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In your own time... Looks like a nice copy. This is a UK Pence Price Variant, btw. The only book from the run that brings any decent money is #66 I like the Indian Disney. There's a huge collecting interest in India. I recommend the GCD for research. Like I said before, there are gaps, but if you have stuff that they don't, you can fill the gaps. There is also a very good thread on foreign collecting: https://www.cgccomics.com/boards/topic/246349-comic-book-collecting-with-a-foreign-variant-focus/?tab=comments#comment-5531193 There are bound to be others...

Nice. About 30 years ago I bought a pile of coverless stuff & found an Atom #1 in it sitting on top of the cover wrap for... Atom #1. That doubled my money on the purchase. There were a few early SA horror books in there as well, The Thing, Spellbound, stuff like that. The guy also offered me a half-decent copy of Conan #1 for 20 bucks, which I said 'no thanks' to. Wish I'd taken that. Of course, if I had, I would have sold it by now, so I still wouldn't have one.

Pictures, please. I love foreign stuff in general & pence comics in particular. The ones you have above are UK Editions rather than UK Pence Price Variants. By way of example... You can see the differences between yours... ...and this. This is #62 of the GK series from March, 1970. Probably a 2 year gap between the original US comic & the Italian printed UK Edition. These, on the other hand... came off the same press at the same time. It's a very deep rabbit hole...

Without hope, you've got nothing... What I'm really hoping is to find them mixed in with a bunch of other cr*p that I don't really want. And that no one notices them but me. This is how I built up most of my Captain Britain collection. It takes time, but it's possible.

You know I'm putting these in my eBay UK searches now.

I, too, have noticed his absence. Wonder where he's lurking...

They're British. The 6p is the giveaway. Top Sellers is an imprint of UK publisher Thorpe & Porter. They mostly did UK editions of US titles in the 60's & 70's, like these Gold Keys. A quick scan of the Grand Comics Database brought these up - The Daffy Ducks above are #s 1 and 4, yours might be 2 & 3 (there are a lot of gaps in their database). Both of these series are listed as 1972 & yours look like they fit right in. Hope this helps.

Same here. If you bought yours in '81 or '82 it's certainly from the original run. May not be a first edition, but definitely original. I think I left mine at a friend's house before going away for the summer & never managed to get it back (Jeff Donahoe, I'm looking at you). All the rest of my set are held together with tape & drawn in, etc.. Used and abused. Same here again. Luckily, she's got interested friends & one of them is happy to DM. I could never step that far out of the game; hated being DM.

Wow. Been trying to re-acquire an original Monster Manual to fill out my set. They ain't cheap. On another note - if my parents sold my D&D stuff while I was away, even if I'd gone on a mining survey to Pluto, it would be the last thing they did as living entities. Just saying... Seriously though, nice haul.

It would have been something, indeed. I'd be willing to bet it's happened before, but not more than a couple of times. sigh... just what I needed. Another unattainable collecting goal.

Just had a thought... Are both covers pence?

And very rare. Hardly ever see a pence double cover. Nice.

Got a Strange Tales like that - I seem to see this fairly regularly with Silver Age Marvels, though, of course, there are more of them available for this kind of chicanery.

Even plastic skulls are coooolll. Thanks for pointing that out shiverbones. Now I really, really have to complete the set.

I knew I'd seen it somewhere...

I've got the first part of that story - It also has the month retained. I think it was a standard thing with 10d pence variants for a while. All of my Strange Tales (137 - 155) have it as well.

And skulls are coooooll.

Started a run of Dell horror - 2 down...

You should collect pence variants. They're sooo cheap.

I think it has to do with the fact that the vast bulk of collectors prefer their comics with a US price point because they feel it's more original. The love for Canadian price covers is possibly due to something as basic as the fact that Canada uses dollars, so the CAD covers look the same as the USD covers. CAD covers are more rare, hence, more desirable. In the UK, there are generally more pence variants available for run-of-the-mill issues, especially with the Bronze Age Marvels, but key Silver Age books are scarce in high grades. Either way, nobody wants them (or nearly nobody). Collectors here mostly prefer the 'original' cents copies. It is very odd and more than a bit backwards, but whadayagonnado?

part of a little lot I bagged from ebay UK.

A nice little ebay UK lot I managed to snag last week -

Yeah. And I don't envy them, trying to maintain consistency throughout a project so vast. It's a pain in the hay-ho having to trim your scans, and word your entries exactly right. Plus, they'll only let you add 6 changes at a time. I know you had some back & forth about your scans. At 6 scans a go, it would take years to load all of your images. I think your files are just too...umm...comprehensive. I tried to edit the entries for some of the Greek editions I had last year, using Google translate to try to identify the story titles. Every last one was rejected. Don't know who to blame for that one.

They insist on "British" only, which bugged me until I remembered that I was adding a variant. So, really they're noting a UK Pence Price variant as simply a British variant. Sounds sort of anticlimactic, but at least it's accurate.

Eeee, I don't know. The one week I get distracted from these threads & you go and post something interesting. You've got to give me time to be awake, and able to focus long enough to read whole sentences, and process information, and suchlike. Seriously though, good work Mrs. Blennerhassett. Been hunting in different directions lately. And adding (& removing incorrectly added) pence variants to GCD.