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Hi Malaconda. I've heard of this fabled "Mike's list" on these pages before. Is it available online?

Possibly Goldstar, being opportunists, didn't implement proper stock rotation policies as T&P did?

I don't know anything about Canadian Comics but I've really enjoyed looking at these. It was a great find, a real treasure chest.

They were all imported cents editions. I think that they were 1/- each. This would have been in the late 60s after I'd stopped buying comics. I devoured those weird sci-fi novels voraciously. I had no idea that there were UK versions.

We are not worthy enough to be in your presence oh great one! That is real dedication Albert. I was never that careful with my comics although I do recall having a list of the Ace Doubles I sometimes used to pick up at the newsagent.

This was discussed extensively back in the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Did you ever take a bath with Ena, Annie or poor old Martha?

They spelled "Pharaoh" incorrectly.

Very likely, or probably an old box/pallet found in the warehouse.

Definitely a grandad-desperately-trying-to-be-trendy shirt.

I've found out from a FB group, and from matching the comic page by page in the GCD that the King Comics issue has the internal pages from King Comics 18 (US) with an amended cover from King Comics 9 (US). The Home Comics (has the to the same ads from Dave Mackay, Philadelphia) also uses the internal pages from a US King Comic with a new cover. Possibly these were intended to get round the Canadian ban on US imports during this time. The internal covers are blank.

It's always time Steve. Because you're worth it.

Yes indeed. It's all getting a little silly. The obvious reason (to me at least) is probably something to do with the very high cost of original Silver Age books. I'm glad that I read them all in the 60s, I certainly could not afford to buy them at today's prices.

The final price was $598.88 with a postage charge of $60.21. The purchaser, I surmise, was in the UK.

I wouldn't be surprised if it topped $400 the way that these AC reprints have been going lately. Stan's sig may add a bit more. We have a couple of hours before we know.

I devoured all of Heinlein as a boy in the 60s. I read the later novels as an adult but some of his aw-gee-shucks homely tweeness* was hard to swallow as a grown-up. * Thst's the best way I can think of to describe what I mean. If you know, you know.

"The unmistakable raw bonk" according to google translate (yes, I lead a sad and lonely life).

Forgive me if I'm late to the party and this has been said before but the difference in pricing between the 6d UK copy and the 8d Aus copy is that whilst both countries used "a" pounds and shillings and pence system the two currencies were not the same. They were not on equal parity, the UK pound being a stronger currency than the AUS one. A bit like the US and Canada both use dollars but the difference in parity means that the Canadian copies of US comics were priced differently.

Exactly. They have shot themselves in the foot here. Is it too late for them to change? I don't think so. Whether or not they want to change and acknowledge that the rest of the world exists is another matter.

Hi Steve. I bought a few dozen US funnies from 1937/8/9 which contain reprints of US newspaper strips ( Tip Top Comics, Popular Comics etc, a few of which can be seen on my e bay page https://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/jordistcomics . This Home Comics was in with that lot along with the Canadian King Comics which I show above. The Home Comics reprints US newspaper strips similar to the others. Strips include : Thimble Theatre (Popeye) ; G-Man ; Flash Gordon ; Bringing Up Father ; King of the Royal Mounted ; Brick Bradford ; Little Annie Rooney ; Radio Patrol ; Henry. EDIT. I've just seen an ad in the Home Comic for "King Comics" with a Philadelphia address. So possibly a US comic but unknown to Overstreet or GCD.

It says "Printed in the USA" on the back cover. This is the only printed information anywhere in the comic. It has a price of 10c(ents) so it was not aimed at the UK (or AUS) market. I could not find it in the Overstreet guide and so assumed it was for the Canadian market. It is not of a format that would have been printed in the UK at that time.

Yes, that's the one. It's the other comic "Home Comics" that is proving to be elusive. It has no info inside at all. It reprints US comics in colour.

It's still an error Steve, whatever the reason. I still think that they should allow the submitter some input into the identification process.

Didn't CGC once have a "Foreign Comics" expert that they got rid of? Tim something?

I just saw this recent acquisition on a facebook page. CGC has correctly identified it as a Miller comic but then they spoil what little is left of their credibility by calling it a UK price variant.