Get Marwood & I

Welcome to the thread, WNY That's a beautiful looking thing, isn't it. I love the variety of those early, tiny 9ds buried in the massive original 10c price circles: Why they couldn't have made them three times the size is anyone's guess. Maybe the typesetter hadn't upgraded his number kit Anyway, that's a cracking addition to your pence collection. Keep it going!

Sorry it happened to you Etreiw. It's a lovely signature. If you haven't already, I'd contact CGC to see if there's anything they can do for you. It wouldn't grade a 9.6 with the scratch, so being inside the slab, and with your before and after photos, I'd like to think it's a clear case (no pun intended) of negligence on their part. Good luck.

Not sure about the names, times and places, but Gold Star definitely distributed Charlton. As well as this 70s fanzine clip, I have quite a few examples with our oblong 10d friend stamped on them: One recent example has both the 10d oblong and shilling circle on it. More to come on that in my oft promised, but rarely delivered Charlton Brent II thread.....

100!

A sodding great scratch across the middle?

Who'll be participant #100 then...... Participants in Alphabetical Order ADAMANTIUM AJD ak47po AlexH ArAich ArcherC aszumilo Axelrod batcollector Batman Fett Black_Adam BorderlineHoarder boron cabinboy canickus Cat Chief1332 ChrispyC66 comicginger1789 Comics4All Cor88b Crose87420 Cushing Fan davidtere divad Doctor Dositheus DougC EastEnd1 Electron F For Fake fastballspecial flashlites frozentundraguy Get Marwood & I g-man Gman65NJ Grendel72 grendelbo Hibou Jackhartmann jas1vans jbpez jcjames jcronin JJ Speederman John R JohnH19 JollyComics JustJimN JWKyle Kramerica Krismusic KryptoMayor Larryw7 makeminemarvel Mark-Allen Mars76 MBFan Morganmi Motor City Rob Msgarmar musicmeta Myparentsbasement mytastebud ned Old Fashion PB and J Panda2 PeterPark PINWHEEL Pitboss pmpknface Point Five revat Sandflea scburdet Scrooge silverseeker skypinkblu sledgehammer spidermanbeyond Stefan_W Stormshdow Superman2006 TC33 TheGeneral thehumantorch thingsofstuff timfinz topcat54 topofthetotem TRex2024 universal soldier Warlord WilliamLunt Wipple Withering Wind Yorick youfoundjake zzutak

Nice transitional Hulk run on the bay currently

Blimey. A bag of sand for an Alan How times have changed......

That's nice. In one of my journal entries I assessed some coverless, UK stamped 1940s books to see if they could qualify as UK variants of original books published in other countries. In some instances with Canadian books, that initially looked like original innards stamped up, it turned out that the UK copies actually had reprinted guts. So I'd compare your book's innards to a US original to see if they match in size, print quality, staple alignment etc. Here's an image of the original Avon book's interior lifted from the web - I'm on my tablet, and it's cropped at the right, but it looks like a match to me. I see the same print mark at the foot of the splash image, so Eric might be right: As for scarcity, all these old UK reprints are very hard to find. I often see books not on the GCD from the 1940s and 50s. It doesn't mean they're worth anything of course, but if they reprint or contain original valued content, there'll always be someone interested in them.

I dunno, I Started a Joke.....

89 and counting...... Participants in Alphabetical Order ADAMANTIUM AJD ak47po AlexH ArAich ArcherC aszumilo Axelrod batcollector Batman Fett Black_Adam cabinboy canickus Cat Chief1332 ChrispyC66 comicginger1789 Comics4All Crose87420 Cushing Fan davidtere divad Doctor Dositheus DougC EastEnd1 F For Fake fastballspecial flashlites frozentundraguy Get Marwood & I g-man Gman65NJ grendelbo Hibou Jackhartmann jas1vans jbpez jcjames jcronin JJ Speederman John R JohnH19 JollyComics JustJimN JWKyle Kramerica KryptoMayor Larryw7 makeminemarvel Mark-Allen MBFan Morganmi Motor City Rob musicmeta Myparentsbasement mytastebud ned Old Fashion PB and J Panda2 PeterPark PINWHEEL Pitboss pmpknface Point Five revat Sandflea scburdet Scrooge silverseeker skypinkblu sledgehammer spidermanbeyond Stefan_W Stormshdow Superman2006 TC33 TheGeneral thehumantorch thingsofstuff topcat54 topofthetotem TRex2024 universal soldier Warlord WilliamLunt Wipple Yorick youfoundjake zzutak

Nice Konga Compared to the US versions, the UK Price Variants are extremely scarce, yes. Of the 601 that are currently confirmed to exist (by me, I'm the only one who gives a serious hoot) I have 554. Of those I would say the copy I own is the only one I've ever seen in the vast majority of cases and I've been on the hunt for over five years now. Some pence copies exist in multiples - I call them the 'usual suspects' - and there are even a small group of romance issues that turn up often in the US. But in the main they crop up very infrequently. Happily, most collectors are completely indifferent to Charlton, pence copies especially, so their scarcity doesn't routinely translate into value. But I love them, especially the 1959-1965 books. And UKPVs are my thing in general of course, if you hadn't already noticed! Thanks for dropping in ARyan. P.S. Here's what a double cover Konga UKPV looks like: Now that's scarce.

How cool is that! The GCD has #27 as an "Overseas Service Edition", as I'm sure you already know... ...but there's no mention of your #28 anywhere that I can find online. Maybe add it to @N e r V's thread here (I see you mention it on page 5): Very cool, Captain

Yes, on reflection it is rather limited on the comic anecdote front. Hopefully Neil hasn't gone out and bought a copy following my earlier, somewhat misleading comment

72 confirmed players so far..... Here's the alpha-sorted list: Participants in Alphabetical Order ADAMANTIUM AJD ak47po AlexH ArAich ArcherC aszumilo Axelrod batcollector Batman Fett Black_Adam cabinboy Cat Chief1332 ChrispyC66 Comics4All Crose87420 Cushing Fan davidtere divad Doctor Dositheus DougC EastEnd1 F For Fake fastballspecial flashlites frozentundraguy Get Marwood & I g-man grendelbo Hibou Jackhartmann jas1vans jbpez jcjames JJ Speederman John R JollyComics JustJimN KryptoMayor Mark-Allen Morganmi Motor City Rob musicmeta Myparentsbasement ned Panda2 PeterPark PINWHEEL Pitboss pmpknface Point Five revat Sandflea scburdet silverseeker sledgehammer spidermanbeyond Stefan_W Superman2006 TC33 thehumantorch thingsofstuff topcat54 topofthetotem universal soldier Warlord WilliamLunt Wipple Yorick youfoundjake zzutak

Gold Star: Here's a link to his autobiography, which is a fun read with comic related exploits in the early sections: http://www.davidgold.co.uk/Autobiography/Autobiography.pdf

I forgot ze flippin z!

They're baaaaaack!

What on Earth is that, Jolly! I'll have bloody nightmares tonight now

The 'girls looking over their left shoulder behind blokes shooting at things on the right of the cover' IW Supers are breeding!

38 participants already! We only need people beginning with H, I, L, O, Q, R, V and X and we'll have the full alphabet Participants in Alphabetical Order ADAMANTIUM AlexH Axelrod Black_Adam Cat Chief1332 Comics4All Cushing Fan davidtere EastEnd1 F For Fake frozentundraguy Get Marwood & I g-man grendelbo Jackhartmann jas1vans jbpez jcjames JJ Speederman KryptoMayor Mark-Allen Morganmi Myparentsbasement ned Pitboss pmpknface scburdet silverseeker sledgehammer Stefan_W Superman2006 thehumantorch topcat54 universal soldier Wipple youfoundjake Yorick

It kept crashing on me Yoz, so I had to split it. You were placed in section II in recognition of the fact that I'm going to relegate you to an also ran position by opening a can of grading skill whoopass on ya.

I can't stop laughing at that gorilla "I've arrived, what's happenin'?"

Is that out as in 'out', or out as in 'in' and I'm just missing the reference being British?