Get Marwood & I

4 year gap since the last interesting post you mean? For completeness, my other comment from the Marvel thread too:

There are quite a few copies on eBay as it goes Warlord, so you've actually identified a thing - the apparent wide-spread repricing of that issue by sticker, pre the printed price change. It's not a UKPV though, so you only get a bronze medal for the discovery

You nearly got the right place Warlord, but don't worry https://www.cgccomics.com/boards/topic/415409-dc-uk-price-variants/ That's a 1985 book you have there and DC UK Price Variants were long gone by then. Under that sticker will be a dual US/UK printed price, with the UK one being 30p. Stickers weren't that uncommon as it goes, although that's quite a late one, and right before the printed price change to 35p - someone clearly wanted an extra early 5p!

That's one case of piles I could live with

Anyway, this is supposed to be the club for the copies you have got, not used to have, so here's another plate set that I posted in one of my pence threads a while back, and which I still have!

Found this doc in the files too - can't recall now if it was complete. Those were the days...

Mad isn't it. And faintly illogical, given that they are reprints. Look at the prices I paid back in 2007 (from my old Spidey Completist log): And those prices for the certificated copies were pushing it. Imagine what the 'replacement' prices would be today

If I still had my old #21 I'd have sent it to ya Mike for a mere three billion sesterces. Look at the price on it...

My usual score

That many? Cor, I didn't think it was that high. Are the missing 16 hard to find, or are you just taking your time?

To Phillip, GTFO PaulS* *That was a topical joke.

To Phillip, As someone who generally tries to do the right thing, be respectful and encourage people, but who at the same time occasionally cannot resist the urge to extract the urine, I would say that the model that you suggest could create inconsistencies in the grading results if, say, one location was stricter than the other. Once detected, such an inconsistency could lead to complaints such as "Bloody Texas and their strict grading, I knew I should have sent it to LA", not to mention the enormous cost of additional premises, staff, equipment and training. I'm not sure what an Organisational Psychologist is I must confess, but it sounds rather grand and I would expect such a qualified person to bring a little more to the table than the stark staring obvious if they were genuinely seeking business. My name is Marwood, and I have a team of one man and his dog who have very little to offer anybody. But we can correctly spell, punctuate and capitalise most of the time, which is a start. P.S. You were joking, weren't you?

Me too. @themagicrobot - did you post a link to an Alan cover site once, or am I dreaming that?

I agree That sounds like someone who is under pressure to me. I've noticed Paul's responses are often quite terse, but this particular response doesn't help at all. I've also noticed that if you are lucky enough to get a response to an 'Ask CGC' question at all, that they rarely enter into any dialogue. It's just a short sharp answer with any follow up questions generally ignored. That makes it feel like a tick box exercise to me, rather than a genuine desire to answer questions. Here, Paul misses the salient point - sure, CGC magnanimously gave a weeks notice, for which we should clearly be grateful, but if the servers can't cope, and members can't get their orders through, what use is that? It's an own goal and has created a lot of bad feeling. On a wider point, this forum lately just reads like an outlet for CGC process and service gripes. When you read the 'all activity' stream all you see is this kind of thing, more so now that cards have been amalgamated into the site. I think CGC might be better cutting out the Customer Service response functions here and return the forum to what it should be - a comic discussion / appreciation group. Every where you look now it's 'this don't work' and 'that don't work' and it's pretty tedious. People join here simply to moan because CGC have let three 'Q&A' forums become overrun with customer service / submission issues. I think they should refocus and push the customer service issues to a separate outlet - the danger is, otherwise, that the whole forum ultimately gets switched off when CGC realise that it is both a drain on their staff resources and a bad advertisement for their services. @dena - FYI - something to consider.

But the U.S. edition of what group? That suggests there's another version out there, in the group. You're not the Canadian edition of Lazyboy, are you? Oh, and if it's dual priced, it should say the U.S./U.K. edition, no?

That decimal cross over price is cool isn't it. And you're right, they're getting harder to find in good shape and reasonably priced.

Pretty much - hence the dupes!

I used to make similar observations in threads like this Rich: https://www.cgccomics.com/boards/topic/412303-silly-monsters-and-other-goofies/?do=findComment&comment=9722076 It never caught on. The Miller approach to their indicia Marvels was very random indeed. Even the 9d printed copies were all over the place - stamped, unstamped...: Nothing uniform about Marvel Millers, happily.

Poor old Hulk. We should put together a list of high profile Marvel characters on Alan covers and see who else is conspicuous by their absence.

I sent an email to Matt Nelson with a link to this thread and he replied that he would read it as soon as he could. With all that is going on I can only imagine what his inbox must look like, so the fact that he replied at all is encouraging. I don't for one minute think that he - or whoever is leading the change - is unaware of the implications of it, but if he does read it, and the labelling strategy change goes ahead / is formally announced, at least we will know that it was with our objections duly noted at senior level. If you're reading Matt, hello

Christ that's bad. I'm trying to work out how many fingers she's got. And is he wearing oven gloves there?

And not just any old iron, either

I can't think of one. Odd isn't it.

You're in the club Mikey, FF division Does anyone have an Alan with The Hulk on the cover?

I wish I'd kept one of the two copies I've owned down the years. Paul McCartney had one up for about £60 a few years back and rather than buy it, I let him in on the price escalation which, at the time, was about double that. Paul's one of the best - not a chap you'd feel good about scoring from. As I've mentioned before, I'd have been a rubbish dealer, had I gone in that direction.