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I love the sht awful colouring on that yellow handed Thor copy

Velly nice, Frisco - welcome to the club of Alan

We like an Alan While I'm here, I just saw this copy of TOS #1 on eBay UK - I never noticed the misaligned 10c price before: A quick check at Heritage, and it seems all copies had it. Has anyone got a perfectly aligned copy?

It's a personal thing, but I can't get on with numbers like -76, +4 and such which are determined by multiple, changing variables. +4 doesn't mean anything to me, in the moment. It's a bit like Jon McClure's variant descriptors - Type 1a, 3b etc. They don't mean anything to me in isolation without having to look them up. I need something else to bring them to life, something that tells me what is going on without having to make a mental calculation or refer to something. If you told me a given Spidey newsstand was a -87 book, I would have to stop and think about what that meant, and what it meant in comparison to other issues.

Mulling it over, I think it was Giordano and not Buscema who did the later cover swipe for Charlton. This one? Not, my copy, alas....

Could be an Ikea? I'd love to take a look in the second drawer.

True, but the young lover is definitely channeling late Roger Moore.

The young lover looks older than the two older people admiring him.

I love that people like you exist Paqart, people who are so enthused about comic minutiae that they are prepared to stick their neck out and post their theories, thoughts and suggested ways of categorising the comics we love, and which some of us love discussing. Whatever the merits of your scarcity proposal (it doesn't work for me I'm afraid) I salute you for proposing it.

Nice comics. You might get more responses here iexx:

I've always thought that too - Ross is a difficult man to know from the few available pictures of him that exist online. All very different. You could be standing next to him in a lift and not know. Back in the day I mean.

That's actually a nicer overall composition I think than the original Mikey. Lovely book mate.

No one has come forward with an answer yet Brian, but I do believe the reason they exist is due to the arrival of the UK priced copies - more here if you're interested:

Thanks Steve. Is there any school of thought on why some of the Mexican cover art was amended, like the RK17 example above? Many of the UK Marvel weeklies had differences or additional art.

....add in to that their habit of noting that subsequent publications are the 'first appearance' of an original US character. If the overseas publishers played fast and loose with their dates - and I agree from the evidence here and elsewhere that that is likely - then I wouldn't want CGC to justify a first appearance labelling designation on a non-US publication just because it carried the same (questionable) publication date as the original.

Very hard to find Brian, that one. Do you know about the different US font versions of it too? Something else to look for if not Did you spot the alternate leg position, and the additional damsel? I wonder who drew her......?

Thanks for that. KCO #91 is a book I have the UK Price Variant of, funnily enough. I understand your point about the calendar difference between a cover / indicia date and the actual distribution, or 'on sale date' as Mike's Comic Newsstand calls it: What intrigues me is the point you also picked up on - how likely is it that the Mexican books were produced - and then potentially on sale - at the same time as the US originals given the necessary work that would have been needed to prepare them? These three comics below all have the same July 1960 cover date as they were all produced as part of the same print state (the UK Price Variant would have taken a while longer to go on sale of course, given the shipping time from the US to the UK): But I don't see how this Mexican comic.... ...could legitimately carry the same cover date as them. Happily, you say it is indicia dated October 31st, 1960, four months later. That makes sense to me, the gap being the time taken to do the necessary work. But I can't see how the Aguila Blanca #67 can have the same indicia date as the US original Rawhide Kid #17? Maybe CGC have made a labelling error, as I don't know what is inside it either. If it does have a printed August 1960 date however, that raises alarm bells with me. On a side note, I wonder why they changed the position of the Kid's right leg, and added an additional damsel? The Mexican Kid wouldn't stop a pig in a passage, would he.... All good fun.

That's a good additional point Qalyar, further strengthening the argument for literal labelling in my mind.

I'm not a technical expert, but if they standardised the 'Key Comments' field label wording for non-US publications to include where original US content is reproduced (e.g. "Reprints Amazing Spider-Man #129"), or even added a new field specific for that use, they could make that element searchable in the census. So a search of 'Amazing Spider-Man #129' would bring up each individual comic entry, but showing the separate title and issue numbers of any related non-US publications. I don't know how it is currently configured, but there is some element of that approach in play already in the census - if I search ASM #129 now I get the original US book and any subsequent reproductions that have been added to the census, including some at least of the non-US copies: I don't know to what extent that is based purely on the new labelling approach though - probably completely - but it should be possible to create a search which preserves the original titles and issue numbers of the non-US comics where original US content is reproduced, for those to whom it matters. @Qalyar @steve566 Gents - a question for you two as experts on these books - the copy below (posted in the Westerns thread on the boards) shows the Mexican Aguila Blanca #67 comic which has Rawhide Kid #17 reproduced. The book is dated 08/60, the same as the US original copy. I'm interested - would this be the actual cover date for the Mexican book or is it possible that all that they have done is 'reprint' the original US date? Would this book really have gone into production and be released at the same time as the US original? I find that fascinating if so.

Welcome to the club Khoo - nice video

That's a cool looking book Brian, well done. Did you receive it slabbed? Interesting that it has the same date as the US original on the slab label - I wonder if the indicia does say August 1960? And if it does, I wonder if that is accurate to Mexico and not just a straight / literal translation of the US original, if that makes sense? Here's my tatty old UK Price Variant - no indicia details at all!

Cheers - I gate crash the party around page 13 I think