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Another chunk nearer to my goal of a full set of Pacific Comics -

Managed to snag these last week for not much money -

Cheers for that link. Great read. I actually lived in San Jose (just around the corner, really) when those pictures were taken. Of course, I was 2 years old at the time, so I can't really say I missed out on anything. Who let this kid in? Has anyone checked that he's washed his hands? And what about this? Could he have maybe found a better way to use the ladder?

Also, I meant to say... 'Look Velma! It's the Mystery of the Harvey 15c variants!' 'Jinkies!' Me? Distracted? Pff!

Got it. I'll save these specific issues in my searches & see if I can turn any up. I like an outside chance. I find it's easier to measure failure using the quantity theory. Speak soon.

Ok, Velma. I'm in. Sorry I've missed this until now. I knew you had something on the boil. Nice work, as usual. I was just toying with the idea of collecting Harveys & you've given me a gentle shove over the line. Seriously though, I admire your tenacity when it comes to research. Really thoroughgoing. I just wish I had the time to devote to some of my own pet projects. So, if it's not clear enough from the rest of this, I'm saying thank you for digging this interesting gem of comicdom from the sh!theap of Western culture. P.S. - how many are we still looking for?

Courtesy of the late, great George Carlin.

And another man's I-don't-want-to-know-what. Looking at the other sides of the pages - it looks like someone cut out choice images of B&V in order to wax his carrot in privacy.

Thought I was onto a winner with this one - It was part of a little Archie lot I picked up for less than £10 on eBay UK last week. Just hit the doormat this morning & I found this inside - OUCH! And this - Double OUCH! Looking back at the original listing, it says only 'slight damage, see photos', but doesn't include any photos of the damage. I guess that'll learn me for thinking I'd bagged a bargain.

With you all the way, Steve, my man. Nice bit of invective BTW. Still can't quite get this to conform to any logical process, at least not in my cluttered mind. I know it's wrong, but I'm struggling to narrow down or categorize the reasons it's wrong. Just too much wrong, I guess.

No difference at all. The interior pages of the cents & pence copies all came off the press in the same batch. The only change was to the price plug on the cover. Although some of the early Marvel (Atlas) pence copies had an extra line in the indicia, the vast majority of pence copies have cents indicias as well. Many (many) threads on here discussing this topic at (interminable) length.

That's what some of us here live for. Nice bit of research, BTW. Also, look closely at this - and you will see that they missed (or forgot or didn't care about) the 25c on the spine. I know this has been pointed out somewhere previous in the depths of this thread. Just thought while we were on the subject...

Another couple of Charlton war books - The War and Attack has a nice date stamp - "Oh no! Not September 12th!"

Got this in the post yesterday. All the way from France for 1 Euro. Mind, I had to wait nearly a month for it to turn up. I find the back cover just as interesting. It gives me a list to work from when I'm on the hunt.

One word...variants! Plus, also, when you obsess over something like a full run of Marvel Star Wars, including all variants, you end up with extras.

Bagged these two the other day - Starting to get into these...

Like it. 95 PTAS. I'm assuming that's Spanish pesetas.

Happy New Year to you, too, Velma.

Oh aye. Five and a half, I tell thee.

Not quite the words I would have used, but not a million miles away either. You've got eels down your leg. Yeah, but look where that got him.

Oh aye.

I read that as 'cat flap'. Took me a minute to figure out what the hell you were on about.

Some goober said: "CGC shouldn't care that much about foreign reprints anyway." If people are willing to pay money for the books and pay money to slab them and they call themselves a "business" then of course CGC should care about them. I've said it before, CGC are missing a trick not charging people for a special label. If you want your Mystic 40 labelled as TTA 13 to match your TTA 13, that'll be 20 bucks, please. If you want your Mystic 40 labelled as a Mystic 40 to match your Mystic 39 & 41, that'll be 20 bucks, please. This should not be hard to understand...

That's my little poppy seed. The fact that they don't is mostly what keeps me from slabbing anything. I know what I have & I'm pretty good at grading. Why would I want to pay some collection of uncaring goobers to mislabel something I wanted bad enough to shell out for? Seriously, though, speaking as an American who happens to live in the UK I like to think I have a slightly different perspective on a lot of these issues. From a purely American, business-growth, income-generating position, I get what they're trying to do. But I still don't agree with it. CGC are the de facto authority on grading and, sadly, labelling information. They have a responsibility for accuracy, of which they seem to be wholly unaware. The problem is that on a corporate level, our concerns are too low a priority to register. Our problem is that we can't unsee nonsense like this.

Got a good one in the post the other day - Not something I'd normally get excited about, even for £1. But check out the stamp - Anyone else find a store stamp from as remote (and unlikely) a place as Karachi? It's a new one on me & frankly, it gives me hope. If something like Little Iodine #40 (1958) found its way to a book stall in Pakistan, you could theoretically find anything anywhere if you just keep looking. No idea if this was floating around Karachi as a new or used item, but it's fun to think about.