Get Marwood & I

Thanks David. @dm226 brought that one to my attention by PM a while back along with Ghostly Tales #166. I was waiting for him to post them and claim the glory! I'll update the numbers and charts at some point.

Eldrad must live! Great season. Great season...

If it was, imagine the CGC staff members face when they cracked it open for reholdering

Hello Matt. Here's what I would do. Make a list of each title for which you have books. Then, pop on eBay and do the following: Type in each title in inverted commas, e.g. "X-Factor" Select 'Comic Books & Memorabilia' as the category Select 'Highest Price' Select 'Sold Items' Then you will see the most expensive books within those titles and lots which have actually sold. If you see a book that you have that is worth more than, say, £100, and your grade is in line with the sale prices, then you can add that book to the potential grading pile. X-Factor #6 is a regular appearance in the list, selling at £40 to £60 so straight away you know that's a comparatively expensive book although probably not worth grading unless it is a 9.6 or something. It costs quite a bit to get books slabbed and, being in the UK, you have to have them shipped overseas. The wait will be long. At 16 boxes, if they're short, you may have around 2,500 comics. You'll likely find that most titles offer up few keys / expensive books if the collection is late bronze up. You mentioned Ghost Rider. I just typed that in to eBay as above and only issues #1 and 2 get much action. I would take the time to do as I indicated above, then work out how many decent books you have. If 95% of them are in the 50p to one pound each range, as most X-Titles often are, then you know that you're not going to make a million. Strip out the good, sell those on ebay with loads of pictures and a decent description and then sell the rest as sets maybe. No dealer will give you tuppence for books which have no value and which, in all probability, they already have multiples of. Hope that helps and good luck. P.S. You get a million board bonus points for mentioning the words 'pence copy' in your opening post

Some cracking books here rolandtiu - I've never seen the Kings above before. Thanks for posting them

Spot on.

The CGC graders themselves have noted 'deeper colour strikes' on early pence copies covers which may indeed indicate they were printed first. My gut tells me that some likely were and some weren't. There's little evidence that things were done in any ordered manner back in the day. There's a body of anecdotal evidence, but nothing concrete, to suggest the orders of printing. If you check out my research on pence copies and early Marvel price font variations, you'll see examples which indicate that cents copies were likely printed first, depending on how they were printed. In the various instances for example where a cents copy has a black 10c price set against a single colour cover, where its pence cousin has a 9d price set in an etched out white square price box, logic seems to me to indicate the cents would have come first. I'm away from my desktop otherwise I'd post examples. I see the books myself as equals. I don't think it matters which came first - a run of 20k pence and 180k cents is still the same single run in my view, regardless of printing order. There would have to have been a significant gap between printings in my view for one to be called a second printing or reprint. And we're only talking covers here, which were printed separately - the interiors were identical so would likely have been run off in full for both edition types.

If we ever prove that some of the early pence copies were printed first, some people are going to have coronaries...

Maybe I'm on ignore too? I don't mind people stating their views if they are prepared to stand by or justify them and debate them when challenged. Very few seem up for the challenge though. I'll file NPG in with NerV if I hear no more...

What convinces you that pence copies are reprints NP? Have I not done my job properly or what? Again, @NP_Gresham, what makes you think that pence copies are reprints? I'm intrigued

Just had the best spaghetti carbonara I've ever had. And what an evening... Not a comic to be seen.

It takes skill to draw a creep

It's by no means definitive, relying on the heads up from fans. It's the best available at the mo It does look a bit sparse over your way, but considering the Weald and surrounding area is mainly small villages, not too surprising: I would have thought the coastal towns would have had a shop or two The Whitstable shop is primarily a DVD rental shop. Lots of cool stuff, toys and things but not many comics. No new ones. I'm currently in Margate for a few days. Two comic shops there. One has about 20 boxes, mostly Marvel and DC. Not much good. The other has a lot of recent back issues and is closing down. Neither are worth a dedicated trip. Not a Charlton, Dell or Gold Key to be found. Cool looking record shop though down the road - the quote above the door made me smile

A rare Ross recalcitration of realism. He makes up for it with the bird squashing bloke though.

You can't blame them really. They're rubbish

What convinces you that pence copies are reprints NP? Have I not done my job properly or what?

That was my experience too - I had a set of high grade 30/35 cent variants but never found a high grade #165, as this old file image of my ASM completist days shows:

Good old Alan. And I thought it was only Charlton comics that gave you more!

They look a right pair of (sea) devils @lizards2

It took a while to find it Harry. 'Peri gif' didn't work. 'Nicola Bryant gif' didnt work either. So I tried 'hot knockers' and up it popped. And the gif too.

Fwooaaaar...

That's what I was getting at earlier Drotto. You can forgive so much in the production if the leads are charismatic. There were some very weak stories, but I never found them unwatchable due to Capaldi. On balance, I thought Moffat was a very clever, witty showrunner and he did so much more good than bad. Whilst I understood why he did it, making Capaldi a little cranky and horrible was a misstep, as it detracted from his amazing warmth. I think one or two more seasons with Capaldi, with Moffat calibre writing / direction, a regular time (heh heh) slot and decent advertising and he would have been much better received and remembered than he now seems to be.

My Mum read his autobiography which centres around his relationship with and loss of his father and told me all about it. I then listened to an interview and found myself warming to him considerably. A very decent, humble man, full of self doubt. I suspect he may have got a lot better at Who had he served longer, and was better supported. Duh!