All 9 pressings

Folder 242

Europe

Side B hand-etched 3, where Discogs lists 2 for 507637 and 34586323

Catalogue
1C 038 15 7693 1
Label
EMI
Released
undated
Confidence
Likely
Why this grade

German-made EMI Electrola DMM mid-price reissue, 1C 038 15 7693 1. The run-out separates the three non-mispress vinyl versions on the master, and it fits none of them exactly. Side A matches the 1987 pair (507637, 34586323): stamped 1576931-A and 07608-A1 plus an etched 7. Side B carries stamped 1 57 693 1-B and 07608-B1 plus a hand-etched 3. Discogs gives those two releases side B as 1576931-B 07608-B1 2, and gives 4225106 1 57 693 1-B 07608-B1 with no etched digit. The spaced side B stamping matches 4225106. The label's boxed BIEM over GEMA matches the 1987 pair, not 4225106 (listed GEMA / STEMRA). The owner's note reads the same run-out (07608-B1 3 157 693 1-B) and agrees with the photographs. It decides nothing beyond them, but it does confirm the side B digit is a 3. The mispress 13823193 is out: its side A is 1 57 545 1-A YEX 619, and this side A is Iron Maiden's 1576931-A. No inner sleeve was photographed, and the inner sleeve is the only thing Discogs lists to split 507637 (lyric inner) from 34586323 (Fame inner). This copy may also be a run-out variant the version list doesn't carry, because that list is incomplete by construction. On 2026-10-06 the owner identified the copy as 507637 and confirmed there is no inner sleeve, so the one Discogs discriminator between 507637 and 34586323 is missing from the object itself. 507637 is therefore the owner's pick among the 1987 pair, not a proof -- Probable, not Confirmed.

Reference
Discogs 507637
Median sale
DKK 168
Sale range
DKK 37-410
On sale now
11, from DKK 149
Last sold
4 September 2026
A photograph of pressing 242, Europe

What the record says

Every line below was read off a native-resolution crop of the photograph named beside it.

A: 1576931-A 07608-A1 + etched 7; B: 1 57 693 1-B 07608-B1 + etched 3

Every line of small print, and the photograph it came from — 11 of them

Front cover with a round blue EMI cartoon sticker top right; no Fame Special Price sticker

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Back cover: barcode 5 099915 769312, 1C 038 boxed 15 7693 1 DMM top right

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Back cover foot: EMI Electrola GMBH · All rights reserved. Printed in Germany by 4P NICOLAUS GMBH, Köln, LC 0542

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Side 1 label, cream EMI: 1C 038-15 7693 1 A, DMM, Seite 1, STEREO, boxed BIEM over GEMA, rim text MADE IN EEC

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Side 2 label: 1C 038-15 7693 1 B, Seite 2, boxed BIEM over GEMA

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Side A run-out, stamped 07608-A1

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Side A run-out, hand-etched 7

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Side A run-out, stamped 1576931-A

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Side B run-out, stamped 07608-B1

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Side B run-out, hand-etched 3

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Side B run-out, stamped 1 57 693 1-B (spaced)

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The photographs

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The object, and what marks it out

Sleeve, labels and inserts

  • Single-pocket sleeve with ring and edge wear and a small tear at the top left; embossed mark at the bottom right of the back
  • Black vinyl with cream EMI labels and the Iron Maiden logo
  • No inner sleeve: the copy has none (owner, 2026-10-06)

What distinguishes this pressing

  • Side B hand-etched 3, where Discogs lists 2 for 507637 and 34586323
  • Boxed BIEM rights mark on the label, against GEMA / STEMRA for 4225106
Eight tracks, two sides, and the recording credits

Side A

  1. A1Invaders
  2. A2Children Of The Damned
  3. A3The Prisoner
  4. A422, Acacia Avenue

Side B

  1. B1The Number Of The Beast
  2. B2Run To The Hills
  3. B3Gangland
  4. B4Hallowed Be Thy Name

Bruce Dickinson - vocals · Dave Murray - guitar · Adrian Smith - guitar · Steve Harris - bass · Clive Burr - drums.

Produced and engineered by Martin Birch, assisted by Nigel Green. Recorded at Battery Studios, London; lacquer cut by Nick Webb. Sleeve illustration by Derek Riggs; artwork by Cream. Inner-sleeve photography by Andre Csillag, P.G. Brunelli, Robert Ellis, Ross Halfin and Toshi Yajima; sleeve photography by Simon Fowler; photo montage by Ian Kay. Management by Rod Smallwood for Sanctuary Music. Published by Zomba Music Publishers Ltd. Phonographic copyright and copyright EMI Records Ltd.

Personnel, production and artwork credits are sourced from Discogs release 1466299, the UK original (EMI EMC 3400, 1982) and this master's main release, and apply to the recording rather than to this pressing. Where this copy's own packaging carries the producer, publisher or copyright lines, they are quoted in the evidence above.

Condition, from the photographs

A photograph cannot grade a record - this is a description of what is visible, not a grade.

  • Sleeve: general handling wear with some edge and corner softening; no splits or seam separation visible in these shots.
  • Vinyl: light surface marks and handling sheen catch the light. No visible deep scratches, warping or edge damage in these photographs. The labels are clean and unmarked.

Nothing on this page comes from playing the record. No Goldmine grade is claimed for it, or any other. I have no record of where this copy came from.

What is settled, and what is not

Probable 507637 on the owner's identification. The copy has no inner sleeve, the only thing Discogs lists to split 507637 (lyric inner) from 34586323 (Fame inner), so it cannot be settled from this copy.