Albert Tatlock

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.

Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to complete a table with all stamps from all publishers from Action # 1 to date. As always, should you or any member of your team be caught or killed, CGC will disavow any knowledge of your actions. This post will self-destruct in five seconds

Dunno how many super-heroes Wolves and West Ham have got between them, but probably no need to remove shoes and socks.

As much as the Romans did for the PFJ.

It will be at least as large as Stonehenge. Spinal Tap version.

As you have already detected, my minces are playing me up a bit, so I will take a back seat on this. Thanks for volunteering, I will chip in for a statue of you when the work is complete.

There was no shortage of the Marvels just before and just after the hiatus, they all appeared on cue. I reckon the others outside the Oct-Dec gap turned up later, being unsold Stateside copies someone bunged David Gold's way for peanuts. Can we do an approximate census on the issues the 10d and 1/- stamps appeared on? The Oct-Dec issues probably outnumber them by a substantial margin, I think, but until the numbers are crunched we will not be sure. I would say an initial mini-flood, followed by a diminishing trickle. Surely there could not have been an official contract between Marvel and Gold Star. T & P would have brought in their learned friends. Cease and desist forthwith letters are always at one's elbow in a legal office.

Could the ASM # 40 have a blurred version of the double stamp below, which was posted back on page 170 of this thread?

Here it is again.

I originally posted my ASM # 42 back in November last year, will try to dig it out again.

There is a vertical line there that may be the 1, but there are other straight lines. The normal one has a pretty empty circle apart from the 1/-. Maybe a clearer example will be found.

Tried, but can't find it, they need a bigger sign. My pal here says he'll take me tomorrow.

Hmmmmm. Dunno 'bout that. There seem to be some straight lines inside the outer circle. Maybe a case of seeing what you expected to see, like Schiaparelli's canals.

My ASM # 42 is a shilling circle. I have taken a close look at my ASM # 40, and it has a stamp, but too faint and fuzzy to make out.