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I don't have the book in hand, so can't say with certainty, but I believe there are indeed ad pages which make up the additional ones, yes. The chap who provided the image understood my request and said "I believe this to be the 11th page (if your counting the cover as page 1". If you look closely at the image though, the page appears to be the second page of the 5 page story "He's a Good Man!" (see GCD), so you'd wonder how it could be page seven at all. Maybe the 'part 2' that I think I can see plays a part in the numbering. As soon as I snag a copy, I'll let you know!

If you haven't already seen it, here is a link to CGC's feature page regarding international (non-US) books and how they treat them: https://www.cgccomics.com/international-comics/

Nothing like those at all Rich, no, as they have a resealable sticky strip, and the old 'sandwich' bags have an overlapping, side sealed flap. An 'in, under and up' job. I just made up a new phrase there.

Way back in 2019 I said: "So G.I. Joe #122 is counted as an APV due to the unique barcode number, but it's also possible that it will have an AUS printed price too with, perhaps, the wrong month (as is the case with Captain America #407 / 410)" After all that, it turns out the issue was printed as an APV under the correcting stickers but with the wrong issue number! And 'APV' month!

All the bagged comics I've ever owned have been heat sealed too. This eBay lot has a different bag to the ones we're looking at, but has this to say: "These bags were not made to be sealed by Marvel. They kind of open and close like a sandwich bag by folding in the plastic." https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/275393038745?hash=item401eb44999:g:~zoAAOSwhORiwirz&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAAoITVKNOfPnnl6U49Or0Xa56Wv8HWnJOP%2F95Id9KZlIoQmN63kuDJMGYTlDs1UlxaPLcxJeRzQjK%2B6XIyw874DyJ2K2qOVBOchiz4XpOj1FBEZp8BLsgfjGL6K6%2FNlAoOTJfmW%2BUY%2Bi0R%2F8QInXL2bi0boriIBBGpcAKrYqUlFXyC0ux%2BRNhJkPT79R9ZUkNg%2FMqrBqzuXH4UqcIOrzpqsgA%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR-awz4jqYA Is it my eyes, or can you see what looks like that sandwich flap, running half way down across the bag?

I know, I meant in general.

Makes sense. Although I do recall a rather cool comic shop in Maidstone, as I used to holiday near there occasionally with the first wife and her family. You'd have to be a special kind of person to buy them on holiday for preservation, not to rip open.

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.

I'm too young to have any personal recollections on these, but the 25p priced bag appears to be authentic: The eBay seller says he is "Clearing out his personal collection of 1970s comics from the loft." Maybe someone could drop him a line, to see if he has any other recollections (I'm guessing Rich will have already done this). The thing I find with these types of situations - books appearing that you haven't seen before - is that once they come to your attention, you can usually find out more about them with some intensive Googling. There doesn't seem to be any evidence out there that I can find. No write ups, no other examples or references. So if they are genuine, they haven't made their mark on the hobby and surviving examples are clearly, fairly logically perhaps, non-existent. So it may have been a very limited experiment. But they could well be real. Look at all those Harvey 15cvs I've discovered with their UK distribution aspect. No record of them anywhere until I 'discovered' them. It happens, even in this late day in the hobby.

I think the distinction is that OOTW#17 is said to be the first reprint of AF#15's Spidey story outside of the US.

In the 'jolly financially attractive' category, I would say. Oh, and I hate you, by the way

It's quite possibly the worst written attempt to convey the fact that a book was "manufactured without staples" that you could imagine, without being completely unintelligible

I'm not sure I follow you, KPR. The comments are the continuation of the journal, just the same as posts are in regular forum threads. It's not a case of 'bumping' them, that's not the right comparison. It's about parity - giving members the ability to be aware that journal comments are being posted, just as they can for posts in regular forum threads by viewing the forums list pages. Sorry if I'm misunderstanding your point.

This recent buyer did a little better than six hundred quid:

This is why we need more variety in the reactions. I wanted sorrow, Eric, for my plight. Deep sorrow.

I've been sad faced by Eric's Other

Cos he's a big fat wally bags. One meelion sesterces. You can't touch my uselessness when it comes to failing to make money on comics due to bad timing, Robot. As this graph illustrates:

Indeed. I just checked my old sales records, and I sold my second copy for thirty seven quid. I've always been rubbish at making money on comics.

I bet back in the day Duncan never imagined he'd be selling that for six hundred quid one day....

I like both actually, but Bob's Veronica is a little more fulsome, isn't she. Love the date stamp.

Cheers Sagii I expect to see your new Journal in 46 posts time

@Kevin.J

Hello Lemon Man The previous thread below indicates that CGC have indeed slabbed a book manufactured without staples as a Qualified green in the past: I would contact CGC directly to query their policy and to see if they will reslab it for you as a Green if that is what you would prefer (to highlight the manufacturing error). Or, you could ask the question online here in the 'Ask CGC' forum..... https://boards.cgccomics.com/forum/23-ask-cgc/ ......and hopefully get an official response via that channel. Either way, we'd all love to see a picture of your book, if you can Good luck!

Yes, it's a beauty @Dr. Love