Mr Soho

Helloooooo!

Lou very kindly took a punt on a complete stranger from across the pond and it was a pleasure to do business with him. The slab took about a week to get here and was packed excellently. Great communication. Fair price for the book. I would be happy to recommend Lou, and look forward to putting some business his way again...!

I'll nab that..! Thank you!

Hello... I very recently picked up an Aussie version of Classics Illustrated 158a. It would appear that the physical issue I have was printed in Sweden, which I understand was one of the countries that the UK editions/titles were printed in. I think that CI UK (For want of a better term) also used other European countries to print their editions/titles in as well.... (Please note that I stand to be corrected on this as I am not an expert in CI and it's more from asking people as I was getting my hands on the issue/copy in question!) By the looks of it, the CI Dr No 158a had an original UK cover price of, "2/" (2 Shillings) in UK pre-decimal money. However, the Australian one I have has a sticker over the, "2/" cover price and now shows 1/6 (One Shilling and sixpence). Also, the back cover and inside back cover carry Australian adverts. I am surmising that my Australian edition was printed at the same time as the UK ones, the only difference being that a price label was put on the UK edition, to denote a different selling price and any UK adverts were swapped out by Aussie ones. The issue was then presumably shipped to Australia for sale. (Kind of like what Marvel did their Cents/Pence versions back in the day.) One of things I have found out by visiting various blogs/sites, is that DC/National censored elements of the story. In particular making the skin tones of the three blind beggars paler than they appeared in the CI original and removing the term, "Chinese Negroes" etc. I think they also MAY have changed the skin tone of Dr No himself and done some editing with regard to Honey's body or attire in some of the panels she appears in. (As I haven't got a raw copy of Showcase 43 those points are a bit more difficult to confirm 100%, but if someone can, that would be fab!) I've attached a copy of the 158a that I have, along with a couple of pics from the FACISIMILE edition that you can get of CI 158a which confirms the points about skin tone etc. of the 3 blind beggars. I think I read somewhere that DC/National were concerned about any perceived issues arising from the sale of the book in the South of the US...