Redshade

Edit. I see Marwood beat me to it.

I remember seeing something like this years ago, it's actually a map of Kenya, but the ones that I saw also had the name of said Country printed along with the stamp above.

On second thoughts both 10d stamps appear to be naked, with the top one superimposed upon a faint circled 1/-.

I don't know if this stamp has been featured in these pages but this comic has a circled 10d stamp and an uncircled 10d stamp, both seem to be in the same font.

Hi Robot. I note your slight doubts regarding the matter of ballast. I've looked at Luke Smith's blog and he once again propagates the legend without offering any proof. I have looked into this several times over the years and have found nothing whatsoever to substantiate the myth (I think that I have even joined in discussions on these pages about such). In ancient times stones were used and at least since the age of steam mechanical pumps have been in use to on/off load water to be used as the stabilising medium in ships. Until such times as irrefutable proof is presented I shall remain a sceptic, (and, it would seem, a pompous windbag).

These lapses of memory and sense of mine are getting even more worrying to me. I can't seem to see any such numbers at the top of this post. I see : I feel like an increasingly senile old fool at times.

Sorry Steve I hadn't. I saw the post from Bobbi Betamax and just waded in with my massive clodhopping boots. I don't usually go back to the start of threads as they are invariably too long. Once again I seem to have put my massive clodhopping foot in it. On another post I see that you were discussing coming up to 4000 entries and wonder where you glean this information from? On similar sites I've seen that each individual post is numbered but that doesn't seem to be the case here. Unless, once again, I'm missing something?

Hmm, two front covers of the Conquerors and no back cover image. My error, but I can't be bothered getting them out again. After moving boxes about even only for a few seconds has inflamed my spinal spondylosis (what a posh ailment I have, no mere "bad back" for me) and I'm having a good sit down. I will add that I bought these from a UK dealer on eBay last year sometime. The same dealer keeps advertising these occasionally. NB. Top Secret. Do not repeat. Said dealer found these in a UK "closed newsagent's stockroom". He has approximately 300 of the ZOR and a few dozen each of the other two. I think that we can safely assume that the comics were sent to the UK with or without a pre-printed 6d price and that any stickers must have been put on by the UK sellers.

I have these three "Century Comics". The Zor does not have the "Century" stamp or a price stamp or sticker(I have several of these and they are all the same). Note the 6d overprint on the Skunky. I had certain *ahem* disagreements with a prominent Canadian comic dealer who had these as "stripped covers. . . for the UK market . . .". I maintained that I thought that they were not stripped of their covers but were produced like this for the UK market possibly because at that time the UK comics were all printed on newsprint paper. I cannot remember now what the conclusion of this discussion was.

It's done it again! The system is censoring me. I had ". . . taking the urination out of wokery . . ."

TYPO. Should have been : ". . . taking the out of wokery. . . ".

Now there's a blast from the past. That little vignette is (I think) from Life of Brian. Trust the Pythons to be taking the **** out of "wokery" 44 bloody years ago! Watch the whole sketch, it's hilarious.

My fault for not paying attention. Thanks for clearing that up for me.

It's probably my short-sightedness but I can't see a reduced price sticker but I can see the T&P 1/- stamp by Supes's left elbow.

I just saw this on a FB page and if for no reason other than to show that I am still of this mortal coil I thought that I'd post it here.

Ah! the old cleaning-out-the-house-of-an-aged-relative dream.

Wow! You're not wrong, the bloke has some lovely stuff on his site (with prices to match), I think that I'll buy an extra lottery card this week.

Crikey mate those AAFs are absolutely gorgeous. Are they yours?

I've just seen this offering on eBay with one of the comics having an (double) 8d stamp. I'm not sure if this is pertinent to the discussion or even mildly interesting but do we know where the various price stamps originated? Perhaps that not all could be distributor stamps and that some of them may have been perpetrated by the retailers?

Come on then, let's have it.

Merry Christmas to you too. I assure you that I was in no way feeling browbeaten or otherwise by your questions. I was just cognisant of the fact that my intended answers were just reiterating ideas which had been expressed before in these pages and so decided to retire gently from the fray.

I started out answering this post point by point invoking the vagaries of both the (un)reliability of US distribution methods and ditto sea freightage etc but gave up as I realised that I was reprising previous discussions. I'll just paraphrase my post above and go scuttling back to the undergrowth : "And of course this means that finding any reliable data regarding arrival in UK newsagents The Distribution of US Published Comics in the UK (1959~1982)is about as likely as finding a unicorn in one's bath".

I've posited before that I think that this is the reason for T&Ps numbered date stamps, certainly in the earlier days before air freight became the norm. EDIT. ...numbered price stamps.

And of course this means that finding any reliable data regarding arrival in UK newsagents is about as likely as finding a unicorn in one's bath.

Gulp! I'm almost sorry I asked. Thanks.