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Albert Tatlock
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On 3/30/2024 at 5:57 PM, Yorick said:
I don't like the look of it as "an original". The dot matrix lines on her legs appear to me as an artifact of a printed scan.
There are different versions of this being offered by US based sellers.
Some are described as officially licensed, with a line of type confirming this at bottom, some not.
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On 3/30/2024 at 5:45 PM, themagicrobot said:
Anyone with the right links should be able to visit my Box stuff. There is 9GB of goodness in there. Sorry I have changed the link. Forgot to tick a box in Box.
PS: Someone in the US is selling a back cover of a Fantastic comic for $28.79 claiming it is a print produced by Marvel UK on "heavy stock". Dunno about that! He says:-
Offered here is a Vintage POWER PIN-UP Print featuring PEPPER POTTS. These awesome pin-ups were only available in Europe and distributed thru Marvel / UK originally released in 1960's on the back covers of the Marvel magazines. These were purchased from a UK collector as original prints but we have yet to find info to back it up. These are likely later releases in the UK, they are copyrighted but there is no date on them to actually determine when they were released but they have never been released in the US. The print is in great condition, quality printing on heavy stock, and are 10" x 14"
According, some say, to PT Barnum: 'There's one born every minute'.
And according, some say to WC Fields: 'Never give a sucker an even break'.
Don't touch this with a barge pole.
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On 1/28/2024 at 10:52 PM, Malacoda said:
Indeed. He was the last person ever prosecuted under the Obscene Publications Act. Perhaps more impressively, he was also the first person to have been prosecuted under it for 25 years. I imagine barristers were queuing up to get that one.
In fact, prosecutions continued under the 1959 Obscene Publications Act The Britton case was a landmark as it was the last time that a book had been banned outright.
Below is an ad from a magazine of the time:
£1.25 seems cheap when compared to this offering from a US bookdealer (admittedly a dedicated copy):
https://www.jamescumminsbookseller.com/pages/books/315469/david-britton/lord-horror
According to the House Of Lords Library here:
https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/LLN-2019-0103/LLN-2019-0103.pdf
The Children and Young Persons (Harmful Publications) Act 1955 banned comics that children were likely to read that contained acts of violence or cruelty, the commission of crimes, or incidents of repulsive or horrible nature. However, in seven years, the Home Office only received twelve complaints against comics, five of which the Attorney General refused to act on,
Talk about a sledgehammer to crack a nut.
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On 3/29/2024 at 9:27 AM, themagicrobot said:
I think now is the time to buy Silver Age UK comics before they reach silly Marvel US Silver Age prices.
Remember, not too long ago, when Alan Class fetched next to nothing.
Back in the early days of building my collection, I never saw any AC on sale in the newsagent, but they often turned up in second-hand outlets.
I automatically skimmed past them, I remember pausing for a moment to look at Creepy Worlds # 32, but my pennies stayed in my pocket.
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On 3/29/2024 at 9:27 AM, themagicrobot said:
I think now is the time to buy Silver Age UK comics before they reach silly Marvel US Silver Age prices. As I found I was only a few issues short of a full run this year I decided to locate a few Fantastics. It proved quite difficult to find issues that didn't have missing back covers. And a few eBay sellers didn't even mention the missing back cover in their ads. Perhaps they actually didn't notice/care?
Of course collecting stuff from your youth is trying to recreate that feeling when you first saw/read that comic for the first time. A free Apollo Space Craft??? Here's MY 9d!!!!!!!
Yeah, go ahead, they are saying.
Take your badges, stickers, pinup pages, etc and mutilate the comic.
It has cost you next to nothing, so don't worry that one day, when you have changed your mind, you will be tearing your hair out trying to find a pristine copy.
I have just bought, quite cheaply, I believe, a bound copy of Eagle Volume 1.
All issues present.
Just one coupon clipped out from the whole run.
From issue # 1. It just would be, wouldn't it?
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On 3/27/2024 at 8:48 PM, Malacoda said:
Lots of other goodies too. Hard to ignore JLA #1, but the silver trophy surely takes the biscuit. 6,000 comics doesn't sound like THAT much in the context of this guys madhouse, but for context, it's pretty much the whole of Marvel through the Silver & Bronze ages and well into the 90's.
Britain's biggest hoarder amassed 60,000 items worth £4m crammed into terraced house - Mirror Online
He was probably a beginner compared to some of the regular contributors here.
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On 3/26/2024 at 11:28 PM, Malacoda said:
So....has anyone else ever had this feeling?
This is FF #171. I bought it off a spinner rack in June 1976 (actually off a shelf, I'm using spinner rack as shorthand here). It was the first issue to cost 10p. It was also the first issue to have a bar code. But neither of those is the reason it's special to me. It's special to me because it was the first issue of FF that I ever owned. There was a moment, in June 1976, when this was my entire FF collection.
Today, I got FF Annual #1. It arrived in this envelope.
Normally, when a comic I really want arrives I can't wait to open it, but the minute I open this one, I am no longer collecting the Fantastic Four. I am still an FF collector in the sense that I have a collection, but I'm no longer collecting because this is the last one I need. After 48 years.
You know that bit in Psychoville where Lomax throws the Beanie Baby back into the sea? (Sorry to US readers, that was a local reference) (for local people). I feel a bit like that. I doubt I will ever afford AF 15, ASM 1 or Hulk 1. I need a couple of Caps, a couple of X men and 1 Thor, but they're not expensive or rare ones and can be picked up any time. I've bid on FF Ann 1 many times and lost, but this time I won and it's the last time I'll buy a key/grail and complete a run.
I'm sitting here like Schrodinger, savouring the last moments before I open the envelope and end it all.
Anyone else had a moment like this?
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A few offerings from the current Excalibur sale.
Three of them are cents, but have had pence stamps applied, so they are likely to be among the few from the pre-decimal era to have arrived without the involvement of T & P.
The Kid Colt is a UKPV 9d, repriced 10d after failing initially to find a home, then repriced again by PBC at 8d.
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On 3/26/2024 at 11:40 PM, OtherEric said:
The day this book arrived:
Beat but complete, finally getting it was at once joyful and satisfying… but also a sense that a massive project and important part of my life was done, or at least entering a new stage.
I’ve since tracked down the Whitman variants of Legion appearances. Maybe I should start looking for the pence variants as well.
The DCs from this time are all cents only, so no variants.
The ones we got (first LSH was #267, just after the real deal, not reprints, started flooding in) were all defaced/enhanced with the familiar T & P 9d stamp).
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On 3/25/2024 at 5:25 PM, themagicrobot said:
House of Mystery 173 contains a Statement of Ownership statement. The average print run was stated to be 306,000. An average number of 157,000 reached circulation. How many of those would be returns that would end up in the UK at Thorpe & Porter? An average number of 147,000 are classed as Office Use/Left Over/Unaccounted for/Spoiled after Printing. How many of those (if any) would end up in the UK at Thorpe and Porter? I've pondered this question before, but what did they do with half the print run (of this title and many others) that they never ever distributed in the US?? And as they had these figures why did they continue to print 300,000 of each issue if they didn't intend to distribute 300,000??
But does 'Left Over' include returns?
Would DC not have made every effort to distribute as close to 100% of the print run as possible?
Could be that of 100 copies which were sent out into the distribution network, 50 were sold, and eventually paid for, and 50 were eventually returned, some of them destined for T & P, maybe only 10 or so, which would equate to .30,000 mags.
Say T & P had a similar sell-through rate, that would mean that they took back 15,000 copies.
If so, they must have been stacking up in Leicester faster than they could be disposed of.
Before too long, most of T & P's holdings would have been deadstock.
After recirculating some of it at reduced prices, there would have been no realistic alternative to selling it to a waste paper merchant.
And similarly back at DC's HQ.
That is how I read it.
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Philip K Cole.
Where is this going to end?
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On 3/19/2024 at 3:01 PM, Kevin.J said:
I wanted it so bad, but of course I forgot about it until the auction was over due to being ill.
Now you're twice as unwell!
Don't leave it too late, Kev. It's the highest bid, not the latest, that wins.
Pretend you're in an Irish election and bid early and often.
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On 3/16/2024 at 2:28 PM, Malacoda said:
I like the fact that she has eagerly filled it in and then (presumably) learnt that she'd have to send it to Pennsylvania and probably was ineligible for the offer anyway. That must have been a sad little moment.
......and the ad refers to coins from 'strange, far-away lands', one of which is listed underneath.
England!
Possibly Susan felt insulted and decided not to swell the coffers of such a bunch of xenophobes.
What could be simpler than the coinage of England at the time?
12 pennies = 1 shilling
2 and a half shillings = half a crown
20 shillings = 1 quid
Not to mention the farthings, ha'pennies, tanners and bobs.
And the abbreviation for penny, quite logically, is d.
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On 3/16/2024 at 6:39 PM, themagicrobot said:
It appears to be accepted wisdom that the first Romance comic was Simon and Kirby's Young Romance. When Prize moved away from comics in 1963 it must still have been popular enough for DC to continue with it until 1975. I like this cover, despite it failing to display a T&P ink stamp. One could have been tattooed to her shoulder or his helmet. But why is the guy's father insulting his son's pillion passenger by calling her a "Greasy Bike Bum" ?? She seems alright to me.
Now, DC may no longer be publishing Young Romance after 1975 but surely they kept hold of the trademark. They must have done as there was a Young Romance one-shot not too long ago with Superman embracing Wonder Woman. So why did Marvel UK use the Young Romance title in 1980?? And is it the same girl on these two comics. It looks like it to me. Or did most women look like that and constantly shed tears in the odd world of Romance comics.
Strange that the father objects to the neatly turned-out young man , but not to the Iron Cross that his putative son-in law was awarded, possibly for services to a foe of Uncle Sam.
The Distribution of US Published Comics in the UK (1959~1982)
in Silver Age Comic Books
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Someone is clearly trying it on.