Get Marwood & I

Yes, always good to watch and we've discussed it in this thread before (or one of my threads anyway). The thing is that it's a 1977 film and the period we're concerned with is 1960 to 1961. I appreciate the comments about what the plant 'used to' be able to handle, but 17 years is a long time in any industry and there may have been even less capability in 1960 than implied in the video. And also, 1960 was the first time the printers had ever been required to produce pence versions alongside the cents copies. They were likely finding their feet - certainly all the many printing inconsistencies that I have documented support that view as they didn't stick to one format for more than five minutes! The part about having DC and Marvel together on the same pages answers one of our discussion points but only in the context of 1977 capability not 1960. We need a video from then! For the sake of argument, let's say the 1960's plates could only manage 350k copies before needing to be replaced. According to Comichron, the comics with the price font variations that I have plotted had average paid circulations of around 150k per issue. So they could easily be produced with one plate even with a healthy overprinting. Also, at some point the plates had to be switched anyway to add the pence stripped copy (I love that one chap in the video is smoking a pipe while doing so). So whilst interesting, the video doesn't seem to answer any of our questions. Taking Rawhide Kid #17 again, why does a book with an average paid circulation of 150k have four variations if the plant that allegedly, soley produced it could manage that volume with one plate? Could it be that whilst the average paid circulation was around 150k, issue 17 was so popular that a further set of printings was requested? Comichron is one of the few sites that explore the history and they don't even have a monthly / issue break down for this period (unless I'm missing it). Sherlock Holmes used to say that once you remove the impossible, what is left must be the truth. So it seems to me, aside of general remembrances and recollections from this period that no one actually knows for sure. So is a reprint not the most obvious explanation for a book with three different cents price fonts? Let's hope Brittany and the team take up the challenge to find an answer

Observe punching not from ringside lest ye be observed punching from ringside No. No, that didn't work at all did it

Punch not lest ye be punched

And this is why you should never start threads about individuals. It encourages those who dislike them to take pot shots. Which then starts arguments. Which then gets the thread locked. If this is still here in the morning, unlocked, I'll eat my hat.

Me too. Not with you though mind, it's just a timing coincidence.

I like 'Force Unlimited X'. Or FU-X as they abbreviated it to.

No, sorry Maurice, that's rubbish.

Yes, that'll do, thanks. Pretend that's what I posted.

Your welcome. I've noticed some of the UK reprints starting to creep up. The Alan Class reprints which contain first appearances, e.g. AF15, are starting to attract more buyers and are starting to be priced accordingly. But this example is blatantly over the top. Wait for another

X-Cruciating.

No, the 10c Atlas is the original printed in the US. Miller then secured the rights to print their own version in the UK. The 6d copy is a reprint, tailored to the UK market, not a first printing price variant of the US original. Still nice though, but that price is eye watering.

I did a great thread on this years back and the mods pulled the whole lot. The rotters. That backs quite handy though isn't it. Somewhere to rest your pint.

Ok, even I'm laughing at that image. I know it's wrong.

That skeleton won't save you if Fat Arse Girl sits on you. And the claws will barely touch the surface. It'd be like two Jupiter's landing on you.

+1

What's 50% of a fatal injury?

Shut up you tart

On this occasion, the F stands for.....

Ha! They're not the ones at the old wax works in Great Yarmouth are they? Worst wax works I've ever seen

Craig, you're a kind hearted chap and I love you. I liked kav too when I joined and we got on. Then one day we had a misunderstanding and he turned on me for trying to help him. So we stopped getting on. He has good qualities for sure. No point holding grudges and I'd get on with him again. But kav has a blind spot which is that he is pathologically incapable of avoiding one or two members here with whom he has issues. I think he sees it as his mission to burst the bubble of their perceived pomposity. Trouble is, it's painful and tedious for the rest of us to watch, as all these types of personal grudge battles are. So when he returns, my door is open for us to rub along again with the occasional bout of mutual teasing (hence Fat Arse Girl). I hope if he does, he learns how to use the ignore button, as I have P.S. This thread will be pulled as, in my experience, threads about individual members always are. So post why you can.

Someone find me a gif of someone with a serious disapproving face who then bursts out laughing.

I've got a like, a laugh and a sad face so far. Can someone do confused then I'll have the full set.

Yep, GCD is correct, it's a reprint. L Miller were prolific reprinters of US material. It wasn't until 1960 that they solicited first printings with pence prices on them (see my Marvel / Charlton threads)

I liked the 'Back in Black' storyline, and Garney's art. A few good stories here and there after 300 but nothing to rival the first 185 issues really. I see the old stuff and new as completely separate. You can't compare the later sophistication to the simpler, but far more charming early books. It's all wrapped up in age too. And nostalgia.

I heard Fat Arse Girl sat on his computer.