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[Comicopolis]

[Comicopolis]

[Comicopolis]

Original stickers, or what's left of them, and copies.

[Comicopolis]

[Comicopolis]

[boomtown]

28 minutes ago, Comicopolis said:

Original stickers, or what's left of them, and copies.

One of these days I'll find a set of the early issues with the free inserts intact. I used to think finding the Captain Britain #1 with the mask was difficult, these inserts are on a whole different level of difficult.

[Comicopolis]

21 minutes ago, boomtown said:

One of these days I'll find a set of the early issues with the free inserts intact. I used to think finding the Captain Britain #1 with the mask was difficult, these inserts are on a whole different level of difficult.

I don't think I've seen them intact since 1972!

[piper]

On 8/19/2020 at 1:12 PM, batmiesta said:

How did I miss this thread originally?

I love this cover in particular!

[piper]

54 minutes ago, Comicopolis said:

Cool books Andrew!

[ganni]

Great Thread !

[letsgrumble]

I have a bunch of these. Got most of them from a book dealer in the UK who'd ship them over to me in bulk.

When I was a kid, I'd be able to get them at W.H. Smith stores in Canada. About 25 or issues were bound together and sold as one volume. I have a lot of nostalgia for these. Here's some Hulks... 

 

 

[Garystar]

Here’s a thread I started, and petered out after a day, with some MWOM freebies

 

[letsgrumble]

On the shortlist this year was to finally complete a run of Captain Britain. These aren't too common in North America. But I managed to acquire nearly all of them last week from good ol' Doug Sulipa in Winnipeg. Now just missing #8. 

  

                                   

Big Ben maze:

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Bonus section.

Here's a recipe to store your Marvel UK comix:

Custom "fullbacks" ... local supplier did this for me.

11.5-inches in height instead of the standard 11-inches:

BCW magazine board. Just doesn't work:

Custom board:

MyLite2 standard magazine sleeve:

Archives 950R, luckily acquired before the supply-chain issues:

Sweeeet fit in the magic of Mylar:

Awesome Red Skull cover:

Ohhh yeah:

Lookin' good Captain Brit.

Sexy stack.

[Get Marwood & I]

On 2/15/2022 at 3:43 AM, letsgrumble said:

On the shortlist this year was to finally complete a run of Captain Britain. These aren't too common in North America. But I managed to acquire nearly all of them last week from good ol' Doug Sulipa in Winnipeg. Now just missing #8. 

What a fantastic post - congratulations Grumble. I still remember buying #1 off the shelf as a kid 

[batmiesta]

I've found the glossy cover ones hard to find in the shape I want, good luck finding a #8 .  

[letsgrumble]

On 2/15/2022 at 6:07 AM, Get Marwood & I said:

What a fantastic post - congratulations Grumble. I still remember buying #1 off the shelf as a kid 

Thank you. And I remember buying Captain Canuck #1 off the shelf as a kid!

[batmiesta]

Do you have the Autumn special? I didn't even know it existed until a year or so ago, very hard to find in nice shape. 

 

[letsgrumble]

On 2/15/2022 at 5:57 PM, batmiesta said:

Do you have the Autumn special? I didn't even know it existed until a year or so ago, very hard to find in nice shape. 

 

I don't have that one! 

But I have only been looking at issues 1-39 from the first series. I used to have some of these issues in bound remaindered volumes that made their way to Canada in the late 1970s/early 1980s. That was my first exposure to Captain Britain and Marvel UK reprint titles. I noticed that you had some for sale not too long ago. Man, I wished I had kept them. As a kid, I would remove the individual comics from the glue binding.

 

 

[letsgrumble]

I'm curious - are back-issue Marvel UK titles from the 1970s like Captain Britain or Mighty World of Marvel fairly easy to find in the UK? Where would you go to find them?

I bought a bunch from UK sellers on eBay years ago. I got the impression they were fairly common and not very expensive - but difficult to find in higher grades.  

[batmiesta]

On 2/15/2022 at 11:10 PM, letsgrumble said:

I'm curious - are back-issue Marvel UK titles from the 1970s like Captain Britain or Mighty World of Marvel fairly easy to find in the UK? Where would you go to find them?

I bought a bunch from UK sellers on eBay years ago. I got the impression they were fairly common and not very expensive - but difficult to find in higher grades.  

This is true, because of the poor paper quality used and the magazine size, they didn't stand the test of time too well, they do turn up occasionally, but unlike years ago lots more collectors are after them and the prices have gone way up.