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Hello Notwithstanding how I ended my last post here, curiosity got the better of me and I ordered the second Joke Comics that I posted about back in February. I compared the book to my existing copy and it looks like it is a completely separate printing. First up, the book titles have different colouring albeit the fact that everything is off-register might explain some of the differences. There is an absence of blue on the bell however so if there was, say, plate movement within the same run there was clearly some ink failure too: The inside front covers are indeed different, as I pointed out previously, which is either the result of a mid-run plate change or a completely separate / later printing: There is some notable movement to the wording above the indicia: Aside of those subtle production differences, the only intentional difference is the inside cover 'cut out' variation. Everything else is the same - page count, ads, size and story content. The production quality is very poor on both books but some of the interior panels in one copy look like they may have been reproduced from the other rather than from the original source material - two good examples here: It's sometimes hard to decipher what is going on production-wise when comparing books like these, but my gut tells me that these two copies came from separate print runs - covers and guts - and are not the result of a mid-run cover plate change to accommodate an alternative inside front cover. Why those 'cut out' pages vary is anyone's guess. The salient learning point for me here is that variations of this comic exist in the first instance - I don't think I've seen that fact noted anywhere online before, even in those blogs written by those who clearly know what they're talking about (which, in this area, I largely don't). Cool though, isn't it. And worth paying fifteen quid to prove, I think. Anyway, here are both copies - you can click each image to expand them. I'm off to cut out a pony and a turkey to see which one wins in a fight. All good fun

I didn't get to the copies at Splatt - they seem to be gone now - but I did pick up a stickered Dr. Mercy from the bay: There appear to be a glut of Zor, Skunky and The Conquerors doing the rounds in the UK lately, but this is the first Dr. Mercy I've seen for sale (aside of Splatt's copy). The story comes from the unnumbered 'Zoom Comics' from 1945. CB+ has an image of the interior and you can see, like the other coverless Century comics I posted, that the book is clearly a crude reprint of the source material rather than an actual remaindered copy. All the scruffy tell tale printing signs are there. Incidentally, a different Dr. Mercy story pops up in 'Merry Comics', also from 1945. I can't think of the comic without singing a Roy Orbison song in my head for some reason. Anyway, not something I'm actively collecting anymore, and certainly not a pre-1960 UKPV, but fun to look at all the same.

Maybe it stands for 'remove shirt'. Plastoid seems to think so. Either that or it went to Serbia on holiday. It definitely signifies one of those two. Or something else.

With everything going on, I managed to miss the final bidding on this nice romance lot below. I was mainly after the lovely Miller stamped Romantic Love. Annoying, because I made the seller an offer when it was first listed and which was higher than the final winning bid. As the old saying goes, the first offer you receive is often the best. There you go.

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Well, I've only seen another 3 copies since buying that one back in 2006, so it doesn't look like he was that far off.

The fact that the Bat of the Batman title is a similar colour to Gordon's coat and word balloon gives the impression that the whole left side of the cover is affected but it looks like it's just the title red that is absent. I see other things going on and wonder if this is the result of water damage. Chances are that @Dystopia will never return though, so we'll probably never know.

Have you been on the ale again, ginger?

No wonder she ripped a hole in the cover. That's one fed up lady.

I see what you mean but the covers are actually printed separately so I don't think any subtle differences in colour contrast would have any bearing on the guts. Guts is a good word isn't it, come to think of it, for the internal pages. You have wrongly coloured guts Crimson! That's possible of course, but I can't imagine any knowledgeable owners allowing CGC to effectively hide the error by failing to note it. You never know though, eh.

Morning, romance lovers I need to do some tidying up here, but here is the 30th visually confirmed SPR which I acquired just the other week: I love it It's cool, because that title/cover already exists as a bumper squarebound one shilling book: That seems to be becoming a thing now, the reusing of titles, which is nice. I have 30 image-confirmed books now, with another two (The Foolish Bride and Love Locked Me Out) referred to by name in reputable sources (see above). Here are the thirty cover images saved in my files (22 of them are my copies): I'm hoping to get back to working through and posting summaries of the contents soon

Nice I don't think they will, given the apparent uniform first wave price increase cut off point:

#4 aint bad either

Cor, that's lovely I used to have a copy - here's a scan of the label I made for it: I think I saw an additional three separate copies on my travels - two on eBay, and one at Heritage I think. So it doesn't crop up that often. There is a market for error copies like this and I sold mine for quite a bit more than the amount a standard copy would fetch at the time. I would expect CGC to make a note of it, should you submit it, but I suspect you'd have to agree that with them first. I've since graduated to this alternative pence copy. Issue #5 was clearly an error prone issue!

They were worth much more too, the last time I looked. Your copy looks lovely. I never managed to get a stickered one before abandoning ASM completism many years ago, but here are my old two copies, one slabbed, one with a very unsuccessful sticker removal attempt. Clearly the previous owners did not know what they had....

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I know I said I was going to pick one up each month but I couldn't resist this one because it has a Thorpe & Porter price sticker on it: Two of my favourite things - PKD books and T&P distribution evidence

Is there a 1974 setting on that thing?

Nice. It's so hard to find any of those Beetles and Blondies with white background covers. They're almost always dingy looking.