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Marvel UK Price Variants
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35 minutes ago, Gnasher said:

Great work again in tying it all together, Steve (thumbsu in later issues of CMN the list drops further to 15 and falling.

Cheers Bob. There's not too much left to say now about Marvel pence copies since Battle #70 finally turned up. Any excuse to tinker eh...

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5 minutes ago, Get Marwood & I said:

Cheers Bob. There's not too much left to say now about Marvel pence copies since Battle #70 finally turned up. Any excuse to tinker eh...

Yessiree!...(thumbsu

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1 hour ago, AJD said:

This thread is an excellent piece of scholarship. Take a bow Steve. (worship)

Cheers Andy - it has it's moments I guess! :foryou:

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38 minutes ago, mec3437 said:

Been a little light on picking up pence copies lately, but here they are.  Still waiting on a few from across the pond.

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Nice looking copies :)

How many have you got now Mec?

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13 minutes ago, Harry Lime said:

That FF 54 is one of the whitest copies I've seen. Congratulations!

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"Good Lord Sue, look how white that is!"

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"I know Reed. It's amazing..."

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"So beautiful....."

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"Hey, who's farted?"

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"That would be me. Sorry.."

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I spotted this lot of Monsters dwelling on eBay UK yesterday - I like the way it confirms all the pence gaps:

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Nice looking lot :)

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20 hours ago, Get Marwood & I said:

Nice looking copies :)

How many have you got now Mec?

Not as many as I'd like.  I do search for pence copies if there is an equivalent first.  If I find an acceptable copy (that fluctuates a lot), then I'll buy it before others.  Mostly working on an X-Men pence run but focusing on 96 on up right now.  I've been acquiring more Avengers and Captain Marvel pence copies in addition to X-Men.  I'm trying with Daredevil to go as much pence as possible with the issues I'm looking for.  It's slow and steady right now.  If I had to guess, I would say maybe 50-70 pence books.  I'd have to dig through the boxes to count, but that should be a fair estimate.  

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27 minutes ago, mec3437 said:

Not as many as I'd like.  I do search for pence copies if there is an equivalent first.  If I find an acceptable copy (that fluctuates a lot), then I'll buy it before others.  Mostly working on an X-Men pence run but focusing on 96 on up right now.  I've been acquiring more Avengers and Captain Marvel pence copies in addition to X-Men.  I'm trying with Daredevil to go as much pence as possible with the issues I'm looking for.  It's slow and steady right now.  If I had to guess, I would say maybe 50-70 pence books.  I'd have to dig through the boxes to count, but that should be a fair estimate.  

Only about 2,950 to go then  :bigsmile:

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On 3/10/2017 at 5:40 AM, Get Marwood & I said:

Hello.

I thought I'd resurrect this subject, albeit in a new thread. New boards, new thread. And besides, my previous thread title was a bit of a mouthful.

Currently, I have documented 2,992 Marvel comics with pence only printed prices published between the dates of:

  • May 1960 - the date of the first known single 9d price printed comics (e.g. Gunsmoke Western #58, JIM #58, Strange Tales #75)
  • December 1981 – the last month before consistent dual pence/cents pricing commenced (a nice easy tie off, effectively ending the existence of pence only priced variants).

They are documented on a spreadsheet that looks like this......

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.....and I have scans / images of every comic saved in folders like this:

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If you are interested in pence variants, here are some observations:

  1. The first Pence only printed Marvel comics found are Gunsmoke Western #58 and Journey Into Mystery #58 cover dated May 1960. No Pence printed issues dated prior to May 1960 have been found
  2. The last Pence only printed Marvel comics are cover dated December 1981. From January 1982, Marvel introduced dual Cents / Pence pricing for all their Direct Editions (Newsstand Editions remained Cents only priced)
  3. No Pence copies have been found for comics cover dated December 1964 to July 1965 inclusive. Most monthly titles have a 9 or 10 issue gap around these dates
  4. Almost every title which crosses the cover dates of October 1966 to December 1966 has a two issue Pence gap. This may explain why ASM Completists haven’t found #42 and #43 yet. They probably don’t exist. Ditto Avengers 33/34, Daredevil 21/22, Fantastic Four 56/57, Sgt Fury 35/36, Tales To Astonish 85/86. However, Strange Tales only misses one issue (#151) as does Tales of Suspense (#84). Two-Gun Kid has all issues as Pence copy but as a bi-monthly title you can see there may have been a missing issue had it been monthly
  5. No Pence copies have been found for comics cover dated December 1967 to March 1969 inclusive – 16 issue gap
  6. No Pence copies have been found for comics cover dated April 1974 to July 1974 inclusive. This 4 issue gap coincides with the transition from 6p to 7p
  7. No Pence copies have been found for comics cover dated February 1981 to March 1981 inclusive. This 2 issue gap coincides with the transition from 15p to 20p
  8. Many single issues do not appear to exist when the issue was double sized, e.g. Avengers #200, Astonishing Tales #8, Ghost Rider #50, The Invaders #41, Thor #300, X-Men #137
  9. No Pence copies have been found for the ‘Giant Size’ titles of 1974 and 1975
  10. Only 5 annuals have been found as Pence only printed copies, all cover dated 1965 (Amazing Spider-Man #2, Fantastic Four #3, Journey Into Mystery #1, Marvel Tales #2, Sgt Fury #1)

Whilst I am fairly confident that I know what exists for the majority of the 200 titles which cross the applicable dates, there are some titles - especially the early ones - which have gaps where a pence version may exist. 

Here is a list of some of the titles and issue numbers which may yet turn out to have a pence version:

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If anyone reading has a pence version of one of these, do let me know - I'll update this thread if and when I find any new ones, or if anyone wants to talk pence related stuff.

I'll end with a scan of a recent addition

Cheers!

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Here's a book I've owned for a few years.  I was trying to make out what the stamp reads but the best I could come up with was -  

THIS BOOK

IS EXCHANGEABLE

AT something

S/A POPULAR BOOK something

BRANCHES ALL OVER

LONDON

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I tried a few photoshop variations, but still can't make out those two words.  Anyone ? 

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24 minutes ago, Senormac said:

Here's a book I've owned for a few years.  I was trying to make out what the stamp reads but the best I could come up with was -  

THIS BOOK

IS EXCHANGEABLE

AT something

S/A POPULAR BOOK something

BRANCHES ALL OVER

LONDON

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I tried a few photoshop variations, but still can't make out those two words.  Anyone ? 

 

 

The Popular Book Centre - exchangeable at half price

Seen on many a tatty old comic over here Mike  :)

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21 hours ago, Get Marwood & I said:

I spotted this lot of Monsters dwelling on eBay UK yesterday - I like the way it confirms all the pence gaps:

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Might go for that. Probably won't win it cos I'm chintzy, but at least I can clog up the works with unsuccessful low-end bids. :insane:

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1 hour ago, rakehell said:

Might go for that. Probably won't win it cos I'm chintzy, but at least I can clog up the works with unsuccessful low-end bids. :insane:

:wishluck:

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19 hours ago, Get Marwood & I said:

The Popular Book Centre - exchangeable at half price

Seen on many a tatty old comic over here Mike  :)

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How cool is that !!  A piece of English culture right here !! Thx 

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