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Everything posted by Albert Tatlock
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From trawling through second hand shops and markets in the period 1963-66, the only ones from 1959 and 1960 that were plentiful were Superman and Batman titles, and even then Lois Lane were scarce. Some of the 'mystery' titles, MGA, Unexpected, etc, were hard to find. Probably the most lesser-spotted was JLA # 1. Marvels were almost non-existent until 1961/62.
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Triangle stamp on Rawhide Kid # 34. OP 1/- stamp on Thor # 134, one of the delayed shipment of late 1966. Who were OP? PB (again, who are they?) 9d stamp on Unusual Tales # 32. I have 3 of these, all with identical stamps, so presumably applied by the wholesaler, not the retailer. Star sticker to obscure Miller price on Gorgo # 2, but no other price showing anywhere.
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I reckon these were just dumped on the market to whoever would buy them by T & P. The one I have came into my possession around 1980, when they were already well out of date. A lot of them are damaged, heavy scuffs, etc, but that could have happened during the last stages of their voyage through the secondhand channels. T & P stamped had done the rounds, no joy, maybe the unstamped never went out for distribution and just lay orphaned in T & P's vaults until someone decided to take a chance. Of course, the 2/- price stamp could not really have been an indication of the retail price at that time, post-decimal. The problem here is that none of us know the workings of the remaindered book trade at the time, so all we can come up with are informed guesses. I never saw any of these 2/- stamps 'live' in any shops. possibly market traders were flogging them?
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But some have T & P stamp and some do not. I have looked through a selection of this batch that I got at the time, and there are stamped and unstamped all jumbled up. The date range covers only a few months, but the stamps are spread seemingly at random across the whole batch. They would presumably have been stamped very soon after arrival at T & P, so our light fingered suspect would have had to be quick. And if they went astray before arrival at T & P, why do some of them have a T & P stamp? They have clearly been offered for sale in retail outlets somewhere before being abandoned, but I have no idea where. I am stumped.