King Comics UK Price Variants 4 4

[Get Marwood & I]

The search for an unblemished copy continues.....

[Yorick]

On 8/28/2023 at 2:52 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

@Yorick

If you're not careful, we might end up seeing a pence FG. 

[Get Marwood & I]

On 8/29/2023 at 8:21 PM, Yorick said:

If you're not careful, we might end up seeing a pence FG. 

Careful yourself, or I'll summon sweary Ming again  

[Yorick]

[Yorick]

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Blisteringly high graded Flash Gordon 11 Dual Price Variant.

GORDON"S ALIVE!!

[Get Marwood & I]

On 8/30/2023 at 5:59 AM, Yorick said:

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Blisteringly high graded Flash Gordon 11 Dual Price Variant.

GORDON"S ALIVE!!

No he f***ing aint!

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*Also known as a shilling

[Get Marwood & I]

FLASH! AH-AAH! 

He's got a funny squiggly thing above his A!

Just for you, Yozza, ten dee number ten. 

You forget these books are coming up to 60 years old now. Very hard to find high grade copies, it is.

 

[Yorick]

On 8/30/2023 at 12:38 AM, Get Marwood & I said:

No he f***ing aint!

Well, when Wahtussy finally decides to take it off the back burner, he will be!!

[Yorick]

On 8/30/2023 at 1:59 AM, Get Marwood & I said:

Only six graded copies.  I like that 3.5!

So I'm trying to see how many UKPV's of Flash Gordon have been graded.  Am I to assume that no one has sent in any UKPV Flash Gordon books?!!  I don't see any category in the census for these.

[Get Marwood & I]

On 8/30/2023 at 8:20 PM, Yorick said:

Only six graded copies.  I like that 3.5!

So I'm trying to see how many UKPV's of Flash Gordon have been graded.  Am I to assume that no one has sent in any UKPV Flash Gordon books?!!  I don't see any category in the census for these.

If there was one it would sit under the relevant King cents entry. Non-Marvel UKPV submissions to CGC are rare Yoz. You could probably fit every potential submitter on Earth into a phone box. That already had an elephant in it.

[OtherEric]

On 8/30/2023 at 12:33 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

If there was one it would sit under the relevant King cents entry. Non-Marvel UKPV submissions to CGC are rare Yoz. You could probably fit every potential submitter on Earth into a phone box. That already had an elephant in it.

I think you slightly underestimate the size of the group.  Or overestimate the size of the phone box.  Unless you’re talking about one of those weird British police phone boxes…

[Redshade]

On 8/30/2023 at 8:33 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

If there was one it would sit under the relevant King cents entry. Non-Marvel UKPV submissions to CGC are rare Yoz. You could probably fit every potential submitter on Earth into a phone box. That already had an elephant in it.

I've been in a few phone boxes that smelled as if they'd had an elephant in them.

[Get Marwood & I]

On 8/31/2023 at 10:03 PM, Redshade said:

I've been in a few phone boxes that smelled as if they'd had an elephant in them.

 

On 8/31/2023 at 12:00 AM, OtherEric said:

I think you slightly underestimate the size of the group.  Or overestimate the size of the phone box.  Unless you’re talking about one of those weird British police phone boxes…

It worked on both levels, didn't it.

@valiantman, sorry to summon you like a data slave, but can you check the CGC census to see how many UK Price Variants are recorded for:

• Archie
• Charlton
• Dell
• Gold Key
• King

Is that possible?

Sorry if I've asked you before - I do recall something about Hulk showing up on any UK search, or something like that, but is that something you can do for us? Charlton and Dell will likely have a handful but I'm going for 'sod all' for the other three 

[Get Marwood & I]

I did a few searches myself using Greg's software and unless I'm doing it wrong there are miniscule numbers for UKPVs across the little five publishers as expected. 

http://cgcdata.com/cgc/

You need to search a variety of terms like 'edition', 'kingdom' and 'variant' to stand any chance of finding them and then filter out the other variations. CGC used to label UKPVs as 'UK Editions' remember, until some wally harangued them into using something else.

'UK' on its own brings up too many additional books I found. Here are the Charlton results for those three terms - less than 20 books if this is all of them.

I didn't find much for Gold Key and nothing for King and Archie. Not one submission. There could be some that haven't been identified as UK copies of course though, I've seen a few of those for Charlton.

Maybe Greg will surprise us with some superior interrogation results....

[valiantman]

Looking for country = United Kingdom or variant = U.K. Edition or U.K. Price Variant, I get...

Charlton = 10 books, 13 total submissions

Dell = 38 books, 45 total submissions

Nothing for Archie, Gold Key, or King

[Get Marwood & I]

On 9/3/2023 at 12:30 AM, valiantman said:

Looking for country = United Kingdom or variant = U.K. Edition or U.K. Price Variant, I get...

Charlton = 10 books, 13 total submissions

Dell = 38 books, 45 total submissions

Nothing for Archie, Gold Key, or King

Thanks Greg. There are a couple of Gold Keys hiding in there - these two come up under the 'variant' search term:

Quite a few of the pre-1960 Dell entries that I found seem to be incorrect - they are recorded as 'UK Price Variants' when they are reprints or UK only publications - example below:

If those entries are in your 38 book total then that number will come down a bit.

Overall, non-Marvel UKPV submissions clearly aren't a thing. Which is no surprise. 

[valiantman]

On 9/3/2023 at 2:06 AM, Get Marwood & I said:

Thanks Greg. There are a couple of Gold Keys hiding in there - these two come up under the 'variant' search term:

Quite a few of the pre-1960 Dell entries that I found seem to be incorrect - they are recorded as 'UK Price Variants' when they are reprints or UK only publications - example below:

If those entries are in your 38 book total then that number will come down a bit.

Overall, non-Marvel UKPV submissions clearly aren't a thing. Which is no surprise. 

Yep, my query had a bug that required at least 10 submissions for the publisher to be listed.

Gold Key has (just) those 2 Boris Karloff issues you found.

These are the Dell books found:

Andy Panda 50 U.K. Price Variant
Andy Panda 51 U.K. Price Variant
Beatles 1 U.K. Price Variant
Cheyenne 15 United Kingdom
Dell Giant 40 U.K. Edition
Dell Giant 43 United Kingdom
Dell Giant 48 U.K. Edition
Film Fun 536 U.K. Price Variant
Film Fun 563 U.K. Price Variant
Film Fun 565 U.K. Price Variant
Film Fun 579 U.K. Price Variant
Film Fun 591 U.K. Price Variant
Four Color 1087 United Kingdom
Four Color 1089 United Kingdom
Four Color 1161 U.K. Edition
Four Color 1173 U.K. Price Variant
Four Color 1187 United Kingdom
Four Color 1193 United Kingdom
Four Color 1236 United Kingdom
Gene Autry Comics 12 U.K. Price Variant
Have Gun, Will Travel 5 United Kingdom
Have Gun, Will Travel 8 United Kingdom
Have Gun, Will Travel 9 United Kingdom
Huckleberry Hound 11 United Kingdom
Porky Pig 71 United Kingdom
Quick Draw McGraw 3 United Kingdom
Rifleman 6 United Kingdom
Rifleman 7 U.K. Edition
Rin Tin Tin and Rusty 34 U.K. Price Variant
Rin Tin Tin and Rusty 35 U.K. Edition
Rin Tin Tin and Rusty 36 U.K. Edition
Rin Tin Tin and Rusty 37 U.K. Edition
Rin Tin Tin and Rusty 38 U.K. Edition
Turok, Son of Stone 21 United Kingdom
Turok, Son of Stone 22 United Kingdom
Uncle Scrooge 31 U.K. Price Variant
Uncle Scrooge 33 United Kingdom
Walt Disney's Comics and Stories 240 United Kingdom

[Get Marwood & I]

On 9/4/2023 at 4:53 AM, valiantman said:

Yep, my query had a bug that required at least 10 submissions for the publisher to be listed.

Gold Key has (just) those 2 Boris Karloff issues you found.

These are the Dell books found:

Andy Panda 50 U.K. Price Variant
Andy Panda 51 U.K. Price Variant
Beatles 1 U.K. Price Variant
Cheyenne 15 United Kingdom
Dell Giant 40 U.K. Edition
Dell Giant 43 United Kingdom
Dell Giant 48 U.K. Edition
Film Fun 536 U.K. Price Variant
Film Fun 563 U.K. Price Variant
Film Fun 565 U.K. Price Variant
Film Fun 579 U.K. Price Variant
Film Fun 591 U.K. Price Variant
Four Color 1087 United Kingdom
Four Color 1089 United Kingdom
Four Color 1161 U.K. Edition
Four Color 1173 U.K. Price Variant
Four Color 1187 United Kingdom
Four Color 1193 United Kingdom
Four Color 1236 United Kingdom
Gene Autry Comics 12 U.K. Price Variant
Have Gun, Will Travel 5 United Kingdom
Have Gun, Will Travel 8 United Kingdom
Have Gun, Will Travel 9 United Kingdom
Huckleberry Hound 11 United Kingdom
Porky Pig 71 United Kingdom
Quick Draw McGraw 3 United Kingdom
Rifleman 6 United Kingdom
Rifleman 7 U.K. Edition
Rin Tin Tin and Rusty 34 U.K. Price Variant
Rin Tin Tin and Rusty 35 U.K. Edition
Rin Tin Tin and Rusty 36 U.K. Edition
Rin Tin Tin and Rusty 37 U.K. Edition
Rin Tin Tin and Rusty 38 U.K. Edition
Turok, Son of Stone 21 United Kingdom
Turok, Son of Stone 22 United Kingdom
Uncle Scrooge 31 U.K. Price Variant
Uncle Scrooge 33 United Kingdom
Walt Disney's Comics and Stories 240 United Kingdom

Cheers. Six of those have been incorrectly classified as UKPVs, and the jury is out on the Beatles. The book, not the band. Someone clearly loved their Rin Tin Tin run!

[Get Marwood & I]

Morning 

While we wait to see if Yozzer @Yorick will ever get his 10d Flashes on the CEEGEECEE census, here's a nice write up on the Phantom UKPVs which I brought to the site owner's attention the other week:

https://thephantom.fan/comics/king-comics-uk-editions/

Nicely done Frank, if you're out there reading this 

It's a cool site overall, and well worth a look. I especially like this page:

https://thephantom.fan/books/the-king-comics-reading-library-supplementary-reading-program/

That's my kind of stuff.

We all like a bit of Phantom, don't we. Especially when they teach us how to read 

[Yorick]

On 10/29/2023 at 2:26 AM, Get Marwood & I said:

I especially like this page

I hadn't seen that Blondie before (not that I was looking).  Funny cover.  Priceless.