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I don't blame you - the UK ones are harder to find that the 15 cent variants. Here's another UK distributed sci-fi copy...

Keep us posted. I never heard back from Matt - will send a chaser.

I'll probably get shot for posting a Charlton silver age romance comic here, but I thought someone might appreciate it...

There's a 9d UK price variant of that copy Brian, if you want to keep going: And this cents one found its way into my collection today, complete with an L Miller 9d UK distribution stamp

And why a 5p stamp, and not 6p, the printed price that followed the shilling printed price? DC managed a 5p printed price in July/Aug 71. Maybe because the 6p printed Marvel UKPVs were 'new', and the 5p stamped copies were second hand. And didn't our 'Operation Third Form' analysis indicate that, in 1965, the DC books on the stands were 10 months behind schedule? Maybe that has something to do with it - just a massive gap between the UKPVs and their cents stamped equivalents that we've all managed to miss or forget down the years, that carried on well into the 70's (or can anyone actually remember seeing Hulk #130 as a shilling in one shop and a stamp in another? It was 50 years ago) Maybe the US printers didn't have a 5p print slug. Maybe the shilling UKPVs continued as such because they had to be requested a year in advance, so the price was set contractually. Maybe someone just forgot to change the shilling to 5p. Maybe there should have been a 5p 12 month window, leading to 6p. Maybe no one had the first clue what was going on during decimalisation (I'm channeling Colonel Nathan R Jessop)

There's value in this Rich, plotting the stamp values and cut off points - nicely done. We always seem to come back to the same stumbling block though don't we. We can say factually what exists, in what denominations, and for what cover dates. But we can never really say why, it seems, or identify the arrival method, book status (US returns or freshly printed) or calendar distribution dates. Keep plugging away though mate. It's a nice change for me to be reading, not leading, on UK related research

Oh I don't know. You'd be surprised what people with a sense of fun, history and imagination would do

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Sorry SigS, I've amended my post to reflect that fact.

I appreciate the research praise Rachel, but that isn't correct for ASM #1. Mr Sigs purchased a slabbed ASM #1 from MCS which had the price and cover month clipped, making it impossible to determine if the book was a cents or pence copy (The Golden Record Reprint can be dismissed by the alternate back cover) There are three differences between the UKPV and cents copy of ASM #1: UK Cover price Missing month Additional UK indicia detail (Thorpe & Porter) My pm advice to Mr Sigs at the time was to send the book back to CGC and get them to confirm from the indicia which type his copy was. He did, pointing them to the differences I had outlined, and they said it was the US version. But they reslabbed it without providing any physical evidence so Mr Sigs was left in the same position, wondering whether CGC had correctly identified the absence of the UK indicia. He was expected to take their word for it, even though there was no other plausible reason on the table as to why someone would clip the price and cover month from the book: UKPV 9d Price UKPV Cover Month Absent All CGC had to do was to crack the slab, free the comic, look at the indicia, and see which of the two it was: UKPV Thorpe & Porter Indica US Indicia (No T&P) If I were CGC I would have at least taken a photo as evidence to show that the UK indicia was not present. @MR SigS let me know if I got any of that wrong

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I know you're watching the game Golders, but I've just noticed that Brexit is complete - our stuff is no longer showing in the EU listings: We're free!

Including CGC themselves if some of the "what happened here?" threads are anything to go by...

I wonder what he'd make of today's market.

Indeed. Let's face it, if we took every listing down from eBay that had something silly or questionable in it there wouldn't be much left would there. I would never say something is "NM except for..." in any ebay listing I created but I might say a book has "excellent eye appeal but is let down structurally by....". I think it's reasonable to point out how nice a book with a particular flaw looks in hand, but I would never try to justify using high grade terminology for a lovely looking book that grades out a 4.0 due to a punishing structural issue. In the case that started this thread off, I just see a guy who can't grade so I move on. I move on a lot, on eBay.

My mistake I think, rereading your early posts OK, on eBay (ahem)... Without a search parameter I get as you said: Add 'comics' and...

This URL... https://www.ebid.net/us/buy/books-comics-magazines/comics/us-comics/golden-age-1938-55/ ...gives me (in the UK) this: 141 results. It might be because I'm in the UK - I find results often vary by county.

Definitely don't open the one dated 02/05/21... (They'll do anything for a buck)

Many a true word spoken in jest. I seem to get a new signing event email every other day lately...

Here we go, 54 listings for Gold (with no search parameter) on the UK site, and 141 on the US - UK example below: I might buy a new pair of Vans as it goes. Proper trendy, me

Are you kidding me? I'll have to take a look. Thats such a bad move on their part. Wonder what would even spur that decision. There are still searchable categories for comics, eras and genres, on both the UK and US versions as far as I can see: I've bought a handful of things on eBid down the years and had no issues. When using it for research, I found many of the sellers had the same books up on eBay - there wasn't much exclusive to eBid. I've never thought of selling there though. There's something about it that just feels 'unprotected' - a bit amateurish. I could be wrong here, but I get the feeling some of the sellers died 30 years ago and have forgotten their books are even listed there.

Yes. You wouldn't do that with anything else would you. "Hamster for sale. Alive if not for being dead"

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Somebody post another one of these