Saturday, December 31, 2011

What's the date?


I picked up this Shiver and Shake annual from a bookshop today, only to notice that it hasn't got '1975' written underneath 'Annual' on the cover. Anybody know why?
The image from Tony's Trading:

8 comments:

Kid said...
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George Shiers said...

The no date one has no date on the spine, but I'm not sure about the dated one as I don't have a copy.

I saw a copy of the 1972 Beano without a date as well?

Bruce Laing said...

Kid, I'm positive it is the latter, and in probably a mixup, some of the annuals that were to go on sale overseas (to Australia, New Zealand, etc.) got mixed up with the domestic releases, therefore a few of the annuals with no date ended up going on sale in the U.K.

George Shiers said...

That would explain it - as I'm in New Zealand!

Anonymous said...

I Have A 1976 Shiver and Shake Annual also without the date.
does this make them more or less valuable?

George Shiers said...

The fact that theres no date simply means that it was sold in overseas countries such as New Zealand and Australia - so it doesn't make them either more or less valuable.

Anonymous said...

thanks for your help george

Anonymous said...

the reeason because at ipc magazines artist used to draw their pictures first on original boards then after make seperate for publishing with year