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It's almost Handbags at dawn

Anyway I can't get any of the sansburys special books , the shops full of peppa pig annuals , will have to hunt the wilds of essex next week when I go out on calls

For me, they were not with the annuals but on a seperate bookshelf. Can't remember what else they were with but not the Dandys, Beanos, Toxics, One Directions etc., so make sure you look around.

Yes starscape is correct the reprint volumes are not with the usual annuals in my local branch they are for reasons only known to sainsburys mixed in with great British bake off books and the best of Autocar!

I was in a charity shop two weeks ago where a woman was haggling for a lower price. I remember remarking to myself that "its a charity shop - you don't haggle."

Bethanys grandad wrote:It's almost Handbags at dawn

Anyway I can't get any of the sansburys special books , the shops full of peppa pig annuals , will have to hunt the wilds of essex next week when I go out on calls

FYI
The Sainsbury's in Bigglsewade Beds By the A1
has as of today (26-1014) 4 Copies of the Battle book 6 of the Roy of the Rovers
and about 25 Each of the Whizzer and Chips and the Best of the 1970s Girls annuals no Hotspurs Beezer or Topper though

Just managed to get both the best of Topper & Beezer Annuals from the Sainsbury's in Kempston Beds
But more importantly found out the Sainsbury's reference numbers for these books
The Best Of Topper is :7721909 and The Best of Beezer is :7721904 if you ring up your local Sainsbury's and ask them to enter this number into their system they can tell you what stores in your area have the books in stock .
Hope this helps with the hunt
p.s I have posted this on numerous threads as they all seem to cover these books

Well done Judomole

My mate Steve said he was bidding on some issues of Zip on ebay but was outbid by someone paying around £40 an issue. I must admit i'd never heard of Zip before but looking at the gallery its a bit like Express Weekly. An Odhams comic from 1959.

That's about what I paid for an almost complete run a few years ago!

Its Philcomics that is selling them - no relation?

Someone was selling volume 1 of Cherry by Larry Welz on eBay, with a starting bid of £3.99... I was "winning" all week until the item suddenly disappeared. Would this be because someone else is selling the same book for £25? Or because it's listed on the Amazon Marketplace at £55?

Probably

Noticed changes in two different charity shops in the past couple of weeks.In an Oxfam shop they reduced the Crisis comics from £2.99 to 99p even then they are not exactly flying off the shelves and in another shop they have reduced Judge Dredd compilation books from £5.50 to £2.50 and halved the price of other graphic novels it must mean that they are getting tired of seeing them sitting on the shelves.Some secondhand book shops seem to regard Children's annuals as a sort of inferior part of their trade. I've noticed that one well established secondhand bookshop in the town that hardly bothered with annuals now has a box on an outside table selling comics at £2 each he's obviously discovered a new money maker.

Someone donated hundreds of Beanos, Dandys, Toppers, and Eagles from 1987-1990 to a new British Red Cross charity shop that just opened. They're being sold at £1 each. That works out about the same as a new Beano, considering the page count in 1987 was only 20 pages against today's 36, and they were also on inferior quality paper and not full colour (paper type and colour both being things that caused price increases). The sheer quantity was too much for me. I didn't count exactly how many there were, but it must be roughly 300.

Digifiend wrote: they were also on inferior quality paper

That's a matter of opinion.
Half kidding, although I have always prefered the old newsprint-type paper comics used to be printed on. It's warmer somehow than the horrible glossy stuff they use these days.
It's not nostalgia, either, as I remember even as a kid being disappointed when the Radio Times (which had a good tradition of illustration) switched to glossy. There's something about it I just don't like, I don't even quite know what it is.

How true Ginger. I agree.