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That's my understanding of the revised policy Sharon. In theory, you could keep paying to send it back over and over again and keep getting it back each time with rings still showing. Who'd have thought that when that 2018 poll went up in response to CGC's "normal and acceptable" statement, and the members made their feelings (sorry) crystal clear - which, unsurprisingly, they've been doing ever since - that five years later we would not be celebrating the elimination of the problem via a revised case design, but being told to "lump it" regardless of the severity. You pay for this: You get this: And that is normal and acceptable. Shameful really, isn't it.

Funnily enough, I mention this in the very first post of my Charlton thread, Robot. Great minds, eh? On a similar theme, size related though not UK related, wait until the issue numbers appear in '65 - you need a microscope to spot them: #56 #57 There's a whole post going to be devoted to this in the forthcoming D.T.B.A.H.F.N.II.T.T.N.O.G.A.F.F.A.A.R.D.F

It's Kenya.

Yes, I should've kept it. You never know, your copy might be my old one but 'cracked out', as they say. Being an old school label, it may have had a chance at a higher grade in the new maximising world that CGC have brought upon us. That said, there are probably loads of them out there. The insert gives the book greater protection so there may be more high grade copies circulating than you might expect. Either way, I'd say a minimum 10% premium for a MJI copy. Good luck.

I used to own this 9.2 back in my Spidey collecting days - you didn't buy it, did you? I paid a premium for it back then and though I don't follow pricing anymore (too painful!) I'm sure it would still command a reasonable premium today.

The Milano's are cool too - I pick up nice examples up when I see them: This cover illustrates the Government's new policy proposal for stopping the boats.

I love these two, too, which I picked up early in my explorations: Only a handful of 9d Arnolds (I'm guessing they're his) have I seen in many years of traversing the main comic thoroughfare.

My current favourite. Miller breaks into rare double figures ROAR! And for that matter, FWOOAR!

It passes the time, doesn't it. A 20 minute quick and dirty around the FF UKPV hiatus issues reveals the following 10d oblong stamped copies: Number 56 and 57, the actual UKPV gap issues, appear to exist in much greater numbers than the others, but it does seem there was perhaps a years worth of issues targeted if I add this result to the earlier DD and Spidey assessments. Plus the obligatory random outliers, of course. I have an idea in my mind for a full tracking summary, but have not as yet mustered the enthusiasm to create it and then populate it. The thought of staring at grainy online images of books like this one below for hours on end... ....trying to spot often faintly applied price stamps is for some reason acting as a major deterrent to getting on with it. On this occasion.

Flas! A-ha! Saviou o th Univers! @Yorick Spanish Raymond

Anyway, I can't hang around here taking sheet with you lot all night. Criminal Minds is on and I want to see who this week's Unsub is. As of now, I'm in the wind! (Got the wind more like)

No, it was definitely in a PM. I remember now. Well, you're only human Rich. And a nutcase.

Found the other half! That one took bloody ages. So did this one: See what dedication I bring to these forums?

Look, don't get all smart just because it's your birthday Eric.

You may be surprised at what I'm able to resist when it comes to other people's research, Rich

Come on Eric, you've hung around the English long enough to know what self-deprecating bastards we are.

That's a nice graphic, isn't it. Where's the other half? I couldn't find it either and I'm normally quite good at finding things on this impenetrable forum. I suspect I told the story in a private PM with some of the pence crowd here. A lot of the best stuff hides away in PMs actually. I paid a God Damn fortune to get that Battle in a live auction accompanied by Paul McCartney (the comic one). It was one of the best comic days out I ever had, and uncommon for me in that it involved other people.

I'm going to do it just to wind you up Rich. Remember, I've been posting long and detailed research pieces to absolute silence for years here, long before you (thankfully) arrived. It's only right that you suffer the ignominy of a full blown blanking too

You'll be risin' You'll find the note we left hangin' On your door You'll laugh when you read the part 'says we died waiting 'cause you promised U.S.T so many times before.....

Battle #70 has always been my favourite UKPV as it's the book that my US Price Font Variations work proved would exist as a UKPV before I eventually found a copy. Read similar date stamp observations to yours here Rich: https://boards.cgccomics.com/topic/412313-marvel-us-price-font-variations-june-1960-~-february-1961/?do=findComment&comment=11917139 The story of how I finally got the 9d copy was a fun one too. It's documented in one of my threads, somewhere....

You're only the Community Liaison Officer, Mike - what do you expect!

Not with all those Newton Rings on them, no.

Thanks - no one was more surprised than me Sharon! I assume you mean DJPinkpanther - I contributed to the Go Fund Me directly a few weeks back. It's great to see everyone pulling together on that - though I didn't know him, he was the same age as me and it struck a chord. Yes, let's hope so