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Congratulations! Looks like a solid copy at least. Jughead 1 is one of my favorite Archie firsts.

Very interesting on the Patsy Walker #2. I'll have to check my copy to see which I have. Possibly it's a second printing?

Now that's an Archie oddity I've never seen. A variant priced cover with a reduction from the variant price! Congratulations on that one.

Those Tip Top 185s are worth over a grand in that kind of shape. The Look magazine, maybe a couple of bucks. And what's the "M" comic behind the Tip Tops? And I wonder which issue is the Betty and Veronica. Since the Donald Duck is the March 1954 issue, the B&V is likely #11 since that issue is Feb. 1954 and has the red text on blue background logo.

Very very beautiful copy! :golfclap:And one of my favorite Montana covers as well.

Very nice!

And finally, some cover stamped prices.

Joke Book Mad House

Here are the Jughead 9d issues:

Okay. Here come the UK price variants that I have. First up, Betty and Veronica

I have 8 or 10 of those UK variants that were in a group of Archies I bought. I need to check and see which isues. They were from the same years as this B&V issue. I think I have some other B&V issues, Jughead, and maybe an Archie's Joke Book. I never knew they existed until I got those.

Here's a few recent Archies. I've been looking for a high grade copy of the Life With Archie #39 forever. Don't know if it's the monster cover or what but it seems to be a tougher issue from that era. Archie 115 from 1960 is the first time the logo on Archie was not red and blue. I don't think they strayed from red/blue logos again until about 1973. And finally a nice copy of Betty and Me #1.

Congrats on this one! :golfclap:It's tough to find in any condition. I'm still looking.

If it's creating a jpg file, the size difference is likely due to the compression ratio. Higher compression settings will yield a smaller file size even if the height and width of the image are the same It sounds like the new software is saving files in a proprietary format rather than a standard jpg, bmp, or tif. If the software doesn't let you change the default file type, you may want to try a generic scanning software that let's you select the file format. Of course you don't want to buy a scanner and then have to buy another software as well but that may be an option.

Great Crippen copy! Plus it's an interesting gga era of the Timely humor books. The women looked like they were drawn as nudes and then the clothes were added on top. On this cover, the artwork shows Nellie's legs outlined in full length even though the dress covers them. The same style appeared on some covers for Millie, Tessie, and Hedy as well.

Betty & Veronica 26 or 27 That's B&V #26 based on the back cover ad.

Not exactly an Archie cover but one of my favorite Hero Initiative works done for the Archie project a couple years back. When they were first previewing the different Archie covers that had been drawn for the project, I just loved this Spain Rodriguez image of Archie, Betty, and Veronica. It reminds me so much of the Mad Magazine parody in the 1950's and it's fun to see the gang so out of character. I originally missed the auctions when they started on ebay a while back and thought I missed out at a shot at this one. Luckily it showed up on Heritage. Now it's framed on the wall in my kitchen. That Veronica is one bad girl!

Pep #41-50 has got to be the one of the toughest runs to complete in comics. It took me about 11 years to find them all. And to the initial question, I'm a huge Archie fan as well. The 1940's and 1950's are favorite era's for me as well as Christmas and monster/sci-fi covers.

Hmmm, I see a lot of them in my neck of the woods. But hunting specific issues is another story. I buy based on corny covers (and since 99.99% of them are pretty corny, that makes it easy). I tend to go 1976 or earlier, but with Archies, that's probably just the opposite of what I should be doing as the stuff from the 80's is probably harder to find. You're right. With 37 issues in the regular series and another 13 issues or so in mini-series, they can seem plentiful but when you try to locate specific issues, it's tougher. BV #320 is probably going to get harder to find as well. The various comic message boards have raised awareness of Cheryl as well as her more recent Archie appearances so it seems to be increasing demand.

I was having trouble finding the last issues of the Cheryl 32 pages series. Recently, I found the collector sets on archiecomics.com for issues 18 all the way through the final issue. I checked tonight and couldn't find them available anymore. I don't know if they sold out or what but they were not listed.

Here are a couple new ebay wins. Both are Canadian copies of Timely's Annie Oakley series. She looked a lot like Hedy De Vine and Venus but this was a fun series for its original 4 issue run in 1948 I've never seen this Canadian title. The Annie cover is from the first splash page. I haven't checked to see which issue of Annie Oakly the stories were taken from.

Congrats on this one. That's a tough book, especially in a nice grade!

Millie, Hedy, and Tessie filled several of Marvel's humor anthologies in the 1940's. Tessie didn't survive too long into the 1950's. Millie continued with Stan Lee and Dan DeCarlo to compete against Archie, and Hedy adopted more of an Archie style as well but only survived a bit longer, ending in the early 1950's.

Some other great female characters from the Marvel stable were Hedy De Vine and Annie Oakley.

Venus was pretty much romantic sci-fi at the start and evolved into the purer sci-fi and then horror. I don't have all the issues but they did maintain some consistency in the storytelling. #3 has more of the humor elements while #6 starts looking more like sci-fi