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Who are you calling thoughtless?

A one in eighty five strike rate aint bad so I'm going to carry on. Come with me Kav, come with me!

yep i was just joking around plus it rattled some cages Phew, I'm pleased. I knew all along you had a sense of humour and would respond in kind to my playful dig eventually. Especially since Muggins and I were so very kind to you on the good ship FDQE2 all those days ago. Since you have raised the 'N' word however, and in continued support of the search for the causes of hate, I have fed your irksome newbie theme jest into the Board Member Worthometer. In the spirit of fairness I have fed the data into both the old and the new board data engines. The results are shown below: Now I know for sure that you have a sense of humour Kav, here’s your chance to shine! I hate the new boards!

Wrong thread, Jimmers. A not particularly Sisyphean attempt on my part to dumb things down. Are you saying things were high brow Ken?

Other people have senses of humor too-maybe you could tell them their posts don't make sense because they are imbeciles Now I'm not feeling the warm smiley face banter from that post at all Kav. Are we still friends or what?

Whichfro? Likefro Oh, Thatfro!

What if someone takes @Ken Aldred while you're away though Ken?

You've hit on two of the reasons I stopped being a completist here @Likefro - stuff that's too expensive and stuff I didn't care about. For some reason that I can't quite recall, I decided many moons back to go for every American Spider-Man comic and appearance. And I mean every one. Maybe @1950's war comics is right on the OCD claim earlier, but I really went for it. Look at my old records - these are just the title indexes: At its peak, I think I had over 8,000 comics with Spidey in. Every main title. Every mini-series. Every one-shot. Every promo. Every variant. Every printing. Every appearance. And I mean every appearance - one panel was enough to warrant getting the book. Strange Tales 97 because the Parkers looked like they were in there. Spidey on DD #1 cover? Got it. I spent £500 on a comic just because he was on the cover. Looking back, it was madness. But my God did I enjoy it. Up until the point that is when I almost got everything. The moment I'd 'done it', the full magnitude hit me. 8K comics, of which about 6K were, for want of a better word, tat. And then the variant madness went up a notch. I purchased all the 666's, all the V3 #1s. And then one day I stopped. Dead. I went cold turkey. And then I sold everything except for 50 or so books. I'm keeping this brief and could write a thesis on it. Maybe one day I will. So beware, completists. It's a dark road to go down unless you are fabulously rich, have all the time in the world and plenty of space. Alas, I no longer have those last three...

Great film. Great score. Great big profit. Great!

Whichfro? Just seeing if I can get 'I hate you for asking' into double figures.

Whichfro?

I am me and no one else. If I have something to say I will say it. I do not appreciate even a slightly remote insinuation that I am using a shill account to say something. Nor did I Buzz, but you know that by now... It's an interesting discussion when none of you, with exception of the porcupenis, knows who I really am. Who is to know whether this is my real account or my shill account? And obviously, lizards2 is a cloak for the real me. I've sussed it! You're Arch. You use the @lizards2 persona to do all the fun, entertaining witty stuff and the @Architecht one to not

Are you trying to class up this joint?

And I thought my pulling technique was bad My post wasn't about handies, you perv Nor was mine!

And I thought my pulling technique was bad

And that concludes our walk through Amazing Spider-Man First Printing Australian Price Variants. I hope this helps some future completist / completionist / nutter in some way. Remember, if you decide to go after them you will need patience and the ability to not get annoyed when your promised NM turns up a G+ If anyone finds any issues I missed in the hunt, do dive in. Good luck, G-Day and be seeing you!

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Hello! In my previous post I noted that the earliest L Miller indicia I have is dated May 1960 (Gunsmoke Western #58) and the latest is March 1961 (Gunsmoke Western #63). I've found a later one - Gunsmoke Western #65, July 1961 issue This is what the 'regular' US version looks like: And here is the L Miller variant: Note that the price stamp is for 6d again, not the 9d Thorpe & Porter were charging for their imported Marvels around the same time (so why was the L Miller #58 a 9d printed price I wonder?). The indicia has the L Miller strapline: ....which I'm guessing is absent from the US copies. I've yet to find a pence printed copy of this issue. 58 and 66 have them, but not 59-65. Maybe 59-65 only exist as 10c copies with L Miller distribution indicias / price stamps? These books surface painfully slowly over here, so it may be a long wait to find out!

I am me and no one else. If I have something to say I will say it. I do not appreciate even a slightly remote insinuation that I am using a shill account to say something. Nor did I Buzz, but you know that by now...

I hate unnecessary u's, even though I'm forced to use them now Favourite has been the preferred spelling in British English for several centuries, but this does not mean that favorite is a late arrival to the language or even American in origin. In fact, the OED lists instances of favorite from as long ago as the 17th century. Milton used it in Paradise Lost and, and William Wordsworth used it around 1800 (and many more examples are easily found in historical Google Books searches). The preference for favourite was not well established in British English until the first half of the 19th century, which is around the same time Americans settled on what is now their spelling. P.S. Someone needs to start a new 20 questions, but I don't want it to be me. Are you trying to class up this joint? I fear it's just been cancelled out.

Two! Two sane persons on the boards, ah ha ha ha haa! ?

One sane person on the boards! ?

He'll have to put himself on his own list if that's true.