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Archie cover price variants! 15 centers exist 1962-1963
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Nice little grab last week... a seller on eBay had two 30-book auctions of his late 50's/early 60s Archie collection for sale with 20 dollar starting bids. Some looked rough but others seemed in nice condition (though not all were pictured). I emailed and told him I was local and asked what he'd take for all 60 books. He replied $75 so I jumped on it. They arrived the other day and there were a ton of little treasures inside. Madhouse 1-10, Pals & Gals 23, a bunch of great looking Archie, B&V and Jughead books, and these 15-centers!

 

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What a great thread, well worth reviving. I was hoping the dates might cross with the Archie pence variants so we could get a shot of all three copies of one issue, but they were 1960 only. Did anyone ever manage to get a full 15c set? Great fun :)

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10 hours ago, PeterPark said:

My MH 22 came back 3.5...I was pleased...I'd need a crossover to show it though...and they neglected to mention the price variant!!!

That was helpful of them 9_9 

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Afternoon  :)

For those of you familiar with my variant investigations here on the CGC boards, I've had a go at tracking the Archie 15c Price Variants myself, and have built up folders and spreadsheets over the last year or so in the same format as my other work.

We have a set of folders like so...

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.... a capture spreadsheet like so...

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....a list of in scope titles by date, for which no 15cv has been found...

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...and an overarching list of confirmed issues like so:

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Quite a few of the confirmed issues on my sheet are taken from this thread, the remainder from eBay and other online sources.

I don't collect these by the way, and have no plans to do so (pretty impossible from the UK really), but I did pick up an example or two for comparison purposes to see what differences might exist between the books other than the cover price:

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None, as it turned out, for the above example.

If anyone has any examples of books not on my list here, I'd love to see them. I have 63 of a possible 113 confirmed so far but I know the total in this thread has indicated a higher figure.

My focus on the Charlton 15cvs and Canadian price variants established new understandings for what existed for them, updating some long held beliefs, so maybe we can do the same here.

Here's my own confirmed list again:

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Got any more?

Cheers, Steve

 

 

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29 minutes ago, PeterPark said:

I know I have multiple unaccounted-for issues. I have to dig them out but jaguar 5 and 7 and archie 126 at least...I'll be back with my full list, and pictures, if necessary.

Thanks PeterP - I'm in touch with Bill - he doesn't post here anymore - and hopefully will be able to increase on the 63 on my current known list. 

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I'm in touch with Bill, and he's sent a few more pics over to me so I now have images of 66 of the 113 possible books within the known 15cv cover date range.

I'll post a snapshot of each of the twelve titles over the coming days - here is The Fly, showing all possible copies as confirmed:

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Click to enlarge:

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Revised list following input offline from Bill.

If anyone reading as any images of the absent issues they'd be happy to share, please dive in:

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1 minute ago, PeterPark said:

I found Jaguar 5 and 7, Archie 126 and 128, life with archie 16 and pep 153. The rest are already on the list.

Great stuff - can you post pictures please PeterP? 

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