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

[rangerhouse]

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

[rangerhouse]

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[rangerhouse]

 

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[Yoc]

Sorry RH.
I'm not home to check the contents of DCM's #10 vs the GCD listing.

[Geo (RIP)]

Here's the info for GCD:

#10

http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/4416/fy10.jpg

#12

http://img818.imageshack.us/img818/559/fy12.jpg

eBay #12

http://img839.imageshack.us/img839/8848/ebayfy12.jpg

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

Geo

[RJ Bowman]

Foreign edition? War Bonds Premium?

[rangerhouse]

Hmmmmmm very interesting

[OtherEric]

My gut reaction is Canadian edition.  But that's based on absolutely no information other than what is in this thread.

[Roygbiv666]

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.

[Geo (RIP)]

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

[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]

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.

[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!