Dell UK Price Variants 3 3

[Get Marwood & I]

On 9/15/2021 at 8:55 AM, rakehell said:

Please pause impending pence price placement comparisons pending prior permission.

Ta. 

Push off Penelope 

[rakehell]

On 9/15/2021 at 10:11 AM, Get Marwood & I said:

Push off Penelope 

poop. 

[Get Marwood & I]

On 9/15/2021 at 10:59 AM, rakehell said:

poop. 

Porky Pig Pencer, Patricia!

 

[rakehell]

On 9/15/2021 at 11:46 AM, Get Marwood & I said:

Porky Pig Pencer, Patricia!

Please, Polly!

[Get Marwood & I]

Bat Maaaaan!

No, not Wayne, but Masterson, as played by our friend Gene Barry:

A nice, clean 9d copy for the files and the box. 

I like how the artist has clearly taken his inspiration from a photo of Gene, as he looks the same in every panel:

  
 

That same expression gets a bit disconcerting after a while. 

The baby browns are faithfully captured in close up:

 

Although they look blue on the cover 

I used to like Gene in The Adventurer, with Barry Morse:

It had one of the best themes of the day, by John Barry. Click above if you're unsure. 

John Barry, Barry Morse, Gene Barry....

lightful 

 

[Get Marwood & I]

Here's our 220th, and possibly final, Dell UKPV - the inevitable Tom & Jerry #191 which has been in hiding since I started this charade:

That enables me to finally complete that title, given my earlier, hopefully accurate assessment of the missing issues that clash with the UK title:

 

I'm not sure there are any more to find now, Dell UKPVs, but you know my motto is 'never say never'. Well, one of them anyway.

Will another appear one day? Watch this space.....

[themagicrobot]

The only cartoon/comic characters named after an english furniture maker from the C18th or any other century for that matter. Oh I forgot about Ikea-Man and Captain Ercol?!?

Edited January 19, 2022 by themagicrobot

[Get Marwood & I]

On 1/19/2022 at 7:36 PM, themagicrobot said:

The only cartoon/comic characters named after an english furniture maker from the C18th or any other century for that matter. Oh I forgot about Ikea-Man and Captain Ercol?!?

Here's my copy 

I once asked whether furniture maker related title quips were liked by people called Walter. They told me "Lantz likes them, yes, but Walt Disney"

 

 

 

 

[Get Marwood & I]

It seems lately that every eBay BIN listing I look at is followed half an hour later by an offer from its seller. One such offer - 50% off this time - I accepted, just so I could make this post that no one would read.

Huckleberry Hound has four UKPVs confirmed so far, and is one of those titles that are hard to speculate on, given the gaps. No pattern, as such, to pick up on as is the case with other titles. You'd like to think that #7 would turn up one day, but I don't think I've seen a copy of it in the UK - pence or cents - in all the years I've been looking for these books:

Number nine (number nine, number nine....) could exist, but here we have a potential verification snag - it doesn't have any price on it:

The cover also just says 'February', whereas the indicia states 'Jan-Feb 1961' - usually the dual months are noted on the cover too:

Given that they forgot the US price, it could be that the pence price was forgotten too. Maybe the pence price was the reason the cents price was forgotten. Or not. So this copy above could actually be a UKPV, in as much as it was shipped intentionally for sale in the UK just as all the other pence printed copies were. But without a 9d price, or any other UK distinguishable marks / evidence, there's no way of ever knowing. 

All good fun.

 "Here, Yogi. Can you see a price on this thing?"

      "Nope. Just a great big eye ball, Huck"

[Malacoda]

On 1/27/2022 at 2:05 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

It seems lately that every eBay BIN listing I look at is followed half an hour later by an offer from its seller. One such offer - 50% off this time - I accepted, just so I could make this post that no one would read.

Huckleberry Hound has four UKPVs confirmed so far, and is one of those titles that are hard to speculate on, given the gaps. No pattern, as such, to pick up on as is the case with other titles. You'd like to think that #7 would turn up one day, but I don't think I've seen a copy of it in the UK - pence or cents - in all the years I've been looking for these books:

Number nine (number nine, number nine....) could exist, but here we have a potential verification snag - it doesn't have any price on it:

The cover also just says 'February', whereas the indicia states 'Jan-Feb 1961' - usually the dual months are noted on the cover too:

Given that they forgot the US price, it could be that the pence price was forgotten too. Maybe the pence price was the reason the cents price was forgotten. Or not. So this copy above could actually be a UKPV, in as much as it was shipped intentionally for sale in the UK just as all the other pence printed copies were. But without a 9d price, or any other UK distinguishable marks / evidence, there's no way of ever knowing. 

All good fun.

 

More likely to be a giveaway of some description?  You know Huckleberry, he's anyone's for a Cheerwine Float. 

Or does the cover month eliminate that? 

 

 

[Get Marwood & I]

On 1/28/2022 at 7:13 PM, Malacoda said:

More likely to be a giveaway of some description? 

Nay, and thrice nay 

Tis the real deal, Rich 

[OtherEric]

There

On 1/28/2022 at 11:13 AM, Malacoda said:

More likely to be a giveaway of some description?  You know Huckleberry, he's anyone's for a Cheerwine Float. 

 

There are a surprisingly large number of comics where they forgot the price.  I've got a Walt Disney Comics & Stories missing a price as well, will try to dig it up and scan it.

[Get Marwood & I]

On 1/28/2022 at 10:34 PM, OtherEric said:

There

There are a surprisingly large number of comics where they forgot the price.  I've got a Walt Disney Comics & Stories missing a price as well, will try to dig it up and scan it.

Too busy reading them, probably 

[Get Marwood & I]

I am......The LAW! 

And I have dual pricing. 

 

"Always the way isn't it Dave" 

"What?" 

"The covers" 

"What about em?" 

"They never name us, do they" 

"Oh, right. Nah, we're not important enough Barry" 

"It's all 'John Russell' this and 'Peter Brown' that. Never 'Dave' and 'Barry'" 

"I told ya, we just aint important" 

"It aint right. They wouldn't do it to Black Furious, would they. Or Trigger..." 

 

[Get Marwood & I]

Quick Draw McGraw Four?

Sure!

He follows the Law  and takes us up to 221 Dell UK Price Variants.

I've been expecting him for a while now, and like many titles, he ends his pence run with the October 1960 issue.

I managed to snag a few pence Dells today, happily, but made a schoolboy error on the Flintstones Giant, the only Giant that I don't have of the known pence copies. I somehow managed to miss that it was the first appearance of the Flintstones, so the bidding run away from me before I could twig what was happening. Had I looked closer, and seen that designation, I would have bid more appropriately and seized my chance.

Oh well. Only the second pence copy I've ever seen. Maybe it will be third time lucky for me, if there is a next time.

 

 

[rakehell]

[Get Marwood & I]

On 4/13/2022 at 11:06 AM, rakehell said:

A shilling circle in an oval, a wheel within a wheel.....

[rakehell]

On 4/13/2022 at 1:26 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

A shilling circle in an oval, a wheel within a wheel.....

Or maybe a doorway. A doorway into another dimension...

Edited April 13, 2022 by rakehell
emoji error

[rakehell]

Got this, too -

Nice copy, but the 9d is less than conspicuous. 

[Get Marwood & I]

On 4/14/2022 at 9:50 AM, rakehell said:

Got this, too -

Nice copy, but the 9d is less than conspicuous. 

Hi-Yo-9d! And away!