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  1. I didn't mind Yankees but preferred Uncle Sam's. (Mind you, standards started dropping in Sam's a loooonng time back too. When I first started going in the first thing the waitresses did was bring you a chilled glass of water. Very civilised. Lord knows why they stopped doing that. Bring it back!)
  2. I know the Nelson has been mentioned in previous threads, but does anyone have photographs of the rock-star paintings that were across the walls downstairs? Jimmy Page was one, Alice Cooper was another. I believe they were done by local artist John Gittens, but in all the hours I spent there, I never thought to take any shots. You think things are going to be around forever....
  3. It's the word 'comic' that's misleading. Since the Stan Lee revolution in the early 60s, the medium has dealt with far more serious issues than Denis The Menace getting spanked at school for wagging it. Many are stories for adults told with accompanying artwork. Simply; a story in picture form. The current phrase 'graphic novel' is far more apt than 'comic'. As for collecting them, that's a whole other issue. Why do adults collect anything? Pinned butterflies on a board, interesting beer mats, lacework doilies..... It's a deeper human psychological need to possess (or brag) I suspect. I dunno.
  4. RE: Forbidden planet off of the moor only sell new comics and...... I know Forbidden Planet on the Moor well. When it was changing ownership from Nostalgia Comics to F-Planet I was very briefly left in charge of the shop and all its contents while the staff went to their lunch. Wasn't shown how to work the till -so that was fun when some bugger wanted to buy something.... The joke being I was only set on as temporary staff to shift & construct storage shelving. I'd be useless working in a comic shop. I have a life-long fondness for the medium. I'd get very possessive and narky when anyone tried to leave with a purchase.
  5. Re Twitcher's comment "There is a dealer just behind Bramhall Lane football ground and he has a website he sells from too". Any clues as to what the dealer's called? I'm not even sure if the shop's still open. Seen it a few times as I've gone past on the 51 and there seems a dearth of activity. On the actual subject of old comics and cashing in, beware. Those people who've got a loft crammed full of old (60s, 70s, 80s) American comics - Spiderman, Justice League Of America, Batman, X-Men etc, and think they're sitting on a fortune - be prepared for a knock-back. I saw an interview with a comics dealer on a day-time collector's program a year or so back who pointed out that while old genuine American comics DO have value in some cases, most people in England will have the comics with an English price printed on as they've bought them from British dealers and shops. This makes them - in the eyes of collectors AND dealers - reprints and therefore less than the 'originals'. I tried to sell a complete run of 80s Frank Millar 'Daredevil' mags a few years back and didn't get one nibble. I was dismayed. When I asked around at various comic shops, I was told they were virtually worthless.
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