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starscape wrote:Annuals for sale at 4 for £1 in a local charity shop. Got the only 'action' one: the first 2000AD annual (I'd pay 25p for that!) and three humour (Beezer '82, Dennis '83 and Bash St Kids '84). Still a good few 80s Beano/Dandy in there.

25p for the 2000AD annual.....bargain!

I've just got the high bids on 2 Commandos from 1966. And it has cost me less than a fiver for both of them! Wow.

I just bought issue 229 of SPARKY [1969] :


I actually bought very good quality copies of the 104 copies making up all the 1969 and 1970 issues back in 2007, however ONE issue---229-----has a wee hole right through the comic, probably caused by a worm-parasite or something: other than that, every other issue and the rest of issue 229 is top-notch.


However, issue 229 contains my favourite-ever I SPY episode, and I decided to wait for a good 'whole' copy: the issue I already have is not really all that bad: far, far better than nothing, and no crucial faces or essential detail are actually missing: the entire comic is entirely readable-----but that annoying tiny pinprick of light when you hold the comic up to the light!

Ah, people like collectors are never satisfied: I actually done a hi-res scan of the pages and done an 'invisible mending' job on the tiny holes,but really I wanted a whole copy.
This issue contains my favourite-ever episode of my favourite-ever comics story and as such is my 'Holy Grail'.



One last thing: I sat down and done me sums: after converting 'real' pre-decimal money, I worked out that buying this 'new' replacement costs:


TWO HUNDRED AND FORTY TIMES [EXACTLY] the original face value price!!!!



---In fact, if SPARKY had remained at the original 'old fivepence' price throughout it's run, the entire 600 odd issues could have been purchased for about two pounds fifty [in fact less!]

I will pay you that £2.50 for the entire run Rab. In fact, sod it, I want them so much I'll DOUBLE my offer.

Deal?

Step into the time machine with me now, Starscape and hand over the cash in 1969 and it 's a deal!



In 1969 I got two shillings and sixpence a week pocket money or 12 and a half pence in decimal terms so fivepence went on Sparky



The 1969 copy. I paid for today cost me nearly a fiver, but a fiver is a smaller percentage of my weekly expenditure if we scale up inflation.......if somebody had told me I would be spending 240 times as much for a Sparky in almost 50 years time though I would never have believed it!

Picked up the 1967 TV Comic Holiday Special from the 'bay yesterday, looks like a decent copy. Should be a good upgrade from my old 'un.

£60 worth of 1976 Whoopee's I have a few...it works out about £2.50 each when the duplicates are added on top...so thought it was a good buy and will love these..

Roy Wilson art is on ebay at the moment...

Peter Gray wrote:£60 worth of 1976 Whoopee's I have a few...it works out about £2.50 each when the duplicates are added on top...so thought it was a good buy and will love these..

Roy Wilson art is on ebay at the moment...

I have seen that. Can you people stop making me want to spend money that I don't have?

Peter Gray wrote:Roy Wilson art is on ebay at the moment...

Thanks Peter. Some nice pieces already gone but I'm really pleased to have got George the Jolly Gee Gee for just £14. With no charge for postage they're a real bargain!

A week at seaside I now have an inkling of what it was like for Scott of the antarctic.Only monday stopped the brave carboot sellers .I visited 7 carboots in the 2/3 mile area where we were situated and got-

HIGHEST PRICE PER ITEM PAID £2.95 for BROONS WITH FREE PLAYING CARDS from a market store.
FAVOURITE BARGAIN SUPERADVENTURE ANNUAL 50p also from same seller Rupert, Victor, Beano for 50p each these I would not have bought at an higher price because they are not rare.
COMIC HEROES a mag about comics.A seller had a pile of these mags at 30p each I cautiously bought three should have bought more.
At thursday carboot there was a seller who is there each year and normally brings a selection of old magazines and comics.He always gives a discount so you can ignore his original label prices.Bought from him 5× JOKER COMICS 1929, CARTOON MOVIE POSTER BOOK, BETTY AND ME and BOOSTER GOLD comic for £5 the lot ,a price I didn't argue with.
SPACE 1999 and GIRL FROM UNCLE cost £2 each , this seller had a number of JOE 90 books but wanted £6 each for which I wasn ' t interested at buying at that price.
GOLDEN BOOK OF COMICS and SCHOOL FRIEND ANNUAL 1929 were my first buys at a £1 each.
This morning bought 5 horror stories comics for £8 before leaving for home.
Back now to saving mode

[quote="abacus"]A week at seaside. I visited 7 carboots in the 2/3 mile area

What a great holiday. That's my kind of break!

Adam Eterno wrote:

abacus wrote:A week at seaside. I visited 7 carboots in the 2/3 mile area

What a great holiday. That's my kind of break!

Me too.
usually visit a carboot around 7.45 a.m. normally there for less than an hour and then onto the next one or not ,either way the rest of the day is free.My son drives me to them .I don't know where all are situated but here are some I can give a names to.
This year we were stationed at Caister GT YARMOUTH.
CAISTER field next to Tesco's every sat morning
GT YARMOUTH racecourse every sunday morning.
JULIE'S CARBOOT field edge of yarmouth every sunday morning.
HEMSBY playing fields every thursday morning.
Field not far from HEMSBY off decoy road every saturday morning and others in the area I cannot give directions or names to.
Back home off to my local sunday morning carboot another early start

Even though I was working at the Edinburgh Comic Con, I was still able to complete a swap with a fellow Picture Library fan there. And in return for about 40 Commandos with two dedicated to him by Ian Kennedy, I got a huge pile of Commandos.

Not only that, I also got a S.A.T.A.N Picture Library, a Top Secret Picture Library, an Undercover Picture Library, a Pocket War Library, three Cowboy Adventure Libraries, a Secret Agent Fleetway Super Library and a June and School Friend Picture Library Holiday Special.

While I was really chuffed to get the Commandos, I was really excited to see the other examples of Picture Libraries as they can often give clues to other things that are going on in the comics medium.

Not a comic but definitely related, I won "Excelsior!: The Amazing Life of Stan Lee" on Ebay yesterday for £4.50 including postage so very happy as I didn't even know about the book last week!

Happy/Sad not sure.
I was in saving mode today as I went around the towns charity shops and had the thought of probably spending a pound if I saw something I liked.I like to look around and thats why I went into Oxfam usually one of the dearer shops.
I was suprised to find old Classics Illustrated at 49p each and other comics at 99p each.bought these.
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They also had William Tell in classics with no cover at 49p and a few of the newer versions of Classics Illustrated such as War of the Worlds and Robin Hood at 99p but I prefer the old ink type.I bought comics with reprints of the golden age which I think have a certain charm.I could have bought a few more but the cash signs in my head was warning me not to.Classics at 49p where did that come from?can, t they sell them or something?I spent £7.40p when I should have been saving.Happy/Sad not sure.