Richie is certainly not everyone's cup of tea, but I've never heard of him doing anything like this and would be very much surprised if he did.
I've bought a number of books from him over the years and haven't had any problems. So far as I can tell, he always discloses everything about the books he sells.
Do most of those reds not looked colour touched to you then?
-J.
There does seem to be some red color touch in the scan. You could call him or ask him a question via eBay.
im sure Richie means foreground art, not background...meaning the characters, etc... it is obvious some of the red background has c/t