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[mikeyc67]

New Thor today 

 

[Get Marwood & I]

On 8/20/2021 at 4:48 PM, mikeyc67 said:

New Thor today 

 

Another yellow handed Thunder God! 

[Get Marwood & I]

I was at the London Fair yesterday and noticed that all the Alans were missing. Usually, there's quite a few sellers with them, often they're on the floor in cheap boxes. This time - none. I overheard discussions about Double Double comics and the eye watering T&P annual prices, and a few dealers complaining about the speculators clearing them out of 'hot' books before they were even aware they were hot. "I can't spend my whole life on eBay seeing what is hot" said one dealer. 

I would imagine it's very hard to find anything now, to make a buck on, in the internet age. All the secrets are out now, it seems. 

Thank God I only collect the stuff that has not yet caught on (and probably never will)....

[mikeyc67]

Yes outbid on a few recently but managed to get this Spidey

 

[Frisco Larson]

On 4/26/2021 at 10:24 AM, Get Marwood & I said:

It is indeed #11, which reprints the Charlton title of the same name, #9 as you rightly say - here's a copy from the bay:

 

As you can see from the certificate from the plate set that I posted that no one liked enough to comment on, there were two AC series of Out of This World:

 

The first series ran for 23 issues - you can view them on the GCD here:

https://www.comics.org/series/21401/covers/?page=1.2

And the second, 10 issues:

https://www.comics.org/series/21402/covers/?page=1.2

The holy grail of that title is OOTW #17 which reprinted Amazing Fantasy #15 and which now commands eye watering premiums. Here's my old copy, now long gone alas:

 

Recent sales 

You can read up on Alan a bit more here:

https://30thcenturycomics.co.uk/extras/alan-class/alan-class-guide/

And here is a nice video interview of the man himself:

We won't see his like again, nor the simplicity of the times he operated in.

 

What a fantastic interview!!! Thank you so much for posting this!!!  

[Get Marwood & I]

Spot the difference! 

 

 

 

Alan gives you more! 

 

[themagicrobot]

 

 

The first two issues were called Tales of Suspense until Alan must have realised or been prompted that there was already a pence Tales of Suspense being sold. So from issue three it became Amazing Stories of Suspense. After a decade Alan began reprinting his reprints but when it came to the covers he couldn't be bothered to change the titles so now and again the comic would once again become Tales of Suspense. But I do need to buy issue 133 to see if Alan changed the interior story title from "The Endless Journey" to "The Trap" as well as altering the cover. By Issue 161 it was back to "The endless Journey" once more.

 

 

 

[Get Marwood & I]

On 1/12/2022 at 7:27 PM, themagicrobot said:

By Issue 161 it was back to "The endless Journey" once more.

...and minus half the black plate from the looks of it 

[themagicrobot]

And by this time it was part of the "Class Series" and no longer "Approved". My father certainly didn't approve my purchasing them. He one day wondered out loud why I was reading a Lois Lane comic. He approved of the Rover with its text stories. Also Look and Learn and the Classics Illustrated comics which he would gladly buy for me and I would glady accept, whilst still buying Alan Class comics most weeks when we went to visit my Aunt. There was a newsagents close to her house that had NO SPINNER RACK!!! but did stockAlans black and white "rubbish". 

[Get Marwood & I]

Here, @themagicrobot, I got this freebie from Krept Into the Krypton, Krapped and Krept Out Again Comics, and it's missing the back cover and half the contents:

Do you think I should send it back?

Then again, at the end of the day, it gets dark, and half an Alan is half a quid, so with a press and clean I could get it up to sixty pee on a good day. Shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth really. Not with that breath, anyway. 

Spoiler

 

          Oi! Cheeky...

 

[themagicrobot]

Why not get it encapsulated and then it could be transformed into an Adventures into the Unknown (and probably be worth less than 50p)

[Get Marwood & I]

On 1/12/2022 at 7:56 PM, themagicrobot said:

Why not get it encapsulated and then it could be transformed into an Adventures into the Unknown (and probably be worth less than 50p)

On current CGC labelling policy it would, yes. It's enough to make a Texan Titter 

[themagicrobot]

I think I'll submit my Aventures into the Unknown 157 here with an accompanying note saying I wish them to label it as Uncanny Tales 84 as I prefer my comics to be approved by Alan who is a real person rather than by the ficticious Comic Code Authority.

Edited January 12, 2022 by themagicrobot

[themagicrobot]

You can see a faint 1/- behind the 5p price on your comic. Alan had got the prices right for previous issues. You can imagine him saying "Damn I put lsd price and I need to do the cover again. No I can just overwrite it. No one will ever notice".

[Get Marwood & I]

On 1/12/2022 at 8:21 PM, themagicrobot said:

You can see a faint 1/- behind the 5p price on your comic. Alan had got the prices right for previous issues. You can imagine him saying "Damn I put lsd price and I need to do the cover again. No I can just overwrite it. No one will ever notice".

....until now. 

It's a fun passtime, seeing how Alan covered things up from version to version. Proper tippex merchant 

[themagicrobot]

It's uncanny how the prices move around the covers.

 

[Get Marwood & I]

On 1/12/2022 at 8:32 PM, themagicrobot said:

It's uncanny how the prices move around the covers.

 

That's uncanny.

[Get Marwood & I]

Canny Tales would've been a boring title, wouldn't it. 

Canny? 

I don't know. Ask him. 

[themagicrobot]

Quote

uncanny, which debuted in the 18th century, implies disquieting strangeness or mysteriousness. English also has a word canny, but canny and uncanny should not be interpreted as opposites. Canny, which first appeared in English in the 16th century, means "clever," "shrewd," or "prudent," as in "a canny lawyer" or "a canny investment."

 

[Get Marwood & I]

On 1/12/2022 at 8:47 PM, themagicrobot said:

 

Prudent Tales. 

That's got a ring to it.