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

[Malacoda]

On 5/17/2023 at 9:04 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

Anyway, I can't hang around here taking sheet with you lot all night. Criminal Minds is on and I want to see who this week's Unsub is. 

As of now, I'm in the wind!

 

 

(Got the wind more like)

Fair play.  I'm off too (not in that sense).  Tears of the Kingdom is here, so I have a princess to rescue.  Although I spent most of the last game actually being the princess. 

(you could at least pretend to be surprised when I say things like that).  

[Get Marwood & I]

On 5/17/2023 at 9:25 PM, Malacoda said:

Although I spent most of the last game actually being the princess.

It passes the time, doesn't it.

A 20 minute quick and dirty around the FF UKPV hiatus issues reveals the following 10d oblong stamped copies:

Number 56 and 57, the actual UKPV gap issues, appear to exist in much greater numbers than the others, but it does seem there was perhaps a years worth of issues targeted if I add this result to the earlier DD and Spidey assessments. Plus the obligatory random outliers, of course. I have an idea in my mind for a full tracking summary, but have not as yet mustered the enthusiasm to create it and then populate it. The thought of staring at grainy online images of books like this one below for hours on end...

....trying to spot often faintly applied price stamps is for some reason acting as a major deterrent to getting on with it. On this occasion. 

[themagicrobot]

Does anyone have a favourite price stamp? I'm quite partial to the 7.5p one. I can't find the tools here for a proper 1/2 unless I copy/paste from Word. That half-a-pee made all the difference. I remember when they discontinued the half-pence in 1983 and I bought £5 worth of shiny new ones from the bank thinking they would be future collectors-items. That never happened. And comics from 1983 may be 40 years old now yet still sell for mere pence too. 

[themagicrobot]

I haven't seen many DCs with a 6d ink stamp on them.

 

[Get Marwood & I]

On 5/18/2023 at 9:42 AM, themagicrobot said:

Does anyone have a favourite price stamp?

My current favourite. Miller breaks into rare double figures   ROAR! And for that matter, FWOOAR!

[Get Marwood & I]

I love these two, too, which I picked up early in my explorations:

 

Only a handful of 9d Arnolds (I'm guessing they're his) have I seen in many years of traversing the main comic thoroughfare.

[Get Marwood & I]

The Milano's are cool too - I pick up nice examples up when I see them:

This cover illustrates the Government's new policy proposal for stopping the boats.

 

[Malacoda]

On 5/18/2023 at 9:20 AM, Get Marwood & I said:

I have an idea in my mind for a full tracking summary, but have not as yet mustered the enthusiasm to create it and then populate it.

It's going to be a swine as it will entail collecting all the associated madness.   FF 55 for example, in addition to the presumed Gold Star stamp, also has PV's, that big 1/- shilling stamp and who knows what else.  Maybe even T&P stamps......

[Malacoda]

On 5/18/2023 at 9:42 AM, themagicrobot said:

Does anyone have a favourite price stamp? I'm quite partial to the 7.5p one.

I love this question.  If you posted this anywhere else, they'd review your meds but here in Stamp Heaven it's a normal Thursday. 

I've always wanted to know what this is.   Normal size Marvel comics NEVER cost 2/- at any point, so this is a massive mark UP on a second hand comic, not down as you'd expect.  To an exorbitant price.  AND it's been stamped on, anyone ever seen an actual comic dealer do that? AND there are PV's of this, so what is this even doing for sale in the UK?  AND how many stamps are even on this? I assume it's just one, but it has an outer circle, an inner circle and a diamond centre.  And a number at the top.   AND it's a cents copy with no other stamps on it, so it seemingly wasn't sold in the UK at 10d and later resold at a mark up.  It was only ever sold, as far as we can see, for 2/-. 

Edited May 18, 2023 by Malacoda

[Albert Tatlock]

Another sticker over stamp.

[Albert Tatlock]

On 5/18/2023 at 2:08 PM, Malacoda said:

I've always wanted to know what this is. 

These can also be found anachronistically on post-decimalisation mags.

Will dig a couple out, my butler Igor has been dispatched to the catacombs with instructions not to return empty-handed.

[Malacoda]

On 5/18/2023 at 3:33 PM, Albert Tatlock said:

These can also be found anachronistically on post-decimalisation mags.

Will dig a couple out, my butler Igor has been dispatched to the catacombs with instructions not to return empty-handed.

You mean they're Ab...Abnormal?

[Albert Tatlock]

et voila!

February 1974, some 4 years after the shilling was abolished, so it must have had some function other than to indicate the sale price.

[Malacoda]

On 5/18/2023 at 3:43 PM, Albert Tatlock said:

February 1974, some 4 years after the shilling was abolished, so it must have had some function other than to indicate the sale price.

Indeed. What a thought. 

Thanks for this Albert.  I assumed this was a total one off.  This is also a 5 stamp where the other one was a 2 stamp yet they're both for 2/-.  

[Albert Tatlock]

The Avengers # 25 could conceivably have been offered for sale at 2/- in the 1960s, but all the ones I have seen with this stamp seem to be remaindered stock cover dated 1973 and 1974.

[Malacoda]

On 5/18/2023 at 3:47 PM, Albert Tatlock said:

The Avengers # 25 could conceivably have been offered for sale at 2/- in the 1960s, but all the ones I have seen with this stamp seem to be remaindered stock cover dated 1973 and 1974.

Right. Comics didn't go up to 10p until 1976, but by 1973/4 there had been enough inflation that the connection to the old money was becoming a bit theoretical.  I can remember my grandad being horrified in 1974 that petrol was 50p a gallon (THAT'S TEN BOB!!!) and then a year later it was 73p. 

[Albert Tatlock]

On 5/18/2023 at 4:00 PM, Malacoda said:

I can remember my grandad being horrified in 1974 that petrol was 50p a gallon

Not as horrified as me when the comics went up from 9d to 10d.

I still wake up screaming when I get that flashback.

[themagicrobot]

On sale from a UK seller, I wonder what currency would be 1/50 (and is that possibly 1/60 and 1/70 too?) in the late 1950s/early 1960s?? Is the clue in the outline of the stamp? Can't be Australia as they were still using £sd then.

 

[themagicrobot]

I wonder why L Miller used such a tiny font compared to the regular issues?

 

[Get Marwood & I]

On 5/18/2023 at 7:18 PM, themagicrobot said:

On sale from a UK seller, I wonder what currency would be 1/50 (and is that possibly 1/60 and 1/70 too?) in the late 1950s/early 1960s?? Is the clue in the outline of the stamp? Can't be Australia as they were still using £sd then

It's Kenya.