Get Marwood & I

"Get up this minute and go collect some hay!" "No!" "Leave him alone Silver. He's only playing" "I will not. He's lazy, insolent and needs to learn responsibility. I didn't raise no layabout foal!"

Even though some of these stories were utterly preposterous - Doc Ock marrying May, having KFC in fetching green with orange gloves (why!?) - and then failing to kill Hammerhead (when he was in physical form) for ages just because he had a lump of metal in his head, I read them all a million times and get a warm glow every time I see them. As a kid, I was 100% in on it all

You remind me of myself a bit here, Robot When I first joined I hated the differentiation of board 'titles' which I thought were crass and divisive. They even gave special privileges to what at the time were called 'Seasoned Veterans', a title based purely on post count (and not quality of post count or longevity). I likely got on everyone's nerves about it, but I don't think they work and I think only the user themselves should be able to decide what wording sits on their profile. I recall saying something like "if Stan Lee joined, would he be a newbie to the hobby?". Something like that. I hate the wording that I have - the nappies thing - I didn't choose it, as most visitors would assume, and I think it can come across as arrogant. And now they've removed the standard US 'diapers' equivalent, it doesn't even make sense. The IT department can't do anything about it though - they did try to get it removed for me but it was hard coded in by the bloke that introduced them all back in the day. Typical isn't it. We can put a man on the moon, but we can't remove a customised board title on a bog-standard software package. The owners of CGC could buy Invision (the software owners) out a million times over, but our CGC staff appear to have zero say and influence over anything we see and use from them. Back to comics, I've got that DD #34 in the files by the way. It differs to the 'regular' Gold Star shilling stamp so could be someone else's. Or, like Miller and T&P, it could still be Gold Star's and they could just have used different stamp types.

I love stamp / arrival date combinations. Most collectors love their books clean. For me, the more distribution related guff on them the better! I post this one often, but never tire of it: There are even stamps on the back cover, but I can't find the image. Edit: Found it! https://boards.cgccomics.com/topic/471133-the-distribution-of-us-published-comics-in-the-uk-1959~1982/?do=findComment&comment=11269428 Blimey, was that really three years ago...

That 10d stamp appears on quite a few Charlton's that I have, Stephen. I find these stamp types quite interesting - the ones where you gather enough to prove they weren't one offs, but not enough to prove anything systematic. I especially like it when they appear on already stamped books like your X-Men. I've satisfied myself that certain unbranded stamps are Miller's, and others T&P, but that took many years of piecing things together. I save examples when I see them, but I'm not sure we'll ever get to the bottom of who some of these other stamps, that crop up occasionally, belonged to. Incidentally, I had a good look around at the London Fair yesterday for more on the Gold Star window list. There were one or two new ones but in the end I couldn't muster the energy to get my glasses out and take pictures given how crowded it was and how precious some dealers can be about that. Yesterday was the first time I've came away with nothing, by the way. Silver Age are becoming increasingly difficult to find at this fair. Very slim pickings now, as the circles decease slowly buy very surely. Shame really. Thank God for eBay.

In! Thanks for everything Mike Best of luck guys @jbpez @Warlord

There was a short maintenance outage last Tuesday Mike - I think they appeared after that: The previous system was by posts and was precise - I remember posting screenshots when I went from whatever it was to Seasoned Veteran at 10,000 posts. I wouldn't be surprised if posts in the Journals and Galleries aren't now counted as they are on different 'systems'. That might explain the difference if posts, not points, have anything to do with it.

Four bulls and one point this round, for 13 points overall. Not too bad. Looks like I'll have to wait until tomorrow, UK time, to see where I end up though. Good luck everyone.

You could, yes. It may be a genuine coincidence. If not, what would you have done, if the roles were reversed?

The fanzines can be little gold (star) mines. I find the online ones quite tiring to read, zooming and scrolling all the time. I'd love to have some original copies in hand to go through. That would be fun.

I know, I've been doing it for over ten years Albert, seven of them here. Maybe someone else could do some of the heavy lifting for once.

I spent an hour looking for Daredevils, if that helps. Found Gold Stars and some other similar stamp types for #20 through to 33 give or take one or two issues. It makes your eyes ache after a while. There are definitely many more to find in and around the UKPV hiatus months.

What a coincidence!

Give it a go. Looking at the scores so far, that seems to be how many of us have been assessing them

One is a disgusting, socially embarrassing fetishism and the other is smelling feet.

The star stamp looks like it's in reverse What a cool copy TM

That looks like @ADAMANTIUM's answer to the exam question "What is 2+2?"

No, I was thinking this

Vyvyan's scream as he knocks his head off looking out the train window will stay with me forever. Never laughed so hard as a kid in my life, and still laughing now

Duck in Hell!

I got these fingers: Is that a good sign, do you think?

Then vote the fers down Robot! https://boards.cgccomics.com/topic/521263-a-circle-in-a-spiral-a-wheel-within-a-wheel/ (Your circle looks a bit James Bondy, doesn't it. Anyway, Apprentice, be thankful you're not stuck with the horrific 'nappies' line that was foisted on me against my will and which no one on Earth seems to be able to remove)