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Anyone who hasn't yet seen Steve's copy might think the colors on my #4 were fairly deep.

Unlikely!!

Great copy. I would make a guess that they are closer in color than the scans suggest. But there would be only one way to know for sure...

You're right Kelly. Finding any copy is hard, but very few out there with colors like the Larson! Here's mine for comparison.

Yes, #6 is definitely very tough. I got mine along with the #2 in a package deal with GAtor.

Thanks Steve. Like the end of run books, #2's cover colors usually seem to endure as printed, don't they? The only 'variants' I've seen appear to be slightly sunfaded, rather than underinked. Someone on these boards has a better CGC graded copy, 7.0(?). And was it Dan or Andy who bought the Larson? There is a 9.4 on the census - dont know if that is the Larson, or perhaps Church? But then there is a huge gap - no VF copies as I recall. Of course the situation changes all the time... About time for you to repost your stonking early copies, Steve!

Yes, and a better one than mine I reckon.

Seeing copies of #2 and #71 here on the same page I am struck by the similarities, and the differences. an awful lot changed in the intervening years, but the garish colors, the BEMs, and the babes in rocket suits essentially remained the same, and have cast a very long shadow. The other thing #2 has in common with #71 (and other late issues) is scarcity and demand. [A vg copy of #2 sold on Ebay the other day for a whopping sum.]

Damn that eyelash!

..so presumably Northford's -er- 'north'?

Yep. #71 - #73 were mostly - if not all - new material. This story appeared in an IW reprint that was in circulation in the UK when I was a kid, circa 1960. I had no notion of an earlier age of comics so the downbeat tone, and the overlay of horror, caused me to remember this story long after. Eventually I tracked down the source to Planet #72, so of course I had to spend many more years finding a nice copy...

Yes, nice copy Rick! I first came across this issue in 1991 or thereabouts - in a longbox otherwise full of Silver Age. It confused me because the sophistication of the cover seemed very 'modern' to me - more modern in fact than the Silver Age I was collecting at the time. The dealer wanted £20 (about $30), and it was at best a VG, so I passed on it, thinking I would eventually hunt down a better copy, or a cheaper one... 15 years went by, before I landed one... There are very few covers I dont eventually tire of, but this one has never lost its luster for me.

The first clues I gleaned that 'red is the new orange' came from a couple of interior ads in my early days of FH collecting. Very occasionally, the intensity of the colors would differ between ad and cover, particularly disconcerting when the ad showed the self same cover of the book in hand. And as Dan says, others would be arbitrarily recolored, so what to believe? [NB I'm racking my brains here - was Rangers #14 one of those?] Being in the UK, with relatively little access to golden age books in the early nineties, it was quite a few years before I came across an actual example of an FH book with colors that popped. (No idea now what book that was - it's lost in the mists of time.)

The interior artwork is delirious

I don't know if the colors are 'real' in the 7.5 scan you refer to but if they are I'd love to see it as well.

Okay, thanks. Hopefully that will prevent anyone from searching for something that doesn't exist!

Oh, and happy to say, I have updated all the links in the list on the previous page! Now let's hope the boards stay with the current pagination!

..and Shahina sent me this. She had previously told me that she was trying to get her article published in a magazine. However, I don't think it's been published yet! http://www.prevailingwoman.com/