The Distribution of US Published Comics in the UK (1959~1982) 15 15

[Get Marwood & I]

12 hours ago, Albert Tatlock said:

From David Gold's autobiography..............................

My brother would sell fresh mint – quick and easy to grow - down the market whilst I would be helping my mother to make the garlands, or getting on a bus to the wholesaler to buy comics to sell as we began to add products to our stall. This was a further sign of our entrepreneurial spirit. It wasn’t the regular comics like Beano and Dandy I chose because those could be purchased in any newsagent.. Instead I bought the newly available American comics with superheroes like Superman, Batman, Captain Marvel and Spiderman. These were the very early imports; colourful and highly collectable.

Talking of Davids, this one made me smile.

Either operator error or it's the Welsh spelling or something...

[Get Marwood & I]

....slowly but surely I'm getting there with the numbered stamp grids.

Here's the v2 one shilling one:

The one and three / one and six / one and nine's are hard work. Getting there though.

New stamp type alert - not seen one of these before:

Jimmy and Perry? John and Paul?

And you don't often see a numbered stamp minus the tee and pee:

Finally, and still on wigwams, I find the 9d Tee & Pee stickers to be a lot harder to come by than the shillings:

  

Odd to see that shilling sticker on a 10d printed Marvel. And why use a sticker anyway and not a stamp, if stamping was your thing?

And why spend a morning bothering to post this drivel?

Who knows....

 

[Kevin.J]

20 minutes ago, Get Marwood & I said:

....slowly but surely I'm getting there with the numbered stamp grids.

Here's the v2 one shilling one:

The one and three / one and six / one and nine's are hard work. Getting there though.

 

 

 

Edited November 14, 2020 by Kevin.J

[Garystar]

3 hours ago, Get Marwood & I said:

The one and three / one and six / one and nine's are hard work. Getting there though.

Are you trying to put 1-9 runs together, if so what numbers are you missing?

[themagicrobot]

No doubt this isn't the right thread but hey ho. I can't scroll through your 1000s of posts to see if this has been mentioned before. In the spring of 1976 it appears T&P had a half price sale. At the time new comics were 10p. Was it to clear the decks of unsold inventory/returns? I do recall buying double my usual amount of new comics for a few weeks even though the choice was less popular titles that were a few months old.

 

 

[Get Marwood & I]

On 11/14/2020 at 4:39 PM, Garystar said:

Are you trying to put 1-9 runs together, if so what numbers are you missing?

Yes, I'll let you know what I need later Gary if that's OK, thanks (and you @Kevin.J - cheers for the examples) 

On 11/14/2020 at 8:14 PM, themagicrobot said:

No doubt this isn't the right thread but hey ho. I can't scroll through your 1000s of posts to see if this has been mentioned before.

Why not, have you got something better to do? 

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In the spring of 1976 it appears T&P had a half price sale. At the time new comics were 10p. Was it to clear the decks of unsold inventory/returns? I do recall buying double my usual amount of new comics for a few weeks even though the choice was less popular titles that were a few months old.

We've had the triangular sale price stamps but I think that's the first sticker example, if my memory serves. 'Half price comics week' would have been cool wouldn't it. Say, 51 weeks of the year maybe 

Talking of stickers, we've seen the dual decimalisation stamps....

...here's a dual sticker:

[themagicrobot]

It does seem that it was the less collected DC comics that were available for half the normal price. These are currently for sale on eBay.

And I'm sure you'll be pleased to add a coloured sticker to your pricetag collection.

[Get Marwood & I]

This just popped up on ebay, a BATB #27:

I'm still adding new copies to the table as I see them.

If anyone has an earlier stamped copy than any of these, dive in:

[Get Marwood & I]

 

 

         

[Albert Tatlock]

9 hours ago, Get Marwood & I said:

Talking of stickers,

 

[Albert Tatlock]

And talking not of stickers, but stamps....................

[Albert Tatlock]

If anyone has an earlier stamped copy than any of these, dive in:

Anything to oblige, old chap.

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[Get Marwood & I]

7 hours ago, Albert Tatlock said:

 

I've got that sticker type on a Charlton or two 

7 hours ago, Albert Tatlock said:

If anyone has an earlier stamped copy than any of these, dive in:

Anything to oblige, old chap.

Cheers Albert - missed that one. Will add it in. See you all tomorrow!

[Get Marwood & I]

11 hours ago, Albert Tatlock said:

Anything to oblige, old chap.

56 titles in the first four cycles! 

 

[Garystar]

Here's a curio (not mine, found on ebay). UK DC reprint comics with a giveaway of postcards of old US DC comics. The comics they chose for the postcards come complete with T&P stamp.

[Get Marwood & I]

15 hours ago, Get Marwood & I said:

 

 

         

Did you see the GSP sticker Albert? @Albert Tatlock - it looks the same shape and size as the one absent from our ASM #43 there doesn't it 

[Albert Tatlock]

12 minutes ago, Get Marwood & I said:

Did you see the GSP sticker

A definite possibility, but why cover up the price, unless the sticker also bore a price.

[Get Marwood & I]

There are quite a few publishers that I have folders for which I haven't mentioned so far in this thread. One such publisher is 'Lightning Comics' who, according to the GCD managed a grand total of 5 comics across 2 titles in 1967, the year of King Pence Copies:

 

I've seen it mentioned in a few places that the Lightnings were

 

Accordingly, the Font of all UK Comic Knowledge couldn't even be arsed to acknowledge their existence, leaving their website's 'L' section as empty as a greyed out empty L thing (flippin L):

 

However, those with the 'eyes of the eagle' as Poirot might have said if he wasn't fictional and dead would have spotted the following three examples which may tell a different story (one of them is our aforeposted, priced, GSP):

 

So, three examples out of five comics with stamped prices and / or a sticker consistent with the times.

The next time someone tells you that Lightning Comics 'weren't distributed in the UK', or were ENDEE as the hip cats would say, tell that they are filthy lying liars. Probably. 

[themagicrobot]

It looks like MF comics were imported via the same source. Is it my eyes or is this "giant sized" comic priced at a reasonable 1/3 (One shilling and 3d in ye olde parlance). I bought this comic (and Fatman comics) new at the time (but not from my local shop).

 

[Get Marwood & I]

One and three was a bargain, yes.

I have quite a few M.F.s saved with T&P stamps on, so they distributed them at least in part. This one has a one and six and a 2 shilling diamond stamp:

 

Split the difference? (ahem)

And here's another of those triangular stamps, but this a more appropriate one and six:

I've never bought one - were they as fun as they looked?