Malacoda

It does make you wonder what the process is. Can they really have come within a whisker of offering a comic worth tens of thousands for £120 without either them or the seller realising?

Must be listed separately. As you'd expect. The only X men in there is V2 #13, which isn't exactly going to require crowd control.

No one has ever seen a pence copy of Marvel Tales #32, right? The only person who thinks this was distributed is Duncan. I've never seen one, so I'm about ready to call time on it.

This is a REALLY bad listing. Obviously, the auctioneer thought it was SS 4 not FM 4, but then this would be a massive undercall for SS 4 in this condition. But then you read the description and it's down as GD to VG. This is about the best 3.0 I've ever seen. This whole listing is wrong in EVERY way. It is indeed both a fantasy and a masterpiece. Don't know on the 8p stamp. We need One Who Knows to put his stamping hat back on.

FF 55 is an interesting comic. It's almost an honourary 66-er (ND, second hiatus). There actually are PV's of it, so it definitely was distributed, but you seldom see them ( e.g. there are 12 copies for sale in the UK on ebay right now, 2 are PV's, the other 10 are non-stamped cents issues, so picked up by collectors or imported by dealers). Even when they are PV's, well, Ethel was clearly not expecting this one to be a pence issue.... And then there's Maud.....

I particularly like the writing on the spine. Now that's what I call attention to detail! Lovely parody. I like the way the bowling ball becomes the stamp - that was just waiting to happen. You have to say this Curt Swan/Murphy Anderson cover is quite campy like the TV series. It stands out in a run of much darker Neal Adams cover.

Not directly relevant, but interesting The Mexicans ran out of originals long before we did here and started creating their own Spider Man continuity in which Gwen lived. Also, I thought Transworld had the worldwide licence outside US/Can, but seems not (though maybe it was Transworld that got the licence after 1974. Can't see our pal Al letting anyone else have it!). When Peter Parker Married Gwen Stacy In Mexican Spider-Man Comics (bleedingcool.com)

You mean because the stamp is supposed to be coming through the air towards him, not hit the page yet? True, I guess so. Is the Nick Fury stand in your good self?

Brilliant & hilarious. Just for anyone struggling to remember the original (which was me).... I like the way you turned the giant machine glass into a T&P stamp.

Imagine if you'd bought 2 & 3 and were kicking yourself for not buying no 1 when suddenly this re-appeared in the rack for sixpence. Happy days. Extremely well distributed title, DD. Apart from the 74 and & 81 hiatuses, there are only 3 random issues that are ND (so 7 in total). Of the main titles, it has the smallest number of ND issues.

Pretty sure it's just 5 & 6 (though if there is another stampey, #4 would be my bet). I was looking at the period December 70 to June 71 and these were the only ones that were ND (apart from Kid Colt, but that was never distributed again after printing moved to Sparta). This seemed a bit weird to me so I checked and presto bongo, there are stamps for 5 and 6. I thought 4 might be a contender too, but everyone seems to agree it was ND.

I love Duncan's website, but there are a truly startling number of errors on it, including quite a few like this where he seems to point out his own error. I think he ought to check in with whoever fact-checks his website as I suspect this person has been dead for some while.

So, you know how the whole run of Where Creatures Roam is ND...? Well....

Blimey, this one's on life support.

Stampey Stampey (both Ethel and the Stunt Master).

Also, here's a weird one. Obliterator stamp over the 9d PV and 10d stamped on, but this precedes the price increase by 10 months, so this went round long after its colleagues.

Blimey. They couldn't give JIM 109 away at the time, now worth up to a grand a pop. I think I'll ask my mate Vic for a lend of his time machine.

Although I think that changed pretty quickly, maybe depending on where you were. I remember my Dad thought my comic collection was a childish waste of money until the first time I got him to take me to Dark They Were (this would be about 1977). The prices of the wall comics alone gave him an instant education....and he was even enough of a gent to say so.

No, and is not in any shorter supply now nor is listed as rare by any other sources, but the facts that all copies bear the new stamp, none of them bear the old stamp and the numbers are out of sync seem to support the idea that it rocked up later. Many thanks Albert.

You know the funny thing is, none of us on here know each other, but we've some idea of how much money is tied up in each other's comic collections, whereas our actual rellies are in for quite a surprise. I wonder how many of the Comicscenti have let the other rellies fight over the Limoges porcelain figurine and the silver teaspoons while quietly carrying the boxes down from the attic.

Yup. I mean they would really have to be in VF/NM to justify those price tags, but if you wanted to collect those issues in that condition, you could wait a lifetime to see them all come up again. I'll keep my fingers crossed for you on Saturday. ps the Alan Class reprint of FF 1 has an interesting price tag. I have this recurring dream where I buy Alan Class's house..."No, no Alan, don't bother to clear out the attic, basement, garage and shed.....I'll take care of that"

If only. A seller called sagrada2004 on the bay has all these beauties. This number 8 doesn't even have corner blunting.

Oh that. They told me that ages ago.