goldust40

You upgraded on this beauty?

It's very easy if you buy what you like. Yep. Although you end up liking far too much.

Didn't it take quite a while before it became clear that these were Canadian? Not that that realization has reduced their values, so far as I know. No ads and black and white interiors meant it was likely that fandom would've picked up quite quickly on these books being Canadian...

Perfect examples...

Then again, it does vary from book to book. With some books, like Cap 74, the Canadian edition is as sought after as the U.S. version. And then there's the rare Weird Suspenstories books from E.C. which command very high prices...

Canadian versions of E.C.s go for less primarily because they are printed on inferior stock. Doubt that applies to all other publishers, however.

No.

Now that's a good review. Read, digest and learn. It's to the point. And let's face it, it wasn't a bad bit of entertainment. It certainly wasn't a dog. Then it's settled. Yes.

Now that's a good review. Read, digest and learn. It's to the point. And let's face it, it wasn't a bad bit of entertainment. It certainly wasn't a dog.

He's from Chicago originally anyway.

BVS ROCKS!!!!

Nice books!!

I remember buying a couple of "cleaned and pressed" books at Cons in the pre-CGC era. As I recall, the cover was no longer tight to the pages and didn't seem to go with those pages either (too bright, different feel, also pressed in a way that meant it was not flush at the side yet the overhang was too high). Solvent based cleaning is restoration as it alters the chemical makeup of the cover and/or pages - the book looks good, but is also artificial.

One of the board's best. Here's to another 30,000.

Awesome books. And even multi-millionaires would find it all but impossible to find such books in NM. They're so rare in that grade...

My understanding has been that the interior of the Pence books are exactly the same as the US versions. The only difference is the cover with the price variation. What other differences are there? Curious... There's the price variation and removal of the date. And at the bottom of the indicia it states "distributed in the U.K. by Thorpe And Porter". And that's it.

In my top 5 as well. Fabulous copy.

Just for the record in case anyone was wondering, jbcomicbox is not the consignor on these books. The thought did come across my mind for a few minutes there, but discounted it almost immediately after that. I figure the super big boys such as Jon, Veryzl, the Dentist, etc are really in there for the extreme long term and we won't be seeing any of their big books in the marketplace anytime in the foreseeable future. Indeed. It'd be a sign of the apocalypse (or at least a watershed in the market) if Verzyl decided to part with all the Church Timelys.

"UK Edition" describes what they are perfectly. -J. A "UK Edition" would have all UK advertising in it like many other UK comics that have American comic stories. These are "US Editions" that are priced for the UK. Yep. All the adverts inside the books were for the U.S. market only. The only difference between pence and cents was the distribution.

Looks like a young Jack Nicholson... A true creepy looking dude...

Looks like a young Jack Nicholson...

I was quoting from the Pristine Comics dealer report - he (assume also an American) used the term in his Overstreet report The fact remains however, they are literally a "price" variant. But am fine with "UK edition" as clearly I'm not foreign Touche! -J. Agree with you Jaydog - these are indeed "foreign editions" and not "price variants". They weren't sold in the same country and weren't priced in the same currency. Whatever, the fact remain they ARE American comics priced for the UK market. UK editions are generally reprints printed in the UK for the UK market, learning the difference may help you to understand, if you don't care either way then stop posting about it and spreading mis-information which is half of the problem There should be a stickied thread in General regarding this point, such is the frequency of its repetition.

FTFY Nice fix from someone living in a bubble rather than on it. If you're reading that into my comments you should cut down on your weekend alcohol intake. Oh the irony... That's a better effort, but the jury's still out on goldust40. Cheers! This from the guy who used to post pictures of himself raising a pint at every single bar he went to. True enough, I raise full pints. So, you prefer being associated with half pints? No wonder you're so quick to misjudge the motivations of others, ...your glass is always half empty! Magnificent comeback. So Swiftian in its rapier-like subtlety. Love the Red Dwarf reference. Timeslides,one of me fave episodes from series three Mine as well. At 6 AM CST (Texas) my rapier repartee isn't swift, much less Swiftian. Alas, Goldust40's closing shot lacked the equivalent impact of Lister's Cat taking a dump in the final scene of SDRAWKCAB. Still somewhat better than your latest feeble, weaksauce effort.

FTFY Nice fix from someone living in a bubble rather than on it. If you're reading that into my comments you should cut down on your weekend alcohol intake. Oh the irony... That's a better effort, but the jury's still out on goldust40. Cheers! This from the guy who used to post pictures of himself raising a pint at every single bar he went to. True enough, I raise full pints. So, you prefer being associated with half pints? No wonder you're so quick to misjudge the motivations of others, ...your glass is always half empty! Magnificent comeback. So Swiftian in its rapier-like subtlety.

And there it is. As desirable a set of books as one is likely to see this year.