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I wish. There's a few examples out there if you Googleate Dude, high and low grade.

while I have heard of some stores stamping all their copies upon arrival was possible, it was pretty rare. From what I have read, the only copy often was the top book of the pile/bundle of the delivery. Or perhaps they would stamp the last book for each book itself. The use of stamps depended on the retail location-- and whether they needed to have some method to know when something has been on the comic racks too long and was eligible for return. The reasoning is as varied as the number of stores probably. This is sort of why date stamps are a little bit rare. Also-- delivery dates are not set in stone in terms of the when they made it to a store. As you can imagine-- when they left the printer for distribution, the further the destination, the more likely it took longer to get to say California versus New York. Another thing to consider is that many hard core collectors have avoided date stamps and DO NOT prefer them for their collection. That can also impact if a book survived or was taken care of. I would not be surprised if there are practically no AF15 with any sort of date stamp. I'm sure someone has them if they exist but I also think whether it adds to value is up to debate. CGC won't bang the grade save the highest nosebleed level--- but when was the last time you heard of an AF15 in the 9.6 or above grade? Just my take. Those of us who find this thread fun are not hard core about collecting the stamps as much as appreciating their existence. If anyone ever has a scan of an AF15 with a date stamp--- by all means-- share it here!

Can we see it then?

Two of my favourites

There's still a clear winner here

Don't be sorry Jason - the search feature here is average to poor at best so I'm not surprised you didn't see the other thread. Maybe post your examples over there and resurrect the hoary old beast. Most of its images have been photoflumoxed anyway so it will be a good opportunity to revisit them for those that are interested

These have nothing to do with the thread, but occasionally you see the stamps used by other countries crop up on eBay UK. Here are two examples from - if my geography is right - Kenya: Wonder how they got over here.

Here's Action Comics #258 at last, with the 'right' stamp number on it (an 8): One additional benefit of this capture exercise is that you start to get a feel for which issues arrived in small numbers in the UK, and which were abundant: Understandably, I've only captured one stamped example each of the first four issues so far for Action Comics, but there are other later examples in some of the titles for which I have no stamped examples of one issue and then 7 of the next. Obviously it's not an exact science, and is dependent on what is online at present, but it gives a flavour of which books might have been more or less successful in the US and how that likely impacted the extant UK copies. I haven't forgotten the other publishers by the way, while we've been focussing on DC. I still intend to try to populate a meaningful table to include the other early birds, Charlton, Archie etc, to see whether we can create a meaningful illustration of the early UK shipment arrivals. Here are two 1959 Archie's, both stamped a '2', which likely places them in the 2 of the second cycle if we believe the first cycle started with an 8: Spring and Summer 1959, both seemingly arriving in the UK at the same time in 1960 in the second cycle '2' shipment. All good fun.

A slightly better example of this one... ....here: Alfs are very hard to come by too, it seems. Now, I've enjoyed researching these books over the last few years, building on the original Spidey run that I put together ten years ago. Nothing last forever though and, from today, I will no longer be actively looking for new copies online or updating the numbers. There aren't that many left to find anyway and I don't think I've left any research stone unturned. To my handful of interested contributors I say - thank you

That helps explain it Eric, thanks. I have multiple examples of the APVs for the other two Conan titles, but for the four CTS issues, three of them have only one image saved in the files and you can't even make out the prices on them. Scarce old books, they be.

Thanks for posting those books guys - I've added them in where applicable. I've been updating the tables that I put together somewhat, and here are the updated first two pages (hope you can zoom in to read them): You'll see I've added a 'review purpose' which indicates what I'm trying to achieve here. When the exercise is complete, I'll update the journal page I created with the final document version. There are some other related avenues that have opened up to me and I will be exploring them at length over the coming weeks. Hopefully I'll be able to post a fairly definitive summary of everything this thread has explored, with it all tied in to form one hopefully indicative whole. I'll keep you posted. On related matters, I found some more examples of early magazines that T&P distributed in the UK which could account for the 'missing' 1-9 stamp numbers of the first cycle (our DC comics starting at either 6 or 8 depending on your assessment). Here's one of them: More on that later. And I found this intriguing magazine - the only other example of an 'RV' stamp that I have seen other than those on the 1964 Charlton comics and the Charlton horror magazines (RV Series) that I have posted about here and in my Charlton thread: I spent some time Googling and could find absolutely no record of RV, RV Series or even much about the magazine above (a 'CDC' publication as you'll see with your magnifying glass). So RV clearly had some relationship with or to Charlton. At the time of writing, I still have no idea what it was and who they were. I'll keep looking though, of course. I wish the virus would hop it so I could get back to box diving at fairs and such. I feel there are so many books hiding out there, waiting to be found...

Morning Independence Day #2 finally turned up today after an interminable wait: I'm not sure if number 'zero' will exist, to complete the set, but we'll see: I haven't seen an interior shot of the ID4 Graphic Novel that I posted some pages back so am still unsure whether that will join the APV ranks. If it is an APV, it will likely sit outside of the comic APVs that I have documented anyway, on its own Graphic Novel tab on the spreadsheet, much like the magazines. The ID2 brings us up to 1,305 confirmed comic copies: Talking of magazines, the three Conan APV titles are finally complete following the appearance of Saga #56: I also managed to find a price legible copy of Conan the Savage #9 and it is priced at $4.90: Conan the Savage is remarkably scarce on eBay AUS, compared to its peer titles I find. Anyway, one last opportunity to post the Conan gif: See ya...

The star stickers on Charltons turn up a lot. I've written about them and posted examples in my Charlton thread. The other stamps are all new to me. The Wonder Woman #154 stamp bears all the characteristics of a T&P stamp and, perhaps tellingly, bears the same cycle number as its circular peers if the examples on ebay are anything to go by:

I'm off for the night and away tomorrow. Be seeing you boys...

Mebbe.

I've written about that one at length in my UKPV thread actually Albert. One of the 'pattern books' as I call them...

These two are quite early though, 6d versions. Maybe the later 3p and 5p ones were a T&P product. Or maybe these two MV Library books 'fell into' the TP process bucket. That would hardly be a surprise would it. Let's face it, it was flippin chaos back then, wasn't it?

MV Features did both: Same stamp on this T&P western one:

Better make sure I watch Throw Momma From the Train all the way to the end then.

How will we show our disgust at terrible movies in this future world Valiantman? I took great pride in walking out in the middle of Never Ending Story II you know.