The Distribution of US Published Comics in the UK (1959~1982) 16 16

[OtherEric]

From what I recall, the exchange rate between the US and Canada was about equal during the 70's.  Living in the Seattle area as a little kid, you would frequently get Canadian coins in your change, and while not everybody would accept them on par with US, enough places would that it wasn't really an issue.  That changed (no pun intended) in the 80's.  So I'm not sure why books of that era would need Canadian pricing stickers.  I think in general it's more likely that there were certain locations that wanted/ needed to bump the price rather than specifically Canada.

I'll need to look, I know I've got at least a few books with similar stickers.  My assumption was always it was an individual dealer thing, but as others have suggested they're pretty uniform in design for that to be true.

[Malacoda]

On 9/8/2024 at 9:02 PM, paqart said:

This fits into the group @Get Marwood & I described where the distributor upped the printed UK price with a higher UK price because they are giant-sized.

Actually more convoluted than that.  These are the Nov 71 25c giants, which were (correctly) priced at 8p by Sparta for the UK variants, but, presumably (a) because World Distributors had only recently taken over distribution, (b) the comics had remained priced in old money up to this point and (c) there had been a sudden and seemingly badly communicated size-change and price rise at the same time, World actually decreased the cover price by putting 6p stickers over the 8p printed prices.  This must have been a real mess at the time because, whereas T&P housed the Ethels in the same building as sales and distribution, it was in a completely different building in a different part of town at World, with no Ethels on hand to stick stickers.  I imagine a lot of secretaries came in for the weekend to do this (completely unnecessarily as it turned out). 

 

 

[Get Marwood & I]

https://boards.cgccomics.com/topic/411880-marvel-uk-price-variants/?do=findComment&comment=10521388

 

[Albert Tatlock]

On 9/8/2024 at 7:18 PM, Malacoda said:

but especially don't peel a sticker off unless you have some way of getting it off absolutely cleanly doing no damage, making no digs or indentations as you peel it and leaving zero sticky residue on the cover.  A sticker won't reduce the value or eye appeal (especially not on this thread) but pulling it off might cause a variety of horrors (even if you get it off cleanly, the paper will certainly be discoloured underneath, so it will look better with the sticker on anyway). 

There are products on the market specifically designed for the removal of labels from paper.

Don't use any designed to remove stickers from metal, etc, as they may attack the ink.

Best place to look is paper conservation specialists.

If you already have comics with stickers removed, but still bearing traces of adhesive, a bit of talc will stop it sticking to another mag, or to a plastic bag. Gently rubbing the area should clean off the talc and the remaining adhesive, leaving the printed area unaffected, although there may be some irreversible discoloration if the sticker has been in place for any length of time.

[paqart]

On 9/9/2024 at 11:40 AM, Malacoda said:

 

Very true and important to bear in mind, although I would still say a subscription crease is the horse and some other reason is the zebra. 

Quite true.