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The Distribution of US Published Comics in the UK (1959~1982)
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On 1/4/2021 at 3:31 PM, Kevin.J said:

I am the same, I don't collect British comics but I have quite a few I have acquired over the years

 

4 hours ago, porcupine48 said:

Send that rubbish here,I'll burn it

(with my hunka hunka burnin love BR)

Ah mate, not this time, too expensive to send, you would have to call in person for this lot ;) 

I am not even sure what is in most of these boxes anymore, pre- golden age stuff somewhere in here

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13 hours ago, themagicrobot said:

I've never seen a 3p price stamp. What comic was it on and what was the date?

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So, here we have it:

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It's an Australian Gordon & Gotch:

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There's no date on the comic itself, and no clues in any of the ads or content. Being priced at 15c, it must be after 1966 as pounds were in use up until then I believe.

The GCD says 1983 with a question mark:

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Seems a bit late.

Doug Sulipa's site says c1960's:

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The book reprints the cover to the Harvey Spooky #39, which is dated September 1961:

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Did anyone notice how many of the Harvey's with the ATV logo at the bottom have a TV shaped white line around their main cover image? That's cool isn't it. Easy to miss.

Other Harvey titles are reprinted inside our 3p Spooky, so I'll try to track the dates of those down later to see if they help at all.

Anyway, what is a T&P stamp doing on this book? And 3p? I've never seen a decimal price lower than 5p on a comic. So it's an enigma in a number of ways.

Let's call The King of Australia and get his thoughts @AJD :wishluck:

Here's the back cover by the way:

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All good fun :)

 

 

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5 minutes ago, Get Marwood & I said:

Other Harvey titles are reprinted inside our 3p Spooky, so I'll try to track the dates of those down later to see if they help at all.

Didn't take long - one 1955 reprint, one 1958 and one 1963. 

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I put this thread together to explore the distribution of comics in the UK but unexpectedly strayed into the world of magazines, largely as a result of our 'first comic T&P stamp number being an 8' scenario. Something else obviously took up the #1-7 stamps of the first ever stamping round and I've gathered quite a few magazine candidates since.

I don't plan to look at them anymore - the salient comic link has been explored and satisfied now - but here is one last post from me on T&P in respect of magazines. The mags themselves are a tad seedy, so avert your eyes if you are easily offended (phwooaaar).

Step forward 'Action for Men' numbers 5 (v12) and 5 (v13), from 1968 and 1969 (sixty nine being nicely appropriate to the general theme):

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Some nice cover art there Phwooar!.gif.f04d4f103930b5b5771d41c7b4683ae5.gif

The points of UK interest are the fact that one copy has a T&P three shilling wigwam sticker...

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...but the other has what appears to be a printed (possibly over-printed) three shilling cover price:

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I have other examples.

Images of these magazines are not common online and I haven't been able to find second copies to see if the later book is an effective price variant, i.e. a US only priced copy exists.

Quite interesting in a away, but not something I'll explore any further. Nice to know the T&P link though, and to consider that someone out there may be in the process of cataloguing magazine variants. Or maybe not :bigsmile:

Anyway, I'm off for a good 'read' of these books. 

I'll be back when they've sorted the board layout problems out, as I have about twenty new pence minutiae things to share. As Shaw Taylor used to say, "Who are you, and why do you keep following me".

Or was that "Keep em peeled".....? hm

See ya :)

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6 minutes ago, themagicrobot said:

Even https://ausreprints.net/cover/series/7595/5/1/200/50 don't have a copy of your particular Spooky. (Published in 1970 so obviously sold here after Feb 1971 when we went decimal)

Clearly rare then Robot! At least we know its date then now, thanks. I've seen a few T&P stamped outliers now and wonder whether they just somehow found themselves in the system by mistake. But the 3p stamp is a puzzler. What would that have been used for I wonder, given our 5p decimal comic starting point. No other stamped G&Gs to be found, or seen in the past, and no other 3p stamps. Weird. I like it. 

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15 hours ago, Get Marwood & I said:

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So, here we have it:

2070764855_SpookyTP3p.thumb.jpg.a6ae1dc5bad6b224d39da484bc067d0d.jpg

It's an Australian Gordon & Gotch:

scan2.thumb.jpg.6c026b1d4b04839d3c1074ac7fed4761.jpg

There's no date on the comic itself, and no clues in any of the ads or content. Being priced at 15c, it must be after 1966 as pounds were in use up until then I believe.

The GCD says 1983 with a question mark:

spooky1.PNG.d05a0a4c4bc283e2667083cb85075dff.PNG

Seems a bit late.

Doug Sulipa's site says c1960's:

spooky2.thumb.PNG.b787b82085e28ed68043df47484d35de.PNG

The book reprints the cover to the Harvey Spooky #39, which is dated September 1961:

 

Did anyone notice how many of the Harvey's with the ATV logo at the bottom have a TV shaped white line around their main cover image? That's cool isn't it. Easy to miss.

Other Harvey titles are reprinted inside our 3p Spooky, so I'll try to track the dates of those down later to see if they help at all.

Anyway, what is a T&P stamp doing on this book? And 3p? I've never seen a decimal price lower than 5p on a comic. So it's an enigma in a number of ways.

Let's call The King of Australia and get his thoughts @AJD :wishluck:

Here's the back cover by the way:

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All good fun :)

 

 

The 15c cover price and "two 5c stamps" in the back cover ad both suggest end of the 1960s to me. The "5c stamps" referred to on the back cover ad were the standard postal rate from Sep 1967 to Sep 1970. And From 1966 to 1969 the usual local cover price of comics was 12c. So, if I had to guess, this book is from 1969 or 1970.

Edit: I just noticed the post above this one. So I agree with James at AusReprints. That series turns up fairly regularly on eBay and in jumble sales - it's just that nobody cares much about them.

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6 hours ago, AJD said:

That series turns up fairly regularly on eBay and in jumble sales - it's just that nobody cares much about them.

Thanks Andy - it's well at home here then :headbang:

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12 minutes ago, themagicrobot said:

You asked what was the lowest decimal T&P stamp I had seen. In terms of positioning on the cover I would say this one.

 

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:bigsmile:

Very good Robot. I think I can beat that. Give me an hour or so - I'm on Dementia Five duty....

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1 hour ago, Get Marwood & I said:
1 hour ago, themagicrobot said:

You asked what was the lowest decimal T&P stamp I had seen. In terms of positioning on the cover I would say this one.

 

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:bigsmile:

Very good Robot. I think I can beat that. Give me an hour or so - I'm on Dementia Five duty....

OK, lower in every cents, sorry, sense:

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Beat that! :sumo:

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