Garystar

On 9/3/2023 at 6:56 PM, Albert Tatlock said:

Here is a DTW stickered item, along with a few from the same period with anonymous price labels that might be the work of DTW or one of their competitors.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I always thought those Marvel/Curtis mags with the orange stickers were distributed by Gold. 

On 8/21/2023 at 4:27 AM, Aman619 said:

Marvel also had another Fan group membership thing in the 90s:  WAM!  Wild Agents of Marvel (I think thats what it stood for)

That's right, Wild Agents of Marvel short lived fan club in 91/92. It gets a brief mention and sight of the membership card at the start of my MMMS video. Our intention is to film a Marvelmania kit video and then do one on FOOM and WAM together.

On 8/21/2023 at 2:25 AM, ivrimark said:

I look forward to seeing the evolution from MMMS to Marvelmania to FOOM.

My topic relating to MMMS is focused on those lists of MMMS members that were published in the late silver age.  But eventually the posts took a turn to showcase MMMS memorabilia in general.  I'm glad you have started a thread dealing specifically with that!

 

We are trying to arrange a date in next couple of weeks to film Marvelmania so hopefully will be out in September, I'll link it here when available.

When I started trying to get the fan club kits there was very little reliable information for me to determine what exactly each kit comprised of, being in UK doesn't help as these kits are rare to virtually non-existent here. My intention with these videos is a reference source for collectors trying to compile kits like I was, we may do one on MMMS/Marvelmania/FOOM memorabilia but that isn't really my purpose for the videos.

On 8/11/2023 at 7:34 PM, Malacoda said:

While we're on stickers, here's something you don't see every day.  This is a DD 96 with a Dark They Were sticker at 20p (following their fabulous practice of putting price labels on the comics themselves that you could never get off without the cover then sticking to everything everafter).   At some point the purchaser sold it and it was re-sold by LTS, another London comic shop in Denmark Street, who also put the sticker straight on the cover at the now princely sum of 50p.  

Imagine if you could hold a comic in your hands and see every ownership, all the hands its passed through. 

I seem to recall dark they were stickers as being easy to peel off but then leaving colour fade underneath. 

On 7/25/2023 at 7:14 PM, TheBigJ said:

Perhaps discussed in another thread, but was thinking about this and have some thoughts. IMHO the title with the best artists is The Fantastic Four.

Kirby, Buscema, Perez, Byrne - tough to beat  - well over 250+ issues I believe.

# of issues is deciding factor for me.

 

Don’t forget Romita between Kirby and Buscema on FF. 

Daredevil was always my favourite - 100 issues of Everett, Wood, Romita, Colan and Barry Smith. After Colan left treaded water a bit until Frank Miller. 

I created this topic in Comics General, thought I should post it here as well as the first video is Merry Marvel Marching Society.

On 7/19/2023 at 12:21 PM, batmiesta said:

I was wondering if this should have a name on, do you know why there are 2 different versions? 

The artist Lopez Espi was Spanish and the posters were all printed in Spain. There were six (with names) available via Marvel UK, I’m guessing but I would suspect the non-named ones were available for purchase through outlets in Spain (and perhaps exported elsewhere). There are posters of other Marvel characters by Espi in the same style. 

On 7/13/2023 at 3:04 AM, batmiesta said:

The one I am missing from set shown on page 3 of this thread. There are two versions of the posters, one with character’s name (as mine) and one without (as this). 

On 7/15/2023 at 12:56 AM, Malacoda said:

Holy. Freaking. spoon. 

Wow. It exists. I take it we agree that the fact that, between us, we have looked at thousands of copies of this and this is the only stampey we've ever seen indicates that they weren't distributed and this is a lone ranger that rocked up after the event? 

Still. Blimey.   I take it based on the bidder profile that it wasn't you that won it but I wish you had.  This clearly belongs with you. 

 

 

Note: I have no idea why they substituted spoon for the word I actually used, but I really like it. 

Not me that bought it, seller seemed to have some interesting stuff so I looked through their listings present and sold. 
Not sure how this exists, even in UK collections of stamps and UKPVs #10 is always unstamped cents. T&P wouldn’t have just imported one or two copies would they? Unless it fell into a batch of another title?

On 7/14/2023 at 6:32 PM, themagicrobot said:

Hmm. I wonder when they discontinued that top left box? 20 years ago? In more recent times it is only used "ironically". Note the MMMS stamp rather than the Comic Code stamp.

The box first disappeared in oct/nov 1971 with price rise from 15c to 25c and with the two/one month page count increase. Went to a circle but the box has reappeared for long periods. 

On 7/14/2023 at 4:12 PM, themagicrobot said:

I think this cover looks better as you see the full cosmic surfboard.

True, but I always liked the (Ditko designed) side boxes, they made marvels stand out a mile on shelves and spinners. 

Never say never as Mr Marwood always tells us. I've been following this issue for best part of 50 years and never seen one pass through T&P hands before;

SIlver Surfer # 10 Nov 1969 VF 15c Marvel Comics John Bucema Art | eBay

And cover Captain America #171;

i initially thought Tony was primarily an assist to John Romita but stayed on Spider-man title through the Gil Kane run until John returned, but now seeing similar pattern in CA where he started with John Romita but stayed with the title after John had left. 

On yer head son. Here’s a stamp I don’t see too often;

And captain America #150 page 8 panel 4;

On 5/11/2023 at 9:15 PM, Spider-Variant said:

Hey @Garystar, I haven't found my background credits list but I know you missed the cover to ASM 139, below the Spider-Man logo.

 

Cheers, I’ll add it to the list. I couldn’t see any of his credits inside however I did spot Dave Hunt hidden credit on the splash page water tower. 

On 5/11/2023 at 9:50 PM, Bronty said:

interesting.  

Is this the same artist that did the lovely Mr Mystery 6 cover?

Yes, he did several covers for this title. 

On 5/11/2023 at 4:25 PM, MR. Pontoon said:

"Hunt and Giacoia Captured"

And Hunt and Esposito. 

On 5/10/2023 at 8:46 PM, LowGradeBronze said:

Marvel.fandom.com shows some good results for TM. Other issues of Cap include 143, 150, 154 and 163. Same site credits him in Vampire Tales v1 no. 5. (Apologies, hard to post links using this device.)

Good call. Cap #154 page 14 panel 6;

cap #163 page 5 panel 4;

On 5/10/2023 at 9:20 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

Found this image online from Spider-Man Comics Weekly #158 Gary:

So the UK reprint used the edited art as published in original US Amazing Spider-man #105. 

On 5/10/2023 at 8:46 PM, LowGradeBronze said:

Marvel.fandom.com shows some good results for TM. Other issues of Cap include 143, 150, 154 and 163. Same site credits him in Vampire Tales v1 no. 5. (Apologies, hard to post links using this device.)

I should have done this before I started thinning out my collection. I’ll check the caps but I sold vampire tales last month. 

On 5/10/2023 at 7:57 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

Anyway, I'm off for the night. If any of you get a chance, pop over to Gary's new thread - it's a corker:

 

And to tie it back to UK…. I used amazing Spider-Man #105 to show the published issue had been edited from the original art/proof (Tony’s “hidden” credit was edited out). If anyone has the UK reprint it may be interesting to see if it used the original art/proof or the USA published art.