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Some more examples in this thread too, which I was just reminded of:

I agree with BUTM on this one - not a sun fade. I've seen that affect on many DCs, where blues show as greys due to inks running low - here's another: And I just posted these two Spideys in my Andru thread - also good examples of natural colour variations in the four colour process:

I love the inconsistency on that one which I've seen posted before - is it your copy? Oddly cool, despite being, effectively, damaged goods.

Yes, I see it: Not sure what caused that, but I still don't see this as a sun fade scenario.

First Kiss colour variations

Anyway, I'm off out now Rich. Marwood and I are taking Sparky to the vet. He said he'd have to put him down on our last visit. "Why, is he heavy?" joked Marwood. "No, because he's a tosser" he said. Not very nice, was it.

Charlton Gives You More! Yes. Printing errors.

Embrace your inner Charlton...

You're saying the man who is responsible for the Marvel thread and the majority of the posts in it is ripping into Marvel fans Rich? Now who's being ironic...

I agree. Shame no one likes them. It's a race by the way Rich, to the big 2K: The same number of replies more or less, but only half as popular. It's that DC thing, you see...

The "Missing Magenta" more like

Cool isn't it. Someone out there collecting Brenda Starr has just added another book to their wants list

Here's a good one from the other thread - you can see where the large price sticker was previously situated at the top of the comic, and has left behind its shape in the red of the title logo:

I'd say that was a printing error, as the yellows are vibrant still. What say others?

@gadzukes There we go Gad - BlowUpTheMoon's thread title was too cryptic for the search engine! Just had a peek and there are some cracking examples in there.

I think I remember that thread Gad - I did have a good look for one as I know I have seen many examples posted here but I guess they were all scattered in other related threads. We may as well have this a dedicated home for them, eh.

I think that would be cool, if we could show, discuss and agree on what is and isn't a sun fade effect. Back in my Spidey completist days there were a few 'holy grail' error copies which, on reflection, may have been sun fades. This book used to get everyone excited - I think it's a genuine printing error though, given that it seems to be the reverse of what would happen with sun fade, being covered as it is in yellows and reds:

And it was only supposed to be brief Yes, it's a drag when that happens. Not enough examples to prove a point. That's why these things take years to establish. I think the stamp number plotting exercise I did showed a cover date to stamp misalignment between Marvel and DC and that maybe what is happening here Rich. Maybe the fact that the DCs were US returns has a bearing. But if we see Marvels with different stamp types on the same cents issues, does that not lean towards them being returns too? If the Marvel books bypassed any US sales attempt, would they not all arrive at the same time and carry the same stamp? Does the fact that you have some August Marvels with a 5p stamp and others of the same issue with a dual stamp indicate that they came staggered? My overall DC plotting exercise shows that the same issue can be spread across multiple number stamps (and therefore shipments) which we concluded was entirely consistent with a US returns process - not every US outlet would have returned their books to source at the same time. My plotting exercise below also showed that Marvels arrived in batches - five years earlier than the time period we are looking at but an indication of how they were coming over which maybe continued through to the early 1970s? If we believe in the sequential stamp cycle to shipment theory, then four consecutive issues of TOS arrived in that stamp 4 shipment.

Me neither! It probably does, but it's buried. I have a lot more to post, but will see what others come up with first.

That's a cracker Mutant Manatee (did I mention I like manatee's before?) - the green of the Vision has gone turquoise as expected and the purple has gone blue. The yellow has more or less departed and the red has that washed out pinky-yellowy look. I'm not picking up a massive difference on the brown of T'Challa's face though this time - it hasn't gone green like our Spidey cover characters did:

Great stuff either way Rich - proving the dual aspect in that period is tres cool, and helps us further along the road of understanding. As a result of your analysis, we can now add a further factual statement to the history of Marvel in the UK, and one which may have escaped many, along with a whole load of new speculation conundrums. All good fun

Cheers. I don't mean to place it all on you, but there is currently no one else to ask