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This might be useful:

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/guide.php?page=promo

Sadly, my copy of Flippity and Flop 47 doesn’t have a stamp. I doubt a stamped copy will turn up, as 47 is late 1960, over a year after 46, and after the humour titles stopped being distributed in the UK. Still, stranger things have happened.

Try this Batman 134 on eBay:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/256211942966?hash=item3ba76bfe36:g:DJsAAOSwpcdk-6u8&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAAwPlowJkGe%2BZM%2BtSClumeMai9VPQdbI6Wu6hfk4LAS91KQGMLbUqmJCnOx02%2FoSojfYgtWD8dfc59UhG%2FzbddSAzWfnKv%2BP36zDd%2BViUNoTxyM6q3cgmv%2BA8I3zbL2R93AHVJ91e7sJPO61chxwCE8oZX8aA6jl%2BQBp2R30NmpK7%2FZBViXYOEqmREvK6ggzYUWAJix6UqbSmCIysqqFhzbD8N5ezcD0CvH%2F99VRDhpMu7Vec6V34CMwHvh9hAhtNMjg%3D%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR8Lx89PeYg

On 9/26/2023 at 6:24 PM, OtherEric said:

The Hot Wheels series is just crazy hard to find and, from what little I've seen, has jaw-droppingly good Toth art.  But I've only got one issue, and it's the one Toth didn't work on.

In the UK, issues 2 and 4 were very difficult to find. I think they are listed as ND in Alan Austin’s price guide, which was my note. The other issues weren’t so scarce. Issue 1 was the commonest by far.

House of Secrets 95 has a Nick Cardy cover.

Thanks.

All-Star Squadron 15 is meant to have a 16-page Masters of the Universe insert. But my copy doesn’t have the insert. I bought my copy of All-Star Squadron 15 new, when it was published. I know for certain that I would not have removed the insert. Also, the staples look tight to me. Can anyone think of any explanation? My other issues of that period (such as DC Comics Presents 26) all have their inserts.

On 7/15/2023 at 7:06 PM, themagicrobot said:

If you want the satisfaction of owning every single comic produced by a Publisher it helps to choose one that didn't issue all that many books. Hampshire Distributors Ltd only managed two so I am the proud (?) owner of the full run. Kirby put a lot of work into these but we must assume sales were poor. The second issue of Days of the Mob was never issued (or completely drawn) but did appear in book form along with the first issue 10 years ago.

In the States In the Days of the Mob was released a month before Spirit World. Perhaps Thorpe and Porter belatedly received theirs the other way round as Days of the Mob is stamped at a higher price than Spirit World displays. That magazine cheerfully warned us that the world would end in 1983.

 

  

 

 

I have always thought of those two as DC publications. Mike’s Amazing Comics thinks so too. 

Great stuff! (The Superman 132.)

I’m working on a plan to move back before I’m too old!

Magicrobot, I have similar memories of London markets. 

On 3/30/2023 at 1:33 AM, Malacoda said:

Hang on, Gary, are you saying that Walthamstow is not a sun-drenched seaside paradise?  The Walthamstow Marketing Board would definitely beg to differ. 

I bow to no-one in my love for Walthamstow, but a seaside paradise? No. I was born there, and lived there and in Chingford for about 40 years. I’d move back if I could!

On 3/29/2023 at 7:09 PM, baggsey said:

That's an interesting thought, @LowGradeBronze .   Back in 1972, while on holiday in Ventnor, Isle of Wight, I picked up a 1966 Detective comic in crisp, immaculate condition from the spinner rack. It could very well be that the seaside retailers had an alternative source for their summer stock ; I always assumed it was in the back room, wheeled back at the end of the season.

That didn’t just happen by the seaside though. For example, I found a new-looking copy of Detective 341 in Walthamstow in about 1972/3. 

I tried to buy the Flash 108 but it was already sold.

So the Flash 108 is now the oldest stamped DC?

Here’s a Flash 108 from 30th Century Comics’ website, with a nice price stamp. I can’t remember if this is one you need.

This thread has convinced me that every single DC greytone cover is beautiful! I had never seen that Big Town.

The only EC horror covers by Wood are Tales From The Crypt 26 and 27.

Ah yes. So they tie for the earliest stamped and distributed DCs.

I’ve never seen an Action 257 stamped before. Fairly sure I have seen a Superboy 76 stamped.

Is Showcase 22 the only issue dated Sep/Oct to have been found with a stamp?

Nice find!

BTW, Showcase 22 is Sep/Oct 1959.

On 5/30/2022 at 10:43 AM, Get Marwood & I said:

Basically, I've never seen a WW #109 with a T&P stamp, Gary. There technically might be one, being an October 1959 cover date (there are other October '59 T&P stamped books) but every time I see what looks like an original UK owner collection for sale, #110 is always the first issue in the run, or the first to show it (a T&P stamp). So maybe WW#109 was early in the October production run and missed the 'let's ship these unsold copies to the UK from now on' boat. Or something like that. 

Ah, of course. No, I’m pretty sure I’ve never seen a stamped WW 109. But if Showcase 22 can turn up with a stamp, anything can happen! I take it that there hasn’t been any progress with your table lately?

On 5/18/2022 at 11:19 AM, Get Marwood & I said:

I haven't updated this table for a long time, but still occasionally look for those 'missing list' T&P stamped first issues:

Still no October dated Wonder Woman #109, but when you constantly see this pattern from original owner collections, you start to see why: 

Sorry, I’m probably being a bit dense, but I don’t know what you mean.