Gold Key UK Price Variants 2 2

[FoggyNelson]

Pink Panther tune is playing in my head now🎶🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶

[Get Marwood & I]

Afternoon, followers of The Pence Keys of Gold! 

Two bright 6p friends arrived today, courtesy of Postman Pat and his black and white donkey (the donkey sat on the ferret):

  

 

Nice aren't they 

I'm quite enjoying collecting these and have about half of the currently known (to me) 109 pence copies.

The earliest pence copy I know of is dated March 1973 and, accordingly, the earliest Tom and Jerry is #270:

 

One thing I've seen a lot of is copies of T&J #265 and 266 with the same 6p price stickers on them. Here's two examples:

 

And here's another two:

 

 

And here are a third set, together in one auction lot:

 

The 6p stickers are very similar to the font used on the later printed copies:

 

 

Given the similarity, and the multiple copies seen, it must have been an 'official' process wouldn't you say, that led on to the copies with printed prices? 

We'll probably never know...

[Get Marwood & I]

On 12/30/2018 at 5:22 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

 

No 16 page 'fun-catalog' for the UK readers it seems. Still, we don't need it being quite funny already 

 

See Road Runner #47 for other such extraneous banner details (that you can't live without) 

 

Further to the above, on the subject of cosmetic Fun Catalog cover differences:

Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery #58 (this copy is missing the bottom right corner advert of the US version) 

 

  

 

 

[FoggyNelson]

Were is mR MarwooD.. I am waiting for pence updates and Dr Brent updates ,🥴🥴😡I need my fix❤️❤️🤪

[AJD]

On 7/9/2019 at 7:58 AM, FoggyNelson said:

Were is mR MarwooD.. I am waiting for pence updates and Dr Brent updates ,🥴🥴😡I need my fix❤️❤️🤪

I'm not sure - I've sent a couple of PMs but have heard nowt. Hopefully all is well.

[Get Marwood & I]

On 7/8/2019 at 10:58 PM, FoggyNelson said:

Were is mR MarwooD.. I am waiting for pence updates and Dr Brent updates ,🥴🥴😡I need my fix❤️❤️🤪

Someone shot him Fog.

On 7/11/2019 at 9:47 AM, AJD said:

I'm not sure - I've sent a couple of PMs but have heard nowt. Hopefully all is well.

All is well. Apart from the being shot thing. 

[Get Marwood & I]

Afternoon 

I happened across a website for a book shop in Manchester with pictures of eight new Gold Key pence copies - eight!

 

I was ridiculously excited, which is unbecoming of a man my age, and rang to buy them. Well, what can I say. I have never met (on the phone) such an unhelpful group of people. They wouldn't tell me what they had left, denied the terms on their own website existed and refused to check or post anything found to me. I could go on, but all my enthusiasm and joy slowly turned to dusty exasperation and I gave up.

I could risk the 4 hour drive there, but I decided that though the books were something I'd dearly love to have - if only to support the research here - that it would actually stick in my throat to give them my money. And the prices he threw into the air were ridiculous anyway.

So there you go, some people just stamp on your throat don't they.

Now, one of the books throws my 'gap analysis' into question, and therefore don't reply on that if you're reading.

This is my last post in this thread (sorry Fog)

Have fun 

Steve

[FoggyNelson]

It was nice thread while it lasted , thank you for creating it👍👍

[ADAMANTIUM]

53 minutes ago, FoggyNelson said:

It was nice thread while it lasted , thank you for creating it👍👍

Give that @Get Marwood & I a gold key watch!

 

[AJD]

On 7/21/2019 at 3:07 AM, FoggyNelson said:

It was nice thread while it lasted , thank you for creating it👍👍

Yes, I second those sentiments. These pence threads were most excellent.

[1950's war comics]

On 7/20/2019 at 1:07 PM, FoggyNelson said:

It was nice thread while it lasted , thank you for creating it👍👍

i hope Steve gets bored in retirement and comes back to the boards soon

[Get Marwood & I]

On 7/20/2019 at 2:00 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

This is my last post in this thread (sorry Fog)

Apart from this one 

[1950's war comics]

I SAY BOY !! I SAY I LOVE ME SOME PISTOL TOTING YOSEMITE SAM COMICS !

Sam was the star of his own comic book series from 1970 to 1984, for a total of 81 issues. Published by Gold Key / Whitman Comics, the official title of the series was Yosemite Sam and Bugs Bunny

[1950's war comics]

2 hours ago, Get Marwood & I said:

Apart from this one 

I see you finally decided to go to that shop in Manchester and pick these up !!  ?????

 

Lets hear the story and how did the negotiations work out ??

[Get Marwood & I]

2 hours ago, 1950's war comics said:

I see you finally decided to go to that shop in Manchester and pick these up !!  ?????

 

Lets hear the story and how did the negotiations work out ??

I found these on ebay actually. A bit tatty but you can't have everything. The Mancunian copies may still be there. Hopefully giving their unhelpful shop owning owner paper cuts on a regular basis. 

[Get Marwood & I]

New one! 

 

118 confirmed Gold Key pence variants 

 

[Get Marwood & I]

Duhnun-duhnun, dun, dun.  Duhnun-duhnun, dun, dun....

 Duhnun-duhnun, dun, dun.  Duhnun-duhnun, dun, dun....

 

[Get Marwood & I]

 

[Get Marwood & I]

Postman Pat, Postman Pat, 

Postman Pat and his black and white cat.

Early in the morning, just as day is dawning,

He delivers Gold Key comics to Marwood Towers

 

   

 

Seven pee, seven pee,

Seven pee is the price you see.

In a wonky diamond, this is how you find them

When a US price cannot be seen

Proper serious researcher me.

[Get Marwood & I]

On 9/18/2019 at 12:44 AM, Duffman_Comics said:

Does make one wonder why UK editions of "Doctor Solar" and "Magnus Robot Fighter" were deemed unworthy.  I'd have thought those titles held a greater appeal than some of the Warner character books.

"Star Trek" and not "Lost in Space"? No "Turok"?

Yes, not sure why just eight titles were chosen from the scores of titles running at the time. From a TV show perspective, I can understand the cartoons getting the pence treatment as Road Runner, Tom & Jerry, Pink Panther, Tweety, Yosemite and Bugs were all household names and repeated regularly over here. Ditto Start Trek of course. But Boris and Ripley's weren't exactly prominent, to my recollection. We had Lost in Space over here but I don't recall anything to do with Magnus, Turok or Doctor Solar myself that would have warranted a pence version of them. But maybe I just wasn't paying attention.