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Ebay Fighting Yank #12 ????? should be #10 ??

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John C:
Didn't Canada have import restrictions during the war that would've prevented the Fighting Yank and his American Flag shirt south of the border?  I was under the impression that the Shield got his Union Jack makeover because of that.

RJ Bowman:
It had to have been sold in an English-speaking country that used dollars and cents in currency. The exchange rate would have to have been such that comics sold for a dime. This hypothetical foreign publisher might have printed two extra issues to push the issue number up by two; maybe material from another comic that the Yank appeared in. Or the publisher might have shuffled the covers.

JonTheScanner:

--- Quote from: RJ Bowman on August 09, 2011, 10:31:41 PM ---It had to have been sold in an English-speaking country that used dollars and cents in currency. The exchange rate would have to have been such that comics sold for a dime. This hypothetical foreign publisher might have printed two extra issues to push the issue number up by two; maybe material from another comic that the Yank appeared in. Or the publisher might have shuffled the covers.

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That pretty much only leaves Canada as a possibility.  Austarlia didn't adopt the dollar until 1966 and Bermuda did that in 1970 (I think).  Hong Kong had dollars, but I believe they were under Japanese occupation at the time this might have been published.  I'm not sure what it's value was relative to the US dollar either.

Roygbiv666:
Our good friend Mr. Google turned this up:
http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/fighting-yank-12-10-schomburg-xela-bondage

Yoc:
It's a Canadian edition.
Mystery solved.  Thanks Roy!
:D

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