Marvel US Price Font Variations (June 1960 ~ February 1961) 3 3

[Get Marwood & I]

14 minutes ago, Tghutcn said:

If the isn’t a definitive answer for something blame the chap with a pipe definitely when they’re smoking a pipe next to paper 

Yes.

One Camberwell Carrot = 14 US Price Font Variants

[Get Marwood & I]

Meanwhile, back in the jungle, I've been looking at arrival stamps on some of the price font variations to see of anything jumps out. Here's one example, which may or may not be telling.

Two Battle #70 bold font copies, both with an arrival date of March the 10th:

 

Mike's is a bit off incidentally, at January the 29th...

....but look at this slim font with an arrival date of April the 10th, one month later:

Hmmmm.

Purely anecdotal of course, but could it be that the slim font version was a later, second printing......?

More examples and speculations to come, another time....

[Redshade]

On 8/5/2021 at 9:10 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

Meanwhile, back in the jungle, I've been looking at arrival stamps on some of the price font variations to see of anything jumps out. Here's one example, which may or may not be telling.

Two Battle #70 bold font copies, both with an arrival date of March the 10th:

 

Mike's is a bit off incidentally, at January the 29th...

....but look at this slim font with an arrival date of April the 10th, one month later:

Hmmmm.

Purely anecdotal of course, but could it be that the slim font version was a later, second printing......?

More examples and speculations to come, another time....

And your next project Steve? Studying the font variations of the stamped arrival dates?

 

 

On 8/5/2021 at 9:10 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

Meanwhile, back in the jungle, I've been looking at arrival stamps on some of the price font variations to see of anything jumps out. Here's one example, which may or may not be telling.

Two Battle #70 bold font copies, both with an arrival date of March the 10th:

 

Mike's is a bit off incidentally, at January the 29th...

....but look at this slim font with an arrival date of April the 10th, one month later:

Hmmmm.

Purely anecdotal of course, but could it be that the slim font version was a later, second printing......?

More examples and speculations to come, another time....

And your next project Steve could be analysing the font variations of the date stamps.

[Garystar]

On 8/5/2021 at 9:10 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

Meanwhile, back in the jungle, I've been looking at arrival stamps on some of the price font variations to see of anything jumps out. Here's one example, which may or may not be telling.

Two Battle #70 bold font copies, both with an arrival date of March the 10th:

 

Mike's is a bit off incidentally, at January the 29th...

....but look at this slim font with an arrival date of April the 10th, one month later:

Hmmmm.

Purely anecdotal of course, but could it be that the slim font version was a later, second printing......?

More examples and speculations to come, another time....

Thought provoking isn’t it. Mikes amazing must be wrong (????) mustn’t it, hard to believe a 6 month gap. My immediate thought would be as yours , a second print run, but I also find it hard to believe Battle 70 would warrant a second printing especially as it was cancelled after this issue. 

[Get Marwood & I]

On 8/6/2021 at 8:08 AM, Redshade said:

And your next project Steve could be analysing the font variations of the date stamps.

Now you mention it Stephen, are those two different Helvetica's there..... 

[Get Marwood & I]

On 8/6/2021 at 12:58 PM, Garystar said:

Thought provoking isn’t it. Mikes amazing must be wrong (????) mustn’t it, hard to believe a 6 month gap.

He's only showing the data from the library of congress though I suppose, to be fair. 

On 8/6/2021 at 12:58 PM, Garystar said:

My immediate thought would be as yours , a second print run, but I also find it hard to believe Battle 70 would warrant a second printing especially as it was cancelled after this issue. 

You're right, highly unlikely, and it's only one example. Maybe one shop owner selected the wrong month on his stamp.

The other price font variants I've studied are less conclusive. Not that there are that many - finding any images in the first instance is hard enough for some of them, let alone multiple examples with arrival stamps. I'll post some more when I've found enough examples to make it worthwhile. A couple of the kids at least.

[Redshade]

On 8/6/2021 at 8:22 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

Now you mention it Stephen, are those two different Helvetica's there..... 

Yes, I noticed that. Which, of course, elicited my little teasing post.