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Three three dollar Night Thrasher Four Controls of Four! That was a mouthful

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Here's a couple of nice Betsy upgrades that I received from that good man @fett (cheers again fett! ) We did a swap the other month - a few Charlies for a few IW's. I still owe him an IW or two I think, as I got more than him, and I hope to balance the good deed soon Anyway, here they are. Much cleaner than my previous two! They are very happy in their new home, surrounded by 427 of their pence priced friends

Why is the new one locked Hepcat? And why wouldn't they move your old one?

Both of us?

I do like a Mark Jeweler Insert. Nice and firm those books, especially the cardstock ones. But no, these Gold Key FUN CATALOGs aren't really like those Robert. The NDS / MJI's ran for many years and were placed in a small % of newsstand copies targeted at US military bases. The FUN CATALOGs appeared once annually for 3 years running it seems (1972-1974). Yes, they do for BK 58 but there are some US priced Gold Key titles that have US copies with and without the FUN CATALOG blurb. None of the UK price variants have them which makes sense as the catalogue was for US buyers only. In each case, the pence copy is missing the blurb - another Boris example below: I've been down all the pence ones...

I think so, yes. I like all this kind of thing. I'm never 100% sure how some of the variant pricing was done. You hear of 'overprinting' prices, prices being added by hand. Here's a few examples of what I mean. This Canadian 75c price variant looks like it was printed over the original 60c price, which you can still see: Then there's these two copies of Mandrake - the 12c copy still shows the 10d price and the 10d copy shows a block of colour obscuring the 12c price. God knows which order they were printed in: I can never work out whether Charlton UK price variants were printed with a blank price box into which a UK price was manually added - as these two seem to indicate (note they are in different positions): But others are consistent and look to be printed at the same time as the cover. You can see on some early Marvels where the US price was scratched out and replaced with the UK price - often bits of the US price still show: I've got loads more examples. Maybe there were many different ways of doing it. Going back to Dell, why place the UK price over the US one on one issue and not the next? As I often say, we may never know. Fun to speculate though.

Morbius has been a fairly tough APV nut to crack, but the first 12 issues have turned up so far: The first 17 potentially exist in the first wave and the title is over before the second wave starts. So 12 confirmed of a maximum 17 as it stands. Wonder if it will stay that way. 12 is a nice round year-like number isn't it...

Evening all I managed to get both BK 58's. A lovely glossy cents copy and a shabby pence one. Seems about right. Here they be: So, the differences are: Price Bottom right cover dressing Inside... The same ads and indicia details: The US copy has the FUN CATALOG at the centre (and is pleasingly firm to the touch as a result), the UK copy doesn't. Good job, given the lack of cover blurb I suppose: The back covers are the same: So what do we learn here? Well, apart from the obvious, we learn that my camera phone takes terrible pictures. See you next time for more 'pointless posts about Golden Keys'

Another one shilling Lassie here, with Timmy ready for action while Lassie holds his hose in his mouth. Talk about exciting adventure! Arf!

Evening Here's a nice Ellery Queen from the Four Color files: Whoever was responsible for adding the one shilling price to these later FC UK copies never quite made their mind up how to go about it. In order, we have: Four Color #1164 with a 15c US price in an ellipse and a separate one shilling UK price in a circle: Then Four Color #1165 with just a one shilling UK price in a circle covering where the 15c US price would otherwise be in its ellipse: Then Four Color #1200 with a 15c US price in the Dell stamp box and a separate one shilling UK price outside it in a circle: And then Four Color #1236 with just a one shilling UK price in the Dell stamp area with no circles or ellipses in sight: Make your mind up!

OK.

Did you hear any more from Lighthouse in the end?

Was the same guy ever drawn so many times for one cover!

I can lend you 9d Annoying when you forget isn't it. I had two tabs open recently, one with an ebay lot I was after with 3 minutes to go, the other a tab here. Someone here asked a question, I answered it, and missed the ebay lot by about 3 seconds. No good deed goes unpunished eh

Yeah. To be honest, I was just bumping to see if someone might read and comment on my 3rd Nov post. Seems that money is all that anyone is interested in lately.

$2.29 $2.49

Here's a good one from the boys over at wordpress. I've been missing Captain America #410 for ages, the only APV book missing from the first wave for that title (issues 378 to 423). Cap is one of the few titles with an April 1994 book incidentally, and it doesn't look like any of the 7 possible second wave books exist: So only 46 APV's probably exist. Anyway, here's #410 finally to complete the set: The issue number is actually #407 but this is #407: So someone clearly added the wrong issue number to the #410 March APV! I do like a good cock up

There's an interesting page up on Heritage at the moment - the UK Super Spider-Man Weekly #217: Here's the description: not a bad effort when you compare it to Ross' original: A bit wider of course, but you can see why

That's why I went 3.0. Lots of surface wear, but its all there with no major defects. Nice book.

Where were you at out of interest Mr Z?

From me, it's a 3.0.