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I'm sure @Get Marwood & I has had great fun tracking all the Charlton numbering. Fawcett's This Magazine is Haunted continued with Charlton from No 15. At No 22 the comic changed title to Danger and Adventure. From No 28 it became Robin Hood. All this consecutive numbering for totally different comics with different subject matter continued supposedly because of Second Class Postage (even though it was unlikely that anyone was subscribing and Charlton weren't posting the comics anyway).

Here is Miss Bikini Luv 625. She finally got her own comic after featuring for a year or so in Charlton's "Gorgo". However the series had originally begun a decade earlier at number 500 as "Robin Hood". From issue 524 it changed to "Wild Western comics". After a hiatus it continued from number 581 as "'Lil Scamp". It was re-named as "Jungle Warfare" from number 610 (but still had "'Lil Scamp" back-up stories to use up inventory). Miss Bikini Luv ran from number 623 to 627. All these comics are extremely rare/completely unobtainable.

Many must-visit websites have disappeared over the years as the people running them got old or bored.

Other threads? Have you any comics with horses on the cover?

As I sort through my boxes I am finding more and more Charltons that date back to times when I was selling comics but could only find buyers for Marvels. My friends even turned their noses up at DCs too. Living in a country where weekly comics appeared twice a fortnight, I never understood how would anyone remember to visit the spinner rack to pick up their comic once every 6 weeks? Or in the case of some Dells, just four times a year??

This odd "House Ad" appeared within a DC comic cover dated March 1992. If they had actually namechecked the comics they were talking about, or better still, shown cover images the advert might have been more use. The small print is interesting though as it quietly marked the end of an era. Here are eight of the ten comics in question. Perhaps the first time, and far from the last, when entire comics would be reprinted in their original format rather than just individual stories from significant issues.

325.000 for the very first issue sounds feasible, especially with the handful of TV ads at the time. The Beano had print runs in excess of half a million in the early 1960s. It got quite a crowded market later in the 1960s for UK weekly comics but perhaps 200,000 for some of the more popular weeklies wasn't unknown when you see what Look-In was doing even in 1983. Oddly, no mention of the Marvel stuff in this list.

All I wanted to know was how many posts were required until you finished your Apprenticeship?!? And now, we've gone to the other extreme, and as if by magic every single person here are suddenly just Members (ooer Missus). Perhaps they want people to complain that they enjoyed being Explorers/In Nappies and get things changed back??

Iron Horse and Iron Horse with a horse.

I almost posted this in the Your (Relatively) Least Favourite Silver Age Super Hero ?!? thread. Never did like DD (or Spider-Man) that much. PS I am only writing this to see how many posts are expected before you are no longer condescended to as being an "Apprentice".

Actually you are lucky that the missing page is from the interior. Many of these comics are missing the back cover. The first issue came with a free gift of a clear plastic wallet. Kids here in the UK were supposed to cut out the three pennant shaped images to place inside the wallet.

No doubt I missed this last year and it has already been commented on. https://blog.gocollect.com/the-legend-of-ballast-comics/ Who is Luke Smith? Does he visit these forums? I'm sure a very small amount of comics did arrive here unofficially by boat. I think more paper ballast would consist of pulps and magazines, even paperbacks than comics. I think "ballast" of paper was mostly a pre/post war thing. I think ships would surely aim to return with saleable goods rather than be empty apart from "ballast". I can't see them throwing any stuff over the side if it would have a saleable value no matter how small.

I got the 1968 Pow! Annual Xmas 1967. Over the years I picked up a few more at Car Boot sales and Charity shops never paying more than 50p. Suddenly it is selling for £100 plus and they are making a big thing about the "Peter Palmer" typo from Amazing Spider-man No1. PS: There were times when I struggled to find Marvel comics in the 1960s/70s but never had any trouble bumping into Alan Class comics. Oddly (even for me) for a long time I collected Alan's Astounding Stories (but not any of the other five main titles) for the simple reason that I had been there from the beginning and had purchased the first issue new at the time. I couldn't justify 6/- a month on six Alans but one comic was doable. There were far better things out there for the other 5/-.

I think it will go for more than the fiver starting bid if this one is anything to go by. It may be almost 60 years old but if anyone pays £600 for this they want their head examined. You can still get old Power comics such as Fantastic and Terrific for a fiver. They are far more interesting (and possibly scarcer now) than most Alans. We live in very strange times. I like the back cover though. Printed in the days before Astounding and Uncanny were born.

I feel rather insulted being called an Apprentice. Gary is a Contributor with a similar number of posts to me. Calling people a "Newbie" isn't nice either. And the circles just don't work do they?

There aren't too many Warrens with T&P stamps either. Charlton went to the trouble of printing fresh covers (with blank inside covers) and at this point I assume Millers still distributed them.

A number of tales here have been about discovering comics when young. Here in the UK one of the great things about summer holidays at the coast was the chance to overdose on comics. Heck, back then I preferred the likes of Blackpool to any "exotic" hotel in Spain etc. At least you were guaranteed to be confronted with comics (in English) at Blackpool. Comic Spinner racks were even to be found in shops that weren't newsagents. Shops that mainly sold kids plastic buckets and spades those little packs of flags and Li-Los you could risk floating out to sea on and require the service of the Coastguards etc etc often had remaindered comics or heaps of Alan Class comics, or mounds of Famous Monsters of Filmland or those Charlton Cartoon magazines. Anything was possible. And the newsagents themselves had our UK weekly comics along with heaps of Summer Specials. The weekly comics changed weekly (natch) but the Summer Specials would be on sale for three or four months and were a must-buy. This particular comic sells on the Bay for around £50 now, even in tatty well-read condition.

As has been mentioned before, after 1960 until Direct distribution it may have been easier to get a Marvel DC Charlton comic here in the UK (albeit a few months late) than it was to get one in some states in the States If the newsagent at the bottom of the street hadn’t got the Jimmy Olsen you wanted there were 30 other newsagents within cycling distance And we had the best of both worlds. Those magical coloured comics from across the Atlantic as well as dozens and dozens of our own weekly comics

Talking of subscriptions Marvel in 1975 has a shedload of them?

But you're right. Back to comics.... It says Trial of the Watcher on the cover so why does the last page say it will actually be in the next issue?

The price on the cover of X-Men No 1 looks like it is a sticker, but of course isn't. The best bit is found at the bottom of the inside cover.