Garystar

You could also buy a 1960s printing press and try out different scenarios for printing to test your theories. Perhaps you could get John Romita to knock up a new Spider-Man cover which you could use in these tests. Sorted. (Are we allowed to enter Euro Millions draw since brexit?)

Difficult to see on a phone (and the colour has deteriorated differently and/or photoed in different light) but are they not the same albeit slightly shifted left/right? Your JIM #64 pence is clearly different to cents as the red is showing all round.

My first reaction rather than bleed that this is the price “hole” being slightly misaligned or slightly different sizes and only one of the colour plates registering on white paper during printing. I was wondering if this also could tell us something about printing order but beyond my technical knowledge.

Have you got the comics in hand? It would seem logical that the narrowist price block was printed first. The bold cents “must” have been printed last as you can see clearly see alteration to price block, is there any difference in size (even part millimetre) which would suggest order of other two. If the plates were first set up for UK including indica, UK copies printed then ONLY the front cover changed that would work but doesn’t explain why two cent fonts. If the cents was printed first it would be illogical to set the front cover for US market and inside cover for UK. The no price x-men you recently posted indicates the UK price block is the alteration so presumably that was printed second. As you have said many times previously it’s probable that which was printed first, US or UK, varied from month to month or even issue to issue.

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#62 carries a premium compared to surrounding issues but not as much as you might have expected as the character played a quite prominent role in both Black Panther and last two Avengers movies. My first Avengers was #73 which was virtually a Panther solo so he’s always been a favourite of mine. It was first of a two part story and took me about four years (pre Internet) to get #74 and finish the story.

If it was contemporary this must be oldest stamp? Does fact it is Canadian mean anything in terms of distribution to uk? YOUNG MEN no.6 Bell / Marvel Atlas 1950 super-rare Golden-age CANADIAN EDITION

I’ve always liked the NME’s definition of a drummer - someone who hangs around with musicians.

Before I started collecting comics I was into Airfix little soldiers. I have been tempted recently to start collecting them and I did recently buy the gun emplacement playset out of nostalgia as I remember getting it one Christmas. It’s gone straight into loft but I kept looking at it in eBay and had to buy it.

So why is Out Of This World AF 15 fetching hundreds whilst MWOM #1 which also reprints AF 15 (and FF#1 and Hulk #1) and has a Marvel cover only going for £30ish? As you say it’s illogical.

No all Marvel. Others went years ago although I don’t think I’ve ever owned any Charltons - however looking back at some of their romance comic psychedelic covers I might have missed out on some nice stuff.

I don’t think there’s anything depressing about selling and then prices rocketing afterwards provided you got a fair price at the time. I’m sure most of us could list numerous comics we have sold which are now worth 10, 100 times more. I’m currently selling my comics, partially because I have so many and can’t see the wood for the trees - I’d like to get down to about 5,000 which I really appreciate, rather than the 20,000 I have now for the sake of collecting. In my mind comics like WWBN 32 are still 20p comics which is why I couldn’t resist selling mine for current prices and using that money to buy Marvelmania V2 kit which I will appreciate I’ll probably sell my Alan’s just because of the prices they now fetch when in my mind they are all worth £2 tops.

I wonder…….. it wasn’t obvious hidden in text. The picture with missing page starts at page three so you could think cover was page 1 and 2 and if you weren’t familiar with story it isn’t obvious reading that there were two previous pages. That said I can’t imagine someone paying that much not realising what they were bidding on. Perhaps that’s the going rate for an incomplete copy now adays and it’s only old-timers like me who can remember when you couldn’t give Alan’s away that can’t comprehend prices.

I just can’t get my head around the Sinister Tales #23 price - it’s got a page missing! Do people buy just for the cover? What would an intact issue 84 sell for - TOS #39 reprinted again but not the cover? I’m guessing considerably less.

And first Loki, Suspense #29, £315!!!!!

Wonder what this will sell for on eBay UK? One of the harder issues to find but it has first page missing; Sinister Tales #23 Reprints 1st Appearance Of Iron Man Tales Of Suspense #39 Fr I’m going to guess £382!

There’s a Wyatt Earp #29 pence copy with Miller pence stamp on eBay UK at moment if anyone interested. I know @Get Marwood & Ifound one eventually. Look at this on eBay Wyatt Earp #29 L. Miller Publications VG-

It proves nothing but I can only add whenever I found T&P Marvels (they were several years old by then) they were always as new condition - they didn’t look like they’d travelled back and forth across America and sat in a USA spinner for weeks.

Yes in 1973 and onwards a months worth came at once, ALL January cover dated comics arrived in January irrespective of release dates.

Happy to be corrected but I thought Steranko negotiated a deal on joining Marvel that he could keep his art which was not the industry norm, nor Marvel’s, as someone has said, until the mid 70s. Stan must have been immensely impressed by him or Jim was a persuasive negotiator confident in his own ability even as a newcomer. (Might have to do some re-reading if I’m wrong).

No proof, just recollections, unless I've missed something concrete. And for what period anyway? Always, or just a few specific years? Definitely when I started collecting in 1973 Marvel 6p UKPVs were always on sale in UK the month they were cover dated. I never gave it a thought they should be anything other, indeed I could never understand why, for example, FF 133 cover dated April was a New Year’s Eve story. (Outside of timeframe we are discussing I know but is a line in sand).

Agree I don’t think b) is likely but a) possible. If a contract was in place between T&P and Marvel and/or Marvel and printers for 10,000 UKPVs and T&P released they could sell 20,000 then stamps may have been win/win for all concerned.

It’s not just the arrival dates which tell us this - xmas and new year stories always appeared in March dated Marvels.

Couple of thoughts; UK introduced duel and decimal pricing long before decimalisation. The 5p coin was introduced in 1968 so just because a product is marked 5p doesn’t necessarily mean it was first on sale post February 1971. Do we know that returns were returns from shops? Is it possible that some/most/all returns were from distribution warehouses that didn’t even make it to retail outlets? If this were so it would potentially speed up the journey to UK. I did postulate a couple of theories to my own question why do 5p stamps and 1/- UKPVs exist simultaneously; a) demand had grown and there were not enough UKPVs to cover it. b) There was a crossover of UK distribution- World Distributors were doing the UKPVs and T&P the stamps.

Checked mine - all cents or pence, none stamped.