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[Albert Tatlock]

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!

The last couple of UKPV pre-hero Strange Tales have trickled in, and I now have a full run of all 25 available (ST78 has no pence variant, more's the pity).

Still chipping away at the other titles.

Edited July 27, 2022 by Albert Tatlock
correct typo

[Get Marwood & I]

 

[Albert Tatlock]

Nothing, that is, except the 4 small fish swimming unconcernedly by, oblivious to their peril.

[Kevin.J]

On 7/27/2022 at 7:00 PM, Albert Tatlock said:

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!

The last couple of UKPV pre-hero Strange Tales have trickled in, and I now have a full run of all 25 available (ST78 has no pence variant, more's the pity).

Still chipping away at the other titles.

[themagicrobot]

If you want a Strange Tales 78 with a pence price on the cover I'm sure the CGC would be happy to encapsulate this comic and change the title.

[Get Marwood & I]

Not something you see often, or this early....

[Albert Tatlock]

On 8/10/2022 at 9:22 AM, Get Marwood & I said:

Not something you see often, or this early....

Some women, once they get started, just can't stop. Whichever one of Ethel's colleagues this was was firing on all cylinders that day.

'Leave that stack alone, they are already UKPVs', called out Fred, but to no avail.

[Albert Tatlock]

On 12/25/2020 at 1:44 PM, Albert Tatlock said:

Hi, Marwood,

Remember how, in the dim and distant past of this thread, your valiant attempts to convince the naysayers, particularly the less nimble-brained portion of our Transatlantic brethren, that the UKPVs should be on an equal footing with the cents versions?

The advantage that we then held was that there was a price differential, in our favour, on the UKPVs.

There has subsequently been some levelling up, but here is a recent development.

I spotted this on ebay:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Marvel-Comics-VG-18-3-5-KIRBY-TALES-TO-ASTONISH-1960-Gorilla-strikes-again/373391989104

There was a fault not noted in the item description, namely a mark where the price should be. I reckoned it was a pence version, and I already have a perfectly adequate pence copy, but there was also a chance that it was a cents font variation, so I messaged the seller as follows:

I am looking at this, cannot quite see the detail at top right. Is the price crossed out in ink or something?

Could you send a sharper scan of top right corner, please?

Back came the reply:

Hi someone has just marked out where the cent price used to be

Still not happy, I followed up with:

Thank you.

Could it be a pence copy?

There are several cent versions of this listed on ebay, and each of them has the price a bit nearer the edge than this copy here.

In the meantime, because I had placed it on my watch list, ebay sent me an offer with a discount down to £41.

Then I received this follow up reply:

Hi
Yes it is a pence copy , it says inside,page" sole distributors in the UK Thorpe and Porter"
Thank s

No good to me then. Overpriced to begin with, and now with a blemish on the cover.

So what will the seller do? Reduce the price to take account of the fault on the front cover?

Not a bit of it. Here it is relisted:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Atlas-Marvel-comics-Tales-to-Astonish-18-VG-3-5-1961-Gorilla/233833423138?hash=item36718ee122:g:KvYAAOSwvi5f5FS9

With an INCREASED price.

Looks like you have done your job too well, Marwood.

Lemember ancient Chinese plovelb, 'Be careful what you wish for'.

This item is stiil on ebay 20 months later, still unsold, wonder why.

Same seller also has TTA 1.......https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/374199603728?hash=item572008d210:g:yxIAAOSwVNxgGRX8

There is a defect, namely 'Bottom staple pooped'.

Some people are fussy about stuff like that, dunno why. I do marginally prefer my staples unpooped, though.

 

 

[Get Marwood & I]

On 8/28/2022 at 12:29 AM, Albert Tatlock said:

Some people are fussy about stuff like that, dunno why. I do marginally prefer my staples unpooped, though.

He's asking for rust, isn't he, pooping on his staples. I don't know, some people....

[Get Marwood & I]

Do you know, I can't remember the last time a new Marvel UK Price Variant appeared? Must be years now. 

After all this time and focus there are still quite a few for which I've only ever seen one copy - at both ends of the production window, oddly - so there's always hope. But maybe that's it now. Maybe the job is done....

[Albert Tatlock]

On 8/28/2022 at 2:40 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

Maybe the job is done...

Insist on a gold watch, you've earned it.

[Get Marwood & I]

On 8/28/2022 at 3:49 PM, Albert Tatlock said:

Insist on a gold watch, you've earned it.

Thank God for Charlton. Only thing that keeps me going 

[Albert Tatlock]

On 8/28/2022 at 3:57 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

Thank God for Charlton. Only thing that keeps me going 

Not bad, was he, that boy of '66.

[Get Marwood & I]

On 8/28/2022 at 5:29 PM, Albert Tatlock said:

Not bad, was he, that boy of '66.

I was going to respond with a picture of Steady Eddie, but Google's primary example must've been added during a Hurricane... 

[Get Marwood & I]

Another good gap / hiatus proving run from the Red Elephant on the Bay.

A needlessly stamped 10d UKPV #149 and then the expected Goldstar stamped cents #151:

 

[Get Marwood & I]

According to this Facebore commenting canine, the Yanks are cleaning up! 

Funny name for a dog, isn't it.

[Albert Tatlock]

On 8/29/2022 at 11:34 AM, Get Marwood & I said:

Funny name for a dog, isn't it.

And his command of English is excellent.

Rex the Wonder Dog title could have a makeover with Brett in the starring role.

Must have a paw-friendy keyboard.

[Get Marwood & I]

On 8/29/2022 at 5:41 PM, Albert Tatlock said:

And his command of English is excellent.

Rex the Wonder Dog title could have a makeover with Brett in the starring role.

Must have a paw-friendy keyboard.

I prefer his brother.

Ralph.

 

 

[Albert Tatlock]

On 8/29/2022 at 11:32 AM, Get Marwood & I said:

Another good gap / hiatus proving run from the Red Elephant on the Bay.

This lot, again from Fieldings.........

https://fieldingsauctioneers.co.uk/lot/244033

[Get Marwood & I]

On 8/31/2022 at 8:42 PM, Albert Tatlock said:

This lot, again from Fieldings.........

https://fieldingsauctioneers.co.uk/lot/244033

You have been paying attention Albert