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thank you!

Dang it - I'm living on the edge this contest (if it's me).

Not any more.

Thank you. I wouldn't hold your breath though - I've been lucky so far.

I have a stalker who corrects my every error.

Nice - and a very presentable copy. Did you get it slabbed yourself?

Thank you! And I had the same thought - but clearly 'Americaness' was a selling point for Archie, judging by the fact that they kept the banners at the top and bottom of the cover as well. Confusingly, the pence version of a nickle is 6d (sixpence) rather than 5d, as the equivalent to a dime was a shilling (1/-), which was 12 pennies. There was a small silver coin for 6d, but 5d would have been five pennies. The old currency system based on multiples of 12 and 20 ( 20 shillings = 1 pound) was tricky to do change with!

Hard to say, but might not be much later. GCD says May/June 51 for Archie #50. The Australian series is undated but thought to have started in 1950. So #14 might be sometime in 1951/2.

You seem to have managed a subtext reading that wasn't quite what I intended!

Hopefully you can't. And I say that in the nicest possible way.

Yep.

A couple of years ago I checked through the usual sites looking to see if Archie #50 had an Australian reprint. I couldn't see it in either the GCG or Ausreprints* and no one I asked had ever seen one. Until now. *It's on both sites now, but only because I put it there.

Hopefully my submitted grade won't make it look like I was drinking at work...

Sorry, I'm at work. I'll try to get a few minutes free to grade the OT book when I can.

Following up on my own post (yeah, I'll go blind) - the curious thing is that Australia wasn't using $ and c in 1962 or 1965. Any books exported into our market would need a price change, either at the press (as was done for UK editions of Marvels) or at our end. I haven't seen any Gold Keys with an overprint, so I wonder how it was done? 19,400 comics is a lot for price changes after printing! @Duffman_Comics - this might explain the 1960-ish Dell Donald Duck with the 9d overprint we noted on eBay a while back?

Great book. Those British Planets are really hard to find! I'm not sure how CGC would view the sticker. If the book was never found without one it might get at least a partial pass. But who knows if that was the case? It's not like there are lots of others to check it against. But I think I'd be happy with 3.5 on that as it stands.

Yep, that sucks. Happened to me two years running - got one of the higher scores and lost. This year I got through with 59.

Interesting inserts, especially seeing the Australia numbers in there. I think you're almost certainly right about them being file copies.

My now adult daughter caught a nostalgia bug and bought my dog a Lambchop soft toy. Unfortunately, the dog seems to have been watching The Godfather when we weren't looking... Sorry to have to break the news like this hep.

FTFY I think I'm way ahead of the game by buying raw books on eBay, but trust your eyes, not the written descriptions.

- especially about the 50s books.

I'd totally see that.

And also some horrible grading at times. No selling venue of raw comics is foolproof - thought this is probably the best. Before you start spending big bucks on comics, you really need to get a good feel for modern grading, and definitions of universal, restored, conserved etc.

snap also out of a 6.5 slab