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

[OtherEric]

On 10/13/2022 at 11:18 AM, Get Marwood & I said:

There's evidence of AUS publications being sold here, so who knows...

 

That cover is all kinds of messed up, and thinking about it just makes it worse.  Why does Jerry look so darn HAPPY?

[Get Marwood & I]

On 10/13/2022 at 7:03 PM, themagicrobot said:

Looking more closely at these it looks like they were originally 1/3 and the 3d was tippexed out?????

Have a look on the GCD Robot - the copies look like they are mostly one shilling with only a few 1'3's dotted about:

https://www.comics.org/issue/913640/cover/4/

 

[Get Marwood & I]

On 10/13/2022 at 7:29 PM, OtherEric said:

That cover is all kinds of messed up, and thinking about it just makes it worse.  Why does Jerry look so darn HAPPY?

Tom, surely?

[Get Marwood & I]

On 10/13/2022 at 7:26 PM, themagicrobot said:

I'm beginning to wonder where on earth this thread can go to next.

To the Notting Hill Comic Exchange....and BEYOND!

[OtherEric]

On 10/13/2022 at 11:31 AM, Get Marwood & I said:

Tom, surely?

No, Jerry is smiling despite what looks like an extremely high Tom getting ready to lick him.  Tom, I can almost explain... But Jerry's quiet expression of joy has me croggled.

[Get Marwood & I]

On 10/13/2022 at 7:36 PM, OtherEric said:

No, Jerry is smiling despite what looks like an extremely high Tom getting ready to lick him.  Tom, I can almost explain... But Jerry's quiet expression of joy has me croggled.

[themagicrobot]

On 10/13/2022 at 7:31 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

Have a look on the GCD Robot - the copies look like they are mostly one shilling with only a few 1'3's dotted about:

https://www.comics.org/issue/913640/cover/4/

 

No I think I'm right. Some comics have definitely been tampered with.

[Get Marwood & I]

On 10/13/2022 at 7:51 PM, themagicrobot said:

No I think I'm right. Some comics have definitely been tampered with.

By the printers presumably, as there are multiple copies of issue #40 out there showing the same thing. 

[Malacoda]

On 10/13/2022 at 7:13 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

Ethel just couldn't leave it alone...

Unless......

 

....it was stamped to put the number on it rather than the price.  If the whole thing was just hit-and-miss, we are sooooo completely screwed. 

 

[Malacoda]

No relation, I assume?  

[Malacoda]

On 10/13/2022 at 7:26 PM, themagicrobot said:

I'm beginning to wonder where on earth this thread can go to next.

Discount Stamp II:  This Time, It's Decimal. 

[themagicrobot]

 

[Malacoda]

On 10/15/2022 at 7:11 PM, themagicrobot said:

 

Weird that they stopped importing the treasuries because they presumably weren't selling, but then went to the effort of reprinting the last one.  I assume World took the decision to stop importing but they were gone by then so Dez Skinn seized the opportunity for a cheap knock off. 

[Malacoda]

In other news, in the Netherlands, Hulk is called Bonk.  I'll leave that with you. 

[OtherEric]

On 10/16/2022 at 7:59 AM, Malacoda said:

Weird that they stopped importing the treasuries because they presumably weren't selling, but then went to the effort of reprinting the last one.  I assume World took the decision to stop importing but they were gone by then so Dez Skinn seized the opportunity for a cheap knock off. 

It might have stemmed from different arrangements with Marvel and DC at the time causing a special set of circumstances with that book.  It's more than odd enough to disregard in any overall theory of distribution.

[Albert Tatlock]

On 10/15/2022 at 5:15 AM, Malacoda said:

Discount Stamp II:  This Time, It's Decimal. 

Snap! 

[Redshade]

On 10/16/2022 at 4:13 PM, Malacoda said:

In other news, in the Netherlands, Hulk is called Bonk.  I'll leave that with you. 

"The unmistakable raw bonk" according to google translate (yes, I lead a sad and lonely life).

 

[themagicrobot]

It gets worse. They call the FF the Defenders?!?

[Malacoda]

On 10/18/2022 at 7:43 PM, themagicrobot said:

It gets worse. They call the FF the Defenders?!?

It gets better. They call the FF the Four Defenders.  The Defenders are also called the Defenders.  It's very weird that FF are not called the Fantastische Vier, which is what they're called in German (with an added N, different plurals). 

 

 

 

 

[Malacoda]

Greetings, Brains Trust, 

I just want to check - this example of Steve's from a while back - it is very rare to see a comic/book re-stamped with a second T&P stamp, right?  There are loads that have the triangular sale price stamp, and other sale stamps, and other mad rando stamps. but two different roundey price & number T&P stamps are super-rare, right? To be clear, I'm not asking about the changeover from the old, big messy black stamp to the smaller blue stamp, I mean any re-stamping where it acquires a new number from the numbering system.  Ta.