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Blimey, I gave up looking at that bookmarked page about a year ago! Will it ever see the light of day...

What a song

Cool, thanks Gary. I've got a folder somewhere in which I collected all the different T&P stamp types as well as the Millers and any other ones I stumbled across. We could probably write a book on it. Readership of two though I'm guessing...

Always liked that word Ken

Some of the later ones were T&P's: Lots of variations down the years.

Tatty misprinted pence copy!

Nice copy! That month Marvel was changing over from 10c covers to 12c. There were three books that had already started printing when they made the switch, so they did this overprint circle to cover up the old price and then printed the new price (you can see it in the M in the title). It is a really fun and challenging subset to collect. Nice set https://www.cgccomics.com/boards/topic/452776-marvel-january-1962-black-circle-variants/

I don't know myself, and haven't Googelated anything, but I was always under the impression that the interim / new covers and expanded, redrawn splash pages of the UK reprints were always done by other artists. The 'SS' on the back is a good indicator of course but, even without it, I don't see it as Ross's work myself. It's a very good copy though.

Thanks @bellrules, but I'm afraid that is the US version - all copies are priced at 75c for that book and no Canadian priced copies are known to exist. Have a read of this earlier post which explains which books are Canadian, which are US, and the US price increase / dual pricing dates: https://www.cgccomics.com/boards/topic/455835-charlton-canadian-price-variants/?do=findComment&comment=10821873 Any questions, let me know

The '2' in the T and P is deliberate Gary - Thorpe & Porter used a numbering system on their stamps - here's an example of a 1 and a 2 for the same book: I did some research on this a year or so back, in conjunction with some 'first UK distribution' work, to try to see if I could crack the stamp pattern and identify what the numbers mean. You might expect they would correspond with the months of the year perhaps but they don't seem to as there are less numbers than months in the year and, often, you'll find the same book has different numbers on it anyway: I asked a lot of the older UK dealers, some very knowledgeable, and none of them knew what the numbers represented, including those that were around at the time. So It may be yet another distribution practice that passed unnoticed and the knowledge of which has now been lost in time. My guess is that they represent regional distribution areas. Its an area of research that I put on hold, and I've forgotten more about it than I remember now, so I may have to reactivate it and keep digging - here's the DC file: Maybe someone who knows will read this and chime in. You never know.

Do you mean 'excites'? As I think we all know there 'aint a market for what exits you. Being English I suppose it's natural that pence copies or rather £sd (pre-decimal) copies don't bother me. Weirdly, post-decimal copies do bother me, I think it's the font (or the P) and whilst I'll buy them if I don't have the book already, it's one I'm looking to change for a cent copy asap. Exists, not exits, sorry! I was typing in the queue for the Post Office. Never a good idea with my eyesight But they do excite as well I have to say. I mean, look at this: If you love comics, how can you not drool....

Indeed. I'm a firm believer that you can't, or shouldn't seek to manufacture value or desirability. It's either there or it isn't. But you can find new things, and avenues of interest which may affect those values and levels of desirability over time. I've always been focused on what exists myself rather than value. I like to document and research them and if others discover that work and come to appreciate them more then that's a happy byproduct in my book.

Nothing wrong with that. You like what you like. The only additional comment I'd make is that if you love comics, the medium, and you get a thrill, say, holding an old cents Marvel - the look, touch, smell, visuals - I find it hard to understand how some cents purists lose that love just because of a different cover price. Hold one in your hands, and to me, it's damn exciting, just as holding a cents copy is. I have a friend who dismissed Mark Jewelers copies as frivolous. Wouldn't touch them. Then he held a high grade Spidey, felt that firm thicker body, opened it up and was hooked. Because he loved the medium. All these books are just variations on a thing we love.

You'd get in a right flap if you did.

I can't find the specific image but it looks like Flash Gordon to me if that wasn't already obvious to you - the circles around his tunic top fit.

By that I meant that, whilst being their countries first local publication, they reprint original US material in repackaged country specific titles. Not to be confused, as they often are, with genuine US produced price variants for distribution in the UK, Canada and Australia (being the only documented ones we know of). I helped get CGC to note price variants as such on their labels to distinguish them correctly (see my Marvel UK Price Variant thread). They still label the local reprints incorrectly as, for example, 'UK Edition(s)' but you can't have everything can you.

You're pulling my leg aren't you https://www.cgccomics.com/boards/blogs/blog/628-john-morlars-pence-palace-of-doom-and-other-comic-miscellany/ That's nice. Not my area of expertise, but I do like to see a foreign reprint book. Some of the covers are fantastic.

Yes, I do like a price variant me. UK, Canadian, Australian. Just another cool thing to collect when you've exhausted the US runs. Someone should make a list of them sometime.

I say a similar thing in this thread here Frisco:

Hello Dzbad. Lots of threads and discussions on this subject about the place if you look. Here's a good one to start your reading pleasure with. Click on the little grey arrow at the top right of the embedded post below and it will whisk you off to its thread:

"......died in the Church and was buried along with Gorgo, Konga, Kid Montana and the Flying Nurses" Doesn't scan very well does it Pete. It's the only reason I update it mate. The mushrooms I mean

Morning I finally picked up #43 of Atomic Mouse this week, having confirmed his existence more at less at the start of my Charlton curating journey. Here he be: Quite a few Charlton pence copies that I own, or have seen over the last few years, have this inked out price thing going on and quite often it is / was under a price sticker (you can see the residue marks of the sticker in the image below): It makes you wonder why whoever did it would go to the trouble of inking out the price if they were intending to put a sticker over it doesn't it. Given the amount of copies I've seen like it I wonder if it was some standard practice back in the day or whether just one prolific seller did this and its all his copies that have subsequently surfaced. Funnily enough, it looks like my copy here is the copy on the GCD, which has been on there a while: So a former owner may have uploaded it, or maybe someone spotted it from a previous eBay sale. My old 'confirmation' image itself looks a little like it and has the same inked out price scenario but if you look closely you can see it's a different copy: Anyway, I'll keep looking for an uninked copy. Hopefully there's one out there somewhere, as the purist in me likes to actually see the price on a price variant! I passed the 500 confirmed pence copies mark recently by the way. I was planning a big post here to celebrate - not that there's much interest in the thread - and maybe I'll do that when I get around to scanning the official 500th book. I've gathered some cracking looking copies lately, including some really scarce ones, and have only 330 to hunt down now. By my calculations, it will take a good few years yet to find them, if I ever do. I enjoy it. Unlike other things I have collected in my years these books are here to stay until I bite the bullet. I wonder what the expression on the face will be of whoever discovers them when I've gone (no kids, likely to die alone). Imagine it - a rake of comic boxes - they'll be getting excited. AF #15? Hulk #1? A full run of the X-Men? Oh. No. Atomic Mouse