Get Marwood & I

...just saw that you'd already added it to the list in the first post, sorry

https://www.comics.org/series/20858/covers/ @GeeksAreMyPeeps

It turns out that Captain America #250 is the only October 1980 dated pence comic with a 'Marvel All-Colour Comics' UK variant banner. Every other applicable title has September 1980 as their final MACC cover date: So Cap is special Accordingly, the chart now reads: Thanks to @mec3437 for identifying the flaw in my research

Start a thread Callaway! 'Prototype Love' sounds proper exciting. I'll contribute to it

...but not, it turns out, for all titles: Iron Man's October 1980 is a 'MCG' banner, Caps is still a UK 'MACC' So, we're learning on the job this morning. I love it Subject to a full review, the correct statement is now that the UK variant 'Marvel All-Colour Comics' banner saw it's final appearances on books dated either September or October 1980 depending on the title: Full review coming up

The 'Marvel All-Colour Comics' banner arrived from August 1974, as I understand it, to let the reader know just that - that the content of the comic was in colour, unlike the UK reprints / comics of the time which tended to be black and white or single colour. It lasted up to and including August 1980, then disappeared: It was introduced at the same time as the price was increased to 7p, after a four to five month lay off where there were no pence copies - see FF example below: I like the revised banners as not only did they further differentiate the UK from the US copies, making them even more 'varianty' (is that a word? It is now) they were often fairly crudely administered. Here's the first FF with the yellow bleeding nicely into the price box: Your FF #233 is dated after the August 1980 date so rightly shows the US banner As it goes, I believe from September 1980, all Marvels had the 'win $2,500' blurb as the banner. Take the Avengers here: Final 'All-Colour Comics' banner: '$2,500 advert' banner: Return of the standard 'Marvel Comics Group' banner: There was no Avengers #200 pence copy by the way. I often wondered why they didn't continue the UK banner for those 'advert' issues, as the competition wasn't applicable to UK readers. But I suppose the blurb area was too big and they had nothing adequate to fill it with. But look again, and you'll see they did actually retain the 'All-Colour' wording at the top right: So I need to change my chart to show that October 1980 is the date for the final appearance of 'Marvel All-Colour Comics', not August Cheers @mec3437 See, we can learn something new every day See above!

Thanks Serling, I agree. Cool books those 9d three's

Doctor Octopus prototype

We want pictures

I didn't have anything else to do today, so I took myself off into town to visit a comic shop in Putney. I spent a good hour or so in there, rooting around, and came away with four comics. Two pence Charltons, a 9d pence Archie that was misfiled (but I still found it) and a Strange Tales #76 that I bought so I could see what type the indicia was. I forgot about everything for that hour or so, lost in the wonderful world of old smelling paper. On the way home I watched the families, parents battling with their kids, the young lovers gazing into each others eyes and the football crowd, talking loudly and rowdily in happy groups on the train. I thought of my Dad, who I lost last year to cancer and pondered life in general. I posted the books here when I got home in their respective threads. Comics, it seems, are my friends. They have been for as long as I can remember. And I do love them.

KID MONTANA! (No relation to Colt Outlaw, or Two-Gun. Or Ringo. Or Hannah) "Dave, did you see that!?" "What?" "The bullet" "What about it?" "It came out the gun at a funny angle" "Chrissakes Bob I'm trying to rob the purple bank here" "Sorry Dave" Click "Why do they call you 'Kid Gunless', kid?" "Cos I aint got no gun" "Oh..." "Hey, look - here comes Kid Cockless" Gunfighter "Dave?" "What?" "Is that it? "What?" "No writing. Just 'Gunfighter' at the bottom?" "Yeah. Thought I'd let the pictures do the talkin for a change" "Oh, right. Cool" "Hey, Kid" "What?" "I like your wall paper there" "Oh, thanks. I got it in Argos. Do you like the colour?" "Yeah, it's nice. Sort of sepia looking. Makes it look old like. That's not you in it is it?" "Yeah. It goes mighty well with the bedroom furniture" "You got pictures of yourself in your own bedroom, Kid?" "Sure. What's wrong with that?" "Well, I aint sure I should be saying..." "No, come on. If you've got something to say, say it" "Just a bit odd is all Kid..." "JESUS H CHRIST WHAT'S THAT!" "I don't believe it" "You're not kidding woman, what is it!" "What? Oh that? That's just a prehistoric monster from years back. Kid - did I turn the stove off before we left?" "What!" Too many wolves! Never mind that, that horse is wearing pink lipstick. And he knows it. Arnold Weet was out for revenge on the Funny Hat 'n' Glasses Gang, and the Kid was first on the list. As luck would have it though, Weet fell drunk into a threshing machine whilst taking a piss out in Missouri. They buried his remains where he fell... You know what's coming don't you... KID MONTANA! (You can't Kid a Kidder. Especially Margot)

Hmmm. Quite a few moons there....

Ahh, good. Two-Gun Kid #70. Let's have a look inside

Dragoom! Starting to get old now