Marvel Australian Price Variants 7 7

[GeeksAreMyPeeps]

I slabbed my only Australian price variant (the only one of this issue on the census), but it became a victim of Shaken Comic Syndrome on the way back to me.

[Get Marwood & I]

On 8/30/2022 at 1:34 PM, GeeksAreMyPeeps said:

I slabbed my only Australian price variant (the only one of this issue on the census), but it became a victim of Shaken Comic Syndrome on the way back to me.

That's a shame - far too much room for movement in that holder from the looks of it. It makes you wonder what they think is going to happen, when the book is inevitably manhandled through the postal system. I have a 9.8 ASM just like it - too much room in the inner well, innards moved and it's ruined. 

[GeeksAreMyPeeps]

On 8/30/2022 at 11:03 AM, Get Marwood & I said:

That's a shame - far too much room for movement in that holder from the looks of it. It makes you wonder what they think is going to happen, when the book is inevitably manhandled through the postal system. I have a 9.8 ASM just like it - too much room in the inner well, innards moved and it's ruined. 

This was one of three books in the shipment to be damaged in this way (along with a Silver Surfer #1 1987 Newsstand, and a 9.8 ASM 344), and I just got another shipment back with 2 books affected the same (Thor 459 9.8 and Thunderbolts 1 9.6).

[Get Marwood & I]

On 8/30/2022 at 4:10 PM, GeeksAreMyPeeps said:

This was one of three books in the shipment to be damaged in this way (along with a Silver Surfer #1 1987 Newsstand, and a 9.8 ASM 344), and I just got another shipment back with 2 books affected the same (Thor 459 9.8 and Thunderbolts 1 9.6).

Oh dear. I've said this before, a perfect CGC submission and resulting slab is a wonderful thing with many positive attributes to commend it. But when it goes wrong, it's awful. Basically, a grading company, charged with protecting your precious items, irreparably damages them instead. If third party grading companies didn't exist, and someone told you they were planning to put comics in sealed plastic holders with a little wiggle room around the edges, then post them around the world, every alarm bell in your head would start ringing. And yet that is exactly what CGC have done, and people submit to them day in day out. When it works, it's brilliant. When it doesn't - well, you know how that feels, alas. Sorry this happened to you Geeks. 

[Get Marwood & I]

Barbie Fashion #34 brings us up to 1,338 confirmed Marvel Australian Price Variants:

 

[Get Marwood & I]

On 11/27/2019 at 5:04 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

I've updated the journals list to show:

Comics

• 1,269 confirmed APVs
• 103 confirmed titles

Current Confirmed APV Issue List

 

In addition, the APV magazine update shows:

Magazines

• 3 confirmed magazine titles:
  • Conan Saga - 31 of 40
  • Conan the Savage - 4 of 4
  • Savage Sword of Conan - 37 of 40

 

Gary Martin provided a better image of GI Joe #122, which looked like a stickered copy. It is, but is has an '06' APV barcode number, compared to an '03' US Newsstand edition:

  

 

  

 

When you look at the APV sticker, you can see the absence of the Curtis Circulation 'CC' symbol which should, based on the US Newsstand copy, be visible at the bottom of the sticker:

 

 

The partially exposed dollar symbol looks smaller too.

So G.I. Joe #122 is counted as an APV due to the unique barcode number, but it's also possible that it will have an AUS printed price too with, perhaps, the wrong month (as is the case with Captain America #407 / 410)

 

Way back in 2019 I said:

"So G.I. Joe #122 is counted as an APV due to the unique barcode number, but it's also possible that it will have an AUS printed price too with, perhaps, the wrong month (as is the case with Captain America #407 / 410)"

After all that, it turns out the issue was printed as an APV under the correcting stickers but with the wrong issue number! 

 

And 'APV' month!

   

[Pantodude]

Hmmm.  I should have at least one of these curious specimens.   

[ramrod44]

Recent pick ups:

[Get Marwood & I]

On 12/9/2022 at 4:32 AM, ramrod44 said:

Recent pick ups:

Nice.

Not much to report on the AUS front lately. I haven't spotted any new ones for a long time now. Maybe we're getting near the end of the 'what exists' list....?*

 

*That normally gets a new one to pop up pretty quick 

[Steelthunder]

Hi folks, I'm late to the party (as usual) but stumbled across a pile of X-Men 1991/2 comics that I picked up from a second hand bookstore. (Was purely nostalgia because I dimly remembered one of the covers from my childhood.) On closer inspection, they all have AUS pricing on them, and my research to see if I could complete the set has me wondering if I've accidentally grabbed something more special than just memories. 

Numbers are: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19, and 21.

Would love any and all input on the attached if anyone's interested in sharing their wisdom!

[Get Marwood & I]

I posted this the other week, tried to amend it, made a total hash of it, so deleted it.

Here it is again!

Conceived in America, printed in Canada, priced and sold in Australia, purchased in the United Kingdom of Englandville

She's a Barbie girl, in her Barbie wor-or-orld. She's fantastic, her comic's bagged in plastic 

[Get Marwood & I]

On 4/22/2023 at 7:00 AM, Steelthunder said:

Hi folks, I'm late to the party (as usual) but stumbled across a pile of X-Men 1991/2 comics that I picked up from a second hand bookstore. (Was purely nostalgia because I dimly remembered one of the covers from my childhood.) On closer inspection, they all have AUS pricing on them, and my research to see if I could complete the set has me wondering if I've accidentally grabbed something more special than just memories. 

Numbers are: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19, and 21.

Would love any and all input on the attached if anyone's interested in sharing their wisdom!

Hello Steelthunder - welcome to the thread 

I wasn't ignoring you - your post wasn't visible when I posted Barbie above (being only your second one, it was likely hidden until CGC Mike got around to approving it).

Here is the current Marvel APV issue summary:

https://boards.cgccomics.com/blogs/entry/4916-marvel-australian-price-variants/

For your X-Men title there, the confirmed issue range is 1a, 1b, 1c, 1d, 2-26, 49-58, making 39 APVs in total:

You're a third of the way to the set! 

[ADAMANTIUM]

Courtesy of my friend @PunisherPunisherPunisherwho was generous to part with a few, and now mine. Blessed to be a blessing, super grateful for the generosity 🙏💖!!

[PunisherPunisherPunisher]

Much appreciated mate, glad you enjoyed them and that 361 is in beautiful condition 

Look forward to catching up and digging in those comic shops more while I'm here

Edited May 3, 2023 by PunisherPunisherPunisher

[Nightwing76]

Here is some of mine.  There is likely more on the shelf,  but quickly grabbed binders where I knew I had Australian Priced Variants. 

Have to admit I have read some if this thread, and not all of it, but would you like me to check all my books???

Just to add, I'm Australian and would have picked up quite a few from newsagents on way home from School. 

Edited May 16, 2023 by Nightwing76
Added more info

[ADAMANTIUM]

On 5/16/2023 at 3:03 AM, Nightwing76 said:

Here is some of mine.  There is likely more on the shelf,  but quickly grabbed binders where I knew I had Australian Priced Variants. 

Have to admit I have read some if this thread, and not all of it, but would you like me to check all my books???

Just to add, I'm Australian and would have picked up quite a few from newsagents on way home from School. 

Post a way! Would be nice to see, and once upon a time in the thread there were some "lists" that if you knock off any of the ones undocumented, that'd be cool.

Either way feel free to post up!  

[TK2]

On 5/16/2023 at 10:05 PM, ADAMANTIUM said:

Post a way! Would be nice to see, and once upon a time in the thread there were some "lists" that if you knock off any of the ones undocumented, that'd be cool.

Either way feel free to post up!  

Totally agree! Would be great to see your collection.  Here’s the list that @Get Marwood & I has compiled:

 

[ADAMANTIUM]

Not bad for no press. @PunisherPunisherPunisher will post when I get back more. Might be a minute, but again will post a pic when I hand too 😜

 

Edited May 31, 2023 by ADAMANTIUM

[ADAMANTIUM]

[Get Marwood & I]

Sixty thousand Barbie AUS copies in this current eBay lot, and not one of them on the bloody missing list