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Great Caesar's ghost Steve, Spidey 1-10. What absolute treasure.

Yes I remember the old T&P 9d stamps in the very early 60s. DC did produce pence variants between 1978 and 1981. There were about eight or nine hundred of them. I am slowly trying to assemble said set.

Oh Dan if only they were "common as muck here"! Direct me to the tumbril.

That's a wonderful collection mate. Very envious. " In the long run I want a cents and pence variant where possible, of the full run ". That's what we all enjoy Dan, the thrill of the chase. That and knowing that these pence books are far far more scarce than their cents counterparts. I've had to sell a few of my grandchildren to Goblins before now to satisfy my Pence Variant craving.

Thank you also for answering my query. I'll hold onto my comics until they resolve the matter.

Brilliant.

Whoops! Blindness and senility are in a heated race to render me completely incompetent. By the way that TTA #19 Pence variant is not yet featured in GCG but I suppose that you already knew that.

Lovely old comic. I've just been onto the GCD to remind myself what #58 and #59 look like and see that they only have cover images for the cents edition. But I did notice that #43 has three variants. Did you know about this? I wonder what the indicia states on that middle copy.

Thank you. Much obliged.

Hello all. I'm new to this thread. I have been holding off from sending to CGC because of the Newton rings problem. Has this been solved yet?

I've just remembered another reason why I've been holding off for so long: What's the latest news on the Newton rings problem?

"Stop this now. This is all getting too silly". RIP G Chapman.

What have the dogthren ever done for us?

And sistren!

Now that's a point that I hadn't thought of. Perhaps it would be best to hang fire for a while.

I have had these two books for over two years waiting for this moment. They are in the inner well but missing the outer hard shell. I am going to get these parcelled up this weekend and will send them via Scott's Collectables (as they style themselves. As they are two brothers surnamed Scott I would've placed the apostrophe after the "s": Scotts' Collectables meh). The current TATS are quoted as 30 days, so I'll show the finished books when they arrive back in Blighty.

If Matt Nelson only reads one of your posts Steve then it has to be this one. Keep banging away.

As I stated above we are trying to educate the 90% of people who have never heard of Type 1a or indeed pence variants. It's not going to be easy, these things never are. But with Overstreet already using the designation then CGC's adoption of it would advance its utilisation.

That would be one way.

We are trying to educate people here. They will understand the term if CGC uses it and it becomes more widely recognised.

Type 1a (UK) variant.

It could be misconstrued as First Printing {of a} UK Priced Variant and seen to be somehow separate from a US first printing. It does not to me convey the indisputable fact that this is equal to its US counterpart which is what we are trying to establish here.

If you don't mind me saying so Steve I think "First Printing UK Priced Variant" is just as imprecise and ambiguous as "UK Edition" and could lend itself to similar misinterpretation.

I agree that "Type 1a" on its own doesn't sound particularly inspired but perhaps using the qualifiers in parentheses that I noted above would make a more descriptive title ? EDIT: I mean as a title on CGC slabbed books. I look forward to reading your article Steve. Which edition of Overstreet will it appear in (I only buy one every few years)?

It seems that CGC is somewhat behind the curve in acknowledging these variants because as long ago as 2010 these were recognised in Overstreet 40 when Senior Overstreet Advisor Jon McClure introduced the term “Type 1A Price Variant” in his article “A History of Publisher Experimentation and Variant Comic Books”: " Type 1a Variants: Cover Price Variants intended for foreign distribution with limited regional distribution, published simultaneously with standard or regular editions. The indicia and all aspects of the book, except for the cover price and sometimes the company logo, are identical to regular U.S. editions. One example is the Marvel Pence Price Variants, with the Marvel All-Colour Comics cover banners. Other examples include the Canadian Gold Key and Whitman Cover Price Variants". Although "Type 1a variant (UK)" or "Type 1a variant (Pence)" both sound a little clunky they would be my preferred choice of nomenclature.