Marvel UK Price Variants
Hello.
I thought I'd resurrect this subject, albeit in a new thread. New boards, new thread. And besides, my previous thread title was a bit of a mouthful.
Currently, I have documented 2,992 Marvel comics with pence only printed prices published between the dates of:
May 1960 - the date of the first known single 9d price printed comics (e.g. Gunsmoke Western #58, JIM #58, Strange Tales #75)
December 1981 – the last month before consistent dual pence/cents pricing commenced
I did a full review of all the April 1981 onward 20p issues and found that every copy for every title is missing it's cover month from September 1981 inclusive. Here's an extract of the summary sheet:
So the last four months were cover month free. There are 234 known 20p (30p/40p) copies within the time frame across 31 titles - the last 105 copies have no cover month.
Here's the updated 'key dates' summary:
