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

[Kevin.J]

On 9/7/2023 at 2:32 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

A nice T&P stamped Prize Black Magic #4 from 1961 on the bay currently - I have three examples in the files for this issue - very few others though:

 

Cover inspiration for Seven.... 

I have the first 3 issues of this book, just checked and no stamps  

[Kevin.J]

On 9/7/2023 at 6:16 PM, themagicrobot said:

The seller of this comic says "Only 1 exists". Dunno if he means he has the only copy remaining or simply means that No 1 was the only issue Arnold published. I do like the "ABChiller" logo though. If anyone is interested $2000 plus postage secures it.

Nah, this book keeps cropping up all the time, I am in the market for a copy to go with my original in my sig line.

I maybe bid on 1 every couple of months, the last one went really high at £211 see scan below, my budget was £100 and I had doubled that as missed out on a few just over the 50-60 quid mark.

A year or so ago I should have grabbed a copy, the cover is a classic and the original is real pricey now, so this may be the only way to own it now but his pricing is delusional.

I was thinking he meant this was the only slabbed copy but the census shows 6 blue and 1 resto

 

 

Edited September 7, 2023 by Kevin.J
add pic

[Yorick]

On 9/6/2023 at 3:13 PM, Albert Tatlock said:

And the UK reprint is only B & W inside

That aspect is my favorite part of seeking the UK printings.  I love seeing my favorite artists' work in B&W!

[Yorick]

On 9/7/2023 at 6:32 AM, Get Marwood & I said:

Cover inspiration for Seven....

WHAT'S IN THE BOX?!!

[Malacoda]

On 9/7/2023 at 6:31 PM, Kevin.J said:

I was thinking he meant this was the only slabbed copy but the census shows 6 blue and 1 resto

I think he means it was a one-shot. It's 'the only one' as in there was never a second issue. 

[Kevin.J]

On 9/7/2023 at 11:29 PM, Malacoda said:

I think he means it was a one-shot. It's 'the only one' as in there was never a second issue. 

Yeah, I am not sure, if he did mean that, he wrote it as a double bluff so it seems a lot rarer than it is.

Its not the way I would write it it I meant that.

 

[Malacoda]

On 9/7/2023 at 11:37 PM, Kevin.J said:

Yeah, I am not sure, if he did mean that, he wrote it as a double bluff so it seems a lot rarer than it is.

Its not the way I would write it it I meant that.

I think you're right. He's being non-specific to make it sound super rare.  That said, he's in California.  I would imagine the number of these in the US is right around one. 

[Kevin.J]

On 9/7/2023 at 11:48 PM, Malacoda said:

I think you're right. He's being non-specific to make it sound super rare.  That said, he's in California.  I would imagine the number of these in the US is right around one. 

Yep, and saying variant in the title rather than reprint, definitely keeping it woolly

He has 32 people watching it, he may just pull it off yet.

I think being in the US, he may have been better auctioning it rather than BIN, he would sell it at a nice price for sure 

[Albert Tatlock]

On 9/8/2023 at 11:22 AM, Kevin.J said:

He has 32 people watching it, he may just pull it off yet.

Betcha not even the ageing hippies of California are that far removed from reality.

[Get Marwood & I]

On 9/7/2023 at 6:17 PM, Kevin.J said:

I have the first 3 issues of this book, just checked and no stamps  

One of those one off comics that found their way into the mix somehow. 

On 9/7/2023 at 8:06 PM, Yorick said:

WHAT'S IN THE BOX?!!

It's Jack. Isn't it?

[Albert Tatlock]

On 9/6/2023 at 12:56 PM, Malacoda said:

LOL, probably the first time Bram Stokes has been called a bourgeois capitalist, given that DTW was basically a hippie head shop with astrological mandalas on the walls and the Fortean Times being published upstairs.  I suspect, however, he would quite like being referred to as decadent.

Here is a copy of Derek Stokes' first sales list, from Winter 1968.

Most expensive items listed are FF # 1 and Spider-Man # 1, at £4 each.

X-Men # 1 is a more reasonable 15/- (75p, just over a buck).

I toyed with the idea of purchasing House Of Secrets # 1 for 20/-, but decided against it.

Something about the address did not seem right, no street number, so I shelved the project.

With hindsight, I should have taken the plunge on a couple of items, although they were probably in excess of FMV for the time.

I still do not have HOS # 1.

From memory, I think this sheet was an insert in an issue of Frank Dobson's Fantasy Advertiser.

I was a subscriber, and haunted my doormat whenever the next issue was due.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited September 11, 2023 by Albert Tatlock
scan added.

[Kevin.J]

On 9/10/2023 at 10:42 PM, Albert Tatlock said:

Most expensive items listed are FF # 1 and Spider-Man # 1, at £4 each.

Seems very cheap now, but my first job was 11 years after that and I got £19 a week, so I bet £4 was a fortune in 1968

Its scary looking at old catalogues man  

[Albert Tatlock]

On 9/11/2023 at 12:52 AM, Kevin.J said:

Its scary looking at old catalogues man

Even scarier if they are horror comic catalogues.

Read them behind the sofa.

[Malacoda]

On 9/10/2023 at 10:42 PM, Albert Tatlock said:

Here is a copy of Derek Stokes' first sales list, from Winter 1968.

Wow  Thank you so much for posting this.  What a piece of history.  

If I could ever get them, what I would really love to see is a set of scans of Paul Gravett's Fandom Digest.  Apart from great articles and stuff, it was basically a sales catalogue, but (wait for it) he separated out ND from distributed, so it formed a checklist of everything known or believed to be non distributed at the time. 

If anyone's got any of these, please, please, please....

[Albert Tatlock]

On 9/11/2023 at 7:16 PM, Malacoda said:

Wow  Thank you so much for posting this.  What a piece of history.  

If I could ever get them, what I would really love to see is a set of scans of Paul Gravett's Fandom Digest.  Apart from great articles and stuff, it was basically a sales catalogue, but (wait for it) he separated out ND from distributed, so it formed a checklist of everything known or believed to be non distributed at the time. 

If anyone's got any of these, please, please, please....

I will try to get a clearer scan, not up to speed with this new-fangled technology.

My abacus keeps going on the blink and the repairmen just suck their teeth and shake their heads.

[OtherEric]

On 9/11/2023 at 11:42 AM, Albert Tatlock said:

My abacus keeps going on the blink and the repairmen just suck their teeth and shake their heads.

Have you tried turning it upside down and shaking it to reboot it?

[Albert Tatlock]

On 9/11/2023 at 7:43 PM, OtherEric said:

Have you tried turning it upside down and shaking it to reboot it?

Thanks! It is cruising in the fast lane now.

[Albert Tatlock]

On 9/11/2023 at 7:42 PM, Albert Tatlock said:

I will try to get a clearer scan,

I have gone back and adjusted it, hope it is more readable now.

[Malacoda]

On 9/11/2023 at 8:00 PM, Albert Tatlock said:

I have gone back and adjusted it, hope it is more readable now.

Perfectly readable. Lordy Mama, those are all number ones!!  (Don't say it, Steve).  

[OtherEric]

On 9/10/2023 at 2:42 PM, Albert Tatlock said:

 

I got these much later, and they cost me considerably more.  But it's fun to see the listing, and know they're still of interest to comic collectors decades later. The Vault actually just arrived today.