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[Garystar]

On 8/9/2021 at 8:28 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

Marvel UK Price Variants - 3,023 confirmed issues

20 down, 3,003 to go.

[Get Marwood & I]

On 8/12/2021 at 7:58 PM, Garystar said:

20 down, 3,003 to go.

Oh, blimey, I'd do it Gary, if I had the space. And the money. A TARDIS maybe...

[Tghutcn]

On 8/11/2021 at 2:16 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

He arrived 

....so I could finish this:

I wonder if I'm the only person on Earth who can post this:

The next step is to triple board / double Mylite2 them all, with customised Top 20 stickers.

And then try to take a decent photo! I'm always rubbish at them.

Thanks again to @Garystar for graciously swapping Patsy for a charitable donation a few years back.

Only took me five years to get there....

 

Congratulations on getting all 20 of the original pence copies it must of been a task considering I’m actively hunting for pence copies and half of these I’ve never seen pence copies of

[nmtg9]

I wonder if anyone is close to having all 3023 pence issues? 

I am nowhere near, not even trying. 

Kevin may be the only  collector I know of who might be close?

Wouldn't necessarily be an easy job to go through a collection and note which are pence issues either. 

[Kevin.J]

On 8/14/2021 at 7:05 AM, nmtg9 said:

I wonder if anyone is close to having all 3023 pence issues? 

I am nowhere near, not even trying. 

Kevin may be the only  collector I know of who might be close?

Wouldn't necessarily be an easy job to go through a collection and note which are pence issues either. 

Hey bro 

Yeah I am complete with all main titles, a few cents in my sets where I had a gap and filled with what I could get, so maybe 90% Pence verses 10% Cents

Not so much the early obscure titles, never collected Western, Romance etc back in the day, not that I wouldn't have, it just rarely turned up. I do have some, just not complete 

[Get Marwood & I]

I bet there's someone out there who has them all. In my experience, certain collectors like to remain private and don't like to show off their books - they may be reading this right now with a wry smile on their face...

I've always liked to collect the stuff that others don't in my life. Even as a Spidey collector, I was the only one in a group of 20 or so rabid completists who had the US, Canadian, Pence and Australian copies. I didn't have the best ASM collection, but I think I may have had the most complete as far as first printings were concerned. 

Even now, while Marvel leads the way by a country mile in the popularity stakes, I collect only the pence copies for Archie, King, Charlton and Gold Key. And I pick up Dells when the copy is right. DC have never really floated my boat. I would collect the pence copies - there are only 800 or so - and I don't think it would be that difficult, comparatively, given the date ranges. No big keys or anything to worry about. But they don't resonate with me for some reason. Never have.

Marvel is virtually unobtainable now, I think. Too many expensive books, and too many scarce non-super hero books to stand a chance of success. Possible of course, to start from scratch and get the whole 3,023, but it would be massively expensive and you would need the patience of a saint as well as the time to relentlessly seek out those obscure early titles. You have to spend thousands of hours searching for an image like this to come along in an online lot, which it does sometimes only once in a lifetime:

For me, the top 20 is a good way of acknowledging my love of Marvel pence copies though, and will have to do. And the Miller variants are satisfying in their own right, being a mixture of pence and cents priced books.

I stopped posting about Charlton a long time back, but my pence collection there is almost certainly the most complete in the world. It gives me the greatest pleasure that I've ever felt in my comic collecting life, which has had many phases. One of my current projects is working through each and labelling them individually with customised stickers. That will keep me going for a while.

We all wish we could go back, don't we, armed with our current knowledge, to seek out that which is largely unobtainable or unavailable today. Not necessarily to make money, nice though that might be (a run of Gold Keys or a gaggle of IH #181's...), but to build quality runs of what we now love. 

I'm currently researching something completely different, that I have never posted about here. The annoying thing is that I owned and sold some of the books that I am now actively seeking, but at the time I did not appreciate their variant status. I wish now that I'd adopted @Kevin.J's lifetime strategy - never sell!

 

 

 

[Frisco Larson]

On 8/14/2021 at 3:18 AM, Get Marwood & I said:

I bet there's someone out there who has them all. In my experience, certain collectors like to remain private and don't like to show off their books - they may be reading this right now with a wry smile on their face...

I've always liked to collect the stuff that others don't in my life. Even as a Spidey collector, I was the only one in a group of 20 or so rabid completists who had the US, Canadian, Pence and Australian copies. I didn't have the best ASM collection, but I think I may have had the most complete as far as first printings were concerned. 

Even now, while Marvel leads the way by a country mile in the popularity stakes, I collect only the pence copies for Archie, King, Charlton and Gold Key. And I pick up Dells when the copy is right. DC have never really floated my boat. I would collect the pence copies - there are only 800 or so - and I don't think it would be that difficult, comparatively, given the date ranges. No big keys or anything to worry about. But they don't resonate with me for some reason. Never have.

Marvel is virtually unobtainable now, I think. Too many expensive books, and too many scarce non-super hero books to stand a chance of success. Possible of course, to start from scratch and get the whole 3,023, but it would be massively expensive and you would need the patience of a saint as well as the time to relentlessly seek out those obscure early titles. You have to spend thousands of hours searching for an image like this to come along in an online lot, which it does sometimes only once in a lifetime:

For me, the top 20 is a good way of acknowledging my love of Marvel pence copies though, and will have to do. And the Miller variants are satisfying in their own right, being a mixture of pence and cents priced books.

I stopped posting about Charlton a long time back, but my pence collection there is almost certainly the most complete in the world. It gives me the greatest pleasure that I've ever felt in my comic collecting life, which has had many phases. One of my current projects is working through each and labelling them individually with customised stickers. That will keep me going for a while.

We all wish we could go back, don't we, armed with our current knowledge, to seek out that which is largely unobtainable or unavailable today. Not necessarily to make money, nice though that might be (a run of Gold Keys or a gaggle of IH #181's...), but to build quality runs of what we now love. 

I'm currently researching something completely different, that I have never posted about here. The annoying thing is that I owned and sold some of the books that I am now actively seeking, but at the time I did not appreciate their variant status. I wish now that I'd adopted @Kevin.J's lifetime strategy - never sell!

 

 

 

I agree that it's probably an unattainable goal, especially for someone not in their 20s or 30s anymore. Money would also be a factor, but the wildcard there is that I still have luck finding the pence copies priced as though the seller thinks them a reprint or inferior in some way. Those are great days!!! Seldom happens with the big keys though. I didn't look the list over to see what the 3000 + figure encompasses, but I don't have any interest in pursuing pence Bronze Age books, just Silver Age for me at this time. Also, year by year could be a sub set worth assembling, say all of 1958 or something. What a picture that'd be, seeing them all laid out!!! 

[Get Marwood & I]

On 8/15/2021 at 4:38 PM, Frisco Larson said:

I agree that it's probably an unattainable goal, especially for someone not in their 20s or 30s anymore. Money would also be a factor, but the wildcard there is that I still have luck finding the pence copies priced as though the seller thinks them a reprint or inferior in some way. Those are great days!!! Seldom happens with the big keys though. I didn't look the list over to see what the 3000 + figure encompasses, but I don't have any interest in pursuing pence Bronze Age books, just Silver Age for me at this time. Also, year by year could be a sub set worth assembling, say all of 1958 or something. What a picture that'd be, seeing them all laid out!!! 

Get going then Frisco. Starts from May 1960... 

[Get Marwood & I]

Yet another example of where our humble UKPVs help to inform what other cents books may or may not exist:

 

[Frisco Larson]

On 8/15/2021 at 11:08 AM, Get Marwood & I said:

Get going then Frisco. Starts from May 1960... 

This is the sum total of the pence copies in my collection (that I remember having and have a picture of). As absurd as it sounds, I'm actually kinda proud about having a consecutive three issue block! As you can see, I have really only focused on the pre-hero area. 

Edited August 15, 2021 by Frisco Larson

[Get Marwood & I]

On 8/15/2021 at 7:38 PM, Frisco Larson said:

This is the sum total of the pence copies in my collection (that I remember having and have a picture of). As absurd as it sounds, I'm actually kinda proud about having a consecutive three issue block! As you can see. I have really only focused on the pre-hero area. 

 

 

 

 

It's a fine start Frisco - keep going 

[Frisco Larson]

On 8/15/2021 at 1:40 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

It's a fine start Frisco - keep going 

Thanks! I will keep going, when I can find them that is. I'm still going to primarily concentrate on the pre-hero area, even more micro-squished down to the "circle price" issues as I call them. I remember your list showing oddities, like nothing in TOS or TTA before issue #10 and other issue gaps of a few issues here and there, so I'll need to revisit that list. Ultimately, I'd like a cents, a pence and a Mexican publication copy of as many issues as I can make happen. It's an odd goal, I know, but it intrigues me and I've never wanted my collection to be exactly like anyone else's! 

[Frisco Larson]

Certified pence, raw cents. 

Edited August 15, 2021 by Frisco Larson

[Get Marwood & I]

On 8/15/2021 at 7:49 PM, Frisco Larson said:

I remember your list showing oddities, like nothing in TOS or TTA before issue #10 and other issue gaps of a few issues here and there, so I'll need to revisit that list.

The full pence issue list is here, but this will help too - some of your favourite book titles:

[Frisco Larson]

Certified pence, certified cents. Easier when the pics are resized!  

Edited August 15, 2021 by Frisco Larson

[Frisco Larson]

On 8/15/2021 at 2:01 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

The full pence issue list is here, but this will help too - some of your favourite book titles:

Oh awesome, thank you!!!!  

[Get Marwood & I]

On 8/15/2021 at 8:02 PM, Frisco Larson said:

Certified pence, certified cents. Easier when the pics are resized!  

I know it's Insect Man, but they could go a bit bigger Frisc 

[Frisco Larson]

On 8/15/2021 at 2:07 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

I know it's Insect Man, but they could go a bit bigger Frisc 

Ha! Ok, but remember .... you ASKED for it!!!  

[Frisco Larson]

Ok, pence then cents.

 

Edited August 15, 2021 by Frisco Larson

[Get Marwood & I]

On 8/15/2021 at 8:20 PM, Frisco Larson said:

Ok, pence then cents.