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3 hours ago, Get Marwood & I said:
Thanks Mr T.
Again, great to see these further copies finally surface. Only 300 or so to go!
Cheers Duff. The Kennedy one shot is one of only three titles - if you can call a one shot a title - for which I've yet to find a UKPV. They become a bit mythical after a while, these continually absent books.
I would not be surprised if a UKPV of "Caroline Kennedy" did not exist. Pre 22 November 1963, what possible interest did the pommie comics readers have in the youngest daughter of John F Kennedy?
A relatively simple marketing decision.
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I know this is all about Charlton's UK pence editions, but a delightful by-product is the discovery of oddball comics I never knew existed, e.g. Caroline Kennedy one shot..
This is a valuable Public Service and I take this opportunity to salute you
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Does make one wonder why UK editions of "Doctor Solar" and "Magnus Robot Fighter" were deemed unworthy. I'd have thought those titles held a greater appeal than some of the Warner character books.
"Star Trek" and not "Lost in Space"? No "Turok"?
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Well, I just discovered that I have to "re-follow" the "new" Journal thread in order to keep up. It's difficult to find specific Journal threads in the new system.
*sigh*
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Anyway, here's a comment. I like Bradbury stories (and so did EC, of course) and I also like the detail (risque or otherwise) that pulp covers usually contain.
Style point. Is "novelet" an acceptable variant spelling of the more traditional "novelette"?
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Well, this is disappointing. The transfer to the new Journals format results in everything but the first post of the old format being abandoned.
And one cannot comment "back there". I'll post the last couple of your entries, AJD:
One like and one "response", such as it was. Thus heartened, I shall continue. Here are the other couple of pulps I bought.
The first is Vol 1 #4, fall of 1940. Like Duffman said, the covers are often fragile because they were made with an overhang. (They are often trimmed because the edges got ragged too.) But with careful handling I've been enjoying reading these. In the VGish grades they are, they're solid enough to read but already dinged enough that I don't worry too much about harming them.
This one (Fall 1946) was a must have for me. The Bradbury story The creatures that time forgot is one of my absolute favourites. I first read it in a Scholastic books edition of R is for Rocket sometime in the first half of the 1970s. In that edition it had the much better and appropriate title Frost and fire, being a tale of the lives of the descendants of humans shipwrecked on Mercury and eking out an existence in the hour of twilight between extreme heat and cold. (Synopsis here.) It was nice to be able to read it in its first printing, but I must check the ending in the anthologised version - this one didn't gel with my (probably faulty) memory.
Marvel Comics - UK Price Variants
in John Morlar's Pence Palace of Doom (and Other Comic Miscellany)
A journal by Get Marwood & I
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"Forumite of the Year"
Unbelievable. Well deserved, but still unbelievable.