For the missing pence copies, I've found these for #130: These for #131: And this for #132: So here's a question. If the 10d oblong stamps are the work of Gold Star, that would indicate a temporary distribution problem between Marvel and T&P. So why do T&P copies exist for the Kid, in the 'Gold Star' window?