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[steveinthecity]

2 hours ago, Get Marwood & I said:

Nice 

 

Would the "Miller" notation as part of the indicia only appear on cents reprint titles, but not on a title featuring new content?

[Get Marwood & I]

2 minutes ago, steveinthecity said:

Would the "Miller" notation as part of the indicia only appear on cents reprint titles, but not on a title featuring new content?

Not sure I follow you Steve?

Have you checked my Miller one page summary here:

https://www.cgccomics.com/boards/blogs/entry/4921-marvel-l-miller-co-uk-indicia-variants/

If the answer isn't there, let me know 

[steveinthecity]

3 minutes ago, Get Marwood & I said:

Not sure I follow you Steve?

Have you checked my Miller one page summary here:

https://www.cgccomics.com/boards/blogs/entry/4921-marvel-l-miller-co-uk-indicia-variants/

If the answer isn't there, let me know 

Thanks. I'll read through this again.  I think something isn't computing correctly in my head.

[Get Marwood & I]

Just now, steveinthecity said:

Thanks. I'll read through this again.  I think something isn't computing correctly in my head.

I get that too, and I wrote it 

Read the discussion thread too if you're interested - my journal pages summarise the variant types that I research and list the salient points / issues in scope, and each summary page has a hyper link to a thread where we discuss them. I say 'we' of course....

 

[lizards2]

On 3/19/2020 at 9:44 AM, steveinthecity said:

Thanks. I'll read through this again.  I think something isn't computing correctly in my head.

Man, that is a daily exercise for me...,  

But on the other hand, I do have perversion, which is crystal clear to me! 

[steveinthecity]

12 hours ago, lizards2 said:

Man, that is a daily exercise for me...,  

But on the other hand, I do have perversion, which is crystal clear to me! 

A cloudy field of vision isn't good for viewing that stuff anyways.

[Frisco Larson]

A raw beater copy for sure, but at least I have one. 

[Frisco Larson]

I may have posted this here before, but I can't remember.

[Get Marwood & I]

On 3/21/2020 at 6:17 PM, Frisco Larson said:

I may have posted this here before, but I can't remember.

Always nice to see - I do like those early monster covers. 

I'm still waiting to find a copy to check the Thorpe & Porter indicia. Crack her open would you? 

 

 

 

 

[Frisco Larson]

1 hour ago, Get Marwood & I said:

Always nice to see - I do like those early monster covers. 

I'm still waiting to find a copy to check the Thorpe & Porter indicia. Crack her open would you? 

 

 

 

 

If I decide to sell it, I can let ya know. 

[Frederic9494]

Got this one from Raj on the Board, a nicely centered Eternals #1 UK Price Variant! 

[Get Marwood & I]

5 minutes ago, Frederic9494 said:

Got this one from Raj on the Board, a nicely centered Eternals #1 UK Price Variant! 

That is nice. I love the way the addition of the UK 'all colour comics' banner cuts the yellow of the price box in half 

[mec3437]

On 3/25/2020 at 2:09 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

That is nice. I love the way the addition of the UK 'all colour comics' banner cuts the yellow of the price box in half 

That's that attention to detail Marvel was famous for!

[mec3437]

Some pickups from 30th Century and Close Encounters.  

 

Edited March 28, 2020 by mec3437
Typo

[Get Marwood & I]

12 hours ago, mec3437 said:

Some pickups from 30th Century and Close Encounters.  

 

That's a nice one Mec - you don't often see them that clean and without the dreaded 6p sticker  

On 1/10/2019 at 9:05 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

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.

[Harry Lime]

Some lovely looking pence copies you have there @mec3437

[mec3437]

5 hours ago, Get Marwood & I said:

 

That's a nice one Mec - you don't often see them that clean and without the dreaded 6p sticker  

I believe it may have had a sticker at one point.  There is a faint circle with some light residue over the 8p.  

[Get Marwood & I]

1 hour ago, mec3437 said:

I believe it may have had a sticker at one point.  There is a faint circle with some light residue over the 8p.  

[Aman619]

On 3/5/2020 at 4:21 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

It was here wasn't it Stephen?

Not sure in this example - see below

 

Being as I may have been the individual_without_enough_empathy. (As I was referred to by somebody ) that suggested new art was added overseas... well, as someone else pointed out, having a comics company that produces its own comics would have little trouble getting an artists or bullpen to add an inch of background.  Happens all the time.

however looking again at the original art image, or rather the mechanical, since it’s not the art anymore, I now see that the artwork is a photostat taken from the OA.. look at the bottom, in the white area... there’s a straight line (the shadow of the cut) where you see the stat rubber cemented in place over the board.  So a decision was made here in the states to zoom in, or just crop the art differently than it was drawn to make room for the Green Goblin face and sales hype.  And, Conceivably the full art was Later made available to the licensees to use in laying out their covers. 

Someone pointed out that this was in a transitional period where artists were still drawing using obsolete cover dimensions (?) .. if so there must be a lot of other covers that are all photostats published in this window of time.  Are there? If not, Marvel decided to make sure we could see the green Goblins face on the cover to Boost sales. So they created that one inch graphic on the left, causing an inch of the art on the right to be cropped off US covers. 

[Get Marwood & I]

I spotted these two L Miller books on eBay this morning, both CGC graded and labelled as 'U.K. Editions'

 

 

The 'Verify CGC Certification' function shows the 'UK Edition' status sitting under 'Variant' in the notes and the books were graded in February this year. I was pleased when CGC began to correctly label true UK price variants to just that, 'UK Price Variants', from the previous incorrect designation of 'UK Edition' last year and indeed used reprint books such as the two above in my case to help convince them (many pages back in this thread). That success aside, and I stated this at the time, I do still think that labelling these reprint titles as 'UK Editions' is wrong and misleading as it creates the impression that they are variants, i.e., the UK Edition of a US original book. They are not. They are unique book titles ('Spellbound') which reprint the content of US original books with different titles. 

In the case of the books above, I would prefer to see the label say something like "UK publisher title reprinting original US material" in place of "UK Edition".  The wording should make it clear that the title is a UK published title and it's contents reprint another US titles content. The phrase "UK Edition" doesn't convey that and can give rise to the misunderstanding that there is a US title called 'Spellbound' and that this is the UK version / variant of it.

If CGC adopted this further measure they would help to eliminate any lingering confusion in the hobby as to the status of foreign books and show that they fully understand the products that they are encapsulating and recording on our behalf. I hope one day that they will.