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    [CLOSED] Spider-Man #158 CGC 9.0 "30 Cent Price Variant" beauty with White pages!

    in Golden/Silver/Bronze Age Only

    Posted · Edited by mosconi

    Up for sale from my Spidey collection is a gorgeous Spider-Man #158 CGC 9.0 "30 Cent Price Variant"!!  This issue is beautifully centered and comes with fresh WHITE pages!!  Great eye appeal and a fantastic addition for any price variant collectors!!

    1. No Probation or Hall of Shame buyers.

    2. Payment via PayPal, Check, or Money Order.

    3. U.S. sales only.

    4. $15.00 Priority Mail shipping.

    5. All sales final for CGC books.

    Spider-Man #158 CGC 9.0  "30 Cent Price Variant"   WHITE Pages  $159.00

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    Fun with #1 Post your Marvel Silver Age #1 issues

    in Silver Age Comic Books

    Posted · Edited by mosconi

    18 minutes ago, Frisco Larson said:

    Thanks so much! I kind of found it again accidentally and said, "Why not?" I certainly have more qualifying books since the last time I was on this thread! 

    Fantastic pick ups!!  Wish I had more #1's I could post, but alas I only collect Spidey at the moment, so here's my #1 again...

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    Does anyone know what the letter in front of a written arrival date represents?

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    2 hours ago, shadroch said:

    Over in the Golden Age forum, a thread about the Lamont Larsen collection was just bumped, and the original post deals with this subject. Its a good read, if not very definitive.

    That was a great article on the Larson pedigree collection!  Came to find out that some of his books had written on them PN and ON, representing the distributors Publishers News and Omaha News.  Very cool story and so informative :golfclap:

    Does anyone know what the letter in front of a written arrival date represents?

    in Comics General

    Posted · Edited by mosconi

    14 minutes ago, rjpb said:

    Ah, I misread that (what I get for skimming). In that case a Feb. arrival date would make sense for a May cover date. My understanding is that by the 1960s, local distribution was a monopoly in most regions of the U.S., some large cities being exceptions. These distributors would in turn receive periodicals from the printers via national distribution companies ( which were often indentified as part of the cover art (IND, ANC, etc.). It's never been clear to me if the letters one finds on old comics regarded as distributor marks are put there by retailers signifying local distributors (if more than one), or local distributors signifying what national distributor would be responsible for returns. 

    Thanks for that info!!  Very interesting, so the letter may represent a local distributor or possibly the national distributor.  Or as shadroch noted, could even be the initial of the stocker who placed the books on the newsstand for sale!  May never know the absolute truth but still very intriguing to me :bigsmile:

    Does anyone know what the letter in front of a written arrival date represents?

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    1 minute ago, shadroch said:

    I don't think its an industry wide code, just something a particular dealer or newsstand did.

    Gotcha, so the R and P are probably the initials to a distributor's name so the retailer would know where to send the unsold books back to?  I assume some newsstand retailers did the letter coding if they had multiple distributors to keep track of, while other newsstands may have only had one comic distributor and didn't need to do it?

    Does anyone know what the letter in front of a written arrival date represents?

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    1 hour ago, rjpb said:

    While I'd suspect the P may be some sort of distributor code, the R on the back cover of the ASM #22 looks to be referencing the return date, as it is a month later than the front cover date, and would coincide roughly with the next issues arrival. 

    Either a store employee or the distributor driver to pull outdated comics and magazines off the rack in preparation for or when the new ones were dropped off. The back cover date coding in effect acting like an expiration date, though it appears usuallypeople would just yank magazines based on time elapsed since the arrival date, or when a new issue arrived, not concerning themselves with cover dates, as whether a magazine was issued weekly, monthly, bi-monthly or quarterly would have affected the pull date. 

     

    Thanks for the response!  The "R 2/15" date actually belongs to the back cover of ASM #48 which has a front cover date of 5/67.  Could the R also represent a distributor's name?

    Does anyone know what the letter in front of a written arrival date represents?

    in Comics General

    Posted · Edited by mosconi

    Really curious, as I've seen various hand written letters in front of arrival dates and do not fully understand what they mean.  My ASM #13 has a "P" written as does a copy from Straw-Man's ASM #22 (hope he doesn't mind me posting it).  They look almost written by the same hand too.  My ASM #48 has an "R" written arrival date on the back cover.

    What do these letters represent?  Is it an abbreviation or initial for the name of the distributor to which the newsstand retailer will return unsold copies?  If so, interested as to what distributor name would the P and R represent??  Or is it a special internal code used by newsstand retailers for something totally different?  And are these letters sometimes used to identify pedigree copies as well?  Really appreciate any and all information you fellow boardies may have on this topic!

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