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[Garystar]

On 9/26/2020 at 8:53 AM, Get Marwood & I said:

On 9/22/2020 at 2:29 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

On 9/22/2020 at 1:29 PM, Chaykin Stevens said:

GCD has a British pence version of Sgt Fury #167.

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Oh, for s sake! 

See you boys soon 

 

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.... joking aside, I'm going to wait until I find a second copy of this book before adding it to the list. Whilst I don't necessarily distrust it, I am wary of images on the GCD which are cropped and which may have been tampered with. Very easy to add that top left corner box to an image like that. So I'll keep looking for a second copy, preferably one in hand. Damn cool though, that, after all this time. 

Marwood will like this one when he gets back.......

Edited March 8, 2021 by Garystar

[Frederic9494]

New UK Price Variant incoming (from Paris, no less)!

[Get Marwood & I]

On 3/6/2021 at 7:26 PM, Albert Tatlock said:

On 3/6/2021 at 6:48 PM, porcupine48 said:

I'm hoping he comes back soon

Hope he has not been abducted by a tyrant from an alien dimension, they are pretty common hereabouts.

If so, there will be a ransom demand, and if we don't pay up they will send him back.

“Neigh!”

(Translation: “Godammit, which one of you stupid fers paid the ransom!” )

[Get Marwood & I]

On 3/8/2021 at 1:28 PM, Garystar said:

Marwood will like this one when he gets back.......

I do, thanks Gary. I've updated the list - 3,023 confirmed copies now 

[porcupine48]

1 hour ago, Get Marwood & I said:

“Neigh!”

(Translation: “Godammit, which one of you stupid fers paid the ransom!” )

Happy to see you poop on by friend-o

[Get Marwood & I]

10 minutes ago, porcupine48 said:

Happy to see you poop on by friend-o

"If you see me walking down the street...."

[Garystar]

2 x 9p Champions;

[Get Marwood & I]

1 hour ago, Garystar said:

2 x 9p Champions;

18p price variant!  

I had that in my watch list Gary. Very cool. 

[Get Marwood & I]

Afternoon 

It's been raining most of today so I've been pottering a bit, dipping in and out of files. Have I ever listed the possible Marvel magazine price variants? I've done the comics and the Treasuries but I'm not sure if I've posted anything about magazines.

Anyway, one such title is Marvel Super Special (formerly Marvel Comics Super Special) which ran for 41 issues between 1977-1986. With the comic UKPV cover date window being May 1960 to December 1981, it's possible a few magazine sized UKPVs may have crept in.

My magazine size research - mostly done long ago, and by no means exhaustive - found only two potential UKPVs within the overall 41 Super Specials set. Here's a summary.

Marvel Comics Super Special #1-4:

• Close Encounters #3 (1978) has an apparent 60p UKPV. When compared to images of the US version, everything but the price appears to be the same, and the price appears to be printed, albeit fairly crudely:

• Oddly perhaps, no UK copy seems to exist for #4, The Beatles

Marvel Super Special #5-41:

• Battlestar Galactica #8 (1978) – 50p stickered copies seem to exist in reasonable numbers in the UK. There appear to be 3 different US versions of this magazine - here are the US and 'UK' examples:

So no UKPV there it seems, just a stickered US issue (albeit I don't own a copy to inspect it closer and see what is under the sticker - it might say 60p for all I know)

• The Savage Sword of Conan #9 (1978) has a £1.00 repackaged reprint with a different UK back cover and front cover dressing:

So no UKPV there it seems. I wonder why they did it that way, and not the 'Close Encounters' way?

• For Your Eyes Only #19 (1978) is our second apparent 75p UKPV - on this everything is the same except the printed price:

Same barcode details and same US indicia:

 

The first dual priced Super Special is #27, Return of The Jedi (1983), and from then on all copies have joint UK pricing:

 

One curio is this UK only title, Werewolf #nn (Undated) which, at 45p, reprints Marvel Spotlight #4. I include it for reference only because it has a 'Marvel Super Special' cover title:

  

 

So, 41 issues in the title, 2 actual UKPVs (both in the comic UKPV date window), a sticker and a repackaged issue. 

Did I miss anything? 

(and why do I get the nagging feeling that I've already posted all this?)

[themagicrobot]

Am I posting in the correct thread? You tend to move around and I have to navigate around threads about how much comics are worth. Funny how everyone wants to buy cheap but sell high.

 

[Get Marwood & I]

10 minutes ago, themagicrobot said:

Am I posting in the correct thread? You tend to move around and I have to navigate around threads about how much comics are worth. Funny how everyone wants to buy cheap but sell high.

Yes, right thread. I've been toying with making just one ongoing one actually. I've lost track of them all myself. It was probably a bad move to make one for each UKPV publisher on reflection. 

Epic has been mentioned in the thread way back if my memory serves. I can remember having it on an investigation list when I went to one of the London Fairs but I never found any copies and didn't take it any further. Have you got any copies Robot, to check the indicias, or are they lifted from the bay?

I don't know what it is with magazines but, notwithstanding todays post here, I can never quite muster the same enthusiasm to investigate as I do for comics. Odd really.

 

[Get Marwood & I]

Found it, but it looks like I've lost the folder with the Epic stuff in it 

https://www.cgccomics.com/boards/topic/411880-marvel-uk-price-variants/?do=findComment&comment=10971642

Have to start again...

 

[themagicrobot]

I'm hesitent because this thread is under Silver Age Comic Books and I don't want to be sent to stand in a corner.

And I'm hesitent to post anything in the future because you have said everything that can be said about UK price variants previously (although navigating around here to find it isn't user friendly).

I spent years buying mostly the magazines. Loved the black and white Hulks and Howard the Duck. Also Bizarre Adventures. And I think I still have full runs of the Warren magazines. I have the Epics but like everything else they are in an annonymous box and if I suddenly get the urge to read something these days I have to buy another copy. I think the first 10 Epics at least had a 75p price.

And just because I can here is an image that isn't a Silver Age comic or even a UK price variant.

[Get Marwood & I]

[Pantodude]

Need to get this thread back on track!  [edit:  not really.  I still get a kick outta that Nice Nurse above]

Edited March 19, 2021 by Pantodude

[serling1978]

22 hours ago, Pantodude said:

Need to get this thread back on track!  [edit:  not really.  I still get a kick outta that Nice Nurse above]

Nice. This reminded me that I have a fairly important ASM pence issue. 

 

[Pantodude]

3 minutes ago, serling1978 said:

Nice. This reminded me that I have a fairly important ASM pence issue. 

Don't think I have ever actually seen a pence ASM3.  Very nice indeed.  

Edited March 20, 2021 by Pantodude

[themagicrobot]

I always loved the really odd looking UKPV prices on the 1965 Annuals. They looked like one sixth rather than how we actually wrote down the price 1/6 that even Thorpe and Porter were confused and stamped the majority if not all to make sure the newsagents knew what to charge.

PS I actually learnt something new about comics 3 minutes ago. There were Canadian variants of the 1965 Annuals with blank inside covers. Who knew?

 

[Get Marwood & I]

29 minutes ago, themagicrobot said:

PS I actually learnt something new about comics 3 minutes ago. There were Canadian variants of the 1965 Annuals with blank inside covers. Who knew?

Me 

Here's my old copies of ASM Annual #1 & 2:

[themagicrobot]

But of course even when I was writing the above I knew you'd knew/know.....

Edited March 21, 2021 by themagicrobot