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Archie UK Price Variants
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1 minute ago, Get Marwood & I said:

No pence copies found so far for the remaining eligible titles of:

  • Adventures of Little Archie
  • Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica
  • Archie's Pals n Gals
  • Jughead Fantasy
  • Katy Keene
  • Katy Keene Pin Up Parade
  • Life with Archie

 

Of the titles with no pence books yet found, these three are all 'Giant 25c' issues:

  • Adventures of Little Archie
  • Archie's Pals n Gals
  • Katy Keene Pin Up Parade

I suspect they will not have pence copies, but we shall see as Morlar once said.

The others I'm hoping will turn up over time...:wishluck:

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4 hours ago, porcupine48 said:

Jughead ❤

Great stuff Steve!

 

Thank you Jim. I do like it when someone manages to break through the cloaking device :headbang:

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On 6/9/2018 at 6:55 AM, Get Marwood & I said:

 

...we can see:

  • 15 pence copies found so far
  • 9 titles with confirmed pence copies found:
    • Adventures of Pipsqueak
    • Adventures of The Fly
    • Adventures of Super Duck
    • Archie
    • Archie's Joke Book
    • Archie's Madhouse
    • Archie's Pal Jughead
    • Laugh
    • Pep
  • No pence copies found so far for the remaining eligible titles of:
    • Adventures of Little Archie
    • Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica
    • Archie's Pals n Gals
    • Jughead Fantasy
    • Katy Keene
    • Katy Keene Pin Up Parade
    • Life with Archie
  • The only cover dates copies have been found for are March 1960 to August 1960

So it looks like, at the moment, whoever did the distributing with printed 9d prices only did it for 6 months. As ever, no rhyme nor reason to it, as Miller did two years with Charlton and a year and a bit with Marvel (albeit with both pence and cents prices) 

I'll speculate a little more later, and compare these results to those of Marvel, DC, Charlton, King and Dell. Lots of symmetry, and lots of bafflement!

I have 4 Betty & Veronica pence copies. #52 through #55.  For Little Archie, I have some pence stamped 25 cent copies but none actually printed with the price.  I don't have scans of all of them yet.  Once I get them scanned I'll post them.  I'm heading out of town tomorrow for the week so it'll be another week or two before I can provide further info.

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1 hour ago, wikked said:

Makes me want to dig through my stash now... I haven't looked at them in years.

Dig em out wikked,  dig em out! :headbang:

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4 hours ago, lotemo said:

I have 4 Betty & Veronica pence copies. #52 through #55.  For Little Archie, I have some pence stamped 25 cent copies but none actually printed with the price.  I don't have scans of all of them yet.  Once I get them scanned I'll post them.  I'm heading out of town tomorrow for the week so it'll be another week or two before I can provide further info.

 

Oh, this is brilliant @lotemo :headbang:

Thanks so much for dropping in with these books. Your B&Vs fit right into my suspected 6 month March - August 1960 range. Being 10c issues, I expected they may exist:

Titles With No Pence Printed Price Issues Produced / Found

  • Adventures of Little Archie #14-15 - Giant 25c issues
  • Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica #52-56 - 10c issues
  • Archie's Pals 'n' Gals #12-13 - Giant 25c issues
  • Jughead's Fantasy #1 - 10c issue
  • Katy Keene #51-53 - 10c issues
  • Katy Keene Pin-Up Parade #10-11 - Giant 25c issues
  • Life With Archie #3 - 10c issue

Please do dig out the rest and post them - I'll update the charts and do a summary post after.

Its great to see that these books exist, and that they fit into my 'what exits' theories :)

Interesting price stamp on the Little Archie too!  More on that next time. 

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Here's some updates following the cosmic input from @lotemo :headbang:

It's my rule to only include books I have evidence of, so I added the two B&V books to the chart. In doing so, I found a third online. So we're up to 18 confirmed books now

The three new B&V books are 53, 54 and 55 with, hopefully, #52 to come later from lotemo:

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Click em to enlarge em :headbang:

We now have ten titles in the running:

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Within those ten titles, here are the issue numbers that should exist (assuming Mar-Aug 1960 cover dates only exist) and the numbers currently confirmed to exist:

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And here is the updated list of titles which cross the Mar-Aug 1960 dates, but have yet to yield a pence copy:

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I remain of the opinion that only 10c priced titles will have the 9d pence treatment, but we shall see (morlar.png.bc1056428506a358b3f172d0ff566c92.png

The Little Archie #11 that lotemo posted earlier is outside the date range and is a 25c issue so I don't expect a pence copy to exist. But it does have what looks like a Thorpe & Porter price stamp on it:

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One and three's pretty cool isn't it! If it is a T&P stamp, it creates doubt as to who distributed Archie during the time period here. The majority of the stamps I've seen are L Miller's. 

Here's hoping others dive in soon.

All good fun!

:headbang:

 

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8 hours ago, lotemo said:

I remembered that I had a scan of B&V #52 on photobucket so I can add that one:

 

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Excellent! Love that 9d circle :cloud9:

Got any more? :headbang:

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On 7/8/2018 at 1:42 AM, lotemo said:

Here's another Mad House issue:

 

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Great! I'll add him to the list. I've located a few more myself, including one for a title on the no-title list. Watch this space :)

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Morning all.

Our Katy popped in today to say hello :):

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Aint she pretty! :)

Katy was previously on the 'no pence book found' titles list, so she's a sight for sore eyes indeed.

Here she sits, aside her American cousin, in all her 9d glory:

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The indicia is the same, as with the other books I have - no mention of it being an English priced copy, and no mention of the distributor (I still think it's L Miller, given all the copies I've seen with Miller cover stamps):

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I've opted for 'Katy Keene Comics' as the title in my folders, rather than 'The Adventures of...'. Always like to go with the indicia me.

Katy has been shifted on to the front page of the spreadsheet and we now have 11 Archie titles with a pence copy / copies confirmed:

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The 'missing list' now looks like this:

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If my theory is correct, and the 25c issues did not get penced (is that a word? It is now), then only 'Jughead's Fantasy' and 'Life with Archie' may yet yield a pence book.

The six month March to August 1960 window holds true, and if that turns out to be the case there could be 48 pence issues out there - 46 plus the 2 copies on the missing list. We've found 21 so far across 11 titles.

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I have another Pep on the way and will post that when it arrives. I may add some pep talk when I do. Groan.

I know Sharon likes her Katy's - Sharon - come look at her English cousin :)

@skypinkblu

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Very cool, Steve. I actually started collecting them for a work colleague, she had some as a kid.  I always liked people who could fly or detect;) but they are hard to find, so I got into looking for them.  That's a great copy...beautiful!

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32 minutes ago, skypinkblu said:

Very cool, Steve. I actually started collecting them for a work colleague, she had some as a kid.  I always liked people who could fly or detect;) but they are hard to find, so I got into looking for them.  That's a great copy...beautiful!

Cheers Sharon. They're scarce enough as cents copies, so I was delighted to find this pence copy. It came with a set of hens teeth! :grin:

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1 hour ago, Get Marwood & I said:

Morning all.

Our Katy popped in today to say hello :):

1803274873_KatyKeeneComics53(July1960)9d.thumb.jpg.33414f47d0a1a04f9b06bd8d8b9848b5.jpg

Aint she pretty! :)

Katy was previously on the 'no pence book found' titles list, so she's a sight for sore eyes indeed.

Here she sits, aside her American cousin, in all her 9d glory:

1847724597_archie7.PNG.148a1f039ba987993aa36d40b669e7a8.PNG 1865139904_archie6.PNG.cf71da3ba1507219a1d4a5ef56447bee.PNG

 

The indicia is the same, as with the other books I have - no mention of it being an English priced copy, and no mention of the distributor (I still think it's L Miller, given all the copies I've seen with Miller cover stamps):

1005269868_archie4.thumb.jpg.02dcd8fd23f27c2d631d46859f35cde1.jpg

 

I've opted for 'Katy Keene Comics' as the title in my folders, rather than 'The Adventures of...'. Always like to go with the indicia me.

Katy has been shifted on to the front page of the spreadsheet and we now have 11 Archie titles with a pence copy / copies confirmed:

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The 'missing list' now looks like this:

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If my theory is correct, and the 25c issues did not get penced (is that a word? It is now), then only 'Jughead's Fantasy' and 'Life with Archie' may yet yield a pence book.

The six month March to August 1960 window holds true, and if that turns out to be the case there could be 48 pence issues out there - 46 plus the 2 copies on the missing list. We've found 21 so far across 11 titles.

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I have another Pep on the way and will post that when it arrives. I may add some pep talk when I do. Groan.

I know Sharon likes her Katy's - Sharon - come look at her English cousin :)

@skypinkblu

Do these little file folders open up to show something?  If so, I can't get them to open.  Is there a trick?  Great research btw

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3 minutes ago, pemart1966 said:

Do these little file folders open up to show something?  If so, I can't get them to open.  Is there a trick?  Great research btw

Sorry pemart1966, no, it's just a picture of them to show what the files look like. Each comic in them has been, or will be posted in time, so you're not missing out on anything (apart from in the Marvel pence thread - I cant post 3,000 pictures!) :)

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