What comics did you buy today?

[felneymike]

Haha, i kept bumping this thread so that it would reach 1000 replies!

[steelclaw]

1000 what?

What do you mean 1000 what?

[Phoenix]

Last Saturday, in The Works in Lincoln, I bought Football's Comic Book Heroes by Adam Riches for a story paper-enthusiast friend that I was staying with. It cost me the princely sum of £4.99. There were several left. The bonus, for those of you who feel up to rushing straight over there tomorrow morning, is that the shop is situated near the bottom of that criminal steep hill that goes up towards the Cathedral. You'll be barely breathing heavily, as opposed to the gasping-for-breath period when, having negotiated the first part of the hill, you reach the appropriately-named Readers Rest bookshop, at which point you have to wait to go in until your eyes have stopped wobbling.

[felneymike]

The Harlequinn Bookshop further up is better. Last time i was in there (over a year ago mind you) they had a heap of Girl's Crystal annuals from the 50's and 60's.

I went back to Lincoln recently for something, but i went on a wednesday, when they are closed! I'd been looking forward to it for about 2 weeks

[STARBOY]

The Works in Glasgow (Sauchiehall St branch) has "Roy of the Rovers" Annual (No2 - the recent reprint ones) - £2.99, a "Best of Roy of the Rovers" from the '70s (108 page?) £4.99, "Whatever Happened to Superman" (hardback DC comics) £4.99 and a "Best Crime Stories" book ( small size lots of pages including some great Alex Toth work) for £2.99 - Didn't buy any as I'm trying to get rid of some comics rather than add to them, but good buys for anyone interested in those books.

[big bad bri]

got another 39 beanos ant the last 31 nutty comics 30th century had.buster annual 83,knockout annual 74 ,cor annual 79+ this weeks new beano & dandy

[felneymike]

Today i got issues 1, 5 and 10 of The Halfpenny Marvel, from Australia! Issue 1 has a stamp on it from an "Old Boys' Bookshop" in London, so it's been all the way around the world!

[Phoenix]

The Very Best Of Black Bob has just arrived from Amazon. I must admit that it is a far chunkier volume than I had expected. I look forward to reading what appears to be a comprehensive survey, nicely topped off with Ray Moore's thorough index and stripography. Excellent value for money.

[colcool007]

Picked up an 1972 Mandy Annual today for £1.50. One of those "Didn't expect to find anything in this shop" buys. Good nick and still got its' dust cover.

[blaing]

I struck a collection of Dandy's from 1965, including the issue that was on sale the week I was born.

and if memory serves me right, the Dandy went on sale Tuesdays around this time, so it went on sale on the day I was born (Number 1213 released 16/2/65, dated 20/2/65)

[stevezodiac]

On Sunday I went to the Ephemera Fair and the comic mart here in London. First to the Ephemera Fair which opens earlier where I got a few things off Ken Graham and went round a few more times but couldn't see anything else (apart from a beautiful blonde girl) as I was about to leave a stallholder got my attention saying "You're the comic collector aren't you?" after I had nodded agreement to his assertion he produced a large box of comics from under his stall from which I bought:
Comic Cuts 150 dated 25/3/1893
TV Comic 365 dated 1/11/1958
Huckleberry Hound Weekly dated 8/9/62, 22/9/62, 5/1/63, 2/2/63, 6/7/63,2/11/63, 7/12/63. plus the Huckleberry Hound & Yogi Bear Summer Extra 1963
Tiny Tots Seaside Holiday Number 663 dated 3/8/40
The Surprise 40 dated 3/12/32
The Ranger 48 dated 9/1/32
TV Tornado 3 dated 28/1/67
The Wizard 3 dated 7/3/70
The Dandy 389 dated 12/2/49
Adventure 5 dated 15/10/21, 13 dated 10/12/21
Rover 1124 dated 8/12/45 (with Nosey Parker by Alan Morley on the cover in full colour) 1197 dated 28/2/48, 1642 dated 15/12/56 (Christmas Issue)
The Vanguard (DC Thomson) 26 15/3/24
The Washington Post Sunday Comic Section 5/2/1939
Victor Summer Special 1968
Chuckles 8 dated 28/2/14, 332 dated 15/5/20.
Buster dated 18/5/63
Beezer 120 3/5/58, 124 31/5/58, 133 2/8/58, 134 9/8/58, 144 18/10/58, 151 6/12/58, 156 10/1/59, 196 17/10/59, 230 11/6/60, 253 19/11/60.
Topper 15 dated 16/5/53.

£205 the lot. I left a lot behind as I had run out of cash but he'll be at future fairs. I went over to the comic fair (where news had already reached Phil Clarke of my purchases over the road) and told my mate Steve. We both went back to the Ephemera fair and he went through the box as well and coming away with a nice selection. Unlike myself he has checklists so went through the box slowly checking each item against it.

Here are a couple of covers from these acquisitions:













From Ken Graham I picked up Chums issues 416, 427, 428, 429 and 431 - 436 all from 1900 plus seven issues of Illustrated Chips from 1905 & 1908. And TV Comic 451 dated 6/8/60

[felneymike]

Dare of D Divsion an ancestor of Dan?

[Phoenix]

The Vanguard (DC Thomson) 26 15/3/24

For a period of five weeks in 1924 Thomsons got their numbering of The Vanguard all wrong. The issue you picked up, Steve, should have been 23 not 26. They are numbered correctly as far as 21 (Mar. 1 1924), but the issue for March 8 was numbered 25. As this error was not immediately picked up, the following four weeks were numbered 26, 27, 28 and 29. When it was spotted, the decision was taken to give the issue for April 12 the number 27, which would have been its correct number if no mistake had been made earlier. The numbering then continued normally, but this of course meant that there were two issues numbered 27, two numbered 28 and two numbered 29. Numbers 22, 23 and 24 do not therefore exist.

[Raven]

The Vanguard and The Surprise covers are especially evocative. I wasn't aware of these titles. Do their contents live up to their covers?

[Phoenix]

Dare of D Divsion an ancestor of Dan?

If so, perhaps he was a professional footballer in 1925 before deciding to go off and kill people in 1932.