The Search For Pre-1960 UK Price Variants
Hello
I'm not going to post a big explanatory preamble this time, but just note that in this journal I will be looking to see if I can find any pre-1960 dated comics which could reasonably be referred to as 'UK Price Variants'. As we now know, a UK Price Variant is a book made for distribution in the UK, with a single printed UK cover price, but which was printed in the US as a junior subset of the same original print run as the primary cents priced version. We know from my research that UK
From the journal "Dr. Zonfeld's Pence Palace of Profundity (and Other Comic Miscellany)"
Suits him though, doesn't it.
There are two versions of SAC #57 - here they are on the GCD, a 6d and an 8d:
I have the 6d copy and have been trying for ages to find a copy of the 8d version to make an in-hand comparison but it's clear from online images that the two books originated from different sources so the 6d can't be a UKPV of the 8d.
According to the indicia on the back page, my 6d copy was printed by Morrison & Gibb Ltd, of Edinburgh, Scotland:
Here's
