Get Marwood & I

Go see it, Oddball, and tell us what you think. It'll be nice to have some more opinions to read here. Nice new avatar by the way

2 dual pence/cents priced copies on the census (+ 6 cents only)

He's got a hat on in this one

It's the real ones you have to worry about I pop in occasionally to the PGM section and have a stab at those that have had no responses. Of yesterday's four qualifying posts, two were ASM#67s. Quite cool I thought, given that it's a favourite cover of mine.

You can be lucky like that, can't you Hooch Maybe the chap running the USED stamp second hand book shop knew his stuff and priced the keys accordingly. I remember years and years ago going to a comic shop in the UK called Gosh! and finding an early Spidey run. Most were priced 40p, a few 60p but #50 was a whopping £3.50. I left that behind because I could get six or seven other ones for the same money. If we could only go back, eh.....

Joking aside, if that Spidey was a 500+ piecer, the webbing would be a killer.

That's at least a year longer than everyone else Paq. And they knocked it down, the rotters.

I can see him bringing out a big plate of Ferrero Rocher. "Oh, Iron Mask, you are spoiling us."

I actually bought a proper jigsaw board to do them on. Blue felt and everything. The first one I did on it didn't fit though and I was a bit miffed. Then I realised I had the board landscape and the jigsaw was portrait. It's amazing how stupid you can be sometimes, isn't it.

Cheers You don't actually need the 'cents' in the 'US Cents Copy' captions - being for the US, they're cents by definition - but I included it just to ram home the currency differences. Overall, about 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001% of collectors care, I think. Well, maybe not that many.

Imagine that

Have the Chips ever been up? Miserable lot aren't they. I still prefer Chipping Norton as a destination myself, as they take the virus more seriously.

I like the way that he's covered from head to toe in armour, but still put his suit on. That's a classy villain

HOW TO TELL A "MARVEL UK PRICE VARIANT" (that you're in love with her) Once upon a time, there was a comic made in America (the US) called "The Incredible Hulk". Number 139, priced at 15 cents, looked like this: It was a 'US Cents Copy'. At the same time, in the same location, and on the same printing presses, a copy was made for the people of Englaterre (the UK). Priced at one shilling, the currency of the Englaterrians, it looked like this: It was 'UK Pence Copy'. It was exactly the same as the cents copy, but had a different price. That meant it varied from the cents copy, visually. So we called it a variant. The nature of the variance was the price. A UK price, of one shilling, instead of 15 cents. So it became known as a "UK Price Variant" Because the denizens of Englaterre (the UK) liked the Hulk so much, some bright spark in Blighty (also the UK) decided to import a load of extra cents priced copies so he could make a buck. Pound, sorry. Now obviously, they had a US price on them and that would have confused the Hell out of the people of Englaterre. So they stuck a stamp on it, with a UK price of 5p just to confuse everyone who had just bought a pre-decimal UK Price Variant copy. The UK went from old money (shillings and stuff) to new pence money in 1971. Anyway, it looked like this, the 'UK distributed Cents Copy': Now be clear, that book above is NOT a UK Price Variant because it doesn't vary in any printed way from a normal 15 Cents copy. It was just distributed in Englaterre with that 5p stamp to tell them how much it was. It was just a cents copy, distributed in the UK. So, although you have just seen three copies of the same comic issue, there are really on two types of copy that were originally printed as part of the first run. Both are called 'first printings' therefore, and they are: The US Cents Copy - for readers in the US The UK Price Variant - for readers in the UK The third 'UK Distributed' copy is just a cents copy in disguise. Now it doesn't end there I'm afraid, because some other bright spark in Englaterrre one day decided to obtain the rights to reprint the Hulk #139 and others like him. They did that in the UK, under license, on local printing presses, and long after the original Hulk #139s were printed in the US. They decided to call their comic "The Mighty World of Marvel" because that sounded proper punchy and besides, the Hulk liked to punch things a lot. Here is what it looked like: It has nothing to do with the original Hulk #139 and should never, ever be called a "UK Edition" or the "UK Version" of Hulk #139. It is entirely it's own thing (unless you are CGC, who really should know better). So to recap those examples: US Cents Copy (first printing): UK Price Variant (first printing): US Cents Copy (first printing, with UK distribution stamp): UK Publication (which reprints the first printing original book under license):

Twas a 9 too

Cehhh-lebrate, we're back on track! (duh-nuh-nuh-nah, nah, nah, nah-naah!) Cracking Andrus back to back! (duh-nuh-nuh-nah, nah, nah, nah-naah!)

@KirbyJack I'll get me coat!

I can't see much wrong with it - lovely and clean back cover - so I suppose it all depends on how the grader treats this: They might feel generous if it's deemed to be production related. 9.0?

The Ancient Sages said "He who hath water damage can not achieve greater than 4.0". I could see CGC, however, going as high as a 5.0, depending on which way the wind was blowing that day. Keep it sentimental Cea161. Keep it raw.

Always liked that cover The book looks to be in the 3.0 range (which makes it sound like a turkey) and I don't think the stamp would make much difference as a result. I'm not so sure how CGC would treat it were the book of a high enough grade for the stamp to be material - they give some industry stamps a pass completely (like UK price stamps) as they see them as part of the distribution process. But this stamp, whilst clean and on the reverse, is specific to one outlet so they may knock a point off for that reason. Let's see if my response gets others to join in, who are more familiar with how CGC treat these things.

Always liked that cover I'm at 7.0

I think he's on holiday in Chipping Norton.

I rediscovered them in lockdown DZminn. There's only so much bad telly you can take isn't there. I find I get a bit intense with them though. No interruptions are allowed, no toilet breaks or food, and I stay up until 3am to finish them, sometimes spending six straight hours doing one. Still, those 50 piecers aint as easy as they look, are they.

Could have been worse Reggie. I could've gone for Kool and The Gang.