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FYI

"Good afternoon, I checked with our graders on this and they advised that yes, we do ignore them in grading and consider them just distribution stamps for books in the UK. But we do not label these books as UK versions or variants. If you have any other questions, please let us know. Thanks!"

Thank you Jennifer

*No carpet bombing jokes, Mike @lizards2

Yep. There's not a collector alive who doesn't regret letting something go. Part of the hobby. Part of life.

Nearly a thousand pages of Andru goodness - Amazing. I'm satisfied with my 0.2% of them

It's not you it's the board software - it has a recurrent glitch. I've raised it but it's out of the admins control. Have to live with it until Invision fix it.

This is what my post looks like on my phone: This is what it should look like:

You might be looking at it on a phone or small hand held device Dude? It's normal size on a desktop - sometimes the boards formatting goes awry and compresses the width to fit the screen on mobiles.

Have you calculated exactly how many pages RA drew across his ASM run and how many of them you have an image of Reggie?

A brief interlude, before we dive into ACG and then Marvel. You'll hopefully note that I purposely titled the thread 'A Review of the First Official Distribution...' and noted in the early posts that I have concentrated on what can be proven to have been distributed by way of an 'official' distributor cover stamp being present. And, for now, Charlton will hold the crown for earliest known cover dated US comic with such a stamp - our 'War at Sea' #29 dated February 1959 - until someone comes along and beats it. But it is common enough knowledge that US comics found their way to the UK unofficially prior to the above date. The difficulty with any research into that is the inability to prove anything retrospectively without any physical evidence that is, say, comparable to the cover stamps that Thorpe & Porter and L Miller began using from 1959/1960. The above said, there are scenarios here and there that can lead to some reasonable conclusions. One thing I am used to as I scroll the internet looking for price variants and such is the 'same book' phenomenon, i.e. the scenario where the same issue turns up all the flipping time, often in total isolation of its surrounding issues. One such book is 'Li'l Genius' #17, cover dated April 1958. Every time I search that title looking for new pence copies I see multiples of that book. There are no UK Price Variant printed pence copies of course and, over time, its appearance in every search starts to grate, so many of them there seem to be over here. At any given time, you could expect around ten results from the eBay.co.uk search "Li'l Genius" and, typically, over half of them will be for issue #17. Here are three copies from three different sellers all taken from eBay UK: Look closer, and you'll see the copies above all have this same small one shilling sticker on them: Could this be taken as evidence that this book was imported to the UK around the date of its cover? Later copies with T&P stamps would tend to be one shilling and sixpence (1/6) for an issue that size - could the lower price be indicative of an earlier import date? Or perhaps a load of excess copies came over much later and one UK dealer decided to sell them? It wouldn't be the first time that one regional sellers' books turned up all over. But there is no way of knowing now is there. So all we can do is speculate and guess. Meanwhile, back to the 'provable' first arrivals. Some cool stuff from ACG to follow...

Then they should have qualified their statements! We should get an answer tomorrow when Jennifer F dives back into the 'Ask CGC' forum - she's been on a question answering mission lately, so I'm crossing my fingerbobs

I had those too. A great Who era.

You're both saying a SS label is a qualified grade and yet these images below suggest not always. The top one (yellow) suggests this is not qualified. What am I missing?

I'd like to read that by the way, if you can find it in your posting history

Indeed. They've gone too far in quite a few areas in my view. But we're all speculating at the moment on price stamps because we don't yet know their position. Let's see what they have to say and take it from there. If they delete my question a second time though, then we storm the tower

I don't, but others have asked if there is an impact and logic suggests there might be. That's why I've asked CGC twice to clarify as I haven't seen anything official from them about it. Also, old pre-CGC grading standards used to indicate that a date stamp had to be inobtrusive to be ignored so there's precedent for it to be a factor.

You might be right. One difference I see in that comparison though is that it is in CGC's interest not to downgrade a book that has been 'defaced' by a marker pen signature, given their current Signature Series Programme. We'll see.

Did you used to win? There was always one card with Physical Strength 1. The Wasp I think. Maybe The Gremlin... Anyway, I always got that damn card.

We had this version in the UK, with a Spidey on the back of each card: Used to love playing them with my brother - "Special powers eight!"

http://southafricancomicbooks.blogspot.com/2013/09/monsters-and-superheroes-quartette-top.html

I found some real crackers during my first distribution research Bob. Some stampers definitely had a sense of humour at least, if not any skill for unobtrusive placement