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Ve haff ze chaos, im Veltall!

Chaos at the construction site!

Chaos at the CGC Forum! @Prince Namor only kidding..

Red card for a duplicate!

In the court room In Calgary At the construction site In the cabaret In Kansas City In the court At Canaveral In Canada At the Coliseum In the land called Kush In Kansas Amid the... At the coffee bean On the campus

Ah, the on campus chaos. Closely followed by the crisis on for sheer cover regularity

Maybe in a while I'll put every example in a poll and we can vote for the worst - or best, depending on your viewpoint

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In the case of a 50/50 split of edition types though, both are different to the other. So if a deciding factor for variant status is a lower print run, which is the variant?

Here's a question for those that are interested in discussing these things. First up, I don't know myself without researching how many of each of the different cover types were made of the Star Treks of this thread. But for the sake of argument, let's take issue #3 with its two covers extant: If it were the case that an equal number of each were printed, then in my view of word 'variant' would not come into play at all. One could not be called a variant of the other if it was not clear that one edition type was the 'main' or regular edition and the other its junior - and therefore variant - by way of a limited comparable print run for a targeted purpose. So on a 50/50 split, I would expect CGC to label them as: Star Trek #3 Photo Back Cover Star Trek #3 Advert Back Cover If, however, all issues in the run had an advert back cover and, say, only 1 in 10 had a photo back cover on certain issues only, then you could legitimately call the advert back cover editions the 'main' or regular issues and any photo back cover versions as their variants. Anyone disagree?

From Overstreet #49 (2019/2020):

Steven, you can find the list of confirmed UK Price Variants here... https://www.cgccomics.com/boards/blogs/entry/4904-marvel-comics-uk-price-variants/ ...and you will see that pence printed UKPV copies do not exist for issues 130-132: I assume that you have placed the 'British' copy from the eBay listing on the GCD as below: That is not a British copy Steven, that is a cents copy with a UK price stamp on it - and not even a standard Thorpe & Porter distribution one at that. I would advise that you take that copy down from the GCD as it will fuel the kind of misunderstanding that I have spent the last four years trying to correct. If you check my journal page here... https://www.cgccomics.com/boards/blogs/entry/5028-john-morlars-journal-summary-page-or-how-to-tell-a-uk-price-variant-that-you-dont-love-her-anymore/ ...you will find a hopefully clear explanation of what is a UKPV and what is not (see the 'How to tell a UK Price Variant' bit). Any questions let me know, but please do remove that GCD entry and any like it. A comic must have a printed UK price, and be part of the original US print state, to be called a 'UK Price Variant' (or any other descriptor that the GCD insist on using in place of the now fairly universally recognised one). Thanks.

Byrne ASM covers deserve a hate, Eric. B hate just won't do. I'm not so sure. If all the Byrne covered ASM copies were put in a massive container, and we all got together and moved it off a cliff, that would be a good thing I think.

I see a 1988 date in one of the pics so far too late for Thorpe & Porter. I wonder if they were 'illegal' compendiums so to speak. Good spot @themagicrobot - wonder how these escaped everyone's attention for so long

another sale...

eBay sold....definitely remaindered:

Yes, anything relating to the UK distribution of original US produced content really Never seen them before either. A quick eBay search brings up one solitary entry - 1988: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/COMIC-COLLECTION-Book-2-1988-DC-Comic/230629801275?hash=item35b29b7d3b:g:v-kAAOxyrP9RZmhP No detail in the listing Lets pop over to the GCD and have a look...