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Even comics that were for kids weren't politically correct back in the day. I saw Roger the Dodger and the Bash Street Kids as role models to aspire to.

They have been called comics for 100 years and that has often caused all sorts of problems that would have been eliminated if they had been classed as "publications" from day one. Because they were called comics it was assumed they must be for children even if the contents were Adult/Romance/War/Horror rather than Funny Animals. Hence the fear that ECs were being purchased by 6 year olds who would go on to become Juvenile Delinquents as a consequence. And people waving Horror comics in Courts saying "these so-called comics" ?!?

@rakehell says I think the title to this thread, and the OP's talk should more correctly be "Why people in the USA should collect foreign comics". Foreign depends where you are based and comic collecting is a worldwide hobby and quite niche compared to say Book collecting. Action Comics No 1 is a big thing but someone in the UK may prefer a Beano No 1 or a Dandy No 1 (which are probably rarer than the Action). @mjoeyoung says I don't agree. The emphasis is on "UK price" when people say "UK price variant". You could say "9d price variant" or "1/- price variant" etc but as the prices changed regularly in the 1970s "UK price variant" seems the most sensible description. As has been quoted numerous times the difference is only on the covers with the interiors no different to the (more common) regular comics with cents prices. I'm not too happy with the phrase "UK Edition" either as it suggests something that is almost but not quite the same as the original edition. I'd prefer the phrase "UK comic" or "German comic" etc. So many UK comics may contain Marvel/DC content but their look/size/shape/interiors mean they have no exact counterpart on the other side of the Atlantic. To name a few such as Smash! and Pow! from Odhams, the Alan Class range, T&Ps Super DC, the Europe-wide Panini range, not to mention the Marvel UK comics who often messed around with the original material (see Planet of the Apes) or produced new content.

@Malacoda said I've long since given up of any hope of winning an argument with Steve but as for B&B 64 I see Eclipso on the cover with Batman. I don't see Spider-Man.

Just realised that I would have purchased my copy 30 years ago. Good Grief! And the GCD says:-

A few days ago somewhere on the Interweb some Smart Alec said:- At first I thought it may well have been the moment when the Odhams UK weekly "Power comic" Pow! (which featured Spider-Man) was combined with Smash! (which featured Batman). There were a few issues of those comics in 1968 that featured both characters in separate stories but they were never on the cover together or in a story together. After exhaustive research lasting at least 5 minutes I now believe it would be this Marvel comic, cover dated September 1967 that answers the Smart Alec's question as to what was the first comic featuring the Spider and the Bat together (unless someone else knows otherwise??).

What's wrong with Issue 107? I started collecting UK MADs off the newsstand around issue 100 and madly recently decided I needed all the earlier issues whilst they are still cheap and have been working backwards. (Of course MAD has always been cheap even when it wasn't really. They told us so every issue). I have to be careful and ensure that I only get UK editions as the numbering and interior content are different. Our Mads started circa 1959 and were only ever in Magazine format.

Talking of posters can you spot the difference?

Talking of posters, I've always liked this one that pays homage to a photo originally taken 90 years ago.

@LowGradeBronze Thanks for the Heads-up. (Or should that be Ears-up?). But so often I'm disappointed when anyone mentions comics on TV/Radio/Newspaper. There have been some stinkers. I remember an article in the Times newspaper where they talked about Spider-Man using his magical powers to emit webs from his hands. The only decent TV show I recall was Jonathan Ross with "In Search of Steve Ditko". I think the world is long overdue for a TV show just about comics. Podcasts are OK but you really need the visuals. If they can make TV shows about sculpting with chainsaws surely anything is possible.

So you two must have super powers that enable you to see and participate in this thread whilst it remains invisible to all your bretheren?? Anyway, this is not so much a Quiz as mere curiosity on my part. What was the first regular comic cover (not a fanzine or a book on the history of comics) that featured both Batman and Spider-Man?? I think I know but I could be wrong. It is not this one from the dark ages of comics.

Well done. Another No Prize. Nail it to the wall of your choice. I was just about to post a tumbleweed gif. There seem to only be five or six people ever reading/posting in this thread. Is @OtherEric the only person on the other side of the Atlantic with an interest in comics/pulps/paperbacks/Alan Class/everything like us rather than all those people whose life revolves around "keys" whatever they may be,??

If there are any 15 cent Incredible Hulk 137s with T&P ink price stamps, being from 1971 I would think they'd show 5p rather than 1/- ? Shillings are more a 1969/1970 thing.

As things have been quiet around here lets have a very easy quiz. I'll see how many seconds it takes for the answer to be posted. Who do these legs belong to and where was the image first printed?

Do you mean ink stamps on 15 cent issues? Incredible Hulk 137 did get distributed here as the GCD has an image of it and loads of other 1/- Marvels around that period.

Wouldn't that be 2d then considering when Charlton price variants existed? PS: I just remembered that I forgot to post this image last month.

D.T.B.A.H.F.N.II Does The Battlefield Action Heading For Number 11 Then my brain started to hurt when I realised there was no Battlefield Action 11. That comic began with issue No 16. In a former life it was Foreign Intrigues, Johnny Dynamite and began simply as Dynamite. Does D.T.B.A.H.F.N.II.T.T.N.O.G.A.F.F.A.A.R.D.F have anything to do with Charltons consecutive numbering but different titling or am I barking up the wrong tree? Should I start a thread asking for people to display their favourite covers of dogs barking up wrong trees? Can't be any worse than whoever it was that wanted to see covers that featured the colour yellow.

I wonder why L Miller used such a tiny font compared to the regular issues?

On sale from a UK seller, I wonder what currency would be 1/50 (and is that possibly 1/60 and 1/70 too?) in the late 1950s/early 1960s?? Is the clue in the outline of the stamp? Can't be Australia as they were still using £sd then.

I haven't seen many DCs with a 6d ink stamp on them.

Does anyone have a favourite price stamp? I'm quite partial to the 7.5p one. I can't find the tools here for a proper 1/2 unless I copy/paste from Word. That half-a-pee made all the difference. I remember when they discontinued the half-pence in 1983 and I bought £5 worth of shiny new ones from the bank thinking they would be future collectors-items. That never happened. And comics from 1983 may be 40 years old now yet still sell for mere pence too.

But isn't Quick Draw McGraw himself a horse, so how can he ride one. That is even sillier than a comic cover featuring a Clothes Horse???

Don't worry. This thread is in the Silver Age dept as that is where the cool kids hang out. Right at the top @Get Marwood & I says horses from all eras welcome apart from clothes horses I've been looking everywhere for a comic cover (or even a panel) that features a Clothes Horse. Gotta be one somewhere in an Underground publication if not a Spider-man comic.

In 2014 they couldn't even spell it right.

I doff Albert Tatlocks cap to you Gary. It is so great that there is always something new to discover in old comics.