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alanultron5 wrote:Bri! I have sent you two PM's! I now have ten spare 1969 Sparky's! Between Nos 210 and 222. If you provide postal address please, i'll get them off to you!

Thank you Alan i did not see that i had PM but i have replied your a star

Continuing my Picture Library kick that I am currently on, I bought Battleground issue 200 titled Brothers In Battle from Kingdom Comics and after a chat with one of the regulars, I was once more intrigued by the Giant War Picture Libraries that were put out in the 1960s. And after a brief search online, I found and purchased issue 1 for the very reasonable amount of £11 and that is including P&P.

Not only have I never been to Kingdom Comics, I've also never been to Kirkcaldy! I'll have to put that right soon-ish.

starscape wrote:Not only have I never been to Kingdom Comics, I've also never been to Kirkcaldy!

Well, I've been to paradise, but I've never been to me...

starscape wrote:Not only have I never been to Kingdom Comics, I've also never been to Kirkcaldy! I'll have to put that right soon-ish.

My use of links is not in vain! My work here is done.

...I've never been to Scotland!

colcool007 wrote:Continuing my Picture Library kick that I am currently on, I bought Battleground issue 200 titled Brothers In Battle from Kingdom Comics and after a chat with one of the regulars, I was once more intrigued by the Giant War Picture Libraries that were put out in the 1960s. And after a brief search online, I found and purchased issue 1 for the very reasonable amount of £11 and that is including P&P.

That's a great price for the #1!

I have been looking for them myself and the prices they command vary massively. The set of 76 went at the end of last year for £520 on Ebay, yet a few months earlier, issues 1, 3 and 4 went for only £20. Current prices seem to be between £3 and £7 each but they regularly sell for £15-£20 each.

Adam Eterno wrote:That's a great price for the #1!

I have been looking for them myself and the prices they command vary massively. The set of 76 went at the end of last year for £520 on Ebay, yet a few months earlier, issues 1, 3 and 4 went for only £20. Current prices seem to be between £3 and £7 each but they regularly sell for £15-£20 each.

I thought so too. One seller is currently selling his entire collection on Ebay and his issue 1 is already at £12.50. And rather than add to the bidding frenzy, I went looking for other sites that sell books and found it for £7.99 set price plus P&P. And considering that I have none of these and that the seller slappywagg already has issues that have reached £16 in the bidding, I thought it a very reasonable price for a first issue.

But I see that a lot of early Commandos are up for sale and they seem to be going for less than I would expect. For example, I have just seen issue 5 go for only £34 when I have seen it reach double that in a poorer condition.

Two different purchases over the last couple of days with 10 of the 14 WORLD ADVENTURE LIBRARY - MAN FROM UNCLE comics from 1967. I'll have to get searching for the other 4.

More interestingly, 43 of the first 46 issues of Chums from 1892! These will be by far my oldest comics but hopefully still fascinating 124 years later. I need to do some research on them when they arrive as I know very little about the series other that they ran in many different formats from Issue #1 that I now have from September 14th 1892 until 1941 when paper shortages finally stopped it.

already at £12.50. And rather than add to the bidding frenzy, I went looking for other sites that sell books and found it for £7.99 set price plus P&P. And considering that I have none of these and that the seller slappywagg already has issues that have reached £16 in the bidding, I thought it a very reasonable price for a first issue.

But I see that a lot of early Commandos are up for sale and they seem to be going for less than I would expect. For example, I have just seen issue 5 go for only £34 when I have seen it reach double that in a poorer condition.[/quote]




I'm watching the same #1 issue and it's almost out of the range I'm willing to go to. I'll have to keep my eye out for the Commandos though!

Picked up TV Comic #384 today, which features the first appearance of...

Mighty Moth!!!

philcom55 wrote:...I've never been to Scotland!

I went to Wales, but it was Sunday and it seemed to be shut.

I picked up some American marvel fantastic four comics 83, 97, 100. DCs Mr miracle 2 and 3. Plus 6 commando comics in the 100s the lot at a second hand market £10,
So far the booties have all been wash outs due to the weather hope the bank hol weekend coming up is nice and dry for some comic hunting

tony ingram wrote:

philcom55 wrote:...I've never been to Scotland!

I went to Wales, but it was Sunday and it seemed to be shut.

I only went to Wales once, my wife made made me take her to a outdoor Donny Osmond concert ,hours of driving and standing in thick mud and pouring rain ,watching groups of middle aged women fighting in the mud , Tyson would like a right hook some of these woman had, it was not a fun night out

Bethanys grandad wrote:I only went to Wales once, my wife made made me take her to a outdoor Donny Osmond concert

I've attended many concerts, although I would not have gone to a Donny Osmond one if it had been held at the bottom of our street. But whenever I think of concerts, even now I think of the Jerry Lee Lewis one in Preston that I was looking forward to going to, assuming I could worm the ticket and travel costs out of my father, a task usually bookended by hope and ''No''. Ultimately it didn't matter because not only the concert but the entire tour was cancelled. Jerry Lee was given the old heave-ho when the authorities discovered that his wife, who had accompanied him into Britain, was only thirteen. I think she was also his cousin!