Redshade

On 12/24/2023 at 2:42 AM, Yorick said:

 

Are you two fairly good at spotting his art?  I have a few Millers that I'd like to have a cover art credit for...  or perhaps put it into the GCD.

Is it time yet to begin a Miller thread?

I was referring to Gifford in that post Yorick. I don't know anything about Anglo I'm afraid although his Wiki entry does contain a list of publications that he was involved in.

On 12/23/2023 at 9:14 PM, themagicrobot said:

Having just opened an early Xmas present of a single Malt I’ve suddenly forgotten everything I ever knew about comics

Didn’t Mick Anglo package the Super DCs and later, or was it earlier, TV Tornado

The world’s Finest is a real comic but the 1/- is a mock-up replacing the 12 cents that was really there.

The cartoon was actually two pages long and looks to me like something from Denis Gifford that may have originally appeared in a Miller publication a decade earlier.

 

 

I have the Classics Illustrated UK Baron Munchausen by Gifford and you are probably correct, it does look like his style.

On 12/23/2023 at 7:10 PM, themagicrobot said:

There were 14 T&P/Top Sellers Super DC comics (and one Annual) in 1969/1970. I bought the first six issues new at the time but never saw any later issues in my friendly neighbourhood newsagents. I had to wait until the Interweb was invented to complete the set. They weren't the sorts of things you saw at Comic Marts in the 1970s. If I had advertised my desire to acquire them (or any Alan Class books or similar) no doubt I would have been escorted off the premises. How times have changed. It is the more obscure local stuff that is now finally found to be interesting. The Super DC comics with their odd covers were slightly larger than regular DCs, comprised of 40 pages and had Black and White interiors but still cost 1/-. It's odd to see this one re-cycled and sent out again with a 5p sticker. Never seen one stickered before. The address for letters was High Holborn House and the address for Top Sellers at that time was Great Portland Street.

 

 

Here is another image of the famous back covers.

 

 

I remember this comic coming out at a time when I was giving up comics to buy records so I never bought it though I've seen the odd copy floating around. I don't think that the advertised World's Finest and Superman titles ever appeared but please correct me if I'm wrong.
The cartoon strip must have been UK produced filler because I haven't heard the word "pelf" since ah worra lad int sixties.

On 12/23/2023 at 2:04 AM, Redshade said:

Pardon me for the interruption but would this page from GCD be of any help?

 

On 12/23/2023 at 1:56 AM, Malacoda said:

Is this reprinting the Young Romance title that Kirby & Simon created for Crestwood? 

Pardon me for the interruption but would this page from GCD be of any help?

On 12/22/2023 at 7:04 PM, themagicrobot said:

By Miracle Man No 3 they had reduced the price of Classics Illustrated in the adverts (and presumably at the shops) to 1/-

This advert has been posted in the forum before. Seen in Miracle Man 11 so this issue must be published after May 1965.

 

 

 

I collect the British series of Classics Illustrated so I have a little (but not much) info regarding dates.

The British series ran from 1951 to 1963. Apart from the first few issues non of these were dated (NB The issues were not issued in a 1,2,3 order but randomly).
The 1/3 editions were issued from 1951 to 1952 and there was some customer resistance to this price and so it was dropped to 1/- from 1953 to 1955. A lot of 1/3 issues had a 1/- sticker over the 1/3 price but there were 1/- printed issues as well.
1/3 then became the standard price from 1956 to 1963.
The earlier editions also had multi prices for various other countries Aus, NZ, SA then this was dropped as the British series started producing separate variants for the NZ 1/6) and Aus (2/-) markets. (Not to be confused with a late 40s Aus series in b/w). There were never any British separate variants produced for SA.

I am trying to collect all the price variants and reprinted editions. As these were reprinted up to a dozen times (or more) without any dates this is, indeed, a complicated and frustrating task.

On 12/20/2023 at 9:28 AM, themagicrobot said:

So the earlier Black Magic Album sold for £9.99. Some may say that was a bargain. I didn't bid but that's about as much as I would have paid so I won't be bidding on this one.

 

Do you know Robot I was thinking exactly the same thing. "I'd give a tenner for it but not much more in that condition".
The £70 jobbie? Nah! Go whistle son.

Merry Christmas to you too Albert and Marwood.
Steve, I've been trying to find the discussions we had about the 12  "annuals" that T&P produced in 1967 by putting four remaindered DC comics, plus their covers in a hardback cover.
I spent ages last night trying to find this but either I or the CGC algorithms is not fit for purpose.

On 12/6/2023 at 10:07 PM, baggsey said:

Excellent article, @Get Marwood & I - you'll have to publish all of your research as an Amazon self-published book as a minimum.

I agree. I've been telling  @Get Marwood & I that for years. A record other than that in these ephemeral pages should be left for the future.

Edit. I never can seem to work out how to "tag" someone (if that's the correct terminology). 

On 11/1/2023 at 11:42 AM, Get Marwood & I said:

 

Anyway, is there another seven years in the tank, I wonder...?*

 

 

*In the name of all that is Holy, please NO!

I'm sure that there is Steve. May there be many more ruminations.

On 10/28/2023 at 11:18 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

Oh, she's doing To Sir With Love.

Gotta go now. I'm doing a Biden (laptop on 5%)

Nighty night pence brethren 

Say goodnight Sweep. Bye-bye everybody, bye-bye.

On 10/28/2023 at 11:16 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

There's a Lulu concert on BBC2 I'm trying to concentrate on.

I'm old enough to remember when such jollifications were broadcast live. I remember a certain Mr Hendrix being cut off prematurely, as it were.
Actually I gave up buying comics in 1968 at 13/14 because I wanted to save up and buy one of Jimi's albums.

On 10/28/2023 at 11:12 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

I'm telling you that man in the gimp mask wasn't mine. 

We agreed never to speak of such things again. 

On 10/28/2023 at 11:09 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

Actually, I think I dress quite cool for a comic bod. Well, that is if you think Catweazle meets The Crowman is cool. 

It's the sweaty vest and bum crack brigade that I steer clear of.

On 10/28/2023 at 11:07 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

Have you been looking in my wardrobe Stephen?

Not after last time! 

On 10/28/2023 at 12:39 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

Now, look at this picture below here. Has something in my life gone very wrong...

 

...or very right? 

After all, I could've collected comics that are actually worth something. In money, I mean. That seems to be a key preoccupation with the some, if not the many, in this hobby of ours.

It's bad enough having boxes of Charlton UKPVs in the first instance, but two boxes of duplicates?

Hmmmm 

OK, I've thought about it, and I've decided that this is a good thing. 

Steve, one cannot be too nerdy in this hobby. Nerdiness is not only a requisite but is down-right mandatory. It's in the job description, along with the anorak and the tatty old shoulder bag. 

On 10/13/2023 at 10:39 PM, Albert Tatlock said:

That's where you fell down.

Jumble sales, advertised in your local paper, or on the notice boards outside the library, church and so on could have had you jumping for joy if you hit them at the right time and place.

Still worth checking out, just in case.

Yup! Jumble sales, School Bring and Buy Sales, Church Fetes/Harvest Festivals were my hunting grounds too. Not to mention market stalls. And in those days before every second shop on the high street was a charity shop Oxfam held the occasional pop-up in the Town Hall. Happy days.

On 10/11/2023 at 4:18 PM, Superman2006 said:

Doesn't FEH has a vowel sound at the start as well, "ef"?

And not directed to you, but shouldn't the thread title be Black Hood?

The mistake is all mine, I'm a silly old duffer who should pay more attention, sorry.

On 10/10/2023 at 6:03 PM, Robot Man said:

If it has already been sold & shipped why did you want to know if it should be submitted to CGC?  

The offer came very shortly after I had posted.

On 10/10/2023 at 2:45 PM, pemart1966 said:

Cool book.  Probably 1944.  A one shot which reprints parts of Pep Comics 49, 48 and 46 according to GCD.

Since you have it in England and given what the verbiage at the bottom of the inside cover says, it's reasonable to assume that this book was printed in Canada and immediately shipped to Miller in London.

Out of curiosity, is there anything printed on the inside back cover?

And yet it does not have a British printed price, only a 10c one.
Believe it or not this has already sold and shipped so I don't know what is on the inside back cover, other than what's on the photos.

On 10/9/2023 at 9:23 PM, LowGradeBronze said:

What, like the moderator's attention?? 

A true Englishman of whatever age, intellect or class never passes up on an opportunity to use a toilet joke. It's our Anglo-Saxon forbears to blame apparently.

One doesn't see many Canadian Golden Age comics here in the UK so I came here for advice.
Is this worth sending for a clean/press/grading?
TYIA.

On 10/8/2023 at 6:54 PM, LowGradeBronze said:

Here's another of those Time Machine comics where it's been stamped with a 2/- stamp, well after decimalisation. I'm suspecting this is a foreign 2 shillings. (Austria used shillings.) There has been one on here before but I can't recall which page it's on now. 

 

A few places around the world use shillings, but you have to be very careful in some of them!  
 

On 9/27/2023 at 1:30 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

Afternoon 

I nabbed a few Charlies off of eBay the other day in support of a wider piece of mucking about that I've been working on for about 98 years now. Here's one of them and, as you can see, it has a rather nice 25p sticker on the bag from Odyssey who used it up and wore it out in the seventies:

 

There were three Charlies in total, or tree if you're of Irish (Price Variants don't exist)* descent:

 

*Always throw in a topical joke 

Anyroad, Fred Elliott, I was proper intrigued as to whom Odyssey might have been as it rang a bell. Being a bit of a smart arse, I cunningly Googleated "Odyssey" and the phone number on the sticker and came up with this issue of Starburst from 1982 with, happily, a Deckardian cover:

 

1982.... 

So, inside we had this ad page...

 

...with this ad:

 

Woohoo!

Then I saw the 7 and Googelated "Odyssey 7" and about eight thousand results came up, including this one:

 

Not so smart then, after all, missing Blake's number.

I recognise the chap in the ad from old ads in old magazines from old times.

Anyway, that's that meaningless ramble over, to take us back to 22k again.

See you next time 

 

BE SEEING YOU

There was an Odyssey 7 in Leeds city centre until FP took it over/bought them out (sometime in the 90s I think).