Alan Club 6 6

[themagicrobot]

I always liked this unusual cover (from Charlton's Unusual Tales 5) despite the fact that the cover doesn't really have any bearing on the story inside. And although it was 1956 Charlton were still stressing within that their comics conformed to the code. Even so this cover gave me nightmares as a child when I first saw it fronting Sinister Tales 31 in the mid 1960s. Then the top of the cover said "NEW AMAZING STORIES". By issue 139 Alan had sensibly removed the "NEW" as the same stuff came round again.

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Edited January 22, 2022 by themagicrobot

[Get Marwood & I]

I picked this up for a pound yesterday, because I recalled it had the first Thor in it.

It didn't, of course - that was in one of the other eighty five uses of the cover. 

Still worth a punt though. And I've got something to read, now.

No time like the present 

 

 

 

Anyone got any clue what the first six words say 

[OtherEric]

On 5/30/2022 at 3:27 AM, Get Marwood & I said:

 

 

Anyone got any clue what the first six words say 

Full 68 pages all brand new

[Get Marwood & I]

On 5/30/2022 at 5:13 PM, OtherEric said:

Full 68 pages all brand new

[OtherEric]

On 5/30/2022 at 9:24 AM, Get Marwood & I said:

GCD is your friend:

[Get Marwood & I]

On 5/30/2022 at 5:29 PM, OtherEric said:

GCD is your friend:

I knew what it said Eric, I was just mucking about. You have read my threads before, haven't you?   

[OtherEric]

On 5/30/2022 at 9:31 AM, Get Marwood & I said:

I knew what it said Eric, I was just mucking about. You have read my threads before, haven't you? 

I have indeed.  I figured you knew it was deliberately obscured.

The discussion, in the form we had it, is clearly necessary to amuse others reading the thread who may not as be familiar with your ways and the ways of the Alan Class reprints.  Even if both you and I knew exactly how it would go.  (I wasn't sure exactly what GIF you would use to respond, but the overall details were quite clear.)

[themagicrobot]

Alan Class was obviously a gentleman of integrity and honesty. He couldn't print "ALL BRAND NEW" when he knew it wasn't but being a one-man (?) band with limited facilities he still sent out product with obvious crossings-out. If he had left the covers as they were no one would have noticed and I doubt he would have been pulled in by the Trades Description Act Johnnies.

Funny how 50 years later certain people DO notice these things.   

PS: These turned up a few days ago (I actually just wanted the John Spencer comics).

Edited May 30, 2022 by themagicrobot

[Get Marwood & I]

On 5/30/2022 at 6:58 PM, themagicrobot said:

Alan Class was obviously a gentleman of integrity and honesty. He couldn't print "ALL BRAND NEW" when he knew it wasn't but being a one-man (?) band with limited facilities he still sent out product with obvious crossings-out. If he had left the covers as they were no one would have noticed and I doubt he would have been pulled in by the Trades Description Act Johnnies.

Funny how 50 years later certain people DO notice these things.   

PS: These turned up a few days ago (I actually just wanted the John Spencer comics).

What is the collective noun for a bunch of Alans, I wonder?

A plagiarism? A repetition.....?

 

A class! 

A class of Alans   

[themagicrobot]

Alan's books are in a diiferent class to John Spencer's. Athough they are "All Original" they don't have the style of 1950s Ditko etc and appear to be drawn (in a quite basic style) by Mick Anglo or by Michael Jay (who may well be Mick Anglo too).

[Yorick]

On 4/26/2021 at 8:24 AM, Get Marwood & I said:

I posted that no one liked enough to comment on

Such a great set!  I like it enough. 

[Get Marwood & I]

On 5/30/2022 at 9:32 PM, Yorick said:

Such a great set!  I like it enough. 

200 odd pages late, but welcomed all the same Yorick 

[Yorick]

On 5/30/2022 at 1:35 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

200 odd pages late, but welcomed all the same Yorick 

Well, I can join the club now!

[Get Marwood & I]

On 5/30/2022 at 9:37 PM, Yorick said:

Well, I can join the club now!

9.8! 

You're a man of rare taste, Yorick - welcome in any club of mine 

[Yorick]

On 5/30/2022 at 1:49 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

9.8! 

That's what the label says!  You don't believe it?  Maybe I'll have it pressed into a 10.  Just you wait....

[Get Marwood & I]

On 5/30/2022 at 10:07 PM, Yorick said:

That's what the label says!  You don't believe it?  Maybe I'll have it pressed into a 10.  Just you wait....

"What's he talking about, pressed into a 10?"

"Search me"

"It don't make no sense? A 10 what?

"I told ya already, I don't know"

"Well you're no help, are you"

"You what?!"

"I don't know why I bring you along to these things, if you can't answer a simple question. Think I'll leave you on war rocket Ajax next time"

"You cheeky...THERE'S MING - SHOOT!"

 

[OtherEric]

On 5/30/2022 at 1:37 PM, Yorick said:

Well, I can join the club now!

Williamson Flash. 
Also: obligatory “Flash! Ah-ahh!”

[Get Marwood & I]

On 5/30/2022 at 10:37 PM, OtherEric said:

Williamson Flash. 
Also: obligatory “Flash! Ah-ahh!”

King of the impossible!

 

[Get Marwood & I]

Evening 

I was reading a nice article earlier explaining how halftones are created in the four color printing process that our Alan would have put to good use back in the (hey)day.

Here's the Doc...

...and his original printing plate (reversed):

 

Zoom in on this section of Ock's ugly mug, and you can see how the glasses are a solid block of colour, sorry, color, but the face is made up of a series of small dots:

You can see on the printing plate that the solid block of colour is smooth, as you might expect, but the face area just below it shows all those small dots which achieve the half tone effect:

Cool, isn't it 

 

[OtherEric]

On 6/22/2022 at 12:26 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

Evening 

I was reading a nice article earlier explaining how halftones are created in the four color printing process that our Alan would have put to good use back in the (hey)day.

Here's the Doc...

...and his original printing plate (reversed):

 

Zoom in on this section of Ock's ugly mug, and you can see how the glasses are a solid block of colour, sorry, color, but the face is made up of a series of small dots:

You can see on the printing plate that the solid block of colour is smooth, as you might expect, but the face area just below it shows all those small dots which achieve the half tone effect:

Cool, isn't it 

 

It is cool.  Also, UK book, so you were right with colour the first time.