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Over here Stephen: Funnily enough, my last post there is a copy of that very book! I might have had a go at that ebay copy if it had come up in my searches. The seller likely lost out by not including 1946, Century etc. I'd probably have lost though too. Love the price sticker.

We do.

This made me smile - an eBore seller with four copies, no less, of Marvel Tales Annual #2 up for bidding: The two UKPVs have T&P stamps and the two cents copies don't. Love it

I never liked that dog, in the first panel. Odd looking thing, I always thought. And this story was my first introduction to the phrase "SIC 'IM!" I'd never heard that before and, if I'm honest, I had no idea what it meant. No Google in them days, to look that one up. Did he go back and pay her for the window in the end? I can't remember now.

While we're on this subject, Rich, I wonder why there are so many 10p printed price / 12p stickered Charltons out there, in that late 76 early 77 window, but no Marvel equivalents? Have we covered this before? If all those inflation impacted Charltons did get repriced sequentially on arrival, and not in bulk at some later point, why don't we see 10p printed Marvels, which would have arrived at the same time, with 12p correcting stickers too?

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Could be, Rich. Nice thought, isn't it. I can think of other scenarios though, and we are only looking at three examples to be fair (unless you have more unposted). Maybe both newsagents had lousy stock control, and both bought their stickers from the same WH Smiths I like it when you find common patterns or events, where there are just enough examples to suggest a thing, but just not enough to suggest anything concrete or systematic. This is why I have so many abandoned folders in my files, the starting point of investigations for which no further examples materialised. There's nothing for it - you'll have to make a folder, keep looking, and report back in a few more years

Yep, that's my understanding Rich. Yes, agreed. The point of my post was to point out that your two posts below both base their dates on an assertion that comics 'went up to 12p from March 1977': The Charlton scenario indicates that comics were being stickered at 12p much earlier, from August 1976. Perhaps your newsagent was stickering that early too.

Don't know if this helps Rich, but Charltons were repriced from a 10p printed price to a 12p sticker price on a fairly systemic basis in late 1976, as the extract / examples below show: I've been plotting the UK distribution status throughout Charlton's UK lifetime for many years now, but have yet to spend any meaningful time drawing conclusions from all the data that I've gathered. Your 12p stickers look different, and your theory sounds reasonable on an isolated basis. I just wanted you to know that 12p stickers were a thing as early as cd August 1976, for Charlton at least, 8 months earlier than the date in your quoted post.

Just wait until you get your 'grades received' reply from the Greenwood

You can't beat a bit of MIKEROSS

Is it me, or is that bloke's head enormous?

That's going to have some poor sod scratching his head on Google in 30 years....

The foist twenny

The poor chap in the background's rather inadequate looking expression says it all, doesn't it.....

It sits on Ben's blog, yes. He the mobilises the mob.

I've been doing these competitions long enough now to know, from Mike's informative 'grades received' emoji, that, alas, my round one grades are probably horsesht

There are some fabulous blogs and sites out there if you look. They fly under the radar, mostly, but the effort some collectors put in is admirable. I may not collect the books myself, but I'm always in appreciative awe of the people who dedicate themselves to discovering as much as they can about the things that sit outside of the circle. Anything that sits aside of the 'main event', in some variant form or another, floats my boat and always has done.

Thissa one, Richmond: https://www.cpvpriceguide.com/ I did a Charlie CPV article for a previous year here: https://rarecomics.wordpress.com/2022/11/07/charlton-canadian-price-variants-cpvs/ As you can see, it followed in the footsteps of all my Charlie related musings and set the world alight in that anti-midas touch sort of way that we've come to expect

Is there another Stephen Cranch that I haven't heard of? UKPV Specialist

Exactly. That's why I've always mucked about with graphics here. One decent graphic beats a block of text every time, at Marwood Towers. The first 20 Marvel UKPVs, in cover date order, one for each thread page post

This was fun to listen to. My kind of collectors talking about my kind of comics