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Very nice. I missed seeing the auction where the church copies were offered. Who was the consignor for these?

Another book I got from @kelholt

Another Rockford copy, this one with nicer reds.

Rockford copy. The colors are a bit 'meh.'

#3 on my favorite cover list

I’m pretty sure it has a stain

First appearance of Barney the Dinosaur

My least favorite cover of the series.

Nice copy but I'm impressed with the reds on some of the ones from Flex.

#2 on my list of favorites.

Davis Crippen Copy

I owned two copies of #33. It's in my top four as far as Planet covers.

31 anyone?

To me, the challenge of FH was always finding a well-colored, structurally-nice copy. With Jungle and Jumbo, finding a 9.0+ copy that had true-ish color was the grail. For those titles it was doable since they were relatively common and the chances of finding one that fit both criteria was not impossible. I found Planets to be popular enough that the top tier combination wasn't as available and, sometimes, I had to settle for just having a copy. As we go through this serial display, it reminds me how much work I still had to do on my Planet run. Even though it was 'complete,' much more than half the run could have been upgraded to something better.

Got this one, along with a number of others, from @kelholt when I first started collecting Fiction House. He had an enviable 9.4 as a keeper.

just to put this out there, I spent a lot of time with scans trying to replicate what the book looked like and not what I WANTED the book to look like. My scans weren’t perfect and yellows were absolutely the most difficult color to recreate, plus different monitors and screens show the same color differently. All that being said, the yellows on the Heritage scan are not the yellows on the book. Do any GA books have that brilliant a yellow? The cover in general did not have the vibrant pop like it seems in the Heritage scan. It was a very nice book and I think my scan on this one matches well with the book in hand. I always considered it one of the best colored FH covers that I had. But if I had bought it thinking it would be as vivid as the Heritage scan, I think I might have been disappointed.

yes, same book, different scan settings.

Another Rockford copy.

Looking like this issue is one that isn't common on the boards.

There are some exquisite pedigrees out there that have books that are of the quality of the Church copies. Problem is they are only a fraction of the size of the Church Pedigree and too often don't have the key issues or even titles that are most collected. Most times, if you want the best copy of a book, it's going to be the Church copy.

Rockford Copy, a bit miswrapped, but a nice copy. Looks like from near the end of the print run when the red had run out.

I thought this was a pretty decent copy.

I think this was easily the brightest Planet in my collection. Not many Planets in the Central Valley collection. The miscut is odd for books of that age, at least that I have run across.