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I let one go this morning at my LCS. If anyone's in the area, I'd give it a day or two.

I found it in a box titled 'ego popping gifs for name droppers' Wolvey

My favourite character in comics is the letter c. As well as starting the word, it also gets in second from the end as well. It's a great character.

I'd be happy to get to the end of the road without my chest exploding

Good shout. Always put your needs first Buzz.

20 confirmed variants I found another: He's a $2.29 November 1999 copy... ...and makes the 'known copy' chart look like this: I also managed to snag this Spidey on an eBay impulse - we already know about it but I may now have to go for the Spidey set again, having sold them all many moons ago: I mentioned earlier that Mile High Comics had cottoned on to the existence of these price variants, and they list them as '$2.29' or '$2.49' Newsstand copies when they spot them. I used to order a lot from Mile High back in the day when the codeword sales made the reasonable priced books worth getting. I found they would often make mistakes when they sent the books and often would send you variants in error. So I thought I'd try my luck again and ordered 4 books of which only one was noted as a '$2.29' copy. Here are the bags: So I should have received one Thor 17 price variant and 3 Fantastic Four regular $1.99 newsstands. You've seen the Thor 17 above - here are the 3 Fantastic Fours: My instincts were right - 23 and 24 are both $2.49 variants : 'Mistakes' in your favour are always cool aren't they I invited Rock of MyAmadeus fame to chip in some posts back but he declined and decided to play silly beggars as usual. The world's against him you know. I saw him post on another site that these copies may be intended for the Canadian market. I was hoing he'd elaborate on that here. If we look again at the Thor #17 we see that the cover price clearly states $2.29 US: Inside, the indicia says 'Price $1.99 in the US and $2.99 in Canada': So I don't see how these price variants can be anything to do with Canadian pricing. Maybe Rocky will have a change of pants heart and join the debate ( @RockMyAmadeus ), but until then it remains my view that they are US market testers. Anyway, for someone who no longer collects them, I now have 4 copies. All in the name of research of course, but if @Lazyboy is right I should be able to sell them to a dork discerning collector for at least one meelion dollars at some point

Actually, sorry, not all double sized were 8p - this FF is only 6p. Odd isn't it

Re the titles in your first post: Amazing Adventures #9 Creatures on the Loose 14 - no pence copy exists Two-Gun Kid 101 - no pence copy exists Li'l Kids #3 - no pence copy exists Marvel Spotlight #1 - no pence copy exists Let me know if you're interested in any other titles

The titles which had a pence variant on that date were 6p for a regular size issue or 8p for a double size. Quite a coincidence really, the experiment in one off double sized issues clashing with English decimalisation. To illustrate, here's two Nov 71 8p double sized issues.... ...followed by their Dec 71 6p regular sized issues:

Thanks again SammyBC - I've added your FF #26 $2.29 and we now have 19 confirmed variants: Out of the 19 found so far, 8 are $2.29 FD. Milehigh has certainly caught on to them - I got a few images from Chuck's residence Dive in PeterPark, dive in!

It's also the month pence copies went from a schilling to pence via decimalisation:

Lizards cannot be killed. You will go on and on, in wonderful disarray. Revel in your time.

Welcome to the human race Kahnadah

Hello. I'm sitting in Michael Delia half way through my weekly 5 hour round trip to see my Mum and Dad. The new albums from Squeeze and Mozz are perfect company on the way and who can resist a Ronnie Bag of Doom as the sun comes up: Nice. A quick check on my phone and what do I see but.... This looks like the one I already posted FD. Go find me another Whey-hey! A new one! Well done SammyB. That makes 19 now. I'll update the chart tomorrow. Can't do it on my phone you know. Find me more The open road beckons, to the girl from Tel Aviv (who wouldn't kneel)...

This collecting thing is a funny old game, isn't it. I got a Spidey #13 $2.49 variant in the post today. Spotted it on eBay. And another parcel is on it's way which may have a variant surprise or two in it, if my instincts were right. I don't know why though, as I don't collect these anymore. Buy em, sell em, buy em, sell em. It never leaves you does it

I kept pictures! I always remember my pence 33, as it was a nice high grade book. Until I ripped the right centre corner off with a tape pull that is

Everything I want to write will get me points, so I'm going to have to leave it to others imagination!

Then you're doing it wrong

That's shocking

Would it pass the boards profanity filter?

Your post resonates with me fmaz, the keeping of the favourite books / those which represent your collecting history. I managed to whittle 8,000 Spidey books down to this innocuous pile: My collection was fairly staggering in it's completeness but I had to stop for various reasons which I won't go into again here as I've bored everyone elsewhere with it several times. The rationale for keeping these though was as follows: Andru was always my favourite artist, so the art had to stay (still can't believe I managed to snag the 179 page) AF 15 - first Spidey, fairly obvious why I wanted that to stay ASM 1-17 are my pence copies. A quick glance at some of my threads will tell you why they had to stay 30/35cv sets - again, being a variant nut I found these too hard to part with Printing Errors - I had about 100 ASM print errors before the big sell off. Loved them. So I kept my favourite two (Green Spidey #5 / Black price box 65) I kept the 194 as it's a Mark Jewelers (I nearly got the lot from 96 to 349) I kept the other 3 CGC's as they're keys, great stories and may make a buck down the road Not shown, I also kept ASM 176-180 in NM raw, as this was always my favourite Spidey story arc as a kid (hence 179 OA delight!) These all reside in one neat case along with flash drives showing everything I had, the documents and spreadsheets etc etc. So they more than show that I was once a comic nut. I still am, but only dabble now in low grade investigation purchases (Miller, Pence etc, see my signature line threads) There's a great scene in the much unappreciated film 'A Good Year' where Russel Crowes wayward city trading character asks his super rich boss when he has time to see the original Van Gogh that he has stored in a vault while a 'cheap' $100K reproduction graces his office wall. "What point are you making?" his boss replies. I think as long as you had fun building your collection, there's nothing wrong in selling up and just keeping a few cherished items back as your reminder. What's the point of 8,000 comics sitting in boxes, rarely if ever looked at, when you can have one small box to bring out and reflect on? I break collecting down as follows: Deciding what you love Seeking it out Finding it! Bagging it, logging it, filing it Cherishing it Selling it I had the fun of all 6 elements for 98% of my collection. Selling was unexpectedly good fun. The only thing I can't do now is to continue to cherish that which has gone. There's a thread somewhere about selling up to ease the burden on your loved ones when you go. I can't find it, but it had a lot of similar sentiments to this one. So, I've rambled on. Don't fret over selling. It's not the end of the world. And you can always then collect it all over again!