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On 3/8/2024 at 11:39 AM, Get Marwood & I said:

 

CB+ has an image of the interior and you can see, like the other coverless Century comics I posted, that the book is clearly a crude reprint of the source material rather than an actual remaindered copy. 

 

 

I too came to this conclusion after seeing an article somewhere that said that they were  remaindered copies. I cannot recall (nor retrieve) the actual wording of the altercation and my refutation of it. I think that I may have mentioned this somewhere in these pages but the relocation of such musings are beyond my capabilities. (smile)

These lapses of memory and sense of mine are getting even more worrying to me. I can't seem to see any such numbers at the top of this post. I see :

I feel like an increasingly senile old fool at times.

On 3/29/2023 at 9:09 AM, Get Marwood & I said:

Did you read my opening journal post on Skunky? I haven't read it for a while, but I think I prove that our copies aren't the guts of Funland #1. 

Sorry Steve I hadn't. I saw the post from Bobbi Betamax and just waded in with my massive clodhopping boots. I don't usually go back to the start of threads as they are invariably too long. Once again I seem to have put my massive clodhopping foot in it. 
On another post I see that you were discussing coming up to 4000 entries and wonder where you glean this information from? On similar sites I've seen that each individual post is numbered but that doesn't seem to be the case here. Unless, once again, I'm missing something?

Hmm, two front covers of  the Conquerors and no back cover image. My error, but I can't be bothered getting them out again. After moving boxes about even only for a few seconds has inflamed my spinal spondylosis (what a posh ailment I have, no mere "bad back" for me) and I'm having a good sit down.

I will add that I bought these from a UK dealer on eBay last year sometime. The same dealer keeps advertising these occasionally.  

NB. Top Secret. Do not repeat. Said dealer found these in a UK "closed newsagent's stockroom". He has approximately 300 of the ZOR and a few dozen each of the other two. I think that we can safely assume that the comics were sent to the UK with or without a pre-printed 6d price and that any stickers must have been put on by the UK sellers.

I have these three "Century Comics". The Zor does not have the "Century" stamp or a price stamp or sticker(I have several of these and they are all the same). Note the 6d overprint on the Skunky. I had certain *ahem* disagreements with a prominent Canadian comic dealer who had these as "stripped covers. . . for the UK market . . .".
I maintained that I thought that they were not stripped of their covers but were produced like this for the UK market possibly because at that time the UK comics were all printed on newsprint paper.  I cannot remember now what the conclusion of this discussion was.
 

On 9/8/2022 at 7:50 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

Yes, they are aren't they. 

With the journals, you can't quote the opening entry, only the subsequent posts. It's something I was hoping CGC might look at one day, but I've given up on that now.

It's this Yorick:

Spoiler alert, it's not a UK Price Variant of this 8d copy:

But alas, poor Yorick, that's a story for another day....

 

(Thanks for reading and commenting though )

Forgive me if I'm late to the party and this has been said before but the difference in pricing between the 6d UK copy and the 8d Aus copy is that whilst both countries used "a" pounds and shillings and pence system the two currencies were not the same. They were not on equal parity, the UK pound being a stronger currency than the AUS one. A bit like the US and Canada both use dollars but the difference in parity means that the Canadian copies of US comics were priced differently.