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Garystar

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  1. This one must be quite rare? Whilst regular FF # 110 turns up regularly in the UK I don't recall seeing the "green thing" misprint before as a T&P
  2. Have finally filmed video looking at FOOM and WAM fan kits. My hope is that potential collectors wanting to put a kit together now or in future find it of help;
  3. Marvelmania produced 4 decal sheets of which this is one. This one is different from the others in that it shows only heads of the characters, it is scarcer than the others as you have observed.
  4. Whilst MWOM is a fairly common comic the whole issue, including covers, was produced on cheap newspaper so to have one in 8.5 or even 8.0 must be quite scarce. What do CGC do with the free gift - leave it inside the comic?
  5. He’s got all the right printing dates but not necessarily in the right order.
  6. I did read it but you've now shamed me into giving you a Like. About 16 minutes in he pulls out a UKPV Amazing Spider-man and claims these were printed a day before the cents copies - don't think I've ever heard a day before mentioned.
  7. Strange Tales #188 is another which might exist as a pence (but probably not). MSH bucks the trend with the last but one and two issues turning up as rare pence issues. As an aside my favourite title Silver Surfer had Herb Trimpe lined up as penciler for #19.
  8. If any more turn up my bet would be Journey Into Mystery (Vol 2) #19 or Where Monsters Dwell #38. Both of these series had the previous few issues distributed then the last issue went ND - just like Sgt Fury.
  9. Bit of an odd description. I’ve still got the copy I got several years ago just to see it was real. I remember we were debating how UK distribution of last issues were quite often a reverse of preceding issues distribution and mooted this as one which might turn up and low and behold it did.
  10. The Avengers weekly, released in UK week ending 22 September 1973. Reprints Avengers #4 and Dr Strange from Strange Tales #115; The free gift was a set of 4 transfers - Hulk, Spider-man, Daredevil and Thor. These transfers were dampened and then applied to the skin; The transfers were by Spanish artist Lopez Espi (He also did a set posters you could buy through Marvel UK and many covers for European Marvel editions). Unfortunately you can't appreciate his art on these transfers without applying them but here are stickers of Spider-man, Daredevil and Thor which have the same images;
  11. Off topic but that’s never stopped us, here’s a curio I wasn’t aware of until recently; Inside Striker 30 September 1972 issue; what makes this interesting to UK comics (apart from pointing out it took England another 10 years to qualify for World Cup despite Peter’s promise) is the inside ad;
  12. Sorry can't help as my collection is all Marvel, wonder what the poster was. Contemporary Marvel figures would have been Mattel Secret Wars series and none of mine have any stickers. 1990s Toybiz / Tyco figures were more likely to have stickers telling us what we couldn't get.
  13. Happy anniversary! I understand 7th is copper so treat yourself to a 1970s comic.
  14. I used to think these were all ND, so I checked my own collection and found this;
  15. I 100% agree, essential for any Marvel memorabilia collector. I have mentioned these a few times in my posts. I have bought a few things direct from the author including the Marvelmania mailing tube in the video.
  16. It’s quite common but I haven’t got it. WAM is outside of the era I collect although I do have the membership kit.
  17. Very jealous, still on my wants list. There was a set on eBayUK not too long ago for £800, I held out hoping price would drop but they just disappeared, probably sold off eBay. There is someone in France currently selling the rarer set with red and white header for €995.
  18. Brilliant and its not even the best comic in the picture. I see a mint Amazing Fantasy #15 there as well - you’re a millionaire!
  19. Great. I started collecting in 1973 but such was distribution in my area I was as likely to pick up issues from 1969/70. I used to covet all the Marvelmania memorabilia being offered for sale, sadly it was another 25 years before I started getting any of it. Revisiting those ads still takes me back to my childhood days.
  20. Cheers, hope you enjoyed it. My intention with the video is as an aid for collectors wanting to put a kit together now or in future. I didn’t really want to get into the story of Marvelmania too much but it’s hard not to go into it to some extent and the “shenanigans” do explain a few things like why there are two #4s. Hope to get FOOM/WAM video out before end of year.
  21. A bit later than I had anticipated but finally got around to filming Marvelmania fan club kit (and a few extras) on my mate's YouTube channel. Hope someone sometime finds it of use.
  22. I'll have to have a think, as you observe Kirby's cover output was predominantly 1960's and Kane 1970's so there can't be many possibilities of Kirby replacing Kane, just a small window on Kirby's return in 1975 to 1978. I've sold all my reprints post 1971 so will have to have a search on-line and Gerber photo-journal. Kane did do some fantastic covers in the 1970's, some really nice ones get overlooked on western reprints.
  23. Here’s a link to a topic I created several years ago, which petered out several years ago….
  24. I always thought those Marvel/Curtis mags with the orange stickers were distributed by Gold.