Get Marwood & I

Good luck with it

You can't polish a turd Maurice. And you're beyond glitter rolling

Brilliant And what a line up!

Now, stop mucking about Gnash. Vlad The, sorry, 427 - tell us more about this wizardry and trickery @427Impaler

Yeah, and remember this one? "Dah nah, nunner nah nah. Nunner nunner nun nah nah!" It's the wrong show isn't it

Cool! Any chance I could send you the wife's teeth?

Looks like a lot of interference in the Saturday Morning Shore Store background doesn't it. Try adjusting your set Difficult to tell from the image, but it looks like printer related problems rather than post production damage to me.

Dunner nunner nunner nunner Dunner nunner nunner nunner Dunner nunner nunner nunner Dunner nunner nunner nunner Bla Kan! (buh duh, budder dudder) Bla Kan! (buh duh, budder dudder) Bla Kan! (buh duh, budder dudder) Bla Kan! (buh duh, budder dudder) Bla Kan! Bla Kan! Bla Kan! Bla Kan! Bla Kan! Bla Kan! Dunner nunner nunner nunner nunner nunner nuh - Bla Kan!

A post by board member @David Buck in my Charlton Canadian Price Variant thread got me thinking as to whether the order that books hit the newsstands could have any bearing on why some of our October 1999 Marvel books have $2.29/$2.49 price variants and others don't. I've speculated already in this thread that I feel that no one title will end up having more than six price variants (3 x $2.29 and 3 x $2.49). Here is the current position: So could the order of production / hitting the newsstands be the reason that ASM, Cable and X-Men have October cover month variant price issues and the other three titles don't? Let's say that someone at Marvel HQ decided one day to initiate the price variant experiment and picked their 6 titles. If they gave an instruction to the printers to produce X quantities of each variant price they would have had to have specified a starting point. If the starting point was the actual printed cover month, then you would expect all six titles to have October $2.29 / $2.49 variant issues. But if they gave them a date which related to their sequential printing schedule, then you could see how three got done and three didn't (this seems to explain the absence of 4 Charlton Canadian Price Variants over in my other thread). So I checked Mikes Comic Newsstand to see if, for example, ASM, Cable and the X-Men were scheduled to hit the newsstands on or after a given date, and the other three titles perhaps before it. That would explain the absence if, for example, Marvels instruction was "six variant issues from printing date August 11th, 1999". Alas, it doesn't pan out. Here are the 'On Sale Dates' from Mike's site for our six October cover dated issues: Week of 4th August: Cable #72 (has one confirmed variant, $2.29) FF #22 Thor #16 Week of 11th of August: ASM #10 (has both confirmed variants, $2.29 / $2.49) Week of 18th of August: Hulk #7 X-Men #93 (has both confirmed variants, $2.29 / $2.49) So, it doesn't look like 'on sale dates' have anything to do with it does it. Of course, it may not follow that 'on sale dates' have any bearing on actual printing dates? Logic would lead you to believe so though wouldn't it. Anyway, it was something to post!

Of those, our one time visitor @SasquatchComics said: My research rule is always that books are recorded as unconfirmed until proven, but it seems 5 of them have been sighted. Great collaborative effort in this thread guys. I like it

That makes perfect sense to me David. Comics with the same cover month are of course produced / printed in stages and hit the newsstands on different weeks. So it does indeed look like someone at Charlton HQ requested a run / experiment of five 75c Canadian priced issues for 12 titles with a starting date at the printers of the books that would head to the newsstand on the 9th June 1983. That would make a nice round 60 issues with 52 confirmed so far. If true, the missing eight issues are: Ghost Manor #73, 74, 75 Ghostly Tales #166, 167 Haunted #70, 72 Scary Tales #43 Odd that it is all the horror ones isn't it

Excellent! Thank you David 52 of a possible 64 confirmed. I wonder if any of the four eligible titles will ever break 6 issues or whether 5 will be the maximum regardless of the date window (a bit like the 1999/2000 Marvel Price Variants)? All good fun

KRUNNTCH I say again, I love that cover. The colouring is just mad - bit's of blue hair. A yellow finger. Miscut bits at the top and bottom. It's so sloppy it's genius.

Over it maybe

...brings us up to 50 confirmed of a possible 64:

Here's a few recent TV western additions to the Dell pence pot (I like how they always seem to have the actor's name on the covers): Gene looks dapper there doesn't he. Sometimes it's hard to spot the UK price on these photo covers. When in doubt, pop it on the cover stars trouser leg And here's a Lassie. Always end on a Lassie if you can Arf!

Afternoon The Lone Ranger's 'no copies after October' pattern that I mentioned in previous posts has been broken by this one shilling fellow:

Confirmed APV issue list

Morning Aussies Two new titles to add this morning. Hurrah! First up, we have Blaze: Legacy of Blood, a title referred to me by APV collector Paul Nicholls (thanks Paul). Here is number one, with an AUS $2.80 cover price and amended 3 month later cover month: Cool The title ran for 4 issues but only the first two sit in the confirmed first wave AUS date window. If number 2 does not exist, being an AUS April 1994 cover date book, then there may only be one which would make Highlander very happy I'm sure: Next up, Transformers: Generation 2. Here's #1 priced at AUS $4.75 and again with the usual 3 month later cover month: Nice This title ran for 12 issues but only the first three sit in the confirmed first wave AUS date window. If number 3 does not exist, being an AUS April 1994 cover date book, then there may only be two out there - one and two. I knew I should have been a maths teacher: One kind ebay seller popped a load of Ghost Rider / Blaze: Spirit's of Vengeance up: Sooper! So I am now only missing #13, 17 and 18. But, as we know, 18 may not exist: Finally, a number of titles are full / nearly full now. One of them is Uncanny X-Men for which I only need confirmation of #277 and 308. Again though, 308 may not exist being an AUS April 1994 book: Anyone got one? Only time will tell. In the meantime, here are the current scores on the doors: I'll update the confirmed number list soon. See ya

Wasn't there a story going around about this one - something about the delivery truck crashing and most copies getting destroyed? It might have come from Chuck?

Odd that they spotted that, but missed the cookie jar biscuit barrel in the first panel! Now, just one more post from you Andy and I'm bringing the Clangers out...