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[Get Marwood & I]

11 hours ago, revat said:

Good job getting things done in these interesting times!

Passes the time doesn't it! 

[Get Marwood & I]

Afternoon 

I found a new title to add to the list - the first for some time - The Adventures of Spider-Man (priced AUS $1.50):

 

It's a second wave book, and adds an extra 8 issues to the actual number of books in the date ranges:

 

Interesting that they remembered to drop the 'only 99c' blurb from the cover:

 

I don't think it's one of the X-Men flipbooks by the way, an existing confirmed AUS title, as it is priced at $1.50 and those are all $3.20 (I've asked the seller if they'd check though). I can't find a picture of a US newsstand copy anywhere to see if the price differs / 99c blurb is present on that but seem to recall it was (I used to have the set back in the day, and the flipbook set too) 

Anyway, 1,290 confirmed AUS price variants now of a maximum possible, albeit certain to be much less, 1,711 eligible US comics

See ya 

[Dan2ine]

On 4/21/2020 at 8:44 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

Morning 

Sensational Spider-Man #3 brings us up to 1,288 confirmed AUS copies:

 

Only issues one and two are currently absent to complete the title set:

I wonder if 1&2 will ever turn up....

See ya.

Oh okay here you go.

One out of two isn't bad right? :-) 

Edited June 18, 2020 by Dan2ine

[Get Marwood & I]

12 hours ago, Dan2ine said:

Oh okay here you go. One out of two isn't bad right? :-) 

 AUS Newsstand

Brilliant! 

Go find me the other one Dan. You're my new best friend 

 US Newsstand

 

[Get Marwood & I]

One of the regular sellers of AUS copies on eBay Australia put up the later 'second wave' run of ASM issues this morning - here's one of them:

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/AMAZING-SPIDERMAN-414-NEWSSTAND-COPY-HUGE-RANGE-OF-MARVEL-COMICS-IN-STOCK/124242837550?hash=item1ced73402e:g:K2kAAOSw7vVe~FwS

He's missed that they are AUS copies in his listings despite labelling all his first wave books correctly. He has the following numbers up:

• 407 - US copy
• 408 - AUS copy
• 409 - US copy
• 410 - no copy (Venom issue)
• 411 - AUS copy
• 412 - AUS copy
• 413 - AUS copy
• 414 - AUS copy
• 415 - AUS copy
• 416 - AUS copy
• 417 - AUS copy
• 418 - US copy

As ever, the gaps correlate with the known AUS copy gaps. 410 is likely missing from his listings on this occasion because that is a sought after Venom issue, but 409 is a US copy as expected. When you see this pattern over and over again, you start to accept that 409 was missed from the AUS experiment for whatever reason and will never appear. 

Expect one to surface tomorrow then! 

[Get Marwood & I]

Only two Conan magazines left to find now - both for Conan Saga - numbers 54 and 56:

Conan the Savage and The Savage Sword of Conan are both complete.

And here's an image from eBay of issue 75 of Conan Saga in a polybag:

 

Quite cool looking isn't it. I like the bag art. It's by 'Crom', apparently. 

 

 

[masterlogan2000]

@Get Marwood & I, why don't you post the full lists of known and missing issues again for easy reference.

[Get Marwood & I]

15 minutes ago, masterlogan2000 said:

@Get Marwood & I, why don't you post the full lists of known and missing issues again for easy reference.

The lists are over here Master Logan, regularly updated:

 

Easier to have them in one place than throughout the discussion threads I thought 

[masterlogan2000]

6 minutes ago, Get Marwood & I said:

The lists are over here Master Logan, regularly updated:

 

Easier to have them in one place than throughout the discussion threads I thought 

Thanks!  I thought you had it posted elsewhere, just couldn't find the link.

Edited July 13, 2020 by masterlogan2000

[Get Marwood & I]

[revat]

4 hours ago, Get Marwood & I said:

Did they get the label wrong ?

[Get Marwood & I]

Just now, revat said:

Did they get the label wrong ?

Yup.

[Get Marwood & I]

I added The Punisher #82 to the list last week to bring us up to 1,292 confirmed copies.

Even though you can't see the AUS price in the image (taken from eBay AUS) you can see the 'annual issue' barcode which is right for the AUS copy, the US newsstand being '09' for September:

 

You can just about see the absence of the 'CC 02860' at the foot of the issue number box too.

So it's an 'AUS $TBC' entry on the spreadsheet until a better image turns up

[Get Marwood & I]

On 8/25/2020 at 3:44 AM, Dickie Knee said:

I'm Australian and collected comics at the time the APVs were issued. They were newstand editions. Collectors back then bought from comic shops and hence bought US printings, newstand copies were frowned upon by collectors back then. I doubt high grade copies of any APV printings exist in high numbers due to the fact kids etc would have been buying the new stand editions and not taking care of them or even keeping them. 

Sorry for the late reply Dickie - I didn't get a notification that you'd posted this in my journal. What you say makes sense to me and helps to explain why some titles rarely surface. That said, I've found quite a few more since I last posted, including some quite scarce ones, and will be updating the thread soon. Cool board name by the way, if I haven't already said that 

[kustomizer]

I remember seeing ads in CBG back in the day where some guy was selling Aussie price variants for insane money, even as they were just coming out. He seemed to have cornered the market and was offering them as individual issues or by the caseload as if they were the hottest things on Earth.

He was touting the "fact" that the APVs were first printings (which they may well have been) but I'm pretty sure nobody cared and his cunning business venture most likely tanked very quickly.

Anyone else remember this??

Edited September 17, 2020 by kustomizer
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[Get Marwood & I]

2 hours ago, kustomizer said:

I remember seeing ads in CBG back in the day where some guy was selling Aussie price variants for insane money, even as they were just coming out. He seemed to have cornered the market and was offering them as individual issues or by the caseload as if they were the hottest things on Earth.

He was touting the "fact" that the APVs were first printings (which they may well have been) but I'm pretty sure nobody cared and his cunning business venture most likely tanked very quickly.

Anyone else remember this??

I'm not interested in pricing myself Kustomizer, just what exists and the related production nuances. It doesn't surprise me though, your story there. I wish people would allow these and other such comics to find their natural price levels based on supply and demand rather than try to artificially create value via obscene BIN pricing. But that's not the way of the world, alas. 

[Get Marwood & I]

On 7/23/2020 at 3:54 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

I added The Punisher #82 to the list last week to bring us up to 1,292 confirmed copies.

Even though you can't see the AUS price in the image (taken from eBay AUS) you can see the 'annual issue' barcode which is right for the AUS copy, the US newsstand being '09' for September:

 

You can just about see the absence of the 'CC 02860' at the foot of the issue number box too.

So it's an 'AUS $TBC' entry on the spreadsheet until a better image turns up

Here's one! 

A Wilkins variant 

I'm up to 1,298 confirmed APVs now - up 6 since the last report. I'll update the Pence Palace of Doom later. 

I haven't included this one in the figures yet - what seems to be the first AUS priced trade paperback that I've seen:

 

Not sure what to do with it yet - it may be a reprint....

 

 

 

[kustomizer]

On 9/18/2020 at 1:57 AM, Get Marwood & I said:

I'm not interested in pricing myself Kustomizer, just what exists and the related production nuances. It doesn't surprise me though, your story there. I wish people would allow these and other such comics to find their natural price levels based on supply and demand rather than try to artificially create value via obscene BIN pricing. But that's not the way of the world, alas. 

I mentioned this because I thought it was interesting background to the topic at hand and hoped someone else might recall the same advertising. It might lead to some numbers on how many AVPs were printed. I didn't say anything about pricing other than someone was unsuccessfully trying to gouge buyers 30 years ago,

[Get Marwood & I]

4 minutes ago, kustomizer said:

I mentioned this because I thought it was interesting background to the topic at hand and hoped someone else might recall the same advertising. It might lead to some numbers on how many AVPs were printed. I didn't say anything about pricing other than someone was unsuccessfully trying to gouge buyers 30 years ago,

It is interesting, sorry I didn't mean to sound crabby. They're still at it 30 years later! The full current AVP number list is in my journal by the way - any and all contributions about them are welcome here Kustomizer 

[kustomizer]

6 minutes ago, Get Marwood & I said:

It is interesting, sorry I didn't mean to sound crabby. They're still at it 30 years later! The full current AVP number list is in my journal by the way - any and all contributions about them are welcome here Kustomizer 

No worries, that's nice of you to say. I'm an Aussie so I lived through this at the time. I think the AVPs are great, much better than when some Australian company started printing their own versions of the latest FF and Spidey comics around 1978.