FS: JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY 76 PRICE VARIANT

[supapimp]

book will be listed on eBay 11.20.03 at 3:15 pm PST along with the RAW ASM's. If you don't know the story behind this book, it's a price variant right before marvel changed it's price from 10 cents to 12 cents. the original copies have the 10 cent price, then some were called back and repriced as 12 cents. the black circle on the upper top left corner is where the 10 cent price has been blacked out. if you hold the book to the light you can actually still see the 10 cent price. this is the third price variant i've owned, this being the second highest grade of the three. i sold my VF/NM 9.0 copy on eBay right before OS listed the book as a price variant. comiclink recently sold a copy, metropolis has a VG/FN for $275(no offence stephen). book has off-WHITE pages with art by kirby and ditko.

[BronzeBruce13]

..so the distributor, or Marvel black markered it out? and re-sent it out?.. what was the price when it was sent out for sale again?? More history/info please... just curious (I may need to add it, and others like it to my "variant pull down" list on my website)

[THE_BEYONDER]

what was the price when it was sent out for sale again??

 

didn't you look at the scan.....or read any of the above posts?

[Darthdiesel]

I have a gunsmoke western like that as well

[supapimp]

..so the distributor, or Marvel black markered it out? and re-sent it out?.. what was the price when it was sent out for sale again?? More history/info please... just curious (I may need to add it, and others like it to my "variant pull down" list on my website)

 

i'm pretty sure it was the distrubitor/printer that did it. the 10 cent price circle is perfectly blacked out with the 12 cent price added on the letter "M" of mystery. BTW, the story "the genie with the light brown hair" is REALLY good.

[BronzeBruce13]

i don't know how I missed that 12¢ in the "M" but I did.

Were there any others like that? All the Marvels that month?

 

Thanks Supa

[supapimp]

nope, as far as i know this is the only issue that recieved the price change of the marvel books.

[Darthdiesel]

[supapimp]

nice diesel, it's listed in guide too, but it doesn't have the same price fluctuation as the JIM 76.

[Darthdiesel]

kid colt haters!

[BronzeBruce13]

the "12¢" looks consistent from both books.. so they probably used the same stamp. The "10¢ circle" definitely looks "hand filled-in" on the Western. Imagine all that effort for 2¢... I guess it was like a quarter now... back then.

[HooDeeDoo]

The plot thickens.

 

The real question is whether any of these other books will also turn up as "variants". There are a couple of big ticket books that month be prepared. (And I'm not talking about the Linda Carter Student Nurse #3)

 

http://www.samcci.comics.org/months/1962-01.htm

 

 

[joe_collector]

Isn't there some Romance book that completes the Marvel 12-cent variant trio?

[Darthdiesel]

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Price Variants.

"No Trace of the Lower Price" / Tom Lammers. p. 70 in Comic

Book Marketplace, v. 2, no. 62 (Aug. 1998). -- (Marketplace

Mail) -- Letter on price variants in the Marvel 10-12 cent

transition in 1962. -- Call no.: PN6714.C632v.2no.62

 

[supapimp]

per OS guide:

 

[*]STT 92 last 10 cent issue

[*]TOS 25 last 10 cent issue

[*]KID COLT 102 last 10 cent issue

[*]MILLIE 106 no mention in OS

[*]LOVE ROMANCE 97 no mention in OS, but says LOVE ROMANCE 95 last 10 cent?

[*]TEEN-AGE ROMANCES 85 no mention in OS

[*]LINDA CARTER 3 no mention is OS

 

 

[joe_collector]

You want to hear something even stranger?

 

I always though the variant to the Journey into Mystery was supposed to have the 12-cents in the original White Circle, and not as a blackout....

 

In fact, I have a few scans of the variant issue as offered for sale....

[supapimp]

i don't think so vince, i know what your talking about, but it's the one with the blacked out circle. case in point the Gunsmoke Western 68 that diesel posted.

[joe_collector]

Yeah, I think I'm getting mixed up with some others, as there was no 10-cent issue for that JIM. It seems that Marvel stopped the initial run, blacked it out, and then printed the rest standard 12-cents.

 

So these really aren't price variants, as much as printing variants....

 

And any comic from January 1962 that has a 12-cent cover price likely has a printing variant as well.

[supapimp]

POST #6000! maybe, but i've seen 10 cent copies, 12 cent where the circle is copies, but this copy is the rare variant copy. i remember back in 1991 when i was at my local comic shop, and the owner had a copy of JIM 76 in VF/NM and JIM 78 VG/FN(dr. strange prototype) for $1.25 each! i quickly snatched them up and went home to observe my new oldies but goldies. i was looking at the JIM 76 and wondering why the price circle was blacked out? but i sold that copy on eBay right before the OS listed it as a prive variant and took a HUGE jump in price......but you know the story already.

[joe_collector]

You got a scan of the JIM or Western 10-cent editions?