Get Marwood & I

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.

I've been doing these competitions long enough now to know, from Mike's informative 'grades received' emoji, that, alas, my round one grades are probably horsesht 

On 4/19/2024 at 5:23 PM, Albert Tatlock said:

There is a ton of similar stuff on the SA blog.

The guy who runs it has done some serious spade work.

Wonder why none of this stuff turns up on ebay? You would have expected some of it to have leaked out of the confines of the Dark Continent.

There are many examples of football programmes from the 1950s and 1960s from matches involving British clubs touring SA and Rhodesia (as it was then known)

I would love to get hold of some of the Mystery in Space, they are probably similar to the Strato/T & P run of that title in terms of content.

There are also a lot of DC Romance books, retitled like this:

There are some fabulous blogs and sites out there if you look. They fly under the radar, mostly, but the effort some collectors put in is admirable. I may not collect the books myself, but I'm always in appreciative awe of the people who dedicate themselves to discovering as much as they can about the things that sit outside of the circle. Anything that sits aside of the 'main event', in some variant form or another, floats my boat and always has done.

On 4/19/2024 at 5:37 PM, Malacoda said:

What's the guide they're talking about? 

Thissa one, Richmond:

https://www.cpvpriceguide.com/

I did a Charlie CPV article for a previous year here:

https://rarecomics.wordpress.com/2022/11/07/charlton-canadian-price-variants-cpvs/

As you can see, it followed in the footsteps of all my Charlie related musings and set the world alight in that anti-midas touch sort of way that we've come to expect 

Is there another Stephen Cranch that I haven't heard of? 

UKPV Specialist

On 4/19/2024 at 1:07 PM, Albert Tatlock said:

1 pic = 1k words

Exactly. That's why I've always mucked about with graphics here. One decent graphic beats a block of text every time, at Marwood Towers.

On 4/19/2024 at 1:37 PM, Malacoda said:

Is this a Rogue's Gallery of the earliest PV's to celebrate the 6,000th post? 

Also, I like the 20 posts per page thing. It means we always hit page anniversaries at the same time as post anniversaries. 

The first 20 Marvel UKPVs, in cover date order, one for each thread page post 

This was fun to listen to. My kind of collectors talking about my kind of comics 

Depends who's looking... 

On 4/19/2024 at 11:14 AM, Cushing Fan said:

As a history teacher,  these are a real treasure for me and a highlight in my Peter Cushing collection. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Beautiful. A man of many talents, wasn't he Chris. What a lovely thing to own.