Flex Mentallo

So what with this, and the Mumbai trip, and Lucina and Purnabha both up to their necks in PhD Theses, my connection with Roshni has slipped a little. I'm still patiently waiting to hear more about the scholarships, and I'm sorry for the delay, especially for those of you who contributed. Meanwhile, Roshni celebrated World Women's Day...

While Shahina and the soccer team were in Mumbai, Thasina was staying in hospital with her little son, who was waiting for a serious operation. I have had no word since the operation, but I'm assuming he pulled through, or I would've heard.

..so, I think it is more about color saturation setting in a given scanner that may distort the colors, rather than a bias towards one color or another. Lastly, I just used my smart phone to take an admittedly very poor quality photo of my #17 and #18. Tell me what you see... (that's a sincere request, as I have a slight red/green deficiency which can make it harder for me to differentiate certain colors that leap out for most people). Is the 'purple' of my #18 slightly 'greyer' here?

Then the purples:

It could be a factor, couldn't it? Scanners vary - my old one was dreadful with reds so in the end I ditched it, and have yet to replace it. I do think violets and magentas are - somewhat like deep reds - colors present in Fiction House books at certain points in the print run when the colors really 'pop'. It seems to me that FH's printers tried to eke out the colors - ie printed too many copies of the covers before re-inking the plates. So between re-inkings, the colors would gradually weaken in density. I notice that certain colors are used to add fine detail to, say, folds in clothing, but copies where that is present are far scarcer than those where that overlay is absent. But it's all complicated further by what happens to a given copy over time - storage, sunlight - and finally, the quality of a scan. I've taken the Rockford copy and run it through a single filter in photoshop. I found the results rather surprising. [Warning - these images may damage your health!] Here is what happens when the reds are tweaked:

Not me - unfortunately! Which ones?

As I recall, the artwork in this issue is very nice.

Here's a copy with better colors than mine.

Ummm. Guess there is always a bright side!

It's the Toledo copy. The previous label showed it. After I had it regraded, it got a bump from 6.0, the 'Minor color touch' annotation appeared, and of course, CGC no longer recognize the 'pedigree'. I'm sure there is a moral in there somewhere!

I've never seen a full set before. Particularly pleased to see the 'Planet #19'. And the reds on the '53' show very deep. The '#18' is the mystery - why choose to alter the cover colors? For comparison:

As to how rich the colors can go on any given issue, I think we are still finding out, one book at a time! The colors on Rangers #25 could be deeper than on my copy, for example.

http://www.dandare.info/sf/sf_uk_titles.htm

Fun! The second pic is slightly juiced.

The Locker Planets are incredibly scarce.

#32 varies enormously. doesn't it?

Don't even go there!

The only thing that's wrong is that MrBedrock's posts dont come with a government health warning.