Get Marwood & I

That's because you're partially blind owing to a lifetime of w****** liz ?

Will that do?

Mmmmm.........................................sorry, did you say something @1950's war comics?

Spot on @Artboy99 ! Long live Neron Man!

Welcome to the pleasure dome @jetfire ! Dive in and have fun ?

I thought that was me?

These are just brilliant. Me and me brother did the same, making our own comics to read when we went on holiday as kids. I wish I still had some of them. I created the super hero "Clumsy" when I was about 7. His power was to drop or break everything. Sounds silly now, but I really believed in him.

Ditto that liz, ditto that

I don't think this is quite what Bakerbr13 was expecting Kav...

Great stuff @1950's war comics! It's always fun looking at pictures of fairs and cons. I like the point about Binky. It's the same over here in the UK. You can go to the biggest fair looking for one comic / title and find precisely zero. Gunsmoke Western anyone?

Marks out of two? I'd give her one

I certainly didn't mind seeing her twice

A few more from the Royal National Hotel. I'm not the best photographer in the world, but you get the drift. What a beautiful array of specimens in that last picture above. Comics aint bad either!

Thanks for your thoughts @Aman619 If I understand you correctly, you're theorising that Marvel produced a second set of copies with white boxes / no price to allow foreign distributors to add their own price at a later time? Whilst that makes sense, it opens up a lot of questions. If the 9d copies were the product of someone else adding a 9d price to a white box, who was that person, and where were they based - Thorpe & Porter? All the online information I have found suggests that the 9d versions were printed in the US. They (Sparta?) run a set with a 9d price, changed the plates (or whatever the term is) and then run the cents priced copies (or vice versa). The 9d copies were then shipped to Thorpe & porter to distribute in the UK. The US copies were distributed in the US. Re the 10c variations, if a portion of the run was made with a blank white box, to allow an alternative price to be added, there was (to my knowledge) no other country in the world which used cents where the exchange rate would have lead to a 10c price. So the logical assumption is that the 10c copies were all intended for the US. If they were intended for different regions of the US, again, why change the font if the price is the same? A reasonable assumption would be that the US copies have different price fonts because they were printed in separate places or at separate times / on separate presses in the same place. The reason I persist with this is that while there is doubt, there remains the possibility that one of these 10c copies is not part of the 'first printing' run and that, potentially, has significant implications given how collectors perceive the value in first and subsequent printings. I care not one jot about the financial implications personally. The production mechanics interest me and I hate a mystery. Wouldn't it be a laugh if we uncovered something which, say, lead CGC to have to state which version a specific font represented? How can CGC grade two issues of the same comic and make no mention of the fact that one is visibly different to the other? If they differ, there must be a reason. That reason could be something as significant as 'UK Edition' or 'Second Printing' which CGC state currently. Or it could be explained in a way that has no bearing at all (e.g. they're all first printings and the variation is because the guy on the presses was mucking about). You are much more conversant with printing techniques than I am Aman, and I appreciate your thoughts. There must be someone out there who worked on the presses and can tell us how, and where things were done. If we keep banging on, maybe one day that person will surface

A few more from the DWB days An early one (which I think I did using a ball point pen - was still learning!): A little one inside (which for some reason I always liked more than the posters I did): My only cover appearance! One that got away... Happy days were they

A bit less @1950's war comics In August 1978, the US cover price was 35c, UK 12p. When DC increased the price to 50c for 3 months, the pence copies stopped. When they dropped the price back to 40c, the pence copies started up again at 12p still: On September 1979 the UK price went from 12p to 15p whilst the US stayed at 40c. I wish comics were still 15p.....

I'm trying to collect the pence Western copies over here in the UK and they are close to non-existent. When they pop up on ebay, and it's a copy I need to prove it's existence, the competition is sometimes fierce. So there is a market. Here's a few I've managed to get over the last year (any excuse to post pretty pictures, eh):

I've been getting into Westerns through my pence research. I think they're great. There's some good looking Kids in here:

Sooper. I'll give it a try tomorrow

It definately works in scenarios like that, yes. What I've found is that when I get a notification I click on it and it takes me to someone who's responded to one of my posts. Quite a few times the bit they responded to was covered. Having the memory of a gold fish I had to expand it to see what I said! Stupid aren't I. Also, if you check the boards from the 'all activity' screen, which I often do, you tend to work backwards. I know you're going to say I should use the functionality properly to avoid that, but I bet I'm not alone in that. So I've found I have to keep expanding as I'm working backwards. A lot of the board software is actually defaulted to take you to the latest post. So you scroll backwards. That's when, for me at least, I start to see the downside of hidden quotes. So I'd prefer you to back it out. People seem to quote less on the new boards anyway so the scrollin scrollin scrollin, sore eyes! situation isn't as bad as it used to be. Probably.

I said the same a few posts back and was convinced I'd like it. But now it's in, I've found that the times that it "gets in my way" irk me much more than scrolling past duplication does / ever did. So it is great in the scenario we both painted, but for me, not in others. Maybe I'd just get used to it though, just like I have all the other changes.

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