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Claggy's a good word isn't it "Sir, this soup is claggy!"

Too claggy! mmmmm. Claggy....

Cheesy Wotsits

"Jim Baxter lays here. He shot for the moon, but hit Uranus"

It's OK Jim. The sun's in Uranus.

Pence farts. They came first...

I thought youd never ask If you had a pence copy I could make a thread out of it and we'd pretty much have taken the boards over.

It happens to us all. Got a pence copy?

Onion flavoured minions Munions

The books of ten dee? They look good to me

They're alright.

Oompah oompah, stick it up your jumpah...

Keep them on

I'm sorry Pipsy, my post was a cheap shot and has rightly been poofed. Don't let it put you off will you

There's an old saying about The Levers of Doom... "Don't pull them if you want your ten year promotion" The sound that you can hear, is the sound of the air escaping, from the inflatable, castle, industry

Sorry, too far wasn't it.

How do you feel when you hold one? Great aren't they. A friend of mine used to scorn my love of Mark Jewelers. Always slagged them off. Then he held a few. Felt the extra rigidity, the palpable difference. Felt the 'new wave of stuff to collect' bug.....

Sold for £441, about £40 each (I can do maths and everything me). Not sure why, but there's something about them. I suspect trimming and hidden stuff. I'm not sure this lot was a bargain really.

Thanks Roy, nicely put. Joseph's position seems clear doesn't it. I've no reason to doubt his informed assertion that the early AUS books were produced first. But that was 1990, and only a handful of the books of that time have any real value. And by value, I don't necessarily mean monetary. Now the pence copies.... if we could prove the early 60's books were printed first, that would include pretty much all the Marvel keys. Like you say, pence books are that much scarcer and to me are things of beauty. As a comic collector, lover, enthusiast, I can't get my head around why people would dismiss them. They're so exciting! The natural collecting progression for the collector who has everything (in cents). Maybe the completist mentality has something to do with it. I like the linkages too, which I find fascinating. Pence copies are almost certainly the reason US price font variants exist. They are part of the history of US comic production. And surely we all want more knowledge, don't we? I think it matters. And not through any bias. If it were proven the other way - cents first - I'd be delighted, just to know, to have it confirmed. Some of these books introduce some of the greatest fictional characters ever created. Some are worth a million. And we dont even know what order they were made!

How are we doing @pipsy?

So many uses for that stuff....

Not foreign editions dupont, price variants. They're not reprints.

I used to be a Werewolf......