Albert Tatlock

And Supergirl's comment could open up a Freudian can of worms. Better not go there.

To be fair, the cover of LL # 39 does clearly inform us that it is an 'Imaginary Story'. Not to be confused with the real stories of various characters in tights flying around and so on.

Here is an example of an offering from a Doom monger on ebay........ Yours for £150

Indeed there were more LLs. Supergirl's secret identity was Linda Lee. And here she is, on duty, observing Superman canoodling with yet another LL.

Hmm.. Wonder why Lyla Lerrol, who perished on Krypton, would sign a photo (in English), and dedicate it to Superman, whom she knew only as Kal-El? If that photograph ever comes up for auction, I would have to give it a very close inspection. You have to be very careful these days, what with CGI, deep fakes, and so on. I hope no-one doubts this is really me posting this.

Why bother buying this issue? Superman's thought balloon is a perfect spoiler. Put it back in the rack and find another one whose cover doesn't give the game away.

Superman # 141 ('Superman's Return To Krypton'). One of the few Superman Family titles that eluded me when I was first trying to complete my collection of the goodies supplied by T & P, of course only October 1959 onwards, as very little before that date could be found anywhere on this side of the pond. This one, maybe, was in short supply because US customers took up more than their usual percentage of the print run. Or maybe I was just unlucky.

Isn't that shutterbug Jonah J Jameson's supplier?

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Hetty is Mycroft's illegitimate daughter, and has inherited all his mental prowess.

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Quick! Send for Alan Turing and his team. This is more important than trivial assignments like cracking the U-boat codes.

Not as horrified as me when the comics went up from 9d to 10d. I still wake up screaming when I get that flashback.

The Avengers # 25 could conceivably have been offered for sale at 2/- in the 1960s, but all the ones I have seen with this stamp seem to be remaindered stock cover dated 1973 and 1974.

et voila! February 1974, some 4 years after the shilling was abolished, so it must have had some function other than to indicate the sale price.

These can also be found anachronistically on post-decimalisation mags. Will dig a couple out, my butler Igor has been dispatched to the catacombs with instructions not to return empty-handed.

Another sticker over stamp.

Neither have I. I think back to the Black Hawk Down film, where the good guys are trying to fight their way to safety across a hostile city. Every corner they comes to throws up another horde of bloodthirsty natives, shouting curses in a strange language that cannot be understood. A bit like an away trip to Newcastle in the 1970s or 1980s.

The 5-1 in Munich wasn't bad, either.

Already done the morning round, starting at 6, finished at 7.30, back home for a bit of kip then brekkie. Next, off to the markets to track down any bits and pieces to plug gaps in the collection. Then it was the evening papers. A couple of the other lads cried off, they wanted to watch some muddied oafs booting a pig's bladder round a piece of grass. Anyone know how it finished up? I know Alf Garnett got home a bit late because of the extra time.

Except for those who pitched in and did 2 extra paper rounds that day so they could buy a couple more comics,

The ones that turned up, unexpectedly, 6 months late, were the Oct-Dec 1966 AWOL issues. They could be sold on at a premium, as everyone had the same gaps in their collection. They remained scarce for several years, until copies started filtering in from across the Atlantic. Alan Austin's Price Guide notes them as scarce or rare a good few years after the event. There was no shortage of the other Marvels from the same period, and if any surplus copies arrived later, stamped or unstamped, I would have paid them no heed, as I had already bought copies when they first appeared, on schedule. The other 10d stamped copies, DD # 29, etc, were worth exactly the same as the regular ones which had arrived on time. I did not worry about stamps, UKPV variants or anything of the sort, a comic was a comic, you either had it in your collection or you didn't, and that was the end of the story at the time, with me and the other local collectors.

A 1/3 stamp, upside down at the top of the TC, and one with a stickered stamp.

If only my arthritis and lumbago could give me some respite. I will keep an eye out for anything lesser spotted, though. I have started going through a few bits looking at the back covers in case there is any info there. And there is a pile of fanzines to check through, not looked at them for donkeys years.

That's the spirit! Remember that the journey of a thousand miles begins with but a single step.