Redshade

On 5/9/2019 at 5:30 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

Found it:

 

So, someone added a bit more cop then. Not a bad effort at all 

Not a bad effort at all Steve.

I do remember once reading somewhere that the reprinted covers on Alan Class comics showed more of the original art and that it was the US companies who cropped said art.

It seems that anything and everything went on back in the day. I'm sure, for instance, that I have seen 3 different versions of the Hulk 181 cover.

2 hours ago, Get Marwood & I said:

Thayavehmerch. Here's the other seven. Can't find an 18 for the life of me though 

 

Is that because the #18 doesn't exist or that one has yet to be found. I must admit that I've been looking all over the 'net just now and cannot find one. I started to go through this post again looking for the AS-M pence lists but got sidetracked.

11 minutes ago, Get Marwood & I said:

Thayavehmerch. Here's the other seven. Can't find an 18 for the life of me though 

 

My poor little collection is hiding behind the settee blubbing with shame and embarrassment.

3 hours ago, Get Marwood & I said:

I can send these in now 

"U.K. Price Variants"

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

5 minutes ago, Dan82 said:

DC did it right not complicating things with price variants  Where I have cents they have dirty great newsagent price stamps! Even where not, they were ruthless... Bullseye!

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.

7 minutes ago, Dan82 said:

Thanks, yea the pence are much scarcer worldwide but common as muck here! It'll be a pricey endeavour indeed finding them all in cents for me, often dreamt of the possibilities of a roadtrip to the states for the sights and the comics, just need a big wad of cash, that's the part eluding me  

7 minutes ago, Dan82 said:

Thanks, yea the pence are much scarcer worldwide but common as muck here! It'll be a pricey endeavour indeed finding them all in cents for me, often dreamt of the possibilities of a roadtrip to the states for the sights and the comics, just need a big wad of cash, that's the part eluding me  

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

4 minutes ago, Dan82 said:

I was scanning my X-Men comics this past week and here are some of my favorites. The red covers especially. In the long run I want a cents and pence variant where possible, of the full run  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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. 

37 minutes ago, El-Gato said:

Picked up my order a few days ago, just inspected the comics. ALL 16 ( SIXTEEN! ) have them. 

The problem has not been fixed! CGC knows the audience they are dealing with, do not understand why this continues to be an issue. 

Just sent an email to CGC. Will update when I get a response. 

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

1 minute ago, Get Marwood & I said:

Yes, you're growing older! Older... Older!!!

1 minute ago, Get Marwood & I said:

Yes, you're growing older! Older... Older!!!

Brilliant.

2 minutes ago, Get Marwood & I said:

They do have pence copies for JIM, which is what I'd like to see the indicias for Stephen 

Good spot, TTA #43 does indeed have a no price variant:

Very cool. Must've been an intended pence copy as the date is missing. And the misprinting must be TTA thing given the #16 I posted earlier. 

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.

56 minutes ago, Get Marwood & I said:

Another one ticked off the indicia research wants list. Anyone got a pence copy of Journey into Mystery #58 or #59 they could post a copy of the indicia of by any chance? 

Rommbu would be ever so pleased if so.

 

"Yes. Yes I would. I tell you what though. I wish they'd leave off with the rockets. I only asked if they'd seen Goom lately. Bloody humans"  

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.

41 minutes ago, Ride the Tiger said:

It looked like it for a while but apparently people are still reporting the problem. I have a few books getting reholdered so I'll check back when I can update the status.

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?

4 hours ago, Get Marwood & I said:

 

 

Cheers Robert!

I believe that Brittany is going to post CGC's official position here in this thread in the next day or so - I may have misrepresented their intentions a little regarding the use of the "UK Edition" label in certain circumstances for non-price variants, which I'll let them explain rather than muddy the waters. But our new "UK/Canadian/Australian Price Variant" label position is secure.

On that, Matt advised this morning that:

"Starting Monday, we'll begin using the UK variant notation on all books in the grading room"

So I guess that you can dive in now Stephen! @Redshade 

Let's wait for the official wording now guys eh? (and gals / canines) 

 

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?

6 minutes ago, Get Marwood & I said:

Poop in the park? 

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

3 minutes ago, Get Marwood & I said:

And dogthren. Don't forget Gnasher 

What have the dogthren ever done for us?

1 hour ago, Get Marwood & I said:

Good news my pence brethren! 

 

And sistren!

8 minutes ago, Get Marwood & I said:

Niiiice. Not sure how long the change will take to bed in Stephen. They've only just decided on this and there's bound to be some operational changes needed. Fingers crossed you get the revised label 

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

29 minutes ago, Get Marwood & I said:

Me too! 

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.

8 hours ago, Get Marwood & I said:

...you can't call this a "UK Edition"...

 

...if you're also going to call this a "UK Edition":

 

I'll shut up now. Next stop, email to CGC 

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

3 minutes ago, Get Marwood & I said:

How do you rate our chances of this being adopted on a sliding scale of one to ten - ten being 100% successful adoption, one being "shove off"?

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.

3 minutes ago, Get Marwood & I said:

Maybe have the Type 1A definition on the reverse of the label.

That would be one way.

6 minutes ago, Get Marwood & I said:

So, how do we overcome the fact that probably 90% of collectors don't know what "Type1A" means? And that it means nothing in isolation? Would that not increase the confusion a hundred fold?

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

1 minute ago, Get Marwood & I said:

What would? 

Type 1a (UK) variant.

1 minute ago, Get Marwood & I said:

I don't mind you saying at all. Now, explain - or die! 

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.