Get Marwood & I

On 4/23/2024 at 12:34 PM, genrlzod said:

In the off chance anyone is interested:

On 4/23/2024 at 9:59 AM, apocalypse76 said:

but the biggest surprise to me was the ASM 252. There is about 1/4" tear w 1 1/2" crease along with spine ticks, large scuff all color breaking. In addition, it is just an overall dingy copy for a modern book. That book should never be better than 8.0 and I would personally grade it at 7.5.

I'm glad you said that as I thought I was the only one who undergraded it. I went for 7.5 too, but on the basis that I'd call it a 7.0, so CGC would go higher. 

On 4/23/2024 at 5:53 AM, Professor K said:

#9 - Dance the night away in this Red and Yellow striped shirt. Weird sandals optional. 

What an outfit 

And 'young love'? He looks about 35.

Wonderful thread, Professor K, wonderful 

On 4/23/2024 at 12:09 AM, Albert Tatlock said:

Was it Eddie Charlton v Cliff Thorburn?

If so, don't bother waking up.

Back in the day you could sleep eight hours and they'd still be on the first frame 

I used to like Steady Eddie. Selby is in the same mould. 

On 4/22/2024 at 9:01 PM, Redshade said:

And a few hundred Skunky if you recall a previous conversation.

 

I do, yes. Conquerors, not Conquistadors. I haven't woken up properly. Fell asleep in front of the snooker.

On 4/22/2024 at 8:54 PM, Redshade said:

Yes, I thought that you would Steve that's part of the reason I had a stab. I left a bid of £32 when it was at £10.50 yesterday and I was 75% certain that I would win it. I wonder who it was?

That one doesn't turn up often. Skunky and the other two do, so maybe that had a bearing. When I was chasing the Bell Features books, there was always fierce competition on the first copy, then it tailed off a subsequent copies emerged. So likely only a handful of collectors after them. Some seller has loads of the Conquistadors, and can't sell them for a tenner anymore. 

On 4/22/2024 at 7:10 PM, Redshade said:

I'm not sure how to find old posts in this system so apologies in advance if this missive is in an incorrect place. 
There has been discussions in the pages about the Canadian Century comics (Skunky, Dr Mercy and others which I have) and when I saw this on eBay UK I had to have a pop.
Alas my bid of £32 was not high enough. Was it one of you bounders?

 

Over here Stephen:

Funnily enough, my last post there is a copy of that very book!

I might have had a go at that ebay copy if it had come up in my searches. The seller likely lost out by not including 1946, Century etc. I'd probably have lost though too. Love the price sticker. 

On 4/21/2024 at 2:49 PM, Malacoda said:

Thanks.  And those 12p stickers look very much like T&P stickers. Do we know that T&P were distributing Charltons in 1976? 

We do.

This made me smile - an eBore seller with four copies, no less, of Marvel Tales Annual #2 up for bidding:

The two UKPVs have T&P stamps and the two cents copies don't.

Love it 

On 4/21/2024 at 2:36 AM, Spider-Variant said:

Example, look at the dogs mouth in the original art vs the published page.  Teeth just disappear in a sea of black colors.

I never liked that dog, in the first panel. Odd looking thing, I always thought. And this story was my first introduction to the phrase "SIC 'IM!" 

I'd never heard that before and, if I'm honest, I had no idea what it meant. No Google in them days, to look that one up.

Did he go back and pay her for the window in the end? I can't remember now.

While we're on this subject, Rich, I wonder why there are so many 10p printed price / 12p stickered Charltons out there, in that late 76 early 77 window, but no Marvel equivalents? Have we covered this before? If all those inflation impacted Charltons did get repriced sequentially on arrival, and not in bulk at some later point, why don't we see 10p printed Marvels, which would have arrived at the same time, with 12p correcting stickers too?

On 4/20/2024 at 6:56 PM, Malacoda said:

Can we agree, it would be an almost impossible coincidence for two different newsagents miles apart to unearth three different comics, years apart and re-price them to the then-current price of 12p with the same stickers.  This has to be the world rep, doesn't it? 

Could be, Rich. Nice thought, isn't it. I can think of other scenarios though, and we are only looking at three examples to be fair (unless you have more unposted). Maybe both newsagents had lousy stock control, and both bought their stickers from the same WH Smiths  

I like it when you find common patterns or events, where there are just enough examples to suggest a thing, but just not enough to suggest anything concrete or systematic. This is why I have so many abandoned folders in my files, the starting point of investigations for which no further examples materialised. There's nothing for it - you'll have to make a folder, keep looking, and report back in a few more years 

On 4/21/2024 at 2:29 AM, Malacoda said:

Interesting.  Noted.  Thank you.  If I understand, this is PV Charlies (duals) rocking up in the UK at first importation and,  due to bonkers inflation since they were printed, being repriced to 12p directly from 10p before even hitting the spinners, right? 

Yep, that's my understanding Rich.

On 4/21/2024 at 2:29 AM, Malacoda said:

So it's the same environment, but a key difference is the Marvels were seemingly distributed at cover price up to 2 years earlier, then re-circulated with stickers, having jumped straight across 3 price increases.  

Yes, agreed. The point of my post was to point out that your two posts below both base their dates on an assertion that comics 'went up to 12p from March 1977':

On 9/3/2022 at 6:42 PM, Malacoda said:

I have previously shared with the group my copy of Astonishing Tales #34 (cd March 1976) bought from a spinner rack more than a year later, repriced to the then current UK price of 12p.  It’s demonstrably more than a year later because comics only went up to 12p in March 1977.

On 4/20/2024 at 6:56 PM, Malacoda said:

Recently, I finally found another one of these for sale. Ghost Rider 11 from April 1975, repriced all the way from 8p to 12p (+50%, nice work if you can get it) some time after March 1977. 

The Charlton scenario indicates that comics were being stickered at 12p much earlier, from August 1976. Perhaps your newsagent was stickering that early too. 

On 4/20/2024 at 6:56 PM, Malacoda said:

It’s demonstrably more than a year later because comics only went up to 12p in March 1977

Don't know if this helps Rich, but Charltons were repriced from a 10p printed price to a 12p sticker price on a fairly systemic basis in late 1976, as the extract / examples below show:

I've been plotting the UK distribution status throughout Charlton's UK lifetime for many years now, but have yet to spend any meaningful time drawing conclusions from all the data that I've gathered. Your 12p stickers look different, and your theory sounds reasonable on an isolated basis. I just wanted you to know that 12p stickers were a thing as early as cd August 1976, for Charlton at least, 8 months earlier than the date in your quoted post.

On 4/19/2024 at 8:19 PM, Yorick said:

Could be she IS that small.  I have gained an extreme appreciation for the Andru/Esposito team after staring at these pages for HOURS. 

You can't beat a bit of MIKEROSS 

Is it me, or is that bloke's head enormous?

On 4/19/2024 at 8:06 PM, Yorick said:

I like your scan of the copyright page

That's going to have some poor sod scratching his head on Google in 30 years.... 

On 4/19/2024 at 7:50 PM, Yorick said:

The US version is quite rare, but this GM&I partners import seems impossibly scarce.

On 4/19/2024 at 7:38 PM, Yorick said:

That's all of them then?  All the first Marvel printed pence copies?

The foist twenny

On 4/19/2024 at 7:38 PM, Yorick said:

I'm not sure I learned anything in this thread, but it continues to provide a good laugh.

On 4/19/2024 at 6:49 PM, Darwination said:

Something a little weird about how she's caressing that big log

 

The poor chap in the background's rather inadequate looking expression says it all, doesn't it..... 

On 4/19/2024 at 5:56 PM, Malacoda said:

Right, right, right.  So is that actually Ben's blog? I thought he was the Evil Overlord behind it, or does he contribute to someone else's grand folly? 

It sits on Ben's blog, yes. He the mobilises the mob.