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AJD

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    AJD got a reaction from Get Marwood & I in New British Classics Illustrated Comics editions found.   
    It's great to see someone enthusiastic about another interesting little corner of our hobby. Nice work Stephen.
    While I'm here I'll show one I have, which I see is on your list. I also have 5 Moby Dick (HRN 129), 74 Mr Midshipman Easy (HRN 77 - this one has a 2/- price, but it's a sticker, which I suspect covers 1/6) and 124 War of the Worlds (Ist)

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    AJD got a reaction from Redshade in New British Classics Illustrated Comics editions found.   
    Yes, there are a few people around here with an interest in them, but few dyed in the wool CI collectors. I'm trying to assemble the set of 24 6d Australian landscape format issues from c.1950 I'm still missing Moby Dick, The man in the iron mask and David Copperfield. Here's what they look like. The first 8 were Classic Comics, the remaining 16 Classics Illustrated. The format makes them very hard to find in nice shape!


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    AJD got a reaction from Yorick in New British Classics Illustrated Comics editions found.   
    It's great to see someone enthusiastic about another interesting little corner of our hobby. Nice work Stephen.
    While I'm here I'll show one I have, which I see is on your list. I also have 5 Moby Dick (HRN 129), 74 Mr Midshipman Easy (HRN 77 - this one has a 2/- price, but it's a sticker, which I suspect covers 1/6) and 124 War of the Worlds (Ist)

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    AJD reacted to Get Marwood & I in The Mystery of the Harvey 15c Variants From 1972   
    Three recent Harvey additions 
    A Blondie, stamped and distributed by L Miller in the UK....

    ....a 6p stamped Hot Stuff, to show that 6p was the UK prevailing price for 15c US imports...

    ...and a 15 Cent Variant Richie, with a pencilled 6, purchased in the UK:

     
    I rest my case on the floor 
     
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    AJD reacted to Get Marwood & I in The Search For Pre-1960 UK Price Variants   
    I thought it was odd, yes. I only have one of the books in hand, so can't establish whether there are any other differences. I'm not the expert in this area, and don't know if this is common, but I don't recall ever seeing internal content differences mentioned anywhere else for books that I thought were printed the same for both markets.
    I'm not collecting or investigating these books any more Yoz, thanks. I just thought the Joke #28 variations were worth a mention, should anyone in the know ever happen by....
    @sarvaj
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    AJD reacted to Get Marwood & I in This is a Streamline Pictorial Romance Journal Entry   
    I do know what you mean.
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    AJD reacted to Get Marwood & I in The Mystery of the Harvey 15c Variants From 1972   
    True, true....
    It really is time you got you're own place Andy 
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    AJD reacted to Get Marwood & I in The Mystery of the Harvey 15c Variants From 1972   
    A new one, hooray! 
    As expected, a Spooky #130 has finally graced our presence as a fifteen cee vee. Whoopee!
    Here he be, that fifteen cee vee, with his 25c cousin, see? 
     
    They live with me.
    That's a reely good cover, isn't it
                                                                                              
     
    It completes the Spooky set of three and takes us up to 34 confirmed 15cvs:

    The 15cv and 25c both have a regular indicia by the way so May continues to have a split of regular and variant indicias. More on that another time.
    Into the Spooky box he goes....
     
    When the Spooky box will return, nobody knows....

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    AJD reacted to Get Marwood & I in The Mystery of the Harvey 15c Variants From 1972   
    I already have a nice copy of this Audrey 15cv but couldn't resist buying this extra eBay UK copy for two reasons:
    For it's wonderful original UK owner cover doodles As further proof - if proof were needed anymore - that these books were indeed predominantly distributed in the UK
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    AJD reacted to Get Marwood & I in This is a Streamline Pictorial Romance Journal Entry   
    I don't know what you mean... 
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    AJD reacted to Get Marwood & I in Charlton Comics - UK Price Variants   
    I've more than doubled your shyte quotient - and in half the time! 
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    AJD got a reaction from Get Marwood & I in Charlton Comics - 15 Cent Price Variants   
    One of the things I love about this hobby is the variety of items we can get excited about. The fact that somebody can say (and mean it) "fan-bloody-tastic, I got a slabbed midgrade 1962 Charlton" is kind of awesome.
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    AJD reacted to Get Marwood & I in Charlton Comics - 15 Cent Price Variants   
    There was, and I did:

    I've got all 11 now 
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    AJD reacted to dover in Books I want to own....... drooling on the cover....Peanuts 4   
    I got lucky. I built my first Peanuts collection before it was cool and the prices went ballistic. I have a few raw copies and this is my current high grade.
     

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    AJD got a reaction from dover in Books I want to own....... drooling on the cover....Peanuts 4   
    Well, that's a very nice one to start with! Here's mine, so you can see how the other half live.

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    AJD reacted to dover in Peanuts #1 - the one-off issue from 1953   
    Here is the book graded by CGC.
     

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    AJD got a reaction from Get Marwood & I in Peanuts #1 - the one-off issue from 1953   
    I really like this book, even though it's a collection of reprints of the strip (I think). Here's the opening page from my coverless copy.

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    AJD reacted to troydivision1 in 2022   
    Parker: A Portfolio of Words and Pictures #2 signed by Darwyn Cooke
    Purchased raw in 2012.

    First and foremost, Darwyn Cooke was a master of his craft.
    His life was cut tragically short by cancer.

    I chose this book to be signed by him because I felt with the Parker series he was allowed to push the medium further than his D.C. Comics work.
    This is the only signed copy of this book.

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    AJD got a reaction from Get Marwood & I in The Mystery of the Harvey 15c Variants From 1972   
    Cool arcana, as ever. But that Little Dot Dotland image you have is marked page (7) - allowing two pages for the covers, it seems to be the 9th page. Why do you say that's page 11 - is there an unnumbered ad page in between?
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    AJD reacted to Get Marwood & I in The Mystery of the Harvey 15c Variants From 1972   
    Morning 
    Fifty years ago to the month, Harvey put out the following twenty September 1972 cover dated titles (screenshot courtesy of Mike's Comic Newsstand):

    Of that twenty, ten are currently known to be 15 Cent Variant bearing titles (highlighted below in yellow)

    Of that ten 15cv bearing titles, 8 are currently confirmed as having 15 Cent Variant issues cover dated September 1972. The only two 15cv bearing titles for which a September 15cv has yet to materialise are Little Audrey & Melvin #54 and, coincidentally, Little Dot Dotland #54. Two inconclusive fifty fours.
    As we know from my earlier observations, September cover dated books tend to have a 15cv indicia on the 11th page of the 25c regular copy. Here are my 15c and 25c copies of Hot Stuff #112 to illustrate:
     
    The 15c copy has it's own, slimmed down single line indicia, compared to the regular, full indicia of the 25c copy:

    This is because the 15c variant copies that I own all have the first four internal wraps of the 25c copies missing and, presumably, a replacement indicia was required to keep things legal.
    First internal wrap:

    Second internal wrap:

    Third internal wrap:

    Fourth internal wrap:

    As we can see above, when we turn the page of the fourth internal wrap of the 25c copy, we are then presented with the 11th page which is the first page of the slimmed down 15c copy. Both show the 15c indicia, as the printers cleverly realised that printing it on all the pages removed the need for additional work.
    So, returning to my spreadsheet extract, we can see that in all 8 of the confirmed 15cv cases, the 25c copy has the 15c indicia on the 11th page:

    The ten titles that do not have any 15c variants confirmed do not have 15c variant indicias on the 11th pages of their 25c copies. This can't be a coincidence, and is a strong indication as to whether a 15c variant will exist for those issues and also our two outstanding #54 titles.
    My 25c copy of Little Audrey & Melvin #54 has the 15c indicia on its 11th page:

    So I think this issue will have a 15c variant.
    I don't yet have a 25c copy of the other #54, Little Dot Dotland, but a kindly eBay seller sent me this image which shows that the 15c indicia is not present:

    Little Dot Dotland is a 15c variant bearing title though, #53 exists, so if issue #54 does not have a 15c copy, as the 25c copy indicia absence appears to indicate, that will buck the trend for all the other September cover dated issues. It happens though. There's always one troublemaker. 
    I can post a similar assessment of the other months, but they are less conclusive as the indicia scenario does not really get established until the August cover date. Time will tell whether these September conclusions will be borne out. 
     
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    AJD got a reaction from OtherEric in The Search For Pre-1960 UK Price Variants   
    Apart from the cover price and the back cover ad, they are identical, down to the different paper stock on the covers compared to the interiors (that wasn't always the case with these FH reprints, but Rangers from #22(ish) had a better quality cover stock - which I'm now wondering if it is related to the export market? )
    6d copy (note the address in Surrey in the ad)

    8d copy (Stamina clothing was widely advertised in Australian comics and other publications in the 1950s)

    Both copies have TWO indicia - this one inside the back cover

    And this one on the bottom of the page preceding, with more information

    So I reckon these came off the same presses, with only a swap of price and back cover between, a bit like the UK Marvel variants.
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    AJD reacted to Get Marwood & I in The Search For Pre-1960 UK Price Variants   
    It certainly looks that way Andy, thank you mate. It's the whole point of the thread really - to identify whether books like these could reasonably be called UK Price Variants. The dual indicias are quite interesting, now I've put my glasses on. Two different printers? Cover and guts printed separately...?