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I'd go and see any of these bands : Low-Grade Copy The Pence Variants Rat Chew Roberts & Vinter I'd give these a miss though : The Newton Rings Slabbed Gem Mint Creep Engine

Maybe he had a perm.

Given her address, I'm not hopeful: And Kitto looks like he could've been problematic in later life:

Evening. I'm supposed to be leaving this thread alone, but what can you do when you find this in a box for two quid? What do you mean, 'leave it there'? It reprints this: Comparing the placement of the indicia data on my stickerless copy, and this other stickered UK distribution copy (not mine), the production values were demonstrably top notch I'll see you again if I ever find another cheap pre-60s book in a box.

Yes! I have that bookmarked as 'L Miller demise'. I've got quite a few Miller websites bookmarked as it goes. Not sure why, but I find I lose interest a bit when reading what others have researched and written about him. I realise that I like to do the discovering myself. I'll never forget that well known UK expert dealer who scoffed "There are no Charlton pence copies!" that time, when I enquired after his stock. He soon shut up when I showed him the several hundred confirmations (at the time) within the 834 possibilities....

Shhh. Don't tell Yozza, or he'll make one.

What are you doing in here, Paq! The GCD entry here indicates it's a UK publication which reprints original US content: "Seems to be taken from the splash panel of Captain Marvel Battles the World's Maddest Ghost! from Fawcett's Captain Marvel Adventures #138 (November 1952)." Like all 1950s Millers, it will definitely be B&W inside.

The result of ten minutes mucking about this afternoon...

A nice Roberts & Vinter ~ Thorpe & Porter ~ L Miller stamp triple from Sunday's fair

Sorry Rich, the memory cheats - it was the porn!

"Better back away, gents! Yore out-numbered! It's only the three of yuh against the Rawhide Kid!" "What am I, Scotch mist?" "Eh?" "I take you everywhere, with never a word of thanks, and when the action starts it's just you, isn't it. Always just you" "Huh?" "How about "Yore out-numbered! It's only the three of yuh against the Rawhide Kid and Barry" How about that for a change?" "Gee Barry, I never knew you felt that way, bein a horse an all" "Talk properly! Yore, yuh, an all. Did you go to school or what?" ~ "Boss, shall we just shoot these two clowns?" "Quiet Clive, I'm listening to the horse"

“The time is out of joint: O cursed spite / That ever I was born to price it right!"

Nothing strikes greater fear in the heart than a little tuft of hair BUD-UD-UD-AH!

+1

"Well, don't leave us in feckin suspense, what is it?"

My favourite Bob joke: "I still enjoy sex at 68. Well, I live at number 66 it's no distance"

It looks like there was a sticker there at some point, too. We could probably do a separate 'well placed stamps' thread and have no trouble keeping it going. Do you remember my moon montage? I can't find it in the files I always liked my old ASM #25 copy too, balancing the tee&pee... Someone start a new thread.

That's one of the letters I was referring to earlier, yes. I think I saved something about the bankruptcy somewhere where you can go and view the actual record. It was during Covid, so I parked it. Will have a hunt around.

It's amazing what you can knock out in half an hour, isn't it

Obscuring and corner chopping. Feels deliberate, doesn't it...

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I meant on that particular issue Robot - the two tables I posted earlier show the various pricing scenarios that I found across the title runs. I suppose the salient differences are the branded shield vs non-shield. Here's some better images - you can see the slightly different placements in them:

Comic mysteries.... It's hard to tell, but there are a few tell tale signs of a piece added around the neckline. This from the Heritage description: "Slight toning, trimmed top corners, tape residue staining on the top/bottom edges, the Punisher's face is a discolored art paste-up, whiteout corrections, with light staining and handling wear. In Very Good condition." Shall we all club together and buy it?

Still on Miller, look at this: How cool is that? Now, try finding anything out about it, online. It's probably buried out there somewhere, in a blog, mag or book. Or maybe not. I've banged the drum more than anyone alive to alert the community about Miller's non-reprint UK distribution activities. It's all he'd been known for, for 70 years - reprinting stuff. But now we also know that he was joint first on the Marvel UKPV front and distributed Charlton (as UKPVs and stamped copies), Harvey, IW and Archie US originals here. But even on the reprint front, so little is known. My task now is to try to find out what Captain Tornado actually reprints if, indeed, it does. The only other Captain Tornado I can find (in Dell's Popular Comics) doesn't look a whole lot like the Miller content: I haven't looked that hard yet, to be fair, but definitely a job for another day (unless we have a Captain Tornado aficionado reading)

I've posted at length about the Roberts & Vinter 'shield' stamps on Charltons in the past and spotted this copy of Horror Monsters at the fair yesterday: I love the price sticker. Anyroad (Fred Elliott), there are two UK stamped versions, one with the R&V shield, and one with a bog standard two an six: I spent a bit of time on these a few years back, as you can see... ...but this is the first copy of one that I've actually had in hand. There is a brilliant ad inside for Charlton comics - I love that: The obviously didn't have scissors back in the 1960s. The big discovery for me was that the R&V stamp on the cover is just that - an after printing stamp. You can feel the indentation that it has made and, hopefully, see it in the photo below: It's quite a deep indentation, but I can't detect any impression on the splash page. Make of that what you will. I have a few examples of this issue in the files, and the cover placement seems the same on all issues, implying mechanical application. I love this kind of thing. No way of knowing whether it was applied at source, or later in the UK. No way of knowing why there are two types and whether those two are the work of one or two distributors. All good fun. He's one ugly sod isn't he, our cover star. She...?