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Just Aug 1970 for dual pricing? Explain? Any images to see if we're talking about the same thing? Marvel UKPVs were in Sterling well into autumn 1971 as has been noted way back in this thread or another, Stamps would only be decimal after Feb 1971.

I love how Tales of Dread and Outer Space (and the other GT Ltd albums) have invented their own seal of approval so that parents didn't think their sprogs were buying/being bought "gasp" Horror comics.

I've just purchased this for a fiver. I believe it just contains weedy Brit fare but I like these odd 1950s albums. The Outer Space one currently for sale features "interesting" Gould Light Spaceman stuff.

Mr Thorpe said: I agree that it appeared that way for me too. Newsagents in that timeframe tended to have either DCs or Marvels. Conan the Barbarian 2 was cover dated Dec 1970. Decimalisation was Feb 1971 and didn't T&P have dual price stamps for a while? So this comic would have come in as an unsold return from the States at some point in 1971.

Really/ Apologies for that. I should have Double Double checked that shouldn't I ? PS: Perhaps you can add something to that new Double Double thread ??

I don't have much to add here. I was going to say that T&P must have distributed Jimmy Olsen 53 because I owned a copy once upon a time on a planet far away but Albert beat me to it.. Bonkers cover. I noticed these that appear on your list of wants higher up. Poor pictures. One from Silveracre. Never any decent images or descriptions from him.

I've always thought the T & P indicea looked like an afterthought. But if that was the case and it was added later then the UKPV inside cover would still have been different to the regular issues as it means they were originally planning to send them over here with no indicia displayed at all.

Off topic (but half this thread has gone off topic). Perhaps we might live to see Rob's book about the History of Marvel UK if it is published in the next few years. He better hurry up whilst there is anyone left still interested in the subject. His early chapters about licencing Marvel material here in the UK (and Transworld) will be interesting. Features on Ghostbusters comics, not so interesting. But there sure were lots of extremely odd comics produced here. https://a-distant-beacon.blogspot.com/

I don't have easy access to my copies but a well known UK artist when writing about these comics on his blog said: Unauthorised? I suspect so, primarily because the pages were laser-scanned from what appears to be original TOWER COMICS issues. Also, there is no copyright acknowledgement to whoever was then the current owners of the material, the only copyright reference being to the U.K. publishers, SAVOY SERVICES LTD. (The comic was apparently a 'ROCK PHOTO PUBLICATION '.)

There were 4 issues of this 1986/1987. Reprints and new UK stories (possibly without permission?)

This one has the correct title though?

A bargain? The UKPV should have been $850 as it is 10 times more scarce than the US one??? People are realising the UK comics look better with the MARVEL ALL-COLOUR COMICS banner??? 2021 is an odd year to buy comics??? And I need a time machine to go back and recover the 23 Series 1 Ms Marvels (and hundreds more) I gave away in the 1980s.

It would be interesting to know more about how Alan came to publish the Ally Sloper magazines, as they were totally different to his usual fare and not an experiment he repeated. Evidentally a vanity project by Denis Gifford I wonder how large/small was the production run? I never saw any copies in W H Smiths (which in the 1970s did tend to have stacks of Class comics). I bought all 4 issues new at the stand at New Street railway station (Birmingham) and never saw any anywhere else. Robert also known as Old Git has recently sold 19 "new" copies of Number 2 that were "a warehouse find".

I found washing cars preferable to working in the Mill or up chimneys. Summer 1967 saw a massive increase in my comic collection and neighbours with very clean cars. I recall seeing this four colour wonder appear at the spinner rack August 1967. It had an onsale date in the States of 1st Dec 1966 and a cover date Feb 1967 but it was brand new to me 6 months later.

All Charlton comics rock.

Of course. I bought 10 Spidermans (dated 1973 or 1974?) that I guess weren't distributed here through the usual channels then as I sold them on at a profit.

Talking of comics as ballast I was once in London in the early 1970s and on a saturday street market there was a stall selling water stained comics along with paperbacks etc. The odd thing was the stall only had a dozen different issues (cents Marvels I recall) but they were stacked up probably 30 or 40 of each title.

I'm waiting for a new car that's coming from Mexico. Seems it takes 3 weeks to cross the Atlantic (including loading and unloading) so perhaps comics in the 1960s would have taken a similar time. And lots of the posts above confirm my recollection that circa 1965 all DCs arriving "new" to the spinner racks had a coverdate that was at least three/four months behind the current month we were in which fits in with the spinner rack in the film. PS: Should I send this in to be graded and encapsulated? Or give it the dog to play with?

As my brain is fried trying to compute everything posted by @Malacoda the only question that comes to mind is "How much did Brave and the Bold 117 cost?"

Perhaps returns were manageable in the early 1960s. But later they began to pile up and would have made too big a bonfire. Hence the Double Doubles were the perfect solution and which are now selling for up to £79 due to this weird new obsession with "key" issues.

I know. That's the whole idea. I don't do "likes" either or Facebook or Twitter. Sorry.

@malacola You may be correct and T&P did do SOR but there is one thing to bear in mind. The newsagents filled in a daily/weekly order sheet for the Wholesaler who supplied to bulk of their stock of newspapers/magazines/UK comics. Of course unsold issues were bundled up for SOR collection the next day/week to be replaced with new issues. Thorpe and Porter operated a very different business model. certainly in the early days. In the 1950s they were selling cheap bundles of US magazines/paperbacks and a few of their own comics to newsagents from the back of estate cars and small vans. Once they could import american comics directly they could now offer the newsagent a larger range of product. But there was no tick sheet for the newsagent to choose what issues were delivered monthly. God knows I tried hard enough with my friendly local newsagent at the time asking if he could deliver Superman and Action every month along with my dad's monthly DIY mag. The newsagent insisted that he received a package of random issues from the rep approximately monthly. He could choose comics and/or Adult fare but didn't know what he'd get until he got it. I visited the spinner rack daily on my way to school and didn't notice for example the few so far unsold June issues suddenly disappering because there had been a fresh delivery of July issues. In fact sometimes "new" comics would appear on the spinner with a date months earlier. My experience of those days was that the majority comics and Adult fare stayed there until sold. The shop turned most of the comic/adult stock around quickly anyway due to the busy trade from my school and local factories. If there was a SOR I don't believe my newsagent stripped the spinner of stock in anticipation of new stock arriving. Perhaps the T&P rep removed a few issues himself to refresh things (especially at the Adult level.) No doubt by the later 1960s and 1970s there were order sheets to choose specific titles like Mad/Horror/pocket books/Laurel and Hardy/Korak etc.

Who on earth would deface a comic?!? You have to be careful as many of the UK "Fantastic" Power Comics for sale on ebygumBay are missing their back covers as they were "pinups" to display on your bedroom wall. Yes I was guilty until I replaced them with images of Madeline Smith.

The image of Captain America 100 that you posted was originally uploaded by someone from Canada. It's not a UK thing to the best of my knowledge although I've owned pleenty of second hand 60s/70s Marvels that had "Marvel stamps" cut out of the insides by crazy kids.

Buy these as its only a matter of time (1000 years?) before they make a TV series/download directly into your brain everything DC ever did.