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The Fun book for Boys (first one with DD Watkins art on the cover) is on ebay @£9.99 if anyone is interested.

Thomsons certainly have a copy of 'The Boys Holiday Book' in their archives somewhere, Derek. If we include the British Library collection they actually have copies of the three 'Kiddies Box of Books' (1933-1935) and the first edition of 'Kiddies Playtime' (1936) but not the second. Not that that h...

Wow! Comic Cuts #1. There are supposed to only be 8 known to exist. I've seen a couple go at auction over the last 3 or 4 years and they were between £400 and £600 ish if I remember. They were too rich for me at the time, that's all I was sure about! Thinking again on prized parts of my collection,...

Unlucky with the Kinema #1. It wasn't me honest! I believe you. Whats your most expensive buy and/or your most prized comic? Sorry, it was me this time Hawkeye. It just seemed quite a bargain for such a curious No1. The famously poor relation to Film Fun which I already have the first issue of. Reg...

Most expensive buy was Commando #1 in great condition, the most by a very long way and fairly recently. Prized......too many jump to mind! Some are prized as I remember buying them as a child so they hold a special place. Others, I get a real kick out of the artwork/age/condition/history/storyline/...

Adam Eterno wrote:Unlucky with the Kinema #1. It wasn't me honest!

I believe you.
Whats your most expensive buy and/or your most prized comic?

colcool007 wrote:Can you post links Hawkeye?

Don't think so............... I haven't actually got a picture of the cover anyway, its only a description from an old Lofts and Adley catalogue.

Kashgar wrote:How far did you get with your Beano and Dandy collection and your Broons and Oor Willie book collection? Are they both still ongoing?

I've come to the point where every one I want would require me to remortgage my house I'm afraid.

£661 including buyers premium !!! Thank you, Hawkeye. I did expect it to go for a high price because in over thirty years of collecting I have only ever seen one other, and that is the one I bought on eBay the best part of a decade ago for £170. Incidentally, I used that authentic issue as the back...

I went through a phase of collecting obscure DC Thomson/John Leng books a while ago, like Zoom, 25 Star Stories, Mounties, Speed etc, and one in particular called the Fun Book for Boys. There were 2 actually in the series, 1937 and 38 I think they were issued. I managed to find the first one, with E...

stevezodiac wrote:How come your quote has the correct spelling of country - did you edit it? Just thinking its a good thing we weren't discussing the Count of Monte Cristo.

Nice one, made me laugh that did !!

I've got early issues (in double figures at least) of all the big 5 except the Wizard. I wonder why they don't appear as often as the others. Apart from issue 1 on Compalcomics recently, which sold for the price of a small country. How much did that first issue sell for, Hawkeye? I did intend to fo...

Adam Eterno wrote: On top of that, I picked up The Rocket #1 from the same seller a couple of weeks ago so typing this has made me think that I probably won't go for the Kinema #1 now!.

I saw the Rocket after it had ended, looked a nice comic, well done !!

I have some Sunday Post Fun Sections with Nero and Zero in them - mid seventies I think. I collected it every week until they ruined it by printing the strips on two separate pages. Nero and Zero were also in Buzz I think - a half page strip drawn by Tom Bannister? According to my hit list, Nero an...

A sort of prequel to the Addy and Hermy strip came in the form of a 'serial' in the Desperate Dan strip in Dandy issues 100-106 in which Dan encountered the pair. If you don't mind my asking Hawkeye are you a latecomer to collecting or just very interested historically in comics and characters that...