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Great book! Shame about the label.

The issue above is actually the very first Twilight Zone comic (& a pence variant to boot), which was Dell Four Color #1173 (March - May, 1961). There were a few more Dell Twilight Zone: Four Color #1288 (Feb - April, 1962), and a little 2 issue run #01860-207 (May - July, 1962) & 01860-210 (Aug - Oct, 1962). The Gold Key run started in November 1962 & ran for 92 issues. As to the inner workings at Western & why they went from Dell to Gold Key, if I remember right (which I probably don't), there was some sort of bust up to do with distribution or something. I'm sure there is a thread on here somewhere that goes into detail about it, if you have a few hours you don't mind losing to look it up.

"EYYYYAAAAAAA!!" Classic. Mind you, it serves the bugger right. Bloody wandering sex-pest with an air-raid warden's hat on. Peg's gonna give him a piece of her mind. Well, brain, maybe.

Actually, I just realised I've trimmed Anton Diffring out of my Kevin Bacon. And that's not something I say every day.

"Keep the bloody noise down you silly re-animated funerary sculptures! Don't you know what bloody time it is?" is what I would have yelled out me bedroom window at stupid o'clock in the AM. What's the neighborhood coming to?

He's one of my favourites. We have a rule at our house: If "Where Eagles Dare" is on, we have to watch it. Must have seen it fifty times. I think I got you beat there. Start as you did & carry on until you get to Breakfast at Tiffany's, instead of George Peppard, go to Mickey Rooney who was also in It's a Mad Mad Mad (etc) World, where you find the reliable Mr. Don Knotts, who was in Herbie goes to Monte Carlo. I think that's five. To be fair, I was looking to end up with Dean Jones myself, but you mentioned Breakfast at Tiffany's, which I caught a bit of last week, and that got me thinking of Mickey Rooney.

Especially when they're billed as "Weird!, Eerie! and/or Authentic!" Personally, when I see a story about gravestones coming to life, authenticity is top of my must-have list.

Always on the lookout for another opportunity to show this off -

Nice. I tried it going the other way, looking for a link to Anton Diffring, 'cause he was in just about every WWII movie from the '50s to the '70s. Dead end.

That sounds like a challenge!

Derailed like a German Army supply train travelling through occupied Belgium circa 1943. I'm proud to be part o the Eerie Resistance.

Six Euros, quatre-vingt-dix-neuf cent(inmes), actually.

Though it is surprisingly easy to get lost, Velma. I left a trail of carrot tops on my way down this rabbit hole. Why can't I find my way back to the surface? Smells good, too.

A bit off topic, possibly - Thought the stamp might be interesting...

Got this in today's post -

Looks even better in my hand than it did on the screen.

Picked up an interesting little thingy - A recent French HB Spidey anthology. Odd thing about the interior, they've done the covers as straight copies of the originals - but the story pages are in French - Still, for a quid, I ain't arguin'.

All the price variants I mention were printed in the US. Any foreign book would (should ) have its country of origin on the label. As a slight diversion from your question, UK pence price variants have historically been viewed as less preferable by many collectors, including in the UK. This often inspired some "creative" mangling of UKPPV books to make them look like cents copies. Many a "9d" were blacked out, excised, or otherwise obscured & no one would then know the book wasn't a US cents original. If I remember right, there are even a couple of graded coverless AF15s that might be pencies. Not sure where I heard that... Check out these threads: There are loads more. Happy reading!

Short answer: maybe. One thing that my good friend Marwood left out of his comprehensive explanation, specifically to do with UK pence variants, is that the price variant is (usually) only apparent on the cover. The inside pages of these books all came from the same pile as the US cents copies & therefore (usually) have the same indicia showing a price in cents. The clue, then, would be to check the indicia on whatever book you're unsure about. If the cover says "9d", but the indicia says "12c", you have a UK pence price variant. Likewise, if your book has a cover price of "75c", but the indicia says it should be "60c", you have a Canadian price variant. If the cover price matches the indicia, you have a standard US book. Hope this makes sense.

Got this saved in my watch list. Ewan's prices are pretty steep, but he manages to get hold of some good stuff.

Also especially nice as it's one of the few instances where you can collect an entire run in UKPPV.

Oh dear. That's not good at all. Nothing like the ring to it of Jonty B!tchcrack, or even Jiffy Bumsnot. In all seriousness, Velma, I love the look of that stamp. My foot is on the precipice of this particular rabbit hole...

That got me laughing out loud & getting odd looks from my co-skivers.

Yep. Like all my other investment ideas. Now, if they started grading Beanie Babies...

I wonder... If I get one of those flat enough, will CGC slab it?