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Hello Mr Thorpe! I somehow manged to miss your post yesterday, sorry (it might be because it needed to be approved prior to posting, being your first post and all). Yes, our AM Co stamp does indeed have a whiff of Miller about it doesn't it: As you say, it could indeed be one of Len's Dad's. He was trying to muscle in at the time from the looks of it I have some scans of other odd looking stamps which I'll post in later entries. While we have you, you don't recognise this 'RV' one do you - it appears around 1964/5 on Charltons: Good point about T&P moving from the B&Ws to the originals, thanks - I'll look into that a bit more. Thanks for the kind words - I'm honoured that you'd join the forum just to comment here. Welcome, and stick around! Cheers, Steve

One of the regular sellers of AUS copies on eBay Australia put up the later 'second wave' run of ASM issues this morning - here's one of them: https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/AMAZING-SPIDERMAN-414-NEWSSTAND-COPY-HUGE-RANGE-OF-MARVEL-COMICS-IN-STOCK/124242837550?hash=item1ced73402e:g:K2kAAOSw7vVe~FwS He's missed that they are AUS copies in his listings despite labelling all his first wave books correctly. He has the following numbers up: 407 - US copy 408 - AUS copy 409 - US copy 410 - no copy (Venom issue) 411 - AUS copy 412 - AUS copy 413 - AUS copy 414 - AUS copy 415 - AUS copy 416 - AUS copy 417 - AUS copy 418 - US copy As ever, the gaps correlate with the known AUS copy gaps. 410 is likely missing from his listings on this occasion because that is a sought after Venom issue, but 409 is a US copy as expected. When you see this pattern over and over again, you start to accept that 409 was missed from the AUS experiment for whatever reason and will never appear. Expect one to surface tomorrow then!

"Thanks!" "Thanks!" That's taking the piddle isn't it. "Thanks for the free fifteen grand" might have been more appropriate.

That is a thing of beauty

I didn't actually know the misspelling was a thing Stephen. See, we're always learning in these threads Cheers Tricia

Was it one of the two examples I posted above or a different one Geoff? Nice hypothesising by the way Oh, and look what I found over here: Three years that book has been in hiding. I'm speechless!

Sorry to hear that Gary. He left his mark on the hobby though - must have been cool working on that.

New number 4 Gutted that no one is interested enough to comment or even like it

13 14 Confirmed US Price Font Issues

I know Who's Muphry? Not Murphy's mate is he?

I thought it was alright myself

Cheers Kevin. It's something to do isn't it. As and when mate, as and when. If anyone has any old books to beat the above dates it'll be you. I'll be interested to see if your WAS#29 has a stamp and / or arrival date. Yes please, send me a pm when you get a chance Kevin. I'll see if I can get him to read this old tosh and cast a view

You're Kidding!

Was it one of the two examples I posted above or a different one Geoff? Nice hypothesising by the way

@rakehell @Redshade @Kevin.J @themagicrobot @Mr Thorpe Guys, anything to add here? The Gold, Silver, Bronze lark is just to get the thing going and an excuse to post pretty pictures.

Interesting article here from the UK CBPG site by one Bob Mandry (who I have been unable to locate): REFLECTIONS OF A 60’S UK DC COMIC COLLECTOR by Bob Mandry In January 1960 a new box was to be found at the leading newsagents in the centre of my home town, Southend. No big hype, no flashy display stand but an assortment of DC comics packed in two dozen (24) bundles with a selection of the leading DC titles of the time. Each comic had a black circular 9d stamp on its cover to enable comic readers know how much they had to pay for the 10cent cover price books. This was part of the first batch of US comics to be unleashed on an unsuspecting British public............The very early batches that came across were, almost certainly, returns from the States stores. The cover dates of the first two batches were October 1959, 3 months behind the chronological date and were a very random collection of titles, no one two dozen batch being like the next one. Consequently some titles were very rare in the UK, Showcase 22 being a classic example; in fact it was almost non-existent, obviously due to the high take-up in the US stores. That could support a theory that books arrived out of a natural production / shipping sequence. Maybe a whole load of US returns covering multiple cover dates were just shipped over in bulk to the UK, stamped up and then put on sale in early 1960? Maybe our Charltons, ACGs and Archies were with them.......

Yes, he's aware of Duncan's work / guides. Tell me more about the one by Alan Austin please Gary - and your work in support of it Yes, I speculate as such in the relevant posts. It is indeed possible that the Charltons may have come over in bulk, and out of a natural production / shipping cycle. I'd love to see some evidence either way and maybe someone in the know will see this thread at some point and chip in. There are many inconsistencies really. I find it odd that there are no Marvels with T&P stamps in late 1959 / early 1960 - only the printed price variants from May. Duncan's site noted the DCs came over in waves across late 59 cover dates. Why would they have beaten Marvel by 6 months? Why were no Marvels dated 1959 brought over too, before the formal arrangement of UKPVs commenced? Given their current market dominance, it's a little ironic that Marvel appear to have been beaten by DC, Archie, ACG and Charlton doesn't it. All good fun.

Cheers Gary - it's nice to get a comment from a reader finally. Although I started half the research many years ago the thread is still a work in progress so by all means chip in if you find anything amiss. There's lots more to come when I get around to typing it up

For the right time period the little star stamp was also a good indicator as to whether the book would have a Mark Jewelers insert. Far too early for this book though.

Maybe the bidder is drunk. He's drunk miles more ales.

The letters K and C are in the mix with U and F too. But not necessarily in that order.

It is interesting isn't it. Incidentally, comics without cover numbering can be difficult to collect I find. The Charltons I collect from 1961 don't have them so I have to take a book with little pictures of them to fairs. Comics are great aren't they

https://www.comichron.com/faq/comicsnumberingorigin.html