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Hello Peterm That's a cool looking printing error you have there - you might want to show it off here: In terms of value, there are people who collect printing errors and may pay a small premium for a copy like this. In my experience, such collectors tend to focus on a certain character with Spidey leading the pack (as he often does in many variant disciplines). So you have a nice error book for sure, but the comic itself has no real value when correctly printed so the chances of you making any significant money on it as a printing error are low in my opinion. You need a lunatic Punisher misprint collector to see it and fall in love. Good luck!

Four more Barbie Fashions swell the pot to 1,287 confirmed copies Give her a click and she'll get bigger. Looking at the spreadsheet this week I'm starting to see where the gaps will likely end up permanent / by design. I don't think there are that many AUS copies left to find now really - almost certainly nowhere near the 1,703 theoretical maximum. We shall see....

I like that one - deceptively simple and yet it really conveys the heat

I wonder how many kids had to run back home and beg for the extra 5c

You're welcome. I've always had a passing interest in variants

...and Colin @Colin Nash, if you want to read those embedded posts within the actual thread from which they were extracted, click on the little curling arrow which you will see at the top right corner of any embedded thread - example screenshot below: The arrow is a hyperlink and it will take you to the original thread so you can see any other relevant posts before and after it. Good luck

Hello Colin Here are two salient posts extracted from my Marvel UK Price Variant thread which may help answer some of your questions. One other point of clarification while I'm here - a cents priced copy with a UK price stamp is not a UK Price Variant. It is just a US copy which was shipped for regional distribution in the UK. For a copy to be a 'proper' UK price variant it has to have a printed UK cover price. I'm sure you knew that, but just to be sure. Anyway, here are those two posts - any further questions, let me know. This one is about how pence copies are valued: ...and this one relates to how UK Price Stamps affects value etc:

Steady Have a read of this site page Eric: http://www.recalledcomics.com/Marvel30CentVariants.php It lists what 30 cent variants exist and notes the 'missing' regular 25c issue quirk for The Inhumans: ASM had five 30 Cent Variants from issue 155 to 159. 159 was always a fun issue as there were so many types out there - here's a few pictures from my old files All good fun

My new favourite thread - keep em coming Skye

I'll say. Amazingly atmospheric

That is fantastic. Love it

Fab-u-lous thread!

The choking hazard parts?

What parts of him are so small that they're choking hazards?

Why does greggy always have a stick stuck to the side of his head?

That's really hard isn't it - when you decide to sell a run or collection type, and you then see new examples. I swear I've sold up and then started collecting again as a result

Understood.

I'm below average. And rubbish at DC.

No, it's the right book Ditch. I just took this... ...blocked out everything in black - not precisely - apart from the area in the middle and got this: The point was that it's odd for a book to have such a big bit of the cover centre image with nothing on it. And it was a chance for someone to try and guess which ASM it was. No big deal. This explanation showed that it failed completely of course but you can't have everything can you. Always fun to have to explain a bit of fun isn't it

Unless I missed it, no one had a go. It was ASM #45. I just thought it was interesting how much of the centre of the cover had nothing on it. Anyway, carry on.

Bit of a missed opportunity there though: "SEEK, LOCATE. SELF ISOLATE!"

Yep, that's my point Stephen. It's misleading. It can take time to get people to change their perceptions though, especially when they have been long held. And lets face it, if anyone at CGC was even the tiniest bit OCD it would drive them nuts to contemplate changing their approach and, in doing so, have different examples of labelling practice out there. But, as they did with the UK Price Variant label change, over time the 'incorrectly' labelled slabs will be in the minority and many may get reholdered or broken out. Its a bit like asking them (CGC) to specify newsstand vs directs. But at the end of the day, it gets dark, and the quicker you do it, the less pain you'll have in the long run.

Morning The other month, Steve in the city enquired after the Miller indicia variants over in my Marvel Pence thread. It reminded me that sometimes, what is very clear to an author when he is writing may not always be as clear to the reader. During the lock down, I've been pottering away on the comic files, reorganising, scanning and making new and updated notes. They look quite nice now, the Miller files - here's a few screen dumps: The books I currently own: The folders by title: The content of each Miller issue - showing the Miller cover and indicia vs the US copy: My latest addition to the Miller pot is Gunsmoke Western #61. So, to help illustrate what these books are all about, here's a further illustrative summary using that issue. For Gunsmoke Western #61, two first printing versions exist (there are no US Price Font Variants for this book by the way). The first is the standard US version below. It has a ten cent cover price and standard US indicia page: The second version is the Miller indicia version. It also has a ten cent cover price but the indicia has an additional two lines of printed data at the foot of the indicia page to show that it was 'Exclusively printed for UK distribution': So two versions exist - one destined for the US and one for the UK. Both printed at the same time by the same printers. Effectively, the Miller copies follow the same approach as the Thorpe & Porter UK Price Variants with one set of copies being printed for UK distribution with a different indicia. With the Thorpe & Porter copies, they all have a UK price on the cover too. Now Miller started with a 9d UK price... ....but from September 1960 they reverted to having US 10 cent cover prices. We don't know why, but I suspect it was so that they could then add their 6d price stamps to the covers in an attempt to undercut Thorpe & Porter in the UK marketplace. Now, Steve, did that help at all? @steveinthecity Probably not!