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

Yes, 'tis sad indeed. I've both bought and sold with Comicana ( the chap's name eludes me at the moment ) over the years. Let's hope he is fit and well and in a position to bounce back soon.

I've looked in Overstreet's glossary under Subscription crease/copy but all it says is that "this is a defect" but provides no further guidance. So hypothetically by how much does this decrease the grade? Thanks.

Thank you for the reassurance and explanation Yorick.

Forgive my ignorance here Steve, but there's something I've been meaning to ask for years but haven't in case I revealed myself to be the doddery old fool that I undoubtedly am. Are these wonderful tables of yours meant to be opened and read in full, and how does one effect this? I can see in the lower image "Action Comics" down to "Challengers of the Unknown" but no further.

The search continues.

So you found it then? At a price of £89GBP ($111) he's asking for a "FN" price but it's not for me. I do not like "chipping" personally.

The back cover and one internal page are the only photos shown.

I thought so too. But the eBay seller is a big name in the UK comics industry so I thought that I'd ask for a second opinion "See the pinned thread for posting guidelines on PGM". Forgive me but I am an old duffer and don't know what is meant here. Could you supply a link?

I've been in a few phone boxes that smelled as if they'd had an elephant in them.

We're still reading, and enjoying your posts Steve, don't worry.

I remember Millers Books in Bradford Kirkgate Market back in the late 80s/early 90s and it looked very similar to the photograph above. At this time the stall was run by an elderly (middle aged?) couple whose grown up son ran a comic book stall across the aisle from them. They had stopped using those large stickers by this time, at least on the comics counter but I suspect that they were still in use on the books/stationery shop. The son's name was Howard and I think and he will probably now be retired as he was about the same age as myself. I haven't been to Bradford for decades so I have no idea who runs the business now.

I wish I could find an alternative reality because anywhere else must be an improvement on the sh*tstorm that we're living in today.

Welcome to the Krusty Old Git's Komplaints Korner. A quick search of the 'net tells me that ten old pennies (10d) in 1970 is worth the equivalent of 60 new pence today (60p). So perhaps if comics (UK and US) were 60p instead of whatever it is that they now cost then the industry wouldn't be in the terminal decline that it is in today..

I really must read all of the recent posts before I jump in with a stupid comment, sorry.

I'm sure you got these at a price you deemed fair Steve. I don't do much buying these days but I do tend not to use the auction houses because of the great slab of fees they slap on and then the high charges of the mailing agencies. Lots of fun unboxing though. and as you say lots of pence issues. Have fun.

Haha! I really did have to look twice.

Albert and Robot. We've got a long way to go on the AI front admittedly. My concern was the ease in which fake photographs, and more worryingly ersatz videos which are indistinguishable from the real thing now become so much easier to produce. The potential to disrupt our modest pastime is negligible compared to the disorder that could be caused by fake news in the media.

Hahaha! Unbelievable.

Urgh! Who eats fried worms?

Of course, when you are ten years old they are all real, far more so than the crazy adult world going on around us was back then.

Haha! Good one Albert.

Joking apart Albert you've touched on a very serious topic that could have consequential repercussions not only in our hobby but in society in general. Fake or real indeed. The doom mongers warn us that AI is going to destroy humanity. With this single development we are already quite a way down the slippery slope. I hope that this does not make me one of the doom mongers.