Albert Tatlock

On 5/18/2023 at 10:45 PM, Albert Tatlock said:

Quick! Send for Alan Turing and his team.

This is more important than trivial assignments like cracking the U-boat codes.

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Forget Alan Turing, he would be out of his depth.

Call in at Baker Street, it is our only hope.

And if Holmes, too, is baffled, there remains only the nuclear option.

Hetty Wainthropp!

On 5/18/2023 at 7:53 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

D.T.B.A.H.F.N.II.T.T.N.O.G.A.F.F.A.A.R.D.F 

Quick! Send for Alan Turing and his team.

This is more important than trivial assignments like cracking the U-boat codes.

On 5/18/2023 at 4:00 PM, Malacoda said:

I can remember my grandad being horrified in 1974 that petrol was 50p a gallon

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.

On 5/18/2023 at 2:08 PM, Malacoda said:

I've always wanted to know what this is. 

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.

On 5/11/2023 at 12:46 PM, Malacoda said:

You can't still have been delivering papers at 3 in the afternoon? Wye Aye Man, ye must have bin reet paggered.  

( I have no idea what that means).  

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.

On 5/11/2023 at 1:50 PM, Malacoda said:

But it was still our greatest performance ever.

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

On 5/11/2023 at 12:46 PM, Malacoda said:

You can't still have been delivering papers at 3 in the afternoon?

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.

On 5/11/2023 at 12:36 PM, Malacoda said:

and how everyone met up at the pub to watch the 66 cup final.

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

On 5/10/2023 at 5:07 PM, Malacoda said:

I think Albert has said he remembers then turning up suddenly 6 months after the event.  This is obviously a contradiction as they (probably)  can't have turned up all together yet been distributed 6 months apart.

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.

On 5/6/2023 at 8:10 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

Maybe someone else could do some of the heavy lifting for once. 

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.

On 5/6/2023 at 7:50 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

There are definitely many more to find in and around the UKPV hiatus months. 

That's the spirit!

Remember that the journey of a thousand miles begins with but a single step.

On 5/3/2023 at 1:15 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

Time permitting, I'll see if I can overlay the 10d oblongs for all the other publishers I've gathered to date, to see what, if anything, jumps out.

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

On 5/3/2023 at 9:16 PM, LowGradeBronze said:

If that shilling stamp was a football, that could be Wolves Vs West Ham..... with Wolves about to have that player sent off!

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

On 5/3/2023 at 5:12 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

After all, I've done nothing for the hobby, have I. Nothing.

As much as the Romans did for the PFJ.

On 5/3/2023 at 4:37 PM, OtherEric said:

I'm imagining something on the scale of the Colossus of Ankh-Morpork, personally.

It will be at least as large as Stonehenge.

Spinal Tap version.

On 5/3/2023 at 2:45 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

We? 

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.

On 5/3/2023 at 1:15 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

Just adding in the Spideys for now, we have one or both of the presumed Gold Star 10d / One Shilling stamps for 9 consecutive issues now (bar #46):

I wonder if we did a full deep dive - by which I mean a thorough check of all the issues surrounding the UKPV absentees that triggered the review, for all titles, but over many years - we would find a more consistent pattern that, perhaps, would indicate a one year distribution arrangement? Or they could have all rocked up together, of course with a  concentration around the hiatus issues. In my experience, the only way to do it is to look for years, not months, diligently. Once you start a consistent pattern of looking, they slowly start to materialise. There were only a handful of Charlton RV stamps when I started looking properly but, over a few years, that figure has expanded to the point where I'm confident now that I could prove a full distribution arrangement, with dates.

Time permitting, I'll see if I can overlay the 10d oblongs for all the other publishers I've gathered to date, to see what, if anything, jumps out. 

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.

On 5/3/2023 at 6:24 AM, Get Marwood & I said:

I did a bit of mucking around with the image Albert - can you see it now? 

  

Here are two other 'blink and you'll miss them' stamped #40s which I've just found - the ink seems to have been running low at this point:

 

The one on the left is from a listing stating "light one shilling stamp to cover". The one on the right I'm not sure what's going on.

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

On 11/16/2022 at 12:29 PM, Albert Tatlock said:

Checked my ASM 42, but it is a circular 1/-, placed very carefully in the only clear white area of sufficient size.

Ethel would have done well to fear losing her position to this stamper..

 

 

Here it is again.

On 5/2/2023 at 9:38 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

Can we see it!

On 5/2/2023 at 9:34 PM, Albert Tatlock said:

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

On 5/2/2023 at 10:44 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

Get yourself down to Specsavers Albert, if you can't see the 1 in the centre there. 

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.