Marvel UK Price Variants 16 16

[ThothAmon]

Any of you Brits buy this Marvel mag back in the day?

 

[FoggyNelson]

I hope nobody quotes your post above MarWood🤔🤔🤬🤬🤪🤪loooooong post😬😬

[Gnasher]

On 3/10/2019 at 2:18 PM, ThothAmon said:

Any of you Brits buy this Marvel mag back in the day?

 

 

I bought a handful, or so in the early 80's round about the time of the first Star Trek: The (Slow) Motion Picture. They were OK, but I was buying a lot of other TV and film related stuff at the same time, and eventually gave up on it.

[Get Marwood & I]

[Gnasher]

1 hour ago, Get Marwood & I said:

New to collection? Yours? 

[Get Marwood & I]

34 minutes ago, Gnasher said:

New to collection? Yours? 

It was posted here by a chap from Denmark:

https://rarecomics.wordpress.com/#comments

It's a new find, a book that I'd previously badged as most unlikely to exist. So we're back to 3,018 confirmed pence books now. I'll elaborate when I have time, as it's significant for a number of reasons - font variations, T&P indicia etc

[Gnasher]

26 minutes ago, Get Marwood & I said:

It was posted here by a chap from Denmark:

https://rarecomics.wordpress.com/#comments

It's a new find, a book that I'd previously badged as most unlikely to exist. So we're back to 3,018 confirmed pence books now. I'll elaborate when I have time, as it's significant for a number of reasons - font variations, T&P indicia etc

Look forward to it Steve 

[Get Marwood & I]

6 minutes ago, Gnasher said:

Look forward to it Steve 

Yes. You can't look back on it. It hasn't happened yet 

[Get Marwood & I]

On 3/10/2019 at 2:18 PM, ThothAmon said:

Any of you Brits buy this Marvel mag back in the day?

I used to Thoth, yes. I had that actual issue as I recall. Starburst is now a packet of sweets of course, which used to be called Opal Fruits. They were 'made to make your mouth water'. Very hard to eat though - each sweet was individually wrapped in paper that often refused to budge. Happy days. Star Wars, Starburst, Opal Fruits. Spider-Man Comics Weekly. I want to go back.

[tv horror]

On 3/10/2019 at 2:18 PM, ThothAmon said:

Any of you Brits buy this Marvel mag back in the day?

 

Yes and don't call me a Brit! I'm Irish and proud 

[Get Marwood & I]

1 hour ago, Get Marwood & I said:

I used to Thoth, yes. I had that actual issue as I recall. Starburst is now a packet of sweets of course, which used to be called Opal Fruits. They were 'made to make your mouth water'. Very hard to eat though - each sweet was individually wrapped in paper that often refused to budge. Happy days. Star Wars, Starburst, Opal Fruits. Spider-Man Comics Weekly. I want to go back.

With no knowledge of what I wrote earlier, out of the blue, the wife just asked me what Opal Fruits used to be called. Repeat, out of the blue. 

I swear she's a witch. 

 

 

Get your jokes in now. 

[Get Marwood & I]

The chap from Denmark who found the JIM #65 pence copy also posted a copy of TTA #16 with no cover price:

I find that absolutely thrilling. What a brilliant thing 

You can read about it here where he posted it - scroll to the bottom of the page to the comments section:

https://rarecomics.wordpress.com/

I thought the JIM #65 9d might get a little more attention here than it did (usual thanks to Bob and Maurice for noticing) - but there you go. The CGC boards have by far the best free format available to share information, and I'm grateful for it. But I do wish sometimes that some of the people who love what I love, posting elsewhere, were members here. 

[bc]

2 hours ago, Get Marwood & I said:

The chap from Denmark who found the JIM #65 pence copy also posted a copy of TTA #16 with no cover price:

I find that absolutely thrilling. What a brilliant thing 

You can read about it here where he posted it - scroll to the bottom of the page to the comments section:

https://rarecomics.wordpress.com/

I thought the JIM #65 9d might get a little more attention here than it did (usual thanks to Bob and Maurice for noticing) - but there you go. The CGC boards have by far the best free format available to share information, and I'm grateful for it. But I do wish sometimes that some of the people who love what I love, posting elsewhere, were members here. 

That TTA16 is as cool as Plasma Gasification

-bc

 

[Get Marwood & I]

33 minutes ago, bc said:

That TTA16 is as cool as Plasma Gasification

-bc

 

Heh heh 

Easily FFs best contribution to date 

[Redshade]

7 hours ago, Get Marwood & I said:

The chap from Denmark who found the JIM #65 pence copy also posted a copy of TTA #16 with no cover price:

I find that absolutely thrilling. What a brilliant thing 

You can read about it here where he posted it - scroll to the bottom of the page to the comments section:

https://rarecomics.wordpress.com/

I thought the JIM #65 9d might get a little more attention here than it did (usual thanks to Bob and Maurice for noticing) - but there you go. The CGC boards have by far the best free format available to share information, and I'm grateful for it. But I do wish sometimes that some of the people who love what I love, posting elsewhere, were members here. 

 Steve that is an astonishing  thing indeed.

I wonder what the indicia says, ie is this a cents copy with the price missed off or a pence copy sans price?

 

 

 

[Get Marwood & I]

1 hour ago, Redshade said:

 Steve that is an astonishing  thing indeed.

I wonder what the indicia says, ie is this a cents copy with the price missed off or a pence copy sans price?

I haven't gotten around to asking him yet actually Stephen. However, if the book follows the pattern of it's January to April peers, it will have the Thorpe & Porter indicia in both cents and pence copies anyway so there'll be no way of knowing which it was 'supposed' to be. Remember, these early pence books retained the cover month too.

Coincidentally I have some indicia research pending which will show all the books which have T&P details in both cents and pence copies - a work in progress summary below if you can read it! (note I haven't moved JIM #65 to the 'in scope' column yet either):

 

Here's a cents copy of a JIM #65 indicia with the T&P in evidence:

  

 

I haven't gone as far as checking the US price font variations yet though:

 

Be funny is one doesn't have it wouldn't it.....

 

Edited March 24, 2019 by Get Marwood & I
JIMs and TOSs and TTAs oh my!

[Redshade]

1 hour ago, Get Marwood & I said:

I haven't gotten around to asking him yet actually Stephen. However, if the book follows the pattern of it's January to April peers, it will have the Thorpe & Porter indicia in both cents and pence copies anyway so there'll be no way of knowing which it was 'supposed' to be. Remember, these early pence books retained the cover month too.

Coincidentally I have some indicia research pending which will show all the books which have T&P details in both cents and pence copies - a work in progress summary below if you can read it! (note I haven't moved JIM #65 to the 'in scope' column yet either):

 

Here's a cents copy of a JIM #65 indicia with the T&P in evidence:

  

 

I haven't gone as far as checking the US price font variations yet though:

 

Be funny is one doesn't have it wouldn't it.....

 

I did not know that Steve (about the T&P indicias being on cents copies for those few months).

It's interesting that the few priceless copies shown do not have a T&P rubber price stamp indicating perhaps that these were US issues.

[Get Marwood & I]

9 minutes ago, Redshade said:

I did not know that Steve (about the T&P indicias being on cents copies for those few months).

It's interesting that the few priceless copies shown do not have a T&P rubber price stamp indicating perhaps that these were US issues.

I love this early Marvel period. So many quirks and oddities, almost all of them unexplained to this day. Great fun 

[Get Marwood & I]

The sun is out, the sky is blue, here's the inside, of a pence book for you 

(I was a poet, but I was unaware of my particular talents in that field)

Ah, it's the Rawhide Kid. So called because his saddle was a bit rough and he couldn't afford a new one. Nice clean 9d cover

Thorpe & Porter!

This is a cool Kirby / Ayers combo splash isn't it. Look at them faces

But what's this?

I've never seen anyone like who? The Hulk you say?

Who is the Hulk??

What do you mean he's 'coming'?

He's not The Limey is he?

No? Well what is the Hulk??

Is there an echo in here? Can I buy him?

I can! Brilliant! Have I ever seen anyone like him then?

I haven't! Excellent! Are the rumours true that he gets mad a lot?

No, not him, the Hulk!?

Jesus H Christ I'm not paying that much!

 

 

Spoiler

"Hulk like Marwood and his Eye. Marwood and his Eye have been kind to Hulk. Show off his pence books. But if Marwood and his Eye should start to take the Mickey out of Hulk, and do silly things which make Hulk look silly, then Hulk will SMASH! 

 

[Get Marwood & I]

Hello 

Someone posted this Strange Tales the other day and reminded us that it had two US prices on it:

 

Cool isn't it.

I like the fact that someone actually spotted this when they made the pence copy:

• Change price 
• Remove month
• Remove second price!

 

I always thought there was something odd about the 9d price on this one. White box in a blue circle. Why not white box in the existing black circle.... 

One for @Aman619 to ponder