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Alas it’s not the first time you’ve told me to get out Hence my reaction this week.

@Get Marwood & I Stop and think how it looks for a moment. You quote me (why?) and then say “who cares” Just because you start a thread doesn’t mean you own it. I’ve always tried to show some positivity in my posts here. Try it. PS I would have laughed at the “who cares” if it didn’t contain a link to the dead Class thread. That was just rude.

I see you're back to your normal mode of telling me I'm posting in the wrong thread. AGAIN. Give it a rest eh?? WHO CARES.

Here are a couple more tatty comics. This Uncanny Tales is unusual. It actually contains two complete consecutive Daredevil stories (Nos 57 and 58). Alan more usually printed stuff randomly. I assume with the dual pricing that the comic originally appeared in late 1970 or early 1971. So the material was quite recent. Other Class comics at the time published Spider-Man material from a similar time. How and why did he manage to get hold of this when most of his other stuff was from the late 1950s/early 1960s? Was it a lucky accident? Odhams had finished with the Marvel reprints and Marvel UK was still in the planning stage so I guess the material was fair game for a period. Thorpe and Porter's Race for the Moon No 1 for once does actually contain the contents of Harvey's first issue (along with Man in Black tales to fill all the "Big 68 pages". Later issues, when they had used up the Harvey material, continued with Atlas, ACG and even the odd DC strip.

L. Miller certainly covered all the bases. From Adult magazines, horror, westerns right through to Nursery Age books. There were a bewildering number of "Jolly Miller" books. I'm not really sure what age group they were aimed at. They were just cut-and-paste jobs full of grainy photos of Trains, Planes, Ships etc along with nursery rhyme stuff. I'm surprised to see the prices being asked for Captain Video comics. I'm also surprised to notice that the first two issues cost 9d and contained alternate colour pages. That experiment quickly ended and No 3 was back to black and white and a 6d price. Most of their comics were 6d until the introduction of the squarebound Shilling Mystics etc. PS: I don't think UK readers would have had a clue what the Dumont Television Network was. At the time the comic was published we still only had just the one TV channel (Auntie Beeb) and our first commercial TV channel began in 1955. I wonder if they showed Captain Video? Even in the US the Dumont Television Network will be forgotten being as it only broadcast from 1940 to 1956.

I was always taught not to run with scissors. Flying with them could be equally dangerous. PS: Yes, I had to look at it twice. It does say "the greatest news of the ear" ?!?

I wonder if this letter is genuine or really written by the Editor? I was surprised by the results of a competition. This shows Miller's did have national coverage, reaching Scotland, Northern Ireland and remote outposts like Tottenham, Paddington and even Monument Road Birmingham. I think I can picture the two newsagents round the corner from there where young John may have purchased his Captain Marvel comic. I wonder if he noticed/approved a few weeks later when it turned into Marvelman and his Captain Marvel fan club badge was suddenly obsolete.

Wow. I hadn't noticed that. Vaccines for TB/Consumption only rolled out slowly for school age children in the UK from the mid 1950s. So in 1953 Norma was in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stannington_Sanatorium Who says comics aren't educational.

Whilst everyone is still in a Miller frame of mind, here is No 17 and a glimpse of what it contained (apart from the Fawcett strips). I wonder if any of the "kids" featured are still alive??

I own just one Miller Captain Tornado. It appears to be a band dessinee (ie: French in origin). The small print says it comes from SNPI 22 Rue Bergere Paris. I think if you look closely you can see where they changed text/word balloons. (See also Pango and Sergeant O'Brien). Your copy mentions Agence Arcadie also of Paris.

There are actually at least three variations. Don't forget this "U K Edition" one. The "shield" stamps and that big 2/6 stamp always look so clear, unlike many of the fuzzy T&P stamps that I wonder if they were done by machine? This third one was perhaps done by hand. I'm not prepared to spend £90 to check more closely

Yesterday I found a copy of Jigsaw No 1 and Adventures into the Unknown 4 in a box file mixed in with some 1970s Marvel UK comics. They hadn't seen the light of day for 30 years. So today I decided to collect the full run of Jigsaw. This seemed an attainable goal being as there were only two issues. They are still reasonably priced/so rubbish no one wants them (choose the phrase you prefer). So when exactly did L. Miller cease trading?? The few available sources say 1966. This Harvey comic has a cover date of December 1966 and was on sale in the US from the 15th September 1966 so I suppose it could have rocked up in the UK in late 1966 but it may have arrived in early 1967? As it displays a Miller ink stamp it must have been one of the last comics they distributed?? Discuss. PS: Typing "Jigsaw Comic" into eByGumBay I discovered these. I own a couple of Warren jigsaws I never knew there were such things as Charlton jigsaws. Why anyone would want to sell/buy a jigsaw with missing pieces is beyond me. PPS: Have you noticed how Harvey comics often have their titles obscuring the Comic Code stamp whilst ACG makes sure the Comic Code stamp obscures their title. PPPS: Here is the back cover of that Adventures into the Unknown No 4. I guess it would be up to Gladys and Ethel to send out copies of the Justice Traps the Guilty Album. It would make a change from price stamping for the staff but I doubt if there would be a mad rush from the UK public for such a (quite expensive at the time) niche publication. You deface your comic by cutting out the coupon. Then you send it to "the address at the bottom". But the T&P address is at the top of the coupon? So to London? Or to Gladys and Ethel at Leicester?

@OtherEric Of the thousands of UK hardback Annuals there were Muppet ones of course.