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On 5/16/2024 at 2:14 PM, Get Marwood & I said:
Shhh
cr@p! sorry!
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On 5/16/2024 at 1:53 PM, Get Marwood & I said:
Daphers, it's our favourite red 9d sticker again
Don't trust that Clint Curtis. Drives way too fast and can't make up his bloody mind!
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On 5/16/2024 at 11:22 AM, Get Marwood & I said:
Great minds Patricia, I saved it to the files this morning. I was expecting it to be the UKPV, but saved it to check the 10c font later as that issue is in the US Price Font Variations date window. I always perk up when a Pearl gets listed. She was a singer, you know
I thought you'd be on top of this one, Velma.
Lots of nice lots in this auction.
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Interesting lot currently in the Saleroom auction:
No UKPPV of #7, but a nice cents copy to sit alongside a UKPPV that I know a certain individual has in his stash.
- Get Marwood & I and Malacoda
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On 5/1/2024 at 1:11 PM, AJD said:
You'll like this one then.
Love it!
I've got a Twilight Zone and a Boris Karloff from that publisher. Can't find my scans or I'd post them.
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On 4/29/2024 at 3:10 AM, pickycollector said:
Recent purchase of a very tough book to find in high grade
Interesting. Never seen one of those before. Where is it from? Can't find it anywhere on the GCD.
Just spotted your location, so I'm guessing now it's probably Canadian.
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On 1/9/2024 at 7:58 AM, Get Marwood & I said:
"Once upon a time, you could get your favorite comic books from a machine!
It worked like a snack machine, putting a row of comics on a corkscrew instead of Twinkies.
There was one book in view at the top/front of each of the ten stacks and if you didn't see one you liked, you'd just come back later and there would be other ones showing.
You'd put a dime in one side and two pennies in the other side of a thing like the coin slots on washers and dryers.
Then you'd push it in and pull it back out, turning the corkscrew so that a single comic book would drop off and slide down to a little slot at the base of the unit.
In July of 1966, I saw one for the first time and bought Daredevil #32 and Avengers #44. I still have them!
Sorry to say the machines aren't around any more.
They were re-tooled in 1969 when comics raised their prices from 12¢ to 15¢ and again in 1971 when the price went up to 20¢.
After that, comic prices continued to skyrocket and changed faster than the machines could be retooled, so they were retired instead."
Well, that's me told.
I'll just sit quietly in the corner...
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Looks foreign to me...
Possibly from the Philippines? Certainly not from the time when US comics sold for 12c.
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On 1/8/2024 at 5:22 AM, AJD said:
These are (now?) on the GCD. #1-4 of that series are broken out separately.
I spotted that. I've noticed it happens fairly regularly. One of the irritating thing about the GCD is the lack of uniformity in some of the more obscure entries. I try to correct them when I notice them, but I don't always have the time.
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On 1/5/2024 at 2:28 PM, FlyingDonut said:
DC metro area.
Ahh..my old stomping ground. I grew up in Springfield. Spent many a distracted hour in the Geppi's in the Crystal City Underground, or at various Jubilee Comic Conventions.
On 1/5/2024 at 2:28 PM, FlyingDonut said:Feel free.
Thank you kindly.
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Another weirdy one -
Brazilian Flash Gordon. Not a great copy, but I'm guessing there aren't many to choose from.
- OtherEric, Get Marwood & I and Yorick
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On 1/5/2024 at 9:26 AM, Get Marwood & I said:
Wrong side of Englandville for me, alas. Find me something darn sarf Velma, or you're off the gig.
I didn't know I was on the gig. I knew I was off my rocker, but...
Plus also, this job alert just popped into my inbox cos I is on their mailing list, innit.
Having said that, it's started a couple of gears turning. If I spot anything potentially useful to you, Velma, you can rest assured you'll be the second to know.
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Anyone from our little rabbit hole interested in this -
It's located on the Northern slopes of Penceland. The "Vintage Toy/Collectibles Expert" sounds like a dream job, to me at least. If I hadn't just started a new job, I'd be like a fat kid on a cupcake with that.
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On 1/4/2024 at 5:31 PM, FlyingDonut said:
Are you referring to this one? If so, these are all over the place around here.
I am indeed. I added the issue skeleton to the GCD a few months back, remembering that I used to have a copy back in the dim and distant past.
Where is "around here" btw?
Also, can I add your scan to the GCD?
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On 1/4/2024 at 2:13 PM, Get Marwood & I said:
To be honest, I have about 1,000 UKPVs that aren't on the GCD, Patricia. Must get around to it one day....
I think I did most of your Marvel UKPVs. And a ton of my own Charltons, but I know you have more. And the Dells.
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Took me ages to find this one... on your old post -
I'll leave it to you to add the rest of the Archie scans, cos I don't think there are many already present on the GCD.
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On 1/4/2024 at 1:30 PM, Get Marwood & I said:
You're winning, Penelope
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A couple more Star Wars variants -
Canadian this time. Again, I would have thought there'd be enough of these floating around that someone would pop 'em onto the GCD.
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Ok. A couple of easy ones first. These are weirdy ones, I guess, in that they should be thick on the ground (careful now).
Star Wars multi-pack non-reprint 35 cent variants. As I said, fairly easy to find. Just try to find a SW1 30 cent non-multi-pack reprint. I've only ever seen one, and I don't really trust the image. Also tough is the SW5 non-multi-pack reprint. Just wasted a half an hour trying to turn one up & found nothing.
This is going to be one of the next things I try to quantify: relative scarcity of all of the Star Wars variants.
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On 1/4/2024 at 11:40 AM, Get Marwood & I said:
I want to see weirdy ones and everything like that, Daphers
You know I like a challenge.
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On 1/4/2024 at 11:27 AM, Get Marwood & I said:
Comic book collecting with a foreign variant focus
in Comics General
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Very nice.
I never knew this had the same cover as the Marvel UK Avengers 1
According to GCD, the Marvel UK came out in September, 73 & the EH in May, 74. Another type of cover set to collect! A second use of a foreign produced original!