Comics UK

Hello everyone. New guy in town

Back in 1964/1965, following a three year run of pence printed copies courtesy of L Miller & Co, these 9d price stamps could be found on many cents priced UK distributed Charlton Comics:


Does anyone happen to know or recall who RV were? Their shield stamp can also be found on a number of Charlton Horror magazines too:


Thanking you

Well, it's not recreational vehicle. I don't recall ever having noticed the stamps but I've posted a question on CB+. You never know, someone might come up with the goods.

I love a challenge. I’ll have a chat on some of the comic based FB groups and see if anyone knows.

Thanks guys

I’ve asked around and the best answer I’ve found was from the one and only Steve Holland who suggests “ Might be Roberts & Vinter, who were book distributors in the 1960s. They became publishers — of Hank Janson, New Worlds SF magazine and Compact Books — and probably had a finger in many other pies, like distributing comics.” which sounds pretty reasonable to me.

Adam Eterno wrote: 06 Jul 2021, 18:01 I’ve asked around and the best answer I’ve found was from the one and only Steve Holland who suggests “ Might be Roberts & Vinter, who were book distributors in the 1960s. They became publishers — of Hank Janson, New Worlds SF magazine and Compact Books — and probably had a finger in many other pies, like distributing comics.” which sounds pretty reasonable to me.

Marvellous, thank you Adam, very much. I'll start digging to see what I can find....

Quick update - I've found quite a few references now to Roberts & Vinter online, and connections to both Thorpe & Porter and Gold Star. The timings fit, so it seems highly likely that the stamps I posted above are theirs. There is a rarer 'RW' variation of the stamp towards the end of the run and, lo and behold, a David Warburton seemed to be a Roberts & Vinter person - perhaps his W replaced Vinter's V? I'm hoping to find a smoking gun example that definitively ties the shield stamp to them, perhaps on or inside one of their other know distributed publications - fingers crossed....

Thank you both for your digging. Very interesting. I posted a query on a couple of sites and got absolutely zilch.