OOOOOO!!! THOSE are nice and very, very rare indeed.

This week I am off to Toronto where I am fortunate enough to be meeting a gentleman that has some insanely rare Canadian Archie books.  In fact, unless I am mistaken, I think he has them ALL.  - including the "PEP 22".

If he agrees, I would love to take some photos and post them here.  From all accounts this is a spectacular collection to behold.  He also collects the infamous "Canadian Whites" - which are black and white comics published in Canada during the war when comics from the US were deemed "non-essential imports" and were banned.  To give you an idea of the rarity - I have been collecting for 30 or so years and have only seen these books last year (when I bought 50 in one go).  I have none of the Archie Comics or Super Comics - I can't even imagine what these would go for.

Yeah, the Super Comics run is not the easiest one to put together. So far I have 3 of the issues. I was very happy to pick up the Archie, since it seems to be the most difficult of the B&W books.

I recently came across another publisher of Archie comics in the UK. The Jenson Book Company published at least five issues of Sam Hill, Private Eye in 1950 and 1951, which would appear to be near simultaneously with their US publication. The issues I've seen contain four Sam Hill strips at the front with further, non-Archie strips to fill out the issue. Interestingly, these include strips like Dan Turner, which I thought were comics from the Pulps.

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So I've picked-up some Walmart Canadian priced Archie's recently - wow!  They still use a crazy exchange rate.  The Canadian editions are priced way, way over what they should be given the current exchange rate.  Even adjusting for publication schedules - it's obvious that Canadians at the newsstand are paying a huge premium on these books.

I have an Archie Pals n Gals #11 and #12 and #24 with the rare 35c printed Canadian variant Price on them. Their indicias state printed in the USA so they are US published comics with a 35c printed cover price on them that were sent to Canada and sold over there in the time period 1955-1964 from what I can tell. The earliest Archie 35 center I know of and have seen is Betty and Veronica Annual #3 1955 and the latest is Archie's Mad House Annual #2 1964.
I dont believe any pre code Archie 35 centers exist but I could be wrong about that? Based on the Archie Pals N Gals 35 centers I have, its safe to say Archie's Pals N Gals #23( 1st appearance of Josie) exists as a 35 center(wow!) and would no doubt be worth a huge sum of $$$ if and when one pops up out there due to its true rarity.  I tend to believe there is about a 1 to 100 ratio on the 25c printed cover price editions versus the 35c ones.  I search ebay frequently and find about 99.5% of all Archie Giants listed 1955-1964 on ebay have 25c cover prices on them