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General Category => Comic Related Discussion => Topic started by: rangerhouse on August 07, 2011, 03:37:18 PM

Title: Ebay Fighting Yank #12 ????? should be #10 ??
Post by: rangerhouse on August 07, 2011, 03:37:18 PM
Loved the cover of this one and was bidding,  I just checked DCM to see if they also need (helps me decided how high I will go?) I see issue is already their but different cover on DCM 12 and checked Gerber and DCM has correct cover and number??  hmmm  Any ideas ??? 


http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180702586428&ssPageName=ADME:B:ONA:US:1123 (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180702586428&ssPageName=ADME:B:ONA:US:1123)
Title: Re: Ebay Fighting Yank #12 ????? should be #10 ??
Post by: rangerhouse on August 07, 2011, 05:18:18 PM
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Title: Re: Ebay Fighting Yank #12 ????? should be #10 ??
Post by: rangerhouse on August 07, 2011, 06:37:16 PM
 :-/
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Title: Re: Ebay Fighting Yank #12 ????? should be #10 ??
Post by: Yoc on August 07, 2011, 06:39:43 PM
Sorry RH.
I'm not home to check the contents of DCM's #10 vs the GCD listing.
Title: Re: Ebay Fighting Yank #12 ????? should be #10 ??
Post by: Geo (RIP) on August 07, 2011, 06:52:49 PM
Here's the info for GCD:

#10
(http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/4416/fy10.jpg) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/42/fy10.jpg/)

#12

(http://img818.imageshack.us/img818/559/fy12.jpg) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/818/fy12.jpg/)

eBay #12

(http://img839.imageshack.us/img839/8848/ebayfy12.jpg) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/839/ebayfy12.jpg/)

I wonder if this does help or add more to the confusion on this?
Weird huh?

Geo
Title: Re: Ebay Fighting Yank #12 ????? should be #10 ??
Post by: RJ Bowman on August 07, 2011, 07:48:53 PM
Foreign edition? War Bonds Premium?
Title: Re: Ebay Fighting Yank #12 ????? should be #10 ??
Post by: rangerhouse on August 07, 2011, 08:23:29 PM
Hmmmmmm very interesting
Title: Re: Ebay Fighting Yank #12 ????? should be #10 ??
Post by: OtherEric on August 07, 2011, 11:29:17 PM
My gut reaction is Canadian edition.  But that's based on absolutely no information other than what is in this thread.
Title: Re: Ebay Fighting Yank #12 ????? should be #10 ??
Post by: Roygbiv666 on August 08, 2011, 06:18:55 AM
Did you win it?

Y'know, the simplest solution would be to just ask the seller to tell you what the indicia says - is it Canadian, etc.
Title: Re: Ebay Fighting Yank #12 ????? should be #10 ??
Post by: Geo (RIP) on August 08, 2011, 10:45:01 AM
That was what first hit me on this too Eric, that it might be a Canadian edition of this book. What Roy said could answer this too.

Geo
Title: Re: Ebay Fighting Yank #12 ????? should be #10 ??
Post by: John C on August 08, 2011, 03:51:22 PM
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.
Title: Re: Ebay Fighting Yank #12 ????? should be #10 ??
Post by: 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.
Title: Re: Ebay Fighting Yank #12 ????? should be #10 ??
Post by: JonTheScanner on August 10, 2011, 02:58:01 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.

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.
Title: Re: Ebay Fighting Yank #12 ????? should be #10 ??
Post by: Roygbiv666 on August 10, 2011, 03:04:49 PM
Our good friend Mr. Google turned this up:
http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/fighting-yank-12-10-schomburg-xela-bondage
Title: Re: Ebay Fighting Yank #12 ????? should be #10 ??
Post by: Yoc on August 12, 2011, 06:40:52 AM
It's a Canadian edition.
Mystery solved.  Thanks Roy!
:D