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Redshade
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On 12/1/2022 at 2:13 PM, Albert Tatlock said:
That's not me, it's some impostor.
I never ever go out without my cap.
Sometimes I take it off in the bath, but not always.
Did you ever take a bath with Ena, Annie or poor old Martha?
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On 11/25/2022 at 10:47 PM, Malacoda said:
Wallop !!!!!!>>>>.
They spelled "Pharaoh" incorrectly.
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On 11/17/2022 at 9:42 PM, Malacoda said:
that they're even from opposite ends of the same batch.
Very likely, or probably an old box/pallet found in the warehouse.
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On 11/17/2022 at 9:08 PM, Get Marwood & I said:
McAlpine's shirt is eye catching, isn't it. Livened the thread right up.
Definitely a grandad-desperately-trying-to-be-trendy shirt.
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On 7/7/2022 at 2:22 AM, Redshade said:
Greetings from England. This is my first post here. I know absolutely nothing about about Canadian comics and I am trying to identify these two (which I received in a lot of a couple of dozen 1937/8/9 US funnies comics. Does anyone have any info about these and are they worth anything? Thanks in advance. NB I don't know why they are out of sequence, that is not how I posted them but it should be easy enough to match the fc with the bc.
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. -
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On 10/30/2022 at 9:45 PM, Yorick said:
Out of this world!!!
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.
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On 10/29/2022 at 10:07 PM, Redshade said:
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.
The final price was $598.88 with a postage charge of $60.21. The purchaser, I surmise, was in the UK.
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On 10/28/2022 at 7:51 PM, Hulksdaddy1 said:
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.
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On 10/27/2022 at 4:51 PM, OtherEric said:
I find it amusing they had so much trouble selling this one... Farnham's Freehold is generally considered Heinlein's worst book. Certainly not one I cared for.
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.
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On 10/16/2022 at 4:13 PM, Malacoda said:
In other news, in the Netherlands, Hulk is called Bonk. I'll leave that with you.
"The unmistakable raw bonk" according to google translate (yes, I lead a sad and lonely life).
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On 10/13/2022 at 1:58 AM, Aman619 said:
Down the road however it may have been a mistake as comics gets more worldwide than now. And CGC will want to be a part of that growth too.
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.
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On 10/6/2022 at 11:15 AM, Get Marwood & I said:
I can't find one mention of this book anywhere online. Not one. The only comic reference to the phrase "Home Comics" is in relation to Harvey indicias and leads nowhere. And "One thousand laughs" only brings up an unrelated Vaudeville book in every search I've made.
What US books are reprinted, Stephen? Any story titles you can post?
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.
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On 10/5/2022 at 2:04 AM, Subliminal said:
A Canadian comic is one that was actually printed in Canada.
Is this a book that was printed in the US or UK for distribution in other parts of the world like Canada?
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.
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On 10/3/2022 at 11:18 PM, BB-Gun said:
Well I recognize this cover. Same as King 9 (first Christmas cover)?
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.
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On 9/15/2022 at 1:34 PM, Get Marwood & I said:
He worked with the other lot I think, Stephen.
I suspect that Black Knight 'UKPV' label designation is a procedural mistake rather than a conscious version choice - they likely meant to select 'UK Edition'.
It's still an error Steve, whatever the reason. I still think that they should allow the submitter some input into the identification process.
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On 9/14/2022 at 8:29 PM, Redshade said:
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.
Didn't CGC once have a "Foreign Comics" expert that they got rid of? Tim something?
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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.
- Malacoda, OtherEric and Albert Tatlock
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On 9/6/2022 at 1:01 AM, Malacoda said:
This and the ones like it are brilliant posts. All the endless poring over the paperwork yields some marvellous results, but these kind of recollections cannot be reproduced, deduced, inferred or reasoned into existence. These memories are gold. Do you still have any of the re-stamped ones, Kevin?
Sunday market on the Quayside (circa 1978). There are comics down there, I can sense it.
It was the Health and Safety man's day off.
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On 9/8/2022 at 6:22 PM, themagicrobot said:
I've just been looking through Amazing Adult Fantasy 12 and noticed according to the contents page (they never did a contents page in Astonish and Suspense did they?) that the third story is titled "Something Fantastic" (with an exclaimation mark?!?) . But the actual title artwork looks like "Something Fantastig" (with a question mark?!?) to me ?!?
It's an odd story that features Stan and Steve as shadows.
We mustn't forget to mention the Thorpe and Porter mention.
Yes it's certainly a "G". An exumple of the lettarer (?) lotting his mind wandar.
Anyway, the good news is that this is now declared a variant and is worth a million.- Albert Tatlock and OtherEric
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On 8/26/2022 at 10:48 PM, Garystar said:
You say that but doesn’t the label of Creepy #36 say “reprints Fantastic Four #1” (should say #5)
Good spot Garystar. My old eyes would never have seen that.
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On 7/24/2022 at 1:39 AM, Malacoda said:
OK, so for proponents of this theory (yourself, Albert & others) .....do you accept Marwood's contention that the system broke down around 64/65 and if so, what's your take on that? I mean, how is it possible that it broke down if it was an indispensable part of the distribution system and what, if anything, could have replaced it? And if some easier, more efficient & readily available system existed, why wasn't it put into effect before Ethel stamped literally millions of comics?
I want to believe.
I've had an idea about just this for some time but have hesitated from further advocating this because (1) I don't, these days, have the long runs of comics needed to check this, and (2) to see if someone else had a similar idea.
When did US comics start preprinting the colour-coded squares at the top of the pages? If this was 1964/65 this would have coincided with the expansion of Air Freight as opposed to the much slower sea shipping and thus a more regular delivery cycle. Whatever the reason for these colours (and I suspect that it had to do with the US distribution system) perhaps they were co-opted by T&P to sort out shipments instead of the numbered price stamps. -
On 8/25/2022 at 11:33 PM, Albert Tatlock said:
Looks like this lot sold last month
https://fieldingsauctioneers.co.uk/lot/244006
Hammer price was £900 plus premium, so £1100 - £1200.
39 issues, averaging near as dammit 30 quid apiece.
Perhaps not a shrewd investment, we shall see.
Plus the wodge taken by the packing and posting contractors. People do seem to get carried away in these auctions Albert. I think the fact that issue 80 (Introduction and Origin of the Doom Patrol) may have helped this lot to fetch what it did. Still too much for me.
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On 8/25/2022 at 10:19 PM, Nick H (UK) said:
Love these
Nice looking pair.
The Distribution of US Published Comics in the UK (1959~1982)
in Silver Age Comic Books
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This was discussed extensively back in the Dead Sea Scrolls.