Albert Tatlock

............And whenever I came across the name of referee Terry Lunt in a football programme, I was sure it was a typo.

Same seller also has this: Sgt. Rock and His Howling Commandos #26 - DC Comics - 1966 Condition: AcceptableAcceptable Price: £3.95

This 2/- stamp appears on books at least as late as 1974, well after decimalisation.

My financial resources at the time were limited, and did not stretch far enough to purchasing Charltons from the newsagents. The only ones I bought were secondhand at more affordable prices, so they could have come from anywhere, although there were enough around to suggest that they had originally been distributed locally.

Were the 1965 Charltons latecoming stragglers, like the 1958 and 1959 T & P stamped examples that we reckon arrived in early 1960, or were Goldstar importing a range of publishers already before they got the chance to grab the late arrival Marvel '66ers. I never saw that oblong stamp until the summer of 1967, but I could have failed to notice it on the output of smaller publishers.

'nother 'un.

No thanks. Thankfully I'm cured now having reached peak comics.

Check for any 'extras' left by inhabitants of barn.

It has happened a couple of times to me, too, but clearing the cache usually works.

I thought at first that Goldstar's involvement at this time was limited to the 2 month Marvel gap, but so many others have shown up recently that have demonstrated that the net was cast a lot wider. Anyone know when the oblong 10d stamps first appeared, and when they dried up?

Like waiting for a bus. These stamps are coming thick and fast now.

From today's Comic Book Auction sale. An unsold 9d copy put back into circulation months or possibly years later with 10d stamp added.

Still not found a stamped one, but here is a circular 1/- TTA 88.

A nice big bold 10d T & P stamp on this one. And he's brought his little brother along too.

Another LL13 from ebay. Not too many of these about, stamped 8 as expected.

Another pie with Goldstar fingers in it. 2/6 price is crossed out and '9' written in same ink at top right.

Not too late to get a stamp made, and 'improve' your portfolio.

Whoever was stamping these had a stack to go at, as the back of my copy shows the imprint of the one next in the pile, and a fainter one next to it.

I think they had solved the chipping problem, so common in the early 1960s, by this time, but perhaps there are some later examples.

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..

On vacation, buddy.

12-13 can only be a US date. When T &P failed to bring over the Nov/Dec 66 issues, someone, presumably Goldstar, stepped into the breach and the missing issues surfaced 6 months on, albeit in reduced quantities. The TOS 87, however, appears to be a remaindered US copy. Possibly the DD29 that crops up with the same stamp was too. They probably arrived at the same time as FF 56, 57 and the rest of them, but we may never know. The TOS is on ebay, it will show up more clearly here, I hope, under this serial number.. 295336566374

An unusually late non-T & P stamp on this one, almost exactly in the centre, pretty faint, and also with a US arrival date of 12-13 (December 13)th..

Not sure if this has been covered before, but here are a couple of ads from a Top Sellers (alias T & P) mag, showing their other items, with no stamps, but all stickered up ready to fly off the shelves. They were, however, obtainable only from 'good' newsagents. Wonder how they assessed the moral standard of their business partners.

ebay abounds with them, most of them probably well above FMV.