Garystar

I didn’t find a comic I once owned, however; When I was a young lad, just started collecting I was told a shop in town - Carol’s Kabin - sold comics. They said where it was so the next day I jumped off the school bus and ran to the shop. I asked the guy if they sold comics and with a rather puzzled face he told me no. As I turned to leave i realised it was an “adult” book shop - I had been punked. 
Anyway 20 years later I bought this, UK version of lancer paperback;

and bookshop stamp on the inside cover.....

So i wasn’t quite such a naive young fool. 

Seller has been mentioned here before. Looks to me like there is a crease or colour loss along logo hulk’s leg and down into caption. 

Your definition is better although nutter does resonate. You can see why I got them so cheap;

My definition of complete is one of every issue rather than one of every variation of every issue. So I have 1-167 and annual 1-7, some are cents and some are pence but it’s one or the other not both (#167 now being the exception).

Same with all my other titles, cents or pence but not both. I suppose I have a few exceptions where I have regular copy plus a double cover, or 30/35 variant but not too many examples. 

42 minutes ago, Get Marwood & I said:

I'm not sure how many Sgt Fury completists there are out there, if any,

Me! I did have the goal of collecting them all at under 50p each and I did get around 130 at that limit from #6 up including #13 and annual #1. I had to breach that limit though to get 1-5 and ironically some of the later non-distributed issues including #167 which, like the seller above is a cents in my collection although the few preceding issues are pence. 

1 hour ago, Get Marwood & I said:

Some of these later / final 20p copies could turn out to be some of the hardest variants to find. 

and proves there is no correlation between scarcity and value as I paid £8 for it. 

On 3/23/2021 at 8:35 PM, Tghutcn said:

Thanks it is a nice one hardly ever see pence for the early dr strange issues of strange tales 

Here are the next three;

(you’re not going to call this a nice one, I think it’s the worst complete condition comic in my collection)

and #120 because I like the cover, it has childhood memories as I bought the Alan Class version, and it was next to #115 in my charity sale box;

In my opinion we do Stan a disfavour if we only think of him as an editor and a promotor. It was Stan who put the words in the mouths of all the characters we loved, it was Stan who created the persona of Peter Parker, Tony Stark, Bern Grimm, Matt Murdock, the Silver Surfer et all. It was Stan who created their humanity and made them “real” to us kids. It was Stan who wove all the titles and held the “Marvel “universe” together. I wasn’t around in the 60s early 70s but reading these as back issues when I did start collecting, Stan’s editorial created a sense that as a reader you were part of the Marvel family, you were welcomed and appreciated and the editorial was part of the attraction of Marvel Comics.

The Fantastic Four didn’t come from Jack and would have existed without him, Spider-man didn’t come from Steve and would have existed without him. I happen to think without Jack and Steve there’s a high probability both would have been rubbish and died on the vine but who knows what they would have been in someone else’s hands. We know Stan had a hand in the plotting of both titles and although his input diminished over time to somewhere between negligible and nothing he did none the less contribute. There’s a newspaper interview/report somewhere with Stan and Jack where Stan is vocally plotting FF#55 so Stan’s input lasted some time on FF at least, to what extent we may never know but it was something.

Was Stan lucky to work with Jack and Steve? Absolutely. Was he lucky to work with John Romita, John Buscema, Gene Colan, Neal Adams, Jim Steranko, Wally Wood (briefly), Barry Smith, Gil Kane etc etc? That doesn’t sound like luck to me, that sounds like someone who knows what he’s doing, recognises talent and knows how to focus it and work with it.

When Steve left Spider-man the creativity didn’t die. Stan recognised that John had different strengths to Steve and changed direction on the title, Mary Jane Watson (heard but never seen in Steve’s stories), Capt Stacey and the Robertsons were introduced and the comic became more of a soap opera – and became even more popular.

Yes, Stan became increasingly more interested in promotion and he worked extremely hard at that – attending colleges, lectures, radio and magazine interviews. Steve wouldn’t have done that, would or could Jack if given the chance? Stan was the voice of Marvel so its unsurprising he became the face.

I agree Jack and Steve deserve more credit, Stan used to do that in the early days and it’s a shame and a discredit to him that he didn’t do so more in latter years when he had a bigger stage. As fans we recognise Jack and Steve's immense contribution and that without them the Marvel characters we know today wouldn’t exist and we need to tell that to anyone who is interested enough to listen. However their credit shouldn’t be given at Stan’s expense, Stan deserves the credit he gets – it’s just that Jack and Steve deserve more than they get

Try this site; “what is the value of your comics”;

https://www.comicsvalue.com/

Almost looks like two collections merged; one high grade unstamped cents, and one who wasn’t picky at all - low grade, cents stamped, pence. If you could afford those nice Ditko Spider-Man’s why would you settle for a low grade #100? This just doesn’t  sit right as a single owner collection. 

14 minutes ago, Get Marwood & I said:

What would you put on that ASM #100 Gary? 4.0?

Have only looked on phone but 4.0 might be generous - bad rolled spine, nasty staples which have discolored cover. Looks water damaged to me, looks like photographed in bag and that couple be ripples in bag but Description says fc wrinkles which supports it being water damage.

The daredevil lot looks partially out of place, it has mid 70s issues, none of which have stickers and many pence issues which none of the other lots have. 

3 hours ago, Albert Tatlock said:

I will ring them tomorrow to ask if they will guarantee the grades, but I think I know the answer.

But which grade would they guarantee? They quote both traditional alpha (vfn, nm etc) grades and CGC numeric grades but in many cases they don’t align correctly i e 9.0 and 9.2 quoted as NM. 

41 minutes ago, Get Marwood & I said:

Superworld and Metropolis stickers,

I also noted Mile High stickers, I have bought run fillers from Mile High but they wouldn’t be my first choice if I was picky about getting high grade. 

31 minutes ago, Number 6 said:

While I will probably pick up these versions when I have an opportunity to get nice copies, I hesitate to call these Power Records as they no longer have the logo and the PR numbering has been dropped. Even the record has a new Peter Pan label that has the new 2003 number, not the PR-24 number. 

Well my OCD has kicked in and I’ve now got the other Spider-Man Peter Pan on eBay search list, and if I can’t find my copy of the spidey power record LP I’ll have to buy that again as well. 

15 minutes ago, Get Marwood & I said:

Are you pleased or disappointed Gary 

(Whisper.....) I actually prefer cents. When I started buying comics it was because I loved reading them, I started collecting because I wanted to read them all, cents or pence didn’t matter but there was something more “exotic” about getting an unstamped cents copy. 

Got distracted watching England lose the cricket. Anyway I’ve had a look and all are regular US cents with regular US indica. Untouched by Miller.  

So this is Spider-Man Peter Pan which I now know thanks to number 6 to be a re-issue. Originally Couldn’t sell at $2 so reduced to $1.50. I know there is another version of this (similar format to the two hulks I posted previously) which I don’t think I’ve got and the Spider-Man Power Record LP which annoyingly I can’t find. 

My 1 - 6 are all un-stamped cents copies. When I say unstamped #1 has been stamped to death by popular book store;

I’ll look at indica of 2-5 tomorrow if you’re saying they may be unstamped Miller’s. 

I don’t see why the labeling of comics priced UK/Canadian/Australian would be any different to the labeling of 30/35 “variants” - we wouldn’t label these Grand Rapids, Baltimore, San Antonio,  San Jose, Albuquerque and several small towns in Massachusetts editions so surely the same logic applies and comics where the only difference is the price are labeled UK/Canadian/Australian/30 cent variants?

In addition to the two I posted earlier, this is the other Spider-man Power record LP I am aware of. As I said last post I can't find my copy so got this image on-line, possibly the one OtherEric referred to in OP;

7 hours ago, Number 6 said:

The blank-circle cover is likely a re-issue sometime around 1978 or thereafter as the new 1978 PR-36 issue and onward don't have a printed price on the cover.

If the cover has with the $1.49 printed price has line drawings of Marvel characters and Planet of the Apes characters on the inside covers, that is likely the first issue.  The copyright on the front cover says 1974, but the first issues of the 1974 releases have blank inside covers.  Line drawings of characters on the inside covers is typical of the 1975 releases and I have yet to see a copy of PR-24 that has a blank insider cover (if someone has one please post it up)

Thanks for all the great info. Yes my Spider-Man is blank price, I can’t see a date, it’s not sealed, this is the inside cover;

I’ve also got another Spider-Man Power Record LP somewhere but can’t find it (yellow cover with single image of spidey) - a quick search on eBay shows one for sale and appears to be man-wolf and dragon man stories again. I’ll keep looking. 

Failed to upload Manthing image in my previous post. Here’s two other versions of the Hulk book/record, I don’t recall having any of the other Marvel Power records by Peter Pan,I know there is a Spider-Man dragon man one, are there any I need to search for?;

2 x 9p Champions;

The kung fu one is “complete guide to the deadly arts of kung fu”

There’s also this one. My copy is in attic so got this image on-line;