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Nice poll. I answered all the questions, but in some cases my answer would have been caveated with ' only in certain circumstances'. Taking newsstand vs direct as an example, I would only pay a premium for later newsstands where availability is much lower than in previous decades. Similarly, I may pay a premium for a scarce UKPV, but not for a freely available copy. And where are the Australian Price Variants @thunsicker? There's only four types so you may as well include all of them

I call that a run collector Gary. A completist has to have everything. Essentially, a nutter. Pretty good achievement getting the majority of the Sgt Fury run for under 50p though.

Non distributed no longer! And when you say you was a completist, did you go for all variants Gary? None of that plastic-completist 1-167 issue run nonsense - the full variant / insert bifta (or 'bifter' if you include the variant)?

We've all done it - I had these two Horwitz copies and sold them both years ago when the idea of a reprint of ASM #1 in a foreign publication becoming valuable was deemed 'unlikely' And to keep the thread on track, and compound the misery, I sold this fairly cheaply too around the same time...

....yep, I found an old scan. I must've sold them as a set, probably for tuppence.... And if you're wondering why those three....

They're nice. My old #115 had a massive triangular price stamp on it as I recall. Long gone now, alas.

Indeed. It's the type of issue that would be found unboarded in the cheap bin at the fair, all spine creased and with a £1.50 sticker on a yellowing bag. I'm not sure how many Sgt Fury completists there are out there, if any, or how many collectors might be trying for the full Marvel UKPV set, but it's quite funny to think that books like that, and the two Marvel Super Heroes 20p copies posted earlier, might be their toughest finds. It's one aspect of the hobby that I'm personally enjoying at the moment Gary - tracking down the obscure books, of which there may be only a handful of surviving copies, but for which no one - happily - gives a care.

I do, thanks Gary. I've updated the list - 3,023 confirmed copies now Just to underline how comparatively scarce this copy is, two recent UK sellers eBay lots: In this one, the seller has #163, 165 and 166 in pence with #167 as cents: And this chap has all the final pence copies minus #167: Some of these later / final 20p copies could turn out to be some of the hardest variants to find.

Breaking news - T&P price stamps aren't susceptible to sun fade...

Pete must've read Charlton romance as a kid...

They're cool aren't they, TK2. I like anything to do with the original production process. Good spot.

The removal of all the laughter reactions from this thread has pretty much ruined it for me so I'd like to round it off by raising a glass to those who no longer post here on these boards - specifically, those with whom I have enjoyed interactions over the years, both online and by PM, and who have made the experience fun and rewarding. Wherever you are guys, whatever you are doing, or are about to do, I wish you well

...which wouldn't cover our hosts in glory, if true...

Yes, that is cool. There's clearly a lot to investigate here Ganni, with the Filipino reprints. I focussed on those Seventies Marvel NBS copies as I find them a particularly interesting subset, with more copies available to research than some of the other groupings and publishers. Aside of plotting the DC copies, I don't think I'll go any further if I'm honest. A six month investigative trip to the Philippines might do the trick but there's only so much you can achieve from your armchair in England. I did like those King Comic examples that were posted some pages back but it's hard enough finding the UK Price Variants of those, let alone reprints from the Philippines. Maybe you can keep the torch burning here while I return to my main area of focus (Charlton!).

I find the localised colour interruption on Hulk's left leg quite interesting. It could be water damage off course, given the staining elsewhere on the cover, but you never know without examining the book in hand...

9K for 42 X-Men books - £214 a book I've been looking at sale prices on eBay Albert, as I'm not overly in touch with X-Men silver age sale values. It's quite an eye opener. Some sale prices (CGC graded): X-Men #3 CGC 8.0 - $1,800 X-Men #5 CGC 8.5 - $1,815 X-Men #7 CGC 7.5 - $675 X-Men #8 CGC 8.5 - $998 X-Men #9 CGC 9.0 - $1,500 There's five grand for a start. If the grades are as they are stated, and the buyer slabs the lot, they may make a buck here (if that's the intention), especially if some grade out 9.4. X-Men #14 (1st Sentinels) - if that grades 9.4, the buyer is in the money as 8.5's appear to sell for over $2,000. I think I may need to pay a bit more attention. My initial instinct was that these estimates were bonkers. But on closer inspection, if all these 42 books are in the stated condition, the sale price may end up being a bargain. Although sale prices have rarely been my focus in my collecting history, I think I may be off the mark by some margin now. Prices have clearly moved on. That said, everything in this lot rests on the accuracy of the stated grades.

Your welcome, and welcome. Sure a few more members will chime in soon....

I don't know JazzMan. Even if there was a regular day though, that wouldn't automatically mean that every seller would stamp their books on that day. Might've been sick on the 16th, if you know what I mean. Lots of potential reasons for different dates being applied, outlet to outlet. The more examples we find, the more any potential sequencing pattern can stand up.

It's never easy to tell from photos, and with books from this era which can have miscuts, varying cover dimensions and such. But I think it looks alright. If you compare your copy to this copy on Heritage, you'll see that your copy has a wider cover width. On your copy, Sue and Ben's heads are partially obscured around the spine. In the Heritage copy, their heads are fully visible. Accordingly, as you would expect, your copy has slightly more right hand cover than the Heritage copy: Your copy would have had to have quite a lot of 'additional' width to present badly enough to trim, if that makes sense, which would make it uncommonly wide were that the case, pre-trim. But as I said, cover dimensions from the silver age can vary in size naturally during the printing process so I can't guarantee it. But I would place my bet on it (not being trimmed). See what others think.

It's a start - one example of each book. Just time and patience really. It would be nice to find a few more examples with the same dates, and see a date pattern emerge. I'll keep looking. I'm looking at Charlton all the time anyway, so it's no bother.

"Club Bo" rang a bell @jaeldubyoo so I checked my old Spidey records and ASM #352 (October 1991) had the same insert in the Direct Edition:

23rd of August... @Prince Namor @HuddyBee

Quote: "The vendor was particularly interested in purchasing the best examples that could be sourced and this lot is testament to that pursuit"

I could go into the pressing business, me: I'd likely go out of business soon after of course but nothing ventured. Funny book this. It looks the part, but I'm going to hold off on any PV assessments until I have a US copy in hand to compare it to - page by page, page / print quality etc. It'll have to be a cheap copy mind, I don't care that much....