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Oh that is absolutely ridiculous! The boy's hat I mean.

I like this one. Apart from the rather excellent Charlton miswrap / cut it is a 'special dogs of war issue': How can you not love the special dogs of war? Especially when they have been so faithfully rendered? All that for 60 cents. Sorry, 75 cents

...and another...

There's something about misprints isn't there. Finding them by chance especially. Love em

Whoops!

Morning all While we wait for new CPV sightings, here are two from the Army with no G's. First up, Fightin' Army #168: "It's just another day" Aint she pretty. The eagle eyed amongst you will have great eye sight and the ability to catch unsuspecting field mice. Also, you may see the nice arrival stamp on the cover of '9 DEC 1983'. I wonder what took so long, given the 'On Sale Date' recorded over at Mike's: Shipping time Next up, and to preserve the wonders of sequential numbering, Fightin' Army #169: As someone else noted, you can still see the US 60c price behind the overprinted 75c price on this book: How cool is that? A similar phenomenomemnom can be seen over in my King Comics thread. And Marvel. I like that kind of thing you see. What puzzles me with these Charlie CPVs is how the printer had the foresight to include the US and Canadian prices on the indicia... ...and to add the UK '25p' price to the cover: Dual pricing is such an easy way to remove the need for different printings. So why not have the triple on the cover? Marvel had cottoned on to this by this time. We may never care know....

The K-B Toys reprint? I had so many USM variants back in the day I've forgotten more than I remember now: A few others... Those were the days...

Looking at my last two posts, I think I may have had cool aid for breakfast

That's cool too. Upside down interiors do turn up occasionally. In my experience, value is linked to the desirability of the comic / issue in it's normal state. Spidey errors always seem to sell well for example, especially ASM. Lesser collected titles may stay unsold or carry a small premium though. It's cool either way.

That's cool. Did you discover it by accident or buy it as an error? Internal errors are so cool.

Two more gaps a filled...

The condition of these two, spotted on ebay, raised a titter

I just PM'd you. I would prefer CGC not to call books like these "$3.99 newsstand editions". I think it's misleading, as it could give the impression that the price is special. It isn't. It's just the newsstand edition, and sometimes they are priced differently to the direct copies. The only time it would make sense to highlight the price would be if there were copies of the same newsstand edition with different prices. Like these: Other than that, I would prefer that they just stuck to differentiating directs and newsstands.

There's nothing like a funny skit on color vs colour And that was nothing like.....

Dah nah-nah-na, nah-na, nah-na, you can't toach this. Dah nah-nah-na, nah-na, nah-na, you can't toach this.

Vot! Zis is madness to think ze Count would partake of ze situation task pointless! (I am also thinking zat ze kavalry is ze sneaky post amendering person, no?) Ah, ha, ha, ha, hah!

Evening I've found a new magazine title and, surprise surprise, it's another Conan one - Conan the Savage which ran for 10 issues from US August 1995 to May 1996. If we transpose the title on to our chart, the last 4 issues creep into the second wave as follows (where all AUS books have the same cover dates as their US counterparts): Accordingly, and if the title fits into the date range for all known Marvel AUS price variants - comic and magazine - we should only have issues 7 to 10 as APVs. The picture I found online shows issues 1-10 and, lo and behold, only 7-10 are APVs. The system works: The picture isn't that great but if you zoom in you can see the AUS wording and price: It looks like the printed price is AUS $4.90, the same, coincidentally, as the retailers price stickers on them! I can't find any other copies online at the moment so will have to wait for better images to turn up to be sure. Still, a new magazine title, 4 new APV's to hunt for and the only Marvel magazine title so far to break the AUS second wave. Sooper

Yes. They're fascinating, but stay in their own little folder for now.

Afternoon X-Force number 2 and 3 are currently absent without leave.... ...but we do know that stickered versions exist: The stickers have an official look to them, and multiple copies have been sighted (I have a few of them in the files). Our AUS friend in hiding Paul Nicholls sent me this new example earlier today - Marvel Milestone Edition ASM #1 (US Red Logo Version): Now that sticker looks very official doesn't it. And, again, multiple copies have been sighted. The stickered copy is identical to the US Red Logo copy (multiple MME variants exist) and has the same front, back and barcode: AUS Stickered Copy US Copy It's interesting also that the AUS sticker has the Curtis Circulation 'CC' on it, which AUS copies rarely do. As it stands, I won't be adding this as a new title as it was not originally printed as an Australian Price Variant. Even if the sticker were to be confirmed as an 'official' process, it still wouldn't meet the criteria for inclusion in my opinion. Does anyone reading have a view on this?

It would. Or one of the mods goes mental and posts "Bollox to the lot of ya!"

Coincidentally, 300 posts are what we need....

Don't you sad face me Gotham!