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Can you elaborate please Mike - is this forum gaining or losing something post the upgrade?

Mebbe. Richmond will probably know. Or his man who knows might know. I don't know.

Join the Kew...

I posted this Miller / Jensen / T&P combo inside cover a while back in the thread:

Clear as mud, isn't it. Have a read of the Wiki page, Albert: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Book_Company In 1953, Thorpe & Porter seems to have acquired the Arnold Book Company as a separate line

I think this one has an original Mexican story in it. One of the thread regulars will know I'm sure

If AI could speak, imagine the arguments it would have with Matt Nelson during programming. "It is not Witches Tales #25, Master. It clearly says Cuentos De Brujas #46" "Yes Robbie, it does, but what matters is that it shares a cover with Witches Tales #25, right?" "I do not understand Master. How can Cuentos De Brujas #46 read as Witches Tales #25? I am trained to read what is on the cover" "Carney, turn this damn AI thing off. It won't do as I say and I always get what I want!" "But Robbie is right, Matt. It doesn't say Witches Tales. I can only train AI to read what is there - not what isn't" "You're FIRED Carney!"

We all seem to do OK in the grading contests though, did you notice?

If Carney's AI can "identify a collectible from among millions of possibilities in a near-instant", is it too much of a stretch to imagine it could be trained to identify cover flaws on moderns?

Talking of Star Trek, I can't remember where I saw it but someone queried why they were boldly going where no one had gone before, and yet everywhere they went there was always someone there already. It made me laugh anyway. Carry on.

Do you two think that AI could be grading some books currently? Moderns, perhaps? Here's what I posted in another thread: "If correct, your process timing calculations strengthen my theory that AI might be grading a lot of the books. Maybe the human graders just do the pre-moderns which seem to represent a much smaller part of the overall volume if BCs extracted data is correct. If you were running a grading company, and got a human to count the pages, do a resto check and look for internal issues on every submission, and the statistics then showed that 99.8% of moderns always had the right number of pages, no resto and no internal structural issues, what would you do? Carry on doing that, or accept the risk of that tiny percentage of books with issues getting through and then being discovered?" Is that nonsense, do you think?

Did you see this Roy? @VintageComics https://www.cgccomics.com/news/article/11945/ Carney has been the instrumental leader in building a proprietary platform that enables CCG to identify a collectible from among millions of possibilities in a near-instant using artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and advanced computer vision and image processing technologies.

Not really Shad. Back in the day it was a fairly normal practice to pop a pence price on a cents priced UK distributed book.

A good number of the 15cvs that I have seen have 6p UK price stamps of various descriptions but mostly concentrated around one style. There are some 6p stickered examples too.

Cheers. Six of those have been incorrectly classified as UKPVs, and the jury is out on the Beatles. The book, not the band. Someone clearly loved their Rin Tin Tin run!

Sixty thousand Barbie AUS copies in this current eBay lot, and not one of them on the bloody missing list

True, true.... It really is time you got you're own place Andy

Thanks Greg. There are a couple of Gold Keys hiding in there - these two come up under the 'variant' search term: Quite a few of the pre-1960 Dell entries that I found seem to be incorrect - they are recorded as 'UK Price Variants' when they are reprints or UK only publications - example below: If those entries are in your 38 book total then that number will come down a bit. Overall, non-Marvel UKPV submissions clearly aren't a thing. Which is no surprise.

I did a few searches myself using Greg's software and unless I'm doing it wrong there are miniscule numbers for UKPVs across the little five publishers as expected. http://cgcdata.com/cgc/ You need to search a variety of terms like 'edition', 'kingdom' and 'variant' to stand any chance of finding them and then filter out the other variations. CGC used to label UKPVs as 'UK Editions' remember, until some wally harangued them into using something else. 'UK' on its own brings up too many additional books I found. Here are the Charlton results for those three terms - less than 20 books if this is all of them. I didn't find much for Gold Key and nothing for King and Archie. Not one submission. There could be some that haven't been identified as UK copies of course though, I've seen a few of those for Charlton. Maybe Greg will surprise us with some superior interrogation results....