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1 hour ago, bug33fouf said:

this was a show:sick:

The Monkees, not Clown Feet :baiting:

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Apparently this Dell is one of the rare 15 cent price variants!  :headbang:

Who knew?  Thanks to Jeffro for the education and links to posts from knowledgeable Dell collectors (which I am not).

"For an 18 month period (March 1957 to August 1958), every regular size Dell comic book had a 10 cent and a 15 cent variant. The 15 cent variants were sold in certain markets to test the feasibility of a price increase. These are rarer and much more challenging to collect than the highly touted Marvel cover variants of the 1970's." 

According to Michelle Nolan,

"As much as I loved Dell Comics, it was pretty much lost to me as a newsstand purchaser, when Dell went to 15¢ for some of its comics as an experiment in 1957. […]  My favorite Dell title, Uncle Scrooge, became 15¢ with #17 (May 57).  Or, at least, it did on the West Coast.  I am now told the West Coast was the primary scene of the experiment, and it lasted about a year.  My last 15¢ Uncle Scrooge from the 1950’s was #21(Mar-May 58).  Likewise, I have a mixture of 10¢ and 15¢ Walt Disney’s Comics and Stories, all purchased second-hand from the 1957-1958 period."

http://dellcomicfan.blogspot.com/2011/12/in-late1950s-dell-published-several.html

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