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1 hour ago, Redshade said:

I remember reading somewhere (in these pages I think) a post about non superhero covers which actually had superhero stories in them. Are you here to remind us where this appeared Get Marwood & I ?

.. and on page 1 of this thread we have the reprint of first Spider-Man from Amazing Fantasy #15 which Alan didn’t see worthy of a cover appearance. 

36 minutes ago, Redshade said:

I remember reading somewhere (in these pages I think) a post about non superhero covers which actually had superhero stories in them. Are you here to remind us where this appeared Get Marwood & I ?

There are several. I have posted some on this thread; pages 2, 3, and 5. 
I’ll post some more, although I haven’t got them all, I’ve acquired Alan Classes over the years rather than actively collected them.  

2 hours ago, Get Marwood & I said:

And you get a lot more crunched up car for your money on the Alan, than the original.

Yes but Alan had lost the policeman on the street corner. 

On 7/5/2021 at 9:21 AM, Get Marwood & I said:

I'm going to stop looking at these now, I think, from a monetary perspective.

Yes. It’s getting increasingly difficult for me not to sell my Alan Class comics, it’s ingrained in my psyche that they have no monetary value so seeing them sell for these prices seems to be given money for nothing. 
Any way here’s one I recall getting on holiday in Cornwall - must have been an otherwise Marvel-less holiday;

and a bit of Adams, can’t recall where I got this one but would have been for a couple pounds if not pence;

47 minutes ago, Albert Tatlock said:

Has anyone yet mentioned these two little beauties (or should that be big beauties)?

Latest material in them is mid-1961, but I think they did not appear until 1963 or 1964, possibly for the Christmas market.

Lesser spotted of late, I reckon.

Two very scarce books which don’t turn up often. I don’t recall ever seeing either in the flesh and don’t have either, although I do have this version of Spellbound Album;

32 minutes ago, awakeintheashes said:

Another question for those who use GSP to ship international. Do you still receive messages like these? Small lot of comics was shipped 5/31 to the UK. Second time in a month someone has complained about shipping times out of the US using USPS First Class

I recently sold from UK to US, sent first class, not through GSP. Took 3 days to get from UK to Chicago USPS facility and then didn’t move for 5 weeks until the buyer chased USPS, he got it 2 days later. 
My experience and posts from others I have read I think the issue is with USPS regather than eBay or GSP.  

Does FF#110 “green thing” existing as cents but not pence tell us anything about printing order? I’d always assumed it indicates cents was printed first with either plate or ink in wrong place before being spotted. 

Love that letter, if he’d sent it to me I would have it framed on my bathroom door to read it every day. Strange when someone you admire insults you it’s great! I especially like UK being described “some foreign country”

Steve Ditko, Laurel and Hardy - three of my heroes in two posts!!! If you could work in Joe Strummer and Mr Holstein Pils this would be the best thread ever. 

1 minute ago, Get Marwood & I said:

Yes, they're all taken from Heritage scans, graded books. Scans and photos always differ. I'll just have to win the lottery, buy them all, and get my magnifying glass out....

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?)

17 minutes ago, Get Marwood & I said:

three of the same JIM #64 font types - all have slightly different box edging due to printing variances:

 

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. 

1 hour ago, Get Marwood & I said:

The pence box looks the cleanest, yet has the yellow and red visible around the edge - colour bleed / plate placing could be a factor:

The wonky font looks like the last one, as it sort of breaks out of the perimeter in places.

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. 

Try here;

https://www.comicsvalue.com/

16 minutes ago, mikeyc67 said:

Avengers 62 - it is first appearance of Man-Ape who is from Wakanda and enemy of Black Panther - was in the film but don't remember any associated buzz around this issue.

#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?

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

23 minutes ago, Get Marwood & I said:

Do you think it was lockdown - all those blokes of a certain age at home Googling, reliving their youth? 

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. 

4 hours ago, Get Marwood & I said:

I can understand why an Alan that reprints AF15 might attract a premium. But a thousand pounds? It's a reprint.

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. 

21 minutes ago, Get Marwood & I said:

Any Charltons in the 15K offload pile? They're definitely still £2 if so...

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. 

29 minutes ago, Get Marwood & I said:

We all make mistakes, and we all sell things that years later we can't fathom what possessed us to do so. When they go mad like they have, I can't help but feel a little cheated.

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. 

1 hour ago, Get Marwood & I said:

Maybe the buyer didn't know that

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-