Popular Post Spyder! Posted May 25, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted May 25, 2021 I’m not sure if Mark Jewelers inserts made it into all 107 issues of the Star Wars run, but I’m working on collecting as much of the run with inserts as I can. I currently have 21 of them. Here are a few of my earliest ones with inserts. jcjames, mec3437, ADAMANTIUM and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comicginger1789 Posted May 27, 2021 Share Posted May 27, 2021 On 5/25/2021 at 6:26 PM, Spyder! said: I’m not sure if Mark Jewelers inserts made it into all 107 issues of the Star Wars run, but I’m working on collecting as much of the run with inserts as I can. I currently have 21 of them. Here are a few of my earliest ones with inserts. I love how your issue 19 has the little star stamp. I’ve used that spot potential books with inserts...usually stands to be the case if you see it. mec3437 and Spyder! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cpt Kirk Posted May 27, 2021 Share Posted May 27, 2021 8 hours ago, comicginger1789 said: I love how your issue 19 has the little star stamp. I’ve used that spot potential books with inserts...usually stands to be the case if you see it. very cool. I have in rare cases seen the star stamp on comic books that should have had the insert, but did not. There was no evidence that the insert had been pulled out. Example was JLA 195. I've seen 2 copies with the insert, and one copy with star stamp and no insert. Makes me think they ran out of inserts for that issue, or made a mistake at the printer. Spyder! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Spyder! Posted May 27, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted May 27, 2021 10 hours ago, comicginger1789 said: I love how your issue 19 has the little star stamp. I’ve used that spot potential books with inserts...usually stands to be the case if you see it. 2 hours ago, Cpt Kirk said: very cool. I have in rare cases seen the star stamp on comic books that should have had the insert, but did not. There was no evidence that the insert had been pulled out. Example was JLA 195. I've seen 2 copies with the insert, and one copy with star stamp and no insert. Makes me think they ran out of inserts for that issue, or made a mistake at the printer. I definitely love it when they have the star stamp too. Here are my other Star Wars with star stamp. I like the green stamp. I don’t feel like that color is as common. Microchip, ganni, ADAMANTIUM and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comicginger1789 Posted May 27, 2021 Share Posted May 27, 2021 3 hours ago, Cpt Kirk said: very cool. I have in rare cases seen the star stamp on comic books that should have had the insert, but did not. There was no evidence that the insert had been pulled out. Example was JLA 195. I've seen 2 copies with the insert, and one copy with star stamp and no insert. Makes me think they ran out of inserts for that issue, or made a mistake at the printer. Yeah the history behind the insert is somewhat unclear. I’ve heard people say they were only from overseas, that they were only on bases in the US, that both of these were the case. But I’ve never seen definitive proof. And gets it’s possible comics were sold on a base with stamps that did not have inserts too I suppose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steveinthecity Posted May 27, 2021 Share Posted May 27, 2021 57 minutes ago, comicginger1789 said: Yeah the history behind the insert is somewhat unclear. I’ve heard people say they were only from overseas, that they were only on bases in the US, that both of these were the case. But I’ve never seen definitive proof. And gets it’s possible comics were sold on a base with stamps that did not have inserts too I suppose. Keep in mind that it wasn’t unheard of for the inserts to be removed, particularly in order to reduce the space/weight when storing or shipping. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cpt Kirk Posted May 29, 2021 Share Posted May 29, 2021 On 5/27/2021 at 4:56 PM, steveinthecity said: Keep in mind that it wasn’t unheard of for the inserts to be removed, particularly in order to reduce the space/weight when storing or shipping. Great point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cpt Kirk Posted May 29, 2021 Share Posted May 29, 2021 On 5/27/2021 at 3:55 PM, comicginger1789 said: Yeah the history behind the insert is somewhat unclear. I’ve heard people say they were only from overseas, that they were only on bases in the US, that both of these were the case. But I’ve never seen definitive proof. And gets it’s possible comics were sold on a base with stamps that did not have inserts too I suppose. Some guy posted earlier that he bought his comic books originally in a Military PX here in the states, and those comic books contained the insert. Knowing the military PXs, I can see how someone might have sent comic books destined to go overseas to a store here stateside instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Sandflea Posted June 2, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted June 2, 2021 (edited) Going thru my long boxes just now and caught this IH 376; found out it's a MJ (...and don't recall where the book came from...)... Edited June 2, 2021 by Sandflea misspelled "just" ganni, mec3437, steveinthecity and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cpt Kirk Posted June 2, 2021 Share Posted June 2, 2021 1 hour ago, Sandflea said: Going thru my long boxes just now and caught this IH 376; found out it's a MJ (...and don't recall where the book came from...)... nice find! Microchip, Sandflea and ADAMANTIUM 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ganni Posted June 2, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 2, 2021 Finally ! Great thread ! Ron Frenz is bronze in copper Microchip, Spyder!, Cpt Kirk and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Cpt Kirk Posted June 4, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 4, 2021 (edited) On 1/9/2021 at 10:28 AM, Get Marwood & I said: That's excellent Captain. I love it when a book bucks a trend or has something unexpected. It happened to me this morning with a pile of Miller stamped Charltons. Comics are brilliant aren't they Here we go again. Now I found Superman 312 with two different versions of the insert. I don't go looking for this, but if I upgrade a copy I always compare the inserts to see if they are the same. This variation is more subtle than Action 452. Only difference here is the code on the insert. One code is "1" and the other is "111". I will add that this variation is not too surprising to me. During that month, the "1" and "111" variants of the advertising inserts were both used. Usually only one or the other is found on any given issue that month, but I can see how a different version was used on any given issue if they were both being used at the printer that month. Edited June 4, 2021 by Cpt Kirk Get Marwood & I, ganni, ADAMANTIUM and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Cpt Kirk Posted June 4, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 4, 2021 And yet another variation of the insert. Shown here is Detective 504. One with the Mark Jeweler advertisement correctly inserted, and one with the advertisement upside down. Love those Joker covers. ganni, onlyweaknesskryptonite, Spyder! and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ganni Posted June 5, 2021 Share Posted June 5, 2021 Looking at this thread... needs... something green.. One for DC... One for Marvel.. ADAMANTIUM, mec3437 and Spyder! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cpt Kirk Posted June 5, 2021 Share Posted June 5, 2021 11 hours ago, ganni said: Looking at this thread... needs... something green.. One for DC... One for Marvel.. nice. What comic books have you shown there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ganni Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 mec3437, Spyder! and ADAMANTIUM 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ganni Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 (edited) This ad does not say MJ... still it looks cool Next year... Graders will note this as MJ ads variants.... Edited June 6, 2021 by ganni mec3437 and Spyder! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ADAMANTIUM Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 18 minutes ago, ganni said: This ad does not say MJ... still it looks cool Next year... Graders will note this as MJ ads variants.... It may be a "national Diamond insert", which rumor is it's not as often found, you may want to look into I Sandflea, mec3437, Spyder! and 1 other 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ganni Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 @ADAMANTIUM National Diamond inserts active were in the 70s. This is different. Mark Jewelers and National Diamond Sales were apparently big-time advertising contemporaries to Military Diamond Sales. Both comics are dated May 1984. Sandflea, ADAMANTIUM and mec3437 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cpt Kirk Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 (edited) 8 hours ago, ganni said: @ADAMANTIUM National Diamond inserts active were in the 70s. This is different. Mark Jewelers and National Diamond Sales were apparently big-time advertising contemporaries to Military Diamond Sales. Both comics are dated May 1984. Yes, that ad appeared in all DC comics with the cover date of May 1984. What's fun is finding the same comic books but with the Mark Jeweler insert in addition to what you see above. I have never seen nor heard of a National Diamond sales insert being placed into a DC comic book (besides a regular ad like you see above). If anyone can show a National Diamond sales insert on a DC comic book, I would love to see it. Edited June 6, 2021 by Cpt Kirk ganni 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
