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

[themagicrobot]

Mr Google says:

During 1945, King Features Syndicate attempted to distribute Jane in the United States. However, the nudity was too much for prudish American audiences, and the attempt ceased during 1946. 

I'm sure there were others before and since.

[Get Marwood & I]

I was watching this book on the bay but forgot to bid. Busy day, yesterday. It has quite an unusual repricing situation going on:

It only went for a few Alans in the end. Probably a fun read too. I like how he describes the cover scenario so literally.

Imagine if he described the distribution marks.

"Huh? A Thorpe & Porter stamped copy with a load of ink smudging out the 9d price only for the book to then be restamped with an unbranded 10d stamp of a variety seldom seen!"

[Albert Tatlock]

On 2/11/2024 at 12:24 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

I was watching this book on the bay but forgot to bid. Busy day, yesterday. It has quite an unusual repricing situation going on:

It only went for a few Alans in the end. Probably a fun read too. I like how he describes the cover scenario so literally.

Imagine if he described the distribution marks.

"Huh? A Thorpe & Porter stamped copy with a load of ink smudging out the 9d price only for the book to then be restamped with an unbranded 10d stamp of a variety seldom seen!"

No cause for concern here, Blackhawk  has previous experience to draw on.

It's deja vu all over again.

And both times he's lost his hat.

[OtherEric]

On 2/12/2024 at 11:20 AM, Albert Tatlock said:

No cause for concern here, Blackhawk  has previous experience to draw on.

It's deja vu all over again.

And both times he's lost his hat.

Remember: any plan where you lose your hat is a bad plan.

[Albert Tatlock]

Another piece of the jigsaw........

 

And a couple that have surfaced before, but are still lesser-spotted.......

 

 

 

[Get Marwood & I]

On 2/12/2024 at 7:42 PM, Albert Tatlock said:

Another piece of the jigsaw........

And a couple that have surfaced before, but are still lesser-spotted.......

 

 

Flippity Flopin' Nora!

[Get Marwood & I]

Well done @Albert Tatlock - Flippity moves into the stamped files leaving Peter Porkchops as the only DC title in the first four T&P stamp cycles without a single confirmed stamped issue (#61 and 62, the final issues, just sneak into the cover date window):

 

If we find a stamped Flippity #47, well have the 'set' 

 

Where did you find it Albert - is it your copy or did you spot it online?

[yrag9591]

Sadly, my copy of Flippity and Flop 47 doesn’t have a stamp. I doubt a stamped copy will turn up, as 47 is late 1960, over a year after 46, and after the humour titles stopped being distributed in the UK. Still, stranger things have happened.

Edited February 13 by yrag9591

[Get Marwood & I]

On 2/13/2024 at 12:13 PM, yrag9591 said:

Sadly, my copy of Flippity and Flop 47 doesn’t have a stamp. I doubt a stamped copy will turn up, as 47 is late 1960, over a year after 46, and after the humour titles stopped being distributed in the UK. Still, stranger things have happened.

Gap aside, that cover date is still within the first 4 stamp cycles, so it may yet turn up. We just need one US unsold stray to find its way into the mix.....

[Albert Tatlock]

On 2/13/2024 at 12:41 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

Gap aside, that cover date is still within the first 4 stamp cycles, so it may yet turn up. We just need one US unsold stray to find its way into the mix.....

If only, but..............

[OtherEric]

On 2/13/2024 at 4:41 AM, Get Marwood & I said:

Gap aside, that cover date is still within the first 4 stamp cycles, so it may yet turn up. We just need one US unsold stray to find its way into the mix.....

 

On 2/13/2024 at 2:10 PM, Albert Tatlock said:

If only, but..............

Just remember:  saying you never expect something to turn up is the most effective way of making something actually turn up, but it only works if you absolutely and sincerely believe that it won’t ever turn up when you say it.

[Albert Tatlock]

On 2/13/2024 at 10:14 PM, OtherEric said:

 

Just remember:  saying you never expect something to turn up is the most effective way of making something actually turn up, but it only works if you absolutely and sincerely believe that it won’t ever turn up when you say it.

When blizzards sweep through Hell...............

[baggsey]

On 2/13/2024 at 5:21 AM, Get Marwood & I said:

Well done @Albert Tatlock - Flippity moves into the stamped files leaving Peter Porkchops as the only DC title in the first four T&P stamp cycles without a single confirmed stamped issue (#61 and 62, the final issues, just sneak into the cover date window):

 

If we find a stamped Flippity #47, well have the 'set' 

 

Where did you find it Albert - is it your copy or did you spot it online?

I still live in hope that a T&P stamped copy of Detective 272 turns up. As I previously related, I did have a copy back in the 70's. It had a tear in the cover and a taped spine, according to my notes.

[Albert Tatlock]

On 2/14/2024 at 4:48 PM, baggsey said:

I still live in hope that a T&P stamped copy of Detective 272 turns up. As I previously related, I did have a copy back in the 70's. It had a tear in the cover and a taped spine, according to my notes.

Quite likely that at least one will turn up, ditto Adventure # 265, which I had in the mid 1960s.

Probably the best candidate for next earliest stamped copy to come to light is Unexpected # 43.

[Albert Tatlock]

On 2/13/2024 at 11:21 AM, Get Marwood & I said:

Where did you find it Albert - is it your copy or did you spot it online?

It is mine now, all mine d'you hear, and will be treasured forever. It turned up in a bundle of nondescript stuff that has only just reached me.

I said a while back that I had never come across this title (Flippity) or  Porkchops. If I had I would just have riffled past in search of something more to my liking. My early collecting activity was quite narrowly focused.

Then I took to thinking that Peter Porkchops sounded familiar, and just about convinced myself that I had seen one.

But now  I have come to the conclusion that I must have been fondly remembering the character as depicted in the in -house ads, as shown below.

So the search goes on.

[Albert Tatlock]

On 2/13/2024 at 11:21 AM, Get Marwood & I said:

Cannot see rest of this chart, do you reckon you could post it all, so we know which of the little blighters are still dodging us.

[Malacoda]

Right a bit, left a bit, fire!!

[Bart Allen]

On 2/5/2024 at 8:51 PM, Redshade said:

Those pages look to be very white for a seventy (?) year old book. Rather too white imho. Could they be some of the "facsimiles" of 1950s comics that were produced in the !980s?
(Being over forty years old if kept in the wrong conditions could cause the rusty staples).

On 2/5/2024 at 9:08 PM, themagicrobot said:

1962 so 62 years young. I think they are original and genuine. I will know for sure when mine arrives 😊 

I thought the only 1980s facsimiles were Marvelman family stuff?

Just two of my Whitworth facsimiles' if that'll help ~ I originally believed my YM #370 was a facsimile, though proved to be an original via Ewan and 30thCC due to the staple rust:

P.S. Where, Redshade, where did you see that Whitworth catalogue?

Edited February 16 by Bart Allen

[Get Marwood & I]

On 2/15/2024 at 4:22 PM, Albert Tatlock said:

Cannot see rest of this chart, do you reckon you could post it all, so we know which of the little blighters are still dodging us.

Yes, sorry, I'll have a go later Albert. I think it needs an update.

[Get Marwood & I]

@Albert Tatlock

I think this is up to date now. I do a full sweep every so often but not for a while now.

Check your copies!