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[baggsey]

On 12/31/2023 at 5:07 AM, Get Marwood & I said:

Happy New Year for tonight boys!

Can you all make sure you stay alive for at least 24 hours, or I'll think I've cursed one of us 

Fake!    Happy New Year!

[Get Marwood & I]

On 1/1/2024 at 5:52 PM, baggsey said:

Fake!    

             ing obvious, hopefully 

On 1/1/2024 at 5:52 PM, baggsey said:

Happy New Year!

U2 Baggs!  Bono is a wally

[Malacoda]

Happy New Year, Gents.  It's been a great year on this board (if not necessarily in real life).  Thanks to everyone. 

[Malacoda]

On 12/31/2023 at 11:07 AM, Get Marwood & I said:

Happy New Year for tonight boys!

Can you all make sure you stay alive for at least 24 hours, or I'll think I've cursed one of us 

Lovely work.  I note that you put my avatar over MJ rather than Norman Osborn.  Are you trying to keep the shocking surprise going?

 

 

[OtherEric]

Happy New Year to all here!

[Malacoda]

On 12/31/2023 at 3:44 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

A new earliest Girls' Love Stories...

Nice catch.  Whoever wielded that marker pen definitely possessed the power of Thor.  I wouldn't mind, but it wasn't even so they could write another price in. 

[Malacoda]

On 12/31/2023 at 5:44 PM, themagicrobot said:

If it wasn't for the cute 1/- price this comic would have been ideal for the "please grade my comic" section.

 

Lovely gallery of FF 57's.  So the 10d stickered ones appear to have landed somewhere other than Goldstar (assuming we're right about the oblongs being GSP).  However, they did so in the 11 months before prices went up to 1/-.  The mystery 1/- stampy seems to indicate that rogue copy popped up somewhere else, somewhen else. 

Every picture tells a story. (I just wish they would speak more clearly). 

 

 

[Get Marwood & I]

On 1/1/2024 at 6:07 PM, Malacoda said:

Lovely work.  I note that you put my avatar over MJ rather than Norman Osborn.  Are you trying to keep the shocking surprise going?

 

 

 

[Malacoda]

On 12/31/2023 at 6:01 PM, Albert Tatlock said:

The T & P stamp is usually found at upper right, where it would be more easily visible in the spinner rack.

And actually there's no better example of that than DD 35 itself. I think the L provided a nice crook to rest it in. 

 

 

Edited January 1 by Malacoda

[Malacoda]

While we're here.....

[Get Marwood & I]

On 1/1/2024 at 6:46 PM, Malacoda said:

I think the L provided a nice crook to rest it in.

Fing L

How long did you spend looking for them Richmond? 

[Get Marwood & I]

On 1/1/2024 at 6:07 PM, OtherEric said:

Happy New Year to all here!

And to you Eric 

God, I remember 2023 like it was yesterday.

 

 

[Malacoda]

On 1/1/2024 at 7:14 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

And to you Eric 

God, I remember 2023 like it was yesterday.

 

[Get Marwood & I]

On 1/1/2024 at 7:54 PM, Malacoda said:

 

 

[Malacoda]

On 1/1/2024 at 6:53 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

How long did you spend looking for them Richmond? 

Well, either 3 years or 30 seconds.  For some reason I collected a lot of DD#35 over the last 3 years so when Albert posted his DD #35 noting the exception, with a comment that Ethel usually went top right, I immediately saw that, ironically, DD #35 was the absolute poster-child for top-rightery. 

[Get Marwood & I]

On 1/1/2024 at 8:01 PM, Malacoda said:

Well, either 3 years or 30 seconds.  For some reason I collected a lot of DD#35 over the last 3 years so when Albert posted his DD #35 noting the exception, with a comment that Ethel usually went top right, I immediately saw that, ironically, DD #35 was the absolute poster-child for top-rightery. 

Indeed.

Imagine what you might have discovered if you'd spent that time looking for something interesting though  

[Malacoda]

On 1/1/2024 at 8:03 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

Indeed.

Imagine what you might have discovered if you'd spent that time looking for something interesting though  

You think you're bored now?  Oh Steve, I haven't even started yet, mate.  There's a whole new year of weapons-grade OCD comin' atcha. 

 

[Get Marwood & I]

On 1/1/2024 at 8:08 PM, Malacoda said:

You think you're bored now?  Oh Steve, I haven't even started yet, mate.  There's a whole new year of weapons-grade OCD comin' atcha. 

 

 

[Get Marwood & I]

[Malacoda]

On 12/31/2023 at 6:27 PM, themagicrobot said:

Here's a sticker from the other side of the Atlantic ocean. I wonder where this comic was for the first twelve months of its life? Or is this comic from Canada? Before comics displayed dual US and Canadian pricing on the covers how much did a 12 cent comic cost in Canada in the 1960s? Was it still 12 cents or more?

I'd love to know this.  Throughout the 60's, the Canuck dollar was worth about 93 yankee cents, so if they'd been re-pricing like for like, US Marvels would only have been 13c.  That said, there's no reason you'd necessarily charge the same cover price.  If I'd just had to drive a pallet of Lois Lane's to Iqaluit, I'd be charging the extra couple of cents for my trouble.  

My TOS #39, which I believe to be genuine (based largely on the fact that I cannot bear to think otherwise) has one of these stickers.  This would put it more than 5 years before US comics cost 15c, so it definitely can't be a leftover.   I've had a couple of look-throughs of comics for sale in Canada over the years, but not seen any of these stickers. 

(Though, just to reaffirm, this doesn't contradict what Eric says about the 70's - the two currencies were more or less dead on for 6 years in the 70's and didn't really part ways until 77/78). 

 

Edited January 1 by Malacoda