The Distribution of US Published Comics in the UK (1959~1982) 15 15

[gadzukes]

I found these two gorgeous Pence copies on ebay (mislabeled so I got them for only $75 total )

The one on the left is especially nice.

 

Edited August 8, 2022 by gadzukes

[Get Marwood & I]

On 8/8/2022 at 6:38 PM, gadzukes said:

I found these two gorgeous Pence copies on ebay (mislabeled so I got them for only $75 total )

The one on the left is especially nice.

 

That's a very nice example of buy one get one free there, Gad. Well done. 

[Redshade]

On 8/7/2022 at 7:03 PM, themagicrobot said:

@OtherEric

@Malacoda Unlikely I know but odd stamps may have come from other countries that used our currency...Rhodesia?? Jamaica?? Stranger things have happened.

@Get Marwood & I

 

 

Never say "unlikely" in this hobby Malaconda. Your suggestion is as likely as any other, and is probably true. We've seen African (Kenyan) pence stamps on these pages before now.

 

[gadzukes]

On 8/8/2022 at 1:40 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

That's a very nice example of buy one get one free there, Gad. Well done. 

Yes!  Exactly... or maybe "Buy one, get one free, plus pocket some extra profit".  I think the one on the left might be a $200 comic.

[themagicrobot]

@Malacoda I wish. If that was the case I would have taped/glued that fragment back on. I never owned a genuine FF 2. The closest I got was a run of numbers 3 to 100 which I sold way back in 1973. You got the right Publisher though and are close with the year so you get a bonus question.

3. Why on earth do I own 28 copies of The Brute number one??.

[Get Marwood & I]

On 8/8/2022 at 7:11 PM, themagicrobot said:

@Malacoda I wish. If that was the case I would have taped/glued that fragment back on. I never owned a genuine FF 2. The closest I got was a run of numbers 3 to 100 which I sold way back in 1973. You got the right Publisher though and are close with the year so you get a bonus question.

3. Why on earth do I own 28 copies of The Brute number one??.

Buy one get twenty seven free?

[OtherEric]

On 8/8/2022 at 11:11 AM, themagicrobot said:

@Malacoda I wish. If that was the case I would have taped/glued that fragment back on. I never owned a genuine FF 2. The closest I got was a run of numbers 3 to 100 which I sold way back in 1973. You got the right Publisher though and are close with the year so you get a bonus question.

3. Why on earth do I own 28 copies of The Brute number one??.

Because 28 seemed like overkill?

[Get Marwood & I]

On 8/8/2022 at 7:29 PM, OtherEric said:

Because 28 seemed like overkill?

29, surely?

I must say I'm disappointed. I never had Robot down as a speculator. Albeit a patently rubbish one 

[OtherEric]

On 8/8/2022 at 11:35 AM, Get Marwood & I said:

29, surely?

I must say I'm disappointed. I never had Robot down as a speculator. Albeit a patently rubbish one 

That MAY have been what I intended, but now I’m claiming overkill is the heart of true speculation.

[Albert Tatlock]

On 8/7/2022 at 7:03 PM, themagicrobot said:

@OtherEric By virtue of having read all 145 pages you must surely qualify for a no-prize

@Malacoda Unlikely I know but odd stamps may have come from other countries that used our currency...Rhodesia?? Jamaica?? Stranger things have happened.

@Get Marwood & I The Golden Age of comics for me wasn't the 1940s but 1964 to 1983. From Julius Schwartz updating Batman from the madness of visiting alien planets and time travelling until the demise of the Warren magazines which coincided with me disposing of my collection for the second time and "moving on".

Off topic again, here is a quiz.

1. What comic does this scrap of cover come from. I don't want the issue number or even the title. What publisher is it from and roughly when. If you guess the genre too you get bonus points.

2. We know Gladys used a round stamp. What was the name of the person who used the Diamond shaped one? Bonus points if you recognise the title/issue number too.

 

[Get Marwood & I]

On 8/8/2022 at 8:03 PM, Albert Tatlock said:

 

Only another twelve thousand yellow cornered covers to go..... 

[themagicrobot]

The first guess was FF 2 to which I replied wrong comic but right Publisher. Now to my eternal shame I can't find the comic with the missing corner so not much of a quiz was it? Also question 3 asking why I have so many Brutes doesn't really have an answer either. I believe it goes back to when I completed my Atlas/Seaboard run. There were job lots on eBay many years ago going cheap and I acquired numerous duplicates just to get the one or two issues I wanted.

Whilst looking for the comic with the missing corner I did find some interesting reading for this afternoon in the sunshine/shade.

  

The Tales to Astonish has an interesting stamp or three. 

[Get Marwood & I]

On 8/9/2022 at 10:16 AM, themagicrobot said:

The first guess was FF 2 to which I replied wrong comic but right Publisher. Now to my eternal shame I can't find the comic with the missing corner so not much of a quiz was it? Also question 3 asking why I have so many Brutes doesn't really have an answer either. I believe it goes back to when I completed my Atlas/Seaboard run. There were job lots on eBay many years ago going cheap and I acquired numerous duplicates just to get the one or two issues I wanted.

Whilst looking for the comic with the missing corner I did find some interesting reading for this afternoon in the sunshine/shade.

  

The Tales to Astonish has an interesting stamp or three. 

Cor! That's a cool looking lot, Robot 

[Kevin.J]

On 8/8/2022 at 7:11 PM, themagicrobot said:

@Malacoda I wish. If that was the case I would have taped/glued that fragment back on. I never owned a genuine FF 2. The closest I got was a run of numbers 3 to 100 which I sold way back in 1973. You got the right Publisher though and are close with the year so you get a bonus question.

3. Why on earth do I own 28 copies of The Brute number one??.

Hoarder 

[Malacoda]

On 8/8/2022 at 7:11 PM, themagicrobot said:

@Malacoda I wish. If that was the case I would have taped/glued that fragment back on. I never owned a genuine FF 2. The closest I got was a run of numbers 3 to 100 which I sold way back in 1973. You got the right Publisher though and are close with the year so you get a bonus question.

3. Why on earth do I own 28 copies of The Brute number one??.

You were actually trying to snag every single copy printed. 

And immediately succeeded. 

[Malacoda]

On 8/9/2022 at 10:16 AM, themagicrobot said:

The first guess was FF 2 to which I replied wrong comic but right Publisher. Now to my eternal shame I can't find the comic with the missing corner so not much of a quiz was it? Also question 3 asking why I have so many Brutes doesn't really have an answer either. I believe it goes back to when I completed my Atlas/Seaboard run. There were job lots on eBay many years ago going cheap and I acquired numerous duplicates just to get the one or two issues I wanted.

Whilst looking for the comic with the missing corner I did find some interesting reading for this afternoon in the sunshine/shade.

  

The Tales to Astonish has an interesting stamp or three. 

Good Lord. 

Marvel, DC, Charlton, Archie, Tower, Harvey.  All the major food groups represented 

That's more variety than in my entire collection, I think.  

Particularly shrewd move to lay in a reading copy of Lois Lane #50.  

 

 

[Malacoda]

On 8/9/2022 at 10:16 AM, themagicrobot said:

The first guess was FF 2 to which I replied wrong comic but right Publisher. Now to my eternal shame I can't find the comic with the missing corner so not much of a quiz was it?

I disagree.  I think the original quiz, where there definitely was a specific answer and someone actually knew what it was, was very much out-of-keeping with the general vibe of this thread.  Now you have absolutely no idea what it was and anything could be the case, thereby igniting the fuse on years of intense, highly-researched, well-argued and heroically pointless speculation, it's much more in our wheelhouse.   LET'S GO !!!

This is too creamy yellow, I think....

 

And this is indented too far. 

This seems more like a possibility...?

 

 

[Malacoda]

@themagicrobot  It's got to be silver age, which makes DD one of the less likely candidates.  

[themagicrobot]

see below. Things were getting out of sequence which would really confuse the other two visitors to this thread

Edited August 9, 2022 by themagicrobot

[Malacoda]

@themagicrobot  Most Spideys are out because of the web motif and this one is too far indented, so not Spidey?