Comics UK

Picked up at the local bootsale this saturday 100 asst early 70s victors , hornets and hotspurs plus a very large box of football comics and mags in one job lot for £12 , the 10 min walk home with them seem like a life time more stops than a dog sniffing a lamp post then i had to sneak them past the WIFE !!!!

Don't know why but i'm immediately reminded of that Laurel and Hardy short where they accidentally win a grandfather clock in an auction using the last of their money to pay for it. Carrying it home they decide to put it down to rest their aching backs, unfortunately its in the middle of a side road and a truck promptly pulls out and reduces it to matchwood. I imagined you getting a few yards from home and then putting it down to have a rest. Sitting and fanning yourself with a newspaper along comes a council dustcart and a dustman picks up the box and throws it into the grinders at the back.

ROY ROGERS wrote: then i had to sneak them past the WIFE !!!!

Where do you hide your comic stash, Roy? (I expect your wife doesn't read this forum.)

Wiily the Kid book 2 for £1.49 and the Hot Shot Hamish annual 2009 for £1.49, result!

[quote="Raven"][quote="ROY ROGERS"] then i had to sneak them past the WIFE !!!![/quote]


Where do you hide your comic stash, Roy? (I expect your wife doesn't read this forum.)[/quote]
what was to be a walkin wardrobe now houses some the rest are in the spare room , my workshop and hidden any where i can slide a box into just like any good comic fiend!!!!!

Your hiding places sound good Roy

It would be great to have a secret passage (just like in all those old adventure comics) for our comic collections - hidden away, perhaps some secret switch like a lamp that twisted clockwise to open.

Dr Who was always finding them too (see the fireplace, in 'The girl in the fireplace').

If we could all afford mansions with priest holes to stash lovely comics in ideal storage conditions that would be good too, or behind mock bookshelves or wardrobes, where we pull out a book to open the secret compartment (a bit like in the film 'Panic Room').

Muffy wrote:Your hiding places sound good Roy

It would be great to have a secret passage (just like in all those old adventure comics) for our comic collections - hidden away, perhaps some secret switch like a lamp that twisted clockwise to open.

Dr Who was always finding them too (see the fireplace, in 'The girl in the fireplace').

If we could all afford mansions with priest holes to stash lovely comics in ideal storage conditions that would be good too, or behind mock bookshelves or wardrobes, where we pull out a book to open the secret compartment (a bit like in the film 'Panic Room').

What do you mean like in The Panic Room? My comic room is my Panic Room! Actually with two houses joined together, we have a spare front hallway that is mine and that's where I currently stash my comics.

just bought on ebay for..postage in cost
£25.99
27 RARE THE BEEZER COMICS MAINLY 1959 GOOD CONDITION



should be good..when they arrive..

Judging by the photo it looks like a new definition of the term "good condition" Peter, as they all look tatty and one has a big hole in the cover. I hope the interiors are in better condition. Should be some great material in those issues anyway so for a quid each it looks like a good buy.

Lew

Lew Stringer wrote:Judging by the photo it looks like a new definition of the term "good condition" Peter, as they all look tatty and one has a big hole in the cover.
Lew

It's the Ebay definition! So often you see mangled, torn and mucky comics on there described as GOOD CONDITION FOR THEIR AGE.

Today, I got my mitts on 9 Whizzer and Chipseses from mid to late 1975. I got these mainly for the double page Danny Drew's Dialling Man adventure strips drawn by Ron Turner - and nice they are too, mostly on the blue-hued centre pages.

There are a couple of other nice strips that had slipped my mind.

Brian Walker's Old Boy, an old man (with a mouse in his beard) who never left school and hangs around with three kids - I suppose this idea wouldn't get greenlit nowadays - and which looks really good, especially when it's on the blue Chips pages. Brian Walker was such a good artist.

Also a really nice, lively Whizzer strip Mystery Museum (usually on a red page!) People touch or tamper with things at the strange museum at their peril, getting thrown back through time when they do to receive bashings from cavemen, witchfinders, soldiers and all sorts. It's all coming back to me - I loved this as a kid. Great dynamic art by Frank McDiarmid.

And I'd forgotten that the theme of the Boney strip had changed from him and his boy chum being chased by the Ghost Train keeper to a weekly 'how old is he?' where Boney remembers famous historical figures he's met - while still a skeleton. That does freshen the strip up quite a bit.

It's quite nice, the Whizzer and Chips of 1975. It perked up again during this period.

No wonder no one else bidded for them..

I did it mostly for the Banana Bunch by Leo..

Glad I didn't pay any more...£1 each is about right..as long as they have all the pages I'll be fine..

Whizzer and Chips is good in any era..even the last years...though it lost something when Tom Paterson left and when Whizzer and Chips became a normal comic..to prepare for it joining Buster..a few Months later..

Raven wrote:

Lew Stringer wrote:Judging by the photo it looks like a new definition of the term "good condition" Peter, as they all look tatty and one has a big hole in the cover.
Lew

It's the Ebay definition! So often you see mangled, torn and mucky comics on there described as GOOD CONDITION FOR THEIR AGE.

Ah yes, the old excuse of "age". Somehow comics on eBay often get buffeted by the time storms on their way to the present day, which also apparently adds rips, creases, characters eyes filled in with blue biro, assorted fruit juice stains and the fragrance of damp shed.

Lew

It sounds as though the seller of Peter's Beezers was using standard American grading criteria whereby 'Good' is equivalent to 'one and a bit' on a scale of one to ten. Even then, going by the photo I'd think that the next grade down of 'Fair' would be more appropriate. Still, if one is interested in reading copies rather than investment I'd say the price was quite acceptable. There should be some very nice material in that lot, including Baxendale's 'Banana Bunch', Dudley Watkins' 'Ginger' and Bill Ritchie's 'Baby Crockett'. Adventure strips during 1959 included Paddy Brennan's 'Showboat Circus', Bill Holroyd's 'Bushwacker', James Walker's 'Kings of Castaway Island' and 'Blind Jumbo', Jack Glass's 'The Black Sapper', and 'Buffalo Boy' by the criminally underrated Vitor Peon.

No 'Jellymen' sadly - that didn't begin until February 1960 - but you should get some episodes of Ken Hunter's early Post-Disaster strip 'The Survivors' (25th April - 10th October) which predated both TV series of the same name by several years.

- Phil Rushton

Lew Stringer wrote:

Ah yes, the old excuse of "age". Somehow comics on eBay often get buffeted by the time storms on their way to the present day, which also apparently adds rips, creases, characters eyes filled in with blue biro, assorted fruit juice stains and the fragrance of damp shed.

Lew

Yes, 'for their age' doesn't come into it. They're either 'good condition' or 'poor condition.' Comics will stay like new for decades if kept right.

The other annoying thing is when they write:

PLEASE NOTE: I AM NOT A PROFESSIONAL COMICS GRADER.

Yes, because you have to be 'a professional comics grader' (I've never seen any job ads crop up for that position) to be able to notice things like dog-eared pages, huge tears, rusted staples, missing posters and pages ripped out.

Obscure gradings like G+/VG- don't really help either.

philcom55 wrote:Adventure strips during 1959 included Paddy Brennan's 'Showboat Circus', Bill Holroyd's 'Bushwacker', James Walker's 'Kings of Castaway Island' and 'Blind Jumbo', Jack Glass's 'The Black Sapper', and 'Buffalo Boy' by the criminally underrated Vitor Peon.

Buffalo Boy - I wonder if the rather good Buffalo Boy strip which ran in Hornet in 1972 was a revamp of that 1959 Beezer strip.