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

[Albert Tatlock]

This is a treasure trove of tantalising trivia.

[Redshade]

On 9/6/2022 at 1:01 AM, Malacoda said:

This and the ones like it are brilliant posts. All the endless poring over the paperwork yields some marvellous results, but these kind of recollections cannot be reproduced, deduced, inferred or reasoned into existence. These memories are gold. Do you still have any of the re-stamped ones, Kevin?  

Sunday market on the Quayside (circa 1978).  There are comics down there, I can sense it. 

It was the Health and Safety man's day off.

 

[Malacoda]

On 9/8/2022 at 6:22 PM, themagicrobot said:

I've just been looking through Amazing Adult Fantasy 12 and noticed according to the contents page (they never did a contents page in Astonish and Suspense did they?)

It actually gets cancelled in AAF between issues #14 and #15.  In issue #14, a Trudy Richards writes in to suggest they get rid of the contents page and they ask the readership what they reckon.   They then report the results of this in AF #15. Go Trudy!

 

 

 

[Malacoda]

On 9/9/2022 at 10:14 PM, Albert Tatlock said:

This is a treasure trove of tantalising trivia.

Are you about to introduce Les Dawson in a top hat and Bernard Cribbins playing the spoons?

[themagicrobot]

Remind me when DC comics increased in price from 10d to One Shilling. Did it also coincide with the demise of the Checkertape headers.

[Get Marwood & I]

On 9/10/2022 at 9:54 AM, themagicrobot said:

Remind me when DC comics increased in price from 10d to One Shilling.

In the plotting exercise I did, Action at least changed from the second generation 10d stamp to the shilling stamp with the September 1967 issue (with some crossover):

[LowGradeBronze]

Wouldn't some newsagents have just stuck the shilling stickers on unsold stock as a chance to make an extra tuppence? I bought comics dated 1967 /68 with 5p & 6p stickers on fairly regularly in one shop and that was in 1973/4.

[Get Marwood & I]

On 9/10/2022 at 11:23 AM, LowGradeBronze said:

Wouldn't some newsagents have just stuck the shilling stickers on unsold stock as a chance to make an extra tuppence? I bought comics dated 1967 /68 with 5p & 6p stickers on fairly regularly in one shop and that was in 1973/4.

There's enough examples out there to evidence that that was likely going on to some degree. Do you remember if the shop was maybe selling them second hand? My old shop did that, would buy, sell and reprice customer's old comics, but that was the late 1970s.

[Malacoda]

On 9/10/2022 at 11:44 AM, Get Marwood & I said:

On 9/10/2022 at 11:23 AM, LowGradeBronze said:

Wouldn't some newsagents have just stuck the shilling stickers on unsold stock as a chance to make an extra tuppence? I bought comics dated 1967 /68 with 5p & 6p stickers on fairly regularly in one shop and that was in 1973/4.

There's enough examples out there to evidence that that was likely going on to some degree. Do you remember if the shop was maybe selling them second hand? My old shop did that, would buy, sell and reprice customer's old comics, but that was the late 1970s.

Here's T&P doing it for an extra penny.  This little beauty must have fallen down the back of Ethel's radiator because FF 19 came out in Oct 1963 and this got stamped 10d somewhere between December 64 and Aug 65.  Note how Ethel had to use her stamp to obliterate the 9d price, which was of course never necessary with the cents prices.   Also, Steve, for your 'state of that' file, note the 3 additional stamps it picked up after those two.  Considering it was a PV to start with, this collected a lot of extra ink. And just to add insult to injury, someone has coloured in the A and the O with a biro.

Edited September 10, 2022 by Malacoda

[Get Marwood & I]

On 9/10/2022 at 6:44 PM, Malacoda said:

Here's T&P doing it for an extra penny.  This little beauty must have fallen down the back of Ethel's radiator because FF 19 came out in Oct 1963 and this got stamped 10d somewhere between December 64 and Aug 65.  Note how Ethel had to use her stamp to obliterate the 9d price, which was of course never necessary with the cents prices.   Also, Steve, for your 'state of that' file, note the 3 additional stamps it picked up after those two.  Considering it was a PV to start with, this collected a lot of extra ink. And just to add insult to injury, someone has coloured in the A and the O with a biro.

It's enough to make you Rama Tut Tut.

 

[Malacoda]

On 9/10/2022 at 7:50 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

It's enough to make you Rama Tut Tut.

[Get Marwood & I]

On 9/10/2022 at 9:10 PM, Malacoda said:

[Kevin.J]

Going through a couple of boxes of my Atlas war books yesterday.

I remember this shop, sadly long gone.

They wouldn't put any more comics out than one cardboard box at any one time, I knew they had more in the back but they wouldn't get them out.

They just kept that one box topped up 

 

[Get Marwood & I]

On 9/13/2022 at 12:17 PM, Kevin.J said:

Going through a couple of boxes of my Atlas war books yesterday.

I remember this shop, sadly long gone.

They wouldn't put any more comics out than one cardboard box at any one time, I knew they had more in the back but they wouldn't get them out.

They just kept that one box topped up 

 

A thing of beauty, and only the second copy I've ever seen Kev 

[LowGradeBronze]

On 9/10/2022 at 11:44 AM, Get Marwood & I said:

There's enough examples out there to evidence that that was likely going on to some degree. Do you remember if the shop was maybe selling them second hand? My old shop did that, would buy, sell and reprice customer's old comics, but that was the late 1970s.

This was a regular newsagent with papers, sweets, comics and magazines. (The smell of such places was an aphrodisiac before I knew what that even meant.) No book exchange type reselling went on.

[Get Marwood & I]

On 9/14/2022 at 4:27 PM, LowGradeBronze said:

The smell of such places was an aphrodisiac before I knew what that even meant.

You can't beat it, can you 

[LowGradeBronze]

On 9/10/2022 at 6:44 PM, Malacoda said:

Here's T&P doing it for an extra penny.  This little beauty must have fallen down the back of Ethel's radiator because FF 19 came out in Oct 1963 and this got stamped 10d somewhere between December 64 and Aug 65.  Note how Ethel had to use her stamp to obliterate the 9d price, which was of course never necessary with the cents prices.   Also, Steve, for your 'state of that' file, note the 3 additional stamps it picked up after those two.  Considering it was a PV to start with, this collected a lot of extra ink. And just to add insult to injury, someone has coloured in the A and the O with a biro.

Ethel was the first in a new category of stampers called The Obliterati. 

[Malacoda]

On 9/14/2022 at 4:27 PM, LowGradeBronze said:

This was a regular newsagent with papers, sweets, comics and magazines. (The smell of such places was an aphrodisiac before I knew what that even meant.) No book exchange type reselling went on.

Can I ask ...where was this shop? Which town are we in? 

[Redshade]

I just saw this recent acquisition on a facebook page. CGC has correctly identified it as a Miller comic but then they spoil what little is left of their credibility by calling it a UK price variant.

 

Edited September 14, 2022 by Redshade

[Get Marwood & I]