Garystar

Indeed. USAF Fairford was near where I used to live and Mark Jewelers seemed quite plentiful in our area. It wasn’t until mid 80s I got to go on site and by then there were plenty of other platforms to obtain comics. As Albert says you could only pay in $ so had to go to a currency exchange first.

By 1975 (hulk 184) Marvel had forgot themselves why comics were dated 3 months in advance.

As a break from all these beautiful copies here's a video three of us did on my mates' YouTube channel looking through FF 1-102. We're based in UK so plenty of UK price variants and many of the early issues are low grade. His YouTube channel primary focus is paperback books but there are also videos looking through Spider-man, Avengers, X-Men 1- 100 and Marvel fan clubs MMMS, Marvelmania and FOOM.

I've lost track but have we seen this one before as a T&P, if so can't have been very often. Duncan has it as ND.

Thanks for this whole post, very informative. When I started collecting, mid 70s in UK, Marvels were always on sale during their cover month and would disappear from shelves when the next months batch arrived. I remember buying and reading DD #108 in March (just before everything went ND for a few months). I had just assumed that similarly in USA comics would be pulled after a month (albeit in advance of cover date).

You could well be right. Never given it much thought but it could be date unsolds had to be returned for newsstands to get their money back.

I’m not so sure, there are more examples but these are two I can think of off top of head; Daredevil #108 cover dated March 74 is a Christmas story, FF #133 cover dated April 1973 is New Year story. I find it hard to believe in states a Christmas story would still be on shelves in March and a New Year story in April.

Don’t spread the word, although looks like we’ve all seen it, I’m the only bidder at present.

Very jealous. Never seen anything other than a picture (but I am in UK). These are genuinely scarce and usually sell for several hundred dollars each. Produced by the Super Heroes Club (who also did some Marvel posters) they were advertised as Batty Bullpen Booster Buttons. As you say there is a fifth “Hang Loose” button.

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

I’m waiting for it to come up on Countdown.

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;

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.

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?

He’s got all the right printing dates but not necessarily in the right order.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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;

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;

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.

Happy anniversary! I understand 7th is copper so treat yourself to a 1970s comic.

I used to think these were all ND, so I checked my own collection and found this;

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.