themagicrobot

Regarding the MTA 29, clutching at straws here. Perhaps the Comic Code stamp has been pushed out and down from its usual position due to the “Still 25 cents” logo?

1960s DCs often had misleading covers. Is that Blackhawk top right? He doesn’t feature in this comic. Nor do the JLA. I think the only person on this cover inside the book besides the Inferior Five is Robin ( for a couple of panels). And how can Superman and Superboy be side by side. See also issues of Wonder Woman where she teams up with Wonder Tot who was supposed to be Ww when she was a child according to Kanigher.

Perhaps the Scarlet Witch is depicted on the cover but doesn’t feature in the actual story?

Comic collecting in my pre-teenage years was a very healthy pursuit. What cash I received was spent not on sweets or chocolate but on adding to my small but growing collection. If I was given busfare money to go to the nearest town I would often walk there instead as that would enable the purchase of an extra (second hand) comic. I would think nothing of cycling five or six miles to other towns when they had friday and saturday market stalls. It was exciting because in 1965 when I went comic hunting I had no idea what I would be returning with. Fast forward (and it has moved fast hasn't it?) to today and here I am a couch potato buying a (second hand) comic at 7.59AM whilst barely moving a muscle. The comic I have just purchased was one of the earliest comics I recall with fondness. How could you not want to know the origin of Green Kryptonite or the origin of Superman's costume? Who or what was Mr Mxyzptlk? Superboy's first day at school! The whole thing was intriguing. Even the back cover fascinated me. I read that comic over and over. What happened to it? Eventually I would have traded it with a friend, desperate to read something new. But now I am looking forward to reading it again in a few days time.

To discover a DC comic dated before 1963 when I began seriously collecting them in 1965 was like finding an ancient antique even though it was a mere four or five years old. Yet, with their colourful covers they had survived in greater numbers than the originally far more plentiful UK newsprint comics of a similar age. It was different for the hardback UK Annuals which still exist in reasonable numbers to this day. A relative gave me this 1951 Dandy Annual in 1966. It looked positively prehistoric and it was a window into a long-gone world.

The same dealer has quite a few more Charltons for sale. A Timmy from March 1959 and even a 1958 T&P stamped Charlton.

The Spider-Man toilet doesn't look very comfortable. Perhaps they should make a Power Girl one with a softer back rest.

Living out here in the wilds of UKville it is only recently I discovered that these are an actual thing.

I think this thread needs a picture totally unconnected to anything said here in the last three years.

Doesn’t some of the above posts prove that this thread reaches the parts that other threads are unlikely ever to reach.

That Kamandi is from 1973 so I don't think there is an (Austrian?) Australian connection. They went decimal in 1966. This Thor Special Edition was from 1971 so it was still OK to show £sd prices. I lean towards the diamond stamps being experimental ones belonging to T&P. This diamond stamp seems to overstamp a circular one. The diamond stamp has a number one above the price. I have a few (mostly early 1970s) comics with diamond stamps that I purchased well before the Interweb was created so they were certainly UK distributed. The diamond 2/- on a 1973 comic may well be the most important discovery made as LowGradeBronze proves that time travel was possible. The comic then would have been HighGradeBronze. PS: Actually Austria did use Schillings (different spelling) pre-Euro but used the symbol S or öS‎

Does anyone else collect this short-lived pulp-sized early 1990s UK magazine?

1. I wonder why this thread is in the "Newbie" section? 2. The comic might actually be cheap if it is still a 7.5 and you are happy to keep it in a cracked case but not cheap if you plan to re-submit it. 3. Are you sure that the damage to the case at the front hasn't damaged the comic?

Probably not this but probably some rubbish comic very like it

Perhaps that was more a C20th thing. In the C21st we no doubt have eBay and the Auction Houses to thank for stamped and pence comics crossing the Atlantic twice. How expensive was it to fly in the 1970s when some of our early dealers went over with empty suitcases and returned with ND Spider-Mans?

I'm currently reading this 1978 paperback which is a nice pastiche of pulps and the people who wrote them. Originally published in 1949, Fredric Brown produced a large number of shorter stories in a number of genres.

He was very popular in Europe. Looking at eBay there are currently far more of his books for sale in France than here in the UK. Many French paperbacks appear quite modern with photo covers which is surprising when his most recent work was in 1951.

I love the above odd cover interpretation of a British bobby!. Slim Callaghan featured in "They never say when" was a British detective so Mr Cheyney didn't only write in "the American style" or set everything in the US. He seems to have been a larger than life character who lived his life in a similar manner to the characters he wrote about. Anyone who sported a monacle had to be eccentric! I'm looking out for this book about his life, but preferbly one that is cheaper than AU $100 and available on my side of the planet.

When I find an old paperback written by someone I've never heard of I like to do a quick Interweb search to find out more. It seems Reginald Evelyn Peter Southouse-Cheyney (1896 - 1951) was British, but wrote most of his books about an FBI agent by the odd name of Lemmy Caution. More oddness. He started his career by winning a bet that he couldn't write a novel in "the American style". Extreme oddness. Lemmy Caution featured in 15 movies, mostly French and none of them were English-speaking. Ultimate oddness. The final Lemmy Caution movie was the 1965 Science Fiction movie Alphaville. PS In the movies Lemmy Caution was always played by the expat American actor Eddie Constantine. I know the DC character John Constantine was originally based on the appearance of Sting, but I wonder if Alan Moore had seen Alphaville and recalled, even if subconsciously the surname of the lead? It is certainly the sort of thing he would do.

I found an Australian pulp with a UK Thorpe and Porter ink price stamp on it today. This sent me into Detective mode to find out more about Australian pulps. I didn't even realise such a genre existed. The Australian pulp Detective series I Hate Crime/Larry Kent ran for decades (in excess of 800 issues) from the 1950s into the 1970s and appear to have carried on in paperback form. Dunno if by this time the paperbacks were reprinting earlier stories. Many of these were written by Don Haring. He was an American who lived and married in Australia in the 1950s. These was also a shortlived Australian comic featuring Larry Kent published by Young's Merchandising.

So who exactly was Scott? We all know who Caesar was. It was a more delicate way of saying "Good God" or "Eff me". I think this saying first appeared on the Superman radio and TV shows so it was inevitable it would get picked up by the comic writers of the time.

???????????? Not everyone follows the herd and thinks that the world starts and stops with Spider-Man or Batman. The Doom Patrol have endured through the decades and are now up to volume 7 or is it volume 8. I would place them at the higher end of the second tier, whatever that is.