The Distribution of US Published Comics in the UK (1959~1982)
Hello
Over the last four years or so some of you may have noticed that I have created a number of threads here on the CGC boards that seek to document which UK Price Variants (UKPVs) exist for the seven known US publishers of:
Archie Comics
Charlton
DC
Dell
Gold Key
King
Marvel
Each thread has been a factual summary of what I have found to exist along with some speculation on gaps, what came first, printing variations and things like that
OK, to Marvel.
Currently, the tale of the tape for each publisher's first cover dated book with a UK distribution stamp is either this (if you ignore outliers):
02/59 - Charlton
06/59 - Archie
09/59 - DC
11/59 - ACG
01/60 - Harvey
05/60 - Marvel
Or this (if you include them):
10/58 - Charlton
04/59 - Harvey
06/59 - Archie
09/59 - DC
11/59 - ACG
05/60 - Marvel
For the time being, I'm going to exclude