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

[Get Marwood & I]

32 minutes ago, Malacoda said:

Always a US price and an oblong orange UK price sticker.  Are there David Gold distributed magazines  or comics from the 60's which have the famous oblong stamp we think is his? 

Those DHOKF stickers were always unbranded though, weren't they. Not like the 'GSP' ones we see on the comics.

Sometimes we let an idea run away with itself and, if we're not careful, cement in false assumptions. You know my memory isn't great for things that I have already done / written about, but how exactly did we arrive at the conclusion that this...

...was a Gold Star stamp? Is it just because it is oblong like this...

...and it looks like the same sticker might have been removed from the Spidey there?

I'm sure it was @Albert Tatlock that first suggested it? I could be wrong though. Let's call him. 

TATLOCK! Was it you?

 

[Malacoda]

Ha! I think it was Albert who first posited it on here but I had that conversation with you & Ben off board last year and GS was kind of acknowledged as the prime suspect.  Yes, the orange ones were unbranded.  

[Get Marwood & I]

12 minutes ago, Malacoda said:

Ha! I think it was Albert who first posited it on here but I had that conversation with you & Ben off board last year and GS was kind of acknowledged as the prime suspect.  Yes, the orange ones were unbranded.  

I don't think they could have placed that sticker any HI-YAH!

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[Get Marwood & I]

I'm here all week 

[Albert Tatlock]

57 minutes ago, Get Marwood & I said:

TATLOCK! Was it you?

Guilty m'lud.

At the time (summer 1967) I had never heard of Gold Star, so, as with any new information, I filed it away in my head, and it has been there ever since.

If only I had known that over 50 years later I would be pressed to back up what I had just found out, I would have gone to one of our learned friends and sworn an affidavit.

There is one sure way of obtaining corroboration, but, as we have seen, Mr Gold is incommunicative.

There are others who could possibly assist, though, and I will institute enquiries on the morrow.

On a slightly different tack, have we given thought to how our colleagues across the Irish Sea were getting their fix?

Scan attached would suggest that T & P did not supply the Republic, but we need more info.

There was an excellent fanzine, published in Dublin by Tony Roche, to which I subscribed, and it showed that there was a regular supply over there at the time.

I will try to dig out some copies soon.

[Get Marwood & I]

6 minutes ago, Albert Tatlock said:

Guilty m'lud.

At the time (summer 1967) I had never heard of Gold Star, so, as with any new information, I filed it away in my head, and it has been there ever since.

If only I had known that over 50 years later I would be pressed to back up what I had just found out, I would have gone to one of our learned friends and sworn an affidavit.

There is one sure way of obtaining corroboration, but, as we have seen, Mr Gold is incommunicative.

There are others who could possibly assist, though, and I will institute enquiries on the morrow.

On a slightly different tack, have we given thought to how our colleagues across the Irish Sea were getting their fix?

Scan attached would suggest that T & P did not supply the Republic, but we need more info.

There was an excellent fanzine, published in Dublin by Tony Roche, to which I subscribed, and it showed that there was a regular supply over there at the time.

I will try to dig out some copies soon.

Indeed. How did they get true I wonder, priced one and tree 

(That was my best Ken Doherty)

 

[Albert Tatlock]

https://downthetubes.net/?p=35910

[Malacoda]

13 minutes ago, Get Marwood & I said:

I don't think they could have placed that sticker any HI-YAH!

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[Get Marwood & I]

3 minutes ago, Malacoda said:

 

I remember those knockers, sorry, that advert. 

[Albert Tatlock]

8 minutes ago, Get Marwood & I said:

Indeed. How did they get true I wonder, priced one and tree 

(That was my best Ken Doherty)

 

Presumably T & P were suppling the 6 counties, so who had the distribution rights for the 26, and did they ever get anything cover dated before October of 1959?

[Albert Tatlock]

And do the letters E, F and H correspond to the 'numerator' section of the T & P stamps?

[Albert Tatlock]

http://journeyplanet.weebly.com/uploads/1/5/7/1/15715530/jp31.pdf

See top of page 14 - but I think 1965 should read 1966

[Malacoda]

 

1 hour ago, Get Marwood & I said:

Sometimes we let an idea run away with itself and, if we're not careful, cement in false assumptions.

One thing is that we know Gold were the distributors for DHOKF, Savage Sword of Conan and those titles, but that was in the 70's.   There were no Marvel Magazines in the 60's (except a 2 shot Spidey).  I've always assumed that what Gold were distributing in the 60's were Magazine Management's For Men Only, Stag &  Male type magazines which would have been right up David Gold's alley, which is how they came to be connected to Marvel.  But I don't actually know that.  

 

[Get Marwood & I]

9 hours ago, Malacoda said:

 

One thing is that we know Gold were the distributors for DHOKF, Savage Sword of Conan and those titles, but that was in the 70's.   There were no Marvel Magazines in the 60's (except a 2 shot Spidey).  I've always assumed that what Gold were distributing in the 60's were Magazine Management's For Men Only, Stag &  Male type magazines which would have been right up David Gold's alley, which is how they came to be connected to Marvel.  But I don't actually know that.  

 

I posted quite a few magazines studies earlier in the thread, having gathered images to see if they could have represented the missing T&P stamp numbers in the first comic cycle. That progressed and I now have scores of images saved and even bought a few. Almost all of those types of mens magazines were T&P:

There were even a few possible 'price variants' with printed UK prices:

But I don't have a single example of a magazine with anything remotely like a Gold Star stamp or sticker - it seems T&P had that market cornered. 

[Get Marwood & I]

9 hours ago, Albert Tatlock said:

Presumably T & P were suppling the 6 counties, so who had the distribution rights for the 26, and did they ever get anything cover dated before October of 1959?

I don't know, but I doubt it.

9 hours ago, Albert Tatlock said:

And do the letters E, F and H correspond to the 'numerator' section of the T & P stamps?

Who knows - I'll let you devil that one out Albert, given the distinct lack of available examples (even on eBay.ie). As the wife's Dad would say "It's a holy terror"

[Get Marwood & I]

[Get Marwood & I]

@yrag9591

Here's the updated table Gary - I'm crossing my fingers for some more Romance 

 

I missed the bidding on this double stamped 'first' Batman - how cool is that?

 

[Get Marwood & I]

19 hours ago, Malacoda said:

Anyone have a theory about what the O.P. stamp denotes? 

Odhams Press?

Odhams Press was a British publishing company, operating from 1920 to 1968. Originally a magazine publisher, Odhams later expanded into book publishing and then children's comics. The company was acquired by Fleetway Publications in 1961 and then IPC Magazines in 1963. In its final incarnation, Odhams was known for its Power Comics line of titles, notable for publishing reprints of American Marvel Comics superheroes.

[Mr Thorpe]

A couple of missing Tomahawks.

 

[Get Marwood & I]

6 minutes ago, Mr Thorpe said:

A couple of missing Tomahawks.

Very romantic!