What comics DIDN'T you buy today?

[Digifiend]

I'm not certain, but I think it was 1976.

[TwoHeadedBoy]

Well that's definitely not 1985

If you go back there would you be able to pick it up, and I'll pay you however much it costs plus postage?

[blaing]

This is unusual, me posting in the "what DIDN'T you buy today" thread, but today I lost out on a bundle of ten issues of Sparky. It wouldn't have made a significant dent on my missing issues, though (only two out of about eighty odd issues to collect from 1965-1975).

[philcom55]

....Nyaarrrgggghhhh!!!!!!!!!!

This afternoon, after leaving the Manchester Comic Mart, I strolled over to a nearby second-hand book stall to see if they had any old comics for sale. Unfortunately, all I could find were a handful of coverless Valiants and Victors from the early 1960s - and as I was looking for anything more substantial the stallholder came up behind me and rather smugly announced that I'd just missed a great pile of old comics (including lots of Beanos and Dandys) which he'd sold to someone else only moments before!

Sometimes I really hate comics collectors....!

- Phil Rushton

[DavidKW]

I went to Manchester Comic Mart as well on Sat - nothing tempted me, was less a representation of Brit comics than at last 2 (and I can't get into 2000AD - I like what's set in the everyday now in the UK)- I can't relate to anything American (and the guys on reception tried to tempt me with we have British editions of Marvel - does nothing for me I said).

Phil - where was that market stall you went to? I went round shops to see if I could find anything and it appears I've been missing a market for years under my nose... (though what they got the time you went wouldn't tempt me...nad Beanos & Dandys don't tempt me...)

[ISPYSHHHGUY]

This is unusual, me posting in the "what DIDN'T you buy today" thread, but today I lost out on a bundle of ten issues of Sparky. It wouldn't have made a significant dent on my missing issues, though (only two out of about eighty odd issues to collect from 1965-1975).

---what is your favourite period of Sparky, then, blaing?

the 1965-Feb 1969 early 'nursery' version [almost fairy-tale like, somewhere between Bimbo and Beano]:


---or after Feb 1969, when the comic was edited by Ian Chissolm, and it took on a 'zanier' approach?

[blaing]

for me, It would have to be the 1969 to 1977 era.

[ISPYSHHHGUY]

Gotta agree! The early incarnation has a curious charm, but I felt the comic was a bit 'odd' in the early days, even first time around---not bland, though!

[philcom55]

Phil - where was that market stall you went to? I went round shops to see if I could find anything and it appears I've been missing a market for years under my nose...

It's across the road from the entrance to the Arndale Market, Dave - Though I'd be surprised if you aren't already familiar with it. Ninety-nine times out of a hundred they have nothing comic-related, but I always check it on the off-chance whenever I'm in Manchester.

- Phil R.

[dandy mad]

A Dandy comic number 2 with its jumping frog free gift in mint to very near mint condition mainly because it cost £2000....

[philcom55]

A Dandy comic number 2 with its jumping frog free gift in mint to very near mint condition mainly because it cost £2000....

Phew! For a moment there I thought this was the thread about what you did buy today!

- Phil R.

[matrix]

A Dandy comic number 2 with its jumping frog free gift in mint to very near mint condition mainly because it cost £2000....

That was a bargain, at least compared to this link.

http://www.realretrostuff.co.uk/page/4/

[dandy mad]

£6k and its in much worse condition! Plus the lady that was selling the Dandy number2 had the complete year for 1938 but I didn't ask the price for those as I was already scraping my jaw up from the floor after asking the price for the 2nd Dandy.... Shocking the price of early Dandy's nowadays!!!!

[DavidKW]

Thanks Phil of course I remember it now (doh!); I've not walked past it for a while (and not got into Manchester much lately) & times I've been to stall there's never been anything comic-related.

Still it shows you never know what sometimes turns up at these places...

[DavidKW]

Went to a local car boot this morning and saw some Jackie from 1969 & a pile of 1967 Victors, but was not tempted to buy eithers, much as I like football & pop music/culture from those eras.

Budgets & storage space are limited for now anyway.

Always preferred IPCs efforts at sport strips & some ladies I was chatting to a while back say that switching over to Jackie was the biggest mistake they ever made!