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These are the notes! Notes:1" tear page 21, 1/2" tear page 29spine roll, wear, stress & creases most does not break colorwear & creases right front cover & left back cover breaks color

Another earlier Bats copy, one of my favourite covers, would a clean/press improve the grade?

Trying to get some opinions - love my early Bats and hoping to improve on the grades for these books. Would this Bats #4 benefit from a press/clean?

Battle of the Baxter Building! That classic.

UK variant.

And FF#27. Love this cover.

My copy of ST#110. If anybody's selling their copy that's higher grade please let me know! Will trade this one in + cash.

Nice! Which issues do you have? I've got a run from #1-93, some of them are really not the highest grade, some pence copies and all. And also the John Byrne run from #232-293.

And Archie #8.

My copy of Archie #4. low grade.

anybody has an unbroken run of FFs here?

I noticed WW typically does denote cracked books though, with their corresponding former grades? Or at least that's what I see on their site.

Beautiful! Thats Bats3 possibly for sale?

Thanks for the very detailed post! I'm very new to the CGC Boards, but certainly not new to collecting comics (IG handle is my ID here, but quite new there too). It does interest me though that you actually prefer the cents copies over the pence copies even though you're English! I'm neither English nor American so I'm somewhat ambivalent about either. The key thing here to me is, as I understand it, literally almost everything is the same. Cover, content, same press, printed at the same time, same paper, same ink. At some point of time the pence was printed instead of cents, and the calendar month was removed so that long shipping time wouldn't make it seem like the comics were outdated. But it seems to me that they are one, and the same! Except for that price. I can't help but wonder if this is down to general collector education, or whether truly not many collectors want the pence variants despite knowing the history behind it? In modern age comics, there are plenty of collectors that clamor after cover variants (I personally don't). There are certainly collectors out there who look for pence variants because variants in general appeal to them. I do seek out a few pence titles (the earlier ones i have are FF#1, #3, #5 etc). Another source of demand is also those who want to own key books but who can't afford / not willing to pay as much for the cents copies. The latter group however is probably getting smaller primarily because the pence variants are starting to get almost as expensive as the cents copies.

I noticed that the pence vs cents issue prices vary but quite a fair bit for non-key issues, whilst for the larger books, the price discount seems much less. However, the supply for pence variants is much lower (i read a figure of 3-5% being thrown around before). Given its relative rarity, shouldn't prices at least be comparable to its cents counterpart? Demand certainly plays a factor but I wonder whether the much lower supply figures should at least help to contribute to prices being higher.