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I've never seen him. Silveracre used to do the marts all the time - London, Leeds etc but stopped some years back I assume they stopped as unlikely to be very profitable

there should certainly be any easier way of doing business with CGC from the UK all the form printing off and fannying around with shipping puts me off Darryl's case's look pretty good (other than the vile orange label) wonder how he got the machinery, plastics etc - there was a relationship with Vault in Australia previously? I also wish CGC would grade English comics like 2000AD - really needs a UK branch... based in Hertfordshire Now if you have some sort of link to that info - very interesting. I would have thought that Halo would have been the one-man-band to join with the Silveracre one-man-band. Halo slabs are pretty much ignored, and it is operated from a comic shop in Queensland - a likely place to buyout old stock (slabs encapsulation equipment etc) - I thought Vault were in the USA, not Australia? There was a thread on Halo earlier this year (sorry wasn't obvious how to link it in) To quote myself - See OS 45 pg 97 for a market report from Halo. You should all be reassured that they are affiliated with Silveracre in the UK (who are described as "prompt and trustworthy") Your theory maybe correct!

there should certainly be any easier way of doing business with CGC from the UK all the form printing off and fannying around with shipping puts me off Darryl's case's look pretty good (other than the vile orange label) wonder how he got the machinery, plastics etc - there was a relationship with Vault in Australia previously? I also wish CGC would grade English comics like 2000AD - really needs a UK branch... based in Hertfordshire

Honestly, based on reputation, if I was thinking who would be the absolute worst people to front a UK grading company, it would be them... ...and what does "incased" mean? !! However, I have to say, there is a huge market gap here... And Darryl has been on the boards previously - he commented on the Batman sale a few years back

I think I wasn't clear The fact that the hand-written "60" WASN'T changed adds credance to the view that both the UK and USA copies were printed at the same time. Surely if the USA were sending stats across the pond, the time delay would allow such things to be fixed? The USA & UK copies are indentical in size and conent apart from price and date In most copies, the indicia has extra distribution text added (as above) There are anomalies both ways to this, some copies are cents with the added indicia Some don't have the indicia text at all These pence priced variants are totally different from UK versions of USA comics like those published by Alan Class, L Miller etc ANYWAY, I didn't want to hijack this thread into the USA/ UK debate Two-Gun Kid is a very cool book! I think much rarer than people think!

Pretty much proof that the UK variants were printed at the same time on the same presses as the US ones then

thanks - well, it was unmarked on ebay, but I just spotted the DCU cost me £5 It's maybe 9.2 9.4 but a good-looking book but have a small collection of these and enjoy finding them

Any good? the DCU box is embossed

Pleased to find this in a collection I bought Pence variant

thanks I think it was a marker used to black the (I assume) US price out, though I can't be sure as I've sold this lot a few weeks back Went for £100+ and I had another guy ask to buy too - the Superman V Ali is very hot low grade copies too Oz two = £40 2001 = £25 I shall report back on others I come across!

Just found this thread... some of my recent finds both UK & US copies

I was quoting from the Pristine Comics dealer report - he (assume also an American) used the term in his Overstreet report The fact remains however, they are literally a "price" variant. But am fine with "UK edition" as clearly I'm not foreign

They did (pg 96) - and also comment - "UK copies need to be defined better... production estimated at... 1/50th" "I can envisage one day... UK copies exceeding US prices.... it is one of the very first price variants" They appear to be buying them up He notes from the census the compariative number graded ASM 1 2,900 / 42 = 1.4% AVG 1 2,800 / 58 = 2% IH 1 1,270 / 33 = 2.5% X-MEN 1 3,300 / 46 = 1.3% FF 1 1,700 / 10 = 0.5%

A few highlights from an unseen 800+ "bronze" collection I bought from Scotland re-B&B by me lots of lovely PENCE copies

Shhh no-one's supposed to notice that

I've had one set just once before, but were in much worse condition and without the year stickers Dez did sell an EMPTY set he found in his old stock a few years back for about £300!

Original vintage high grade Warrior binders housing issues no.1-24 Sold by mail-order from Quality Comics

Amazing achievement for Derek. This means he has now collected all 750 MM comics, Annuals, colouring books, badges etc etc Certainly the first time this has ever been done. The nearest comparison I know of is probably me with about 65% of them. Good to know there are now two copies of no.26 in existence too (is that a Gerber 9 or 10?)

See OS 45 pg 97 for a market report from Halo You should all be reassured that they are affiliated with Silveracre in the UK (who are described as "prompt and trustworthy")

Same happened to me, I actually had the issue in a run of X-Men when it jumped, luckily I'd said "221" in the title but still didn't do as well s single copies...

Wads of cash tend to do the trick with me Serious question, has anyone bought no.2 or no.6 recently from another British seller?

Hi If it were a stand alone promo poster it would certainly be a new find and probably worth quite a bit to the right person However, as it's come from centrefold I'm not sure it'd be worth much - it'd be more collectible if you could indentify which comic it came from I haven't seen before - and it also suggests there are more in the series...

MM 24 is NOT rare!!! You can buy a CGC 9.8 now for about $200 I once bought NM+ Daredevils no.7 from Mile High for.... $10 ! really

p.s. while I'm here... Do any of you guys own Fusion no.2, 4 or 6 ? This is the British comics fanzine as follows -

Very impressive collection! Certainly one of two of my prior owned pieces in there... I think the seller has other CGC sets as there's not the no.11 9.9 in there Have had every item in there apart from the original t-shirt and several of the New Dimension archives Oh and I never had a 2D either - not for lack of trying mind