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[Get Marwood & I]

If anyone is interested I helped Ben Nobel who runs the Wordpress 'Rare Comics' blog to put together an online issue guide for Marvel and DC pence variants - the results can be found here if you'd like to take a peek:

https://rarecomics.wordpress.com/2018/12/17/pence-price-variant-issue-guide-marvel-dc/

We haven't had any comments yet so do dive in if this is your thing. Ben was a fun chap to work with and loves his variants 

In the New Year I'll post the conclusion of my early Marvels indicia review which turned out to be much more complex than I first thought (see earlier posts). As is often the case, it threw up a few surprises and some links to my other research interests (Millers, Font Variants etc). I have a few nice pence books to post too.

See you in the New Year 

[Get Marwood & I]

Ladies and Gentleman, a short interlude while we await the arrival of the much heralded, but oft delayed, T&P Indicia Research

 

  We bring you 'Titano! and Krang!"   

(Apologies for those expecting The Consultant's Flower Garden)

9d Titano breaks a bridge made of mechano!

9d Krang is doing his thang!

 

Titano crawls into a bar. The barman says, "Sorry, you'll have to leave". "Why's that?", says Titano. "Well, you was in here last night, giving it all that..."

Sorry.

[FoggyNelson]

Those TOS are nice an look even nicer seeing that 9D under the issue numbers‼️🎶🆒‼️🤷‍♀️

[Gnasher]

On 12/30/2018 at 6:14 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

If anyone is interested I helped Ben Nobel who runs the Wordpress 'Rare Comics' blog to put together an online issue guide for Marvel and DC pence variants - the results can be found here if you'd like to take a peek:

https://rarecomics.wordpress.com/2018/12/17/pence-price-variant-issue-guide-marvel-dc/

We haven't had any comments yet so do dive in if this is your thing. Ben was a fun chap to work with and loves his variants 

In the New Year I'll post the conclusion of my early Marvels indicia review which turned out to be much more complex than I first thought (see earlier posts). As is often the case, it threw up a few surprises and some links to my other research interests (Millers, Font Variants etc). I have a few nice pence books to post too.

See you in the New Year 

This is looking very good indeed

I'm going to have to give it some time on the week-end. The Top 50  doesn't appear to be too surprising, usual suspects, but helpful for the price guide. I'm liking it just from a cursory glance, and I'm sure there's more.

Will there be an inclusion at a later date for the other publishers of pence editions?

Cheers, Steve

[Get Marwood & I]

5 hours ago, Gnasher said:

This is looking very good indeed

I'm going to have to give it some time on the week-end. The Top 50  doesn't appear to be too surprising, usual suspects, but helpful for the price guide. I'm liking it just from a cursory glance, and I'm sure there's more.

Will there be an inclusion at a later date for the other publishers of pence editions?

Cheers, Steve

Cheers Bob. Ben did all the whizzy stuff - I just provided the raw data, dates etc. He's a cool bloke to work with and very receptive to different views and thoughts. We've had some great debates on a variety of variant related stuff. It's just nice to find people who share your interests and who are prepared to engage civilly really. I'm not sure if we'll add the other publishers. I don't think there is enough interest out there. Marvel and DC will always garner a following, but the others I'm not so sure. Thanks for the kind words 

[Gnasher]

19 hours ago, Get Marwood & I said:

Cheers Bob. Ben did all the whizzy stuff - I just provided the raw data, dates etc. He's a cool bloke to work with and very receptive to different views and thoughts. We've had some great debates on a variety of variant related stuff. It's just nice to find people who share your interests and who are prepared to engage civilly really. I'm not sure if we'll add the other publishers. I don't think there is enough interest out there. Marvel and DC will always garner a following, but the others I'm not so sure. Thanks for the kind words 

Shame about the other publishers, but I can see your reasoning on this. It's good to see a little more detail out there now, fingers crossed it will get some responses. I've bookmarked. 

[Get Marwood & I]

I may as well post this here too - the suggestion was put to me recently that three of the nine known November 1971 double sized pence issues were priced at 6p in error, given that the other issues for that month were priced at 8p. That made sense, as the 8p price better reflects their worth as double sized issues when compared to the ongoing regular sized issues from December priced at 6p (and note that the US versions were 25c for November and 20c for December for all nine comparable issues):

 

The 6p November 1971 Double Sized Issues:

      

 

The 8p November 1971 Double Sized Issues:

          

 

Anyone who has purchased an ASM #102 or a Hulk #145 in the UK will probably have experienced the dreaded sticker residue. I had an 8p ASM #102 that had it and noticed a lot of Hulk #145's had it (the example above does, as does the Avengers).

A quick check on eBay shows this:

 

So it looks like the 8p price was actually considered the 'mistake' rather than the more logical 6p, given the number of official looking, consistent corrective 6p stickers out there. 

An interesting scrap of pence info, which has been sitting under my nose for years, and which may never be explained.

[Get Marwood & I]

That last post about 6p's and 8p's was rubbish wasn't it Krang  

 

Boring I thought Titano 

 

Ignore it shall we? 

 

Defo 

 

Adamantium liked it I see 

 

What does he know! 

 

Yeah. Fancy liking something that rubbish. No accounting for taste is there 

 

Yeah. Pence variants? Absolute toss mate. Get Marwood? Get F***** more like 

 

I make you right Krang, I make you right 

[Get Marwood & I]

I just wanted to post a big thank you to @GARYSTAR this morning 

In support of the research I'm doing I asked Gary if he would send me scans of the indicia of the Patsy Walker #89 that he posted some time back in the thread. He went one better and sent me the actual comic! What a great gesture, and proof that there are still decent people in the world 

Gary - you rock! 

 

[mec3437]

[Get Marwood & I]

On 11/19/2018 at 3:57 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

Meanwhile, and this is nothing new, just worth repeating, Amazing Fantasy 15 has a potentially unique indicia scenario.

There are two first printing copies - the pence and cents copies like so:

 

The pence copy has an additional line of indicia data - 'SOLE DISTRIBUTORS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM - THORPE & PORTER LTD' - just below the usual cents details.

In keeping with the practice at the time (to eliminate the confusion caused by long shipping times), the pence copy has the cover month removed like so:

And the US copy has the month of August:

But in what may be the only example of it's kind, both pence and cents indicias list the month as September 1962, not August:

 

I was looking at this again the other day and noticed that the 'pence' AF15 in the image above has the interior of Marvel Tales #1. I lifted the image from Google, just to show the indicia difference and didn't spot it the first time. Someone was a bit naughty there wasn't they! 

[Get Marwood & I]

On 1/16/2019 at 12:47 AM, mec3437 said:

Velly nice!

[Get Marwood & I]

I was hoping to finally add an AF15 pence copy to the vault the other day. This beauty was up for auction just down the road from me:

  

 

Auctioneers estimate was £8-£10K. Maybe I could snag it for less? 

 

Bidding was fierce!

 

And it ended at £14,500. With a 23% buyers premium, that's just under £18,000

 

 

Oh well, maybe one day....

[Get Marwood & I]

A few other notable pence sales (add 23% to each sale amount):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Get Marwood & I]

Not strictly a first printing Marvel pence variant of course, but who cares. There's a pence price on it. Haven't seen one of these with the free gift in a long time:

 

And it was only a paper bag! 

 

Spoiler

  

 

 

Edited January 28, 2019 by Get Marwood & I
Can he swing, from a thread? Goblin pooped, on his head...

[Get Marwood & I]

A quick addition to this summary, posted previously:

 

I've added that some of the later 20p issues are missing their cover months - an example below, courtesy of ROM #22:

    

There are quite a few like it and I'll list them all another time 

 

[gadzukes]

9 hours ago, Get Marwood & I said:

I was hoping to finally add an AF15 pence copy to the vault the other day. This beauty was up for auction just down the road from me:

  

 

Auctioneers estimate was £8-£10K. Maybe I could snag it.

And it ended at £14,500. With a 23% buyers premium, that's just under £18,000

 

That's a GREAT looking AF15.  What do you think it grades 5.0?  I think the winner got a great price!

[Get Marwood & I]

2 minutes ago, gadzukes said:

9 hours ago, Get Marwood & I said:

I was hoping to finally add an AF15 pence copy to the vault the other day. This beauty was up for auction just down the road from me:

  

 

Auctioneers estimate was £8-£10K. Maybe I could snag it.

And it ended at £14,500. With a 23% buyers premium, that's just under £18,000

That's a GREAT looking AF15.  What do you think it grades 5.0?  I think the winner got a great price!

Nice and clean looking isn't it. It was listed as a Fine but I thought nearer 5.0 too, hence the hope of snagging a bargain. Difficult to tell from photos, but I suspect it handled well in the flesh. 

[gadzukes]

12 minutes ago, Get Marwood & I said:

Nice and clean looking isn't it. It was listed as a Fine but I thought nearer 5.0 too, hence the hope of snagging a bargain. Difficult to tell from photos, but I suspect it handled well in the flesh. 

I think a press might take that to a 5.5, I'm not sure a 6.0 in in range but who knows.

That whole collection was gorgeous!  What auction house was that?

Edited January 28, 2019 by gadzukes

[Get Marwood & I]

2 minutes ago, gadzukes said:

I think a press might take that to a 5.5, I'm not sure a 6.0 in in range but who knows.

That whole collection was gorgeous!  What auction house was that?

This one:

https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb?utm_source=auction-alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=auction-alert&utm_content=the-saleroom-logo

They can have some nice stuff listed, but this lot was a step above the norm.

There are a few UK sellers who buy everything up - I often see the lots reappear on ebay, usually for far more than was bid.