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Mister Mystery 16 pretty bright cover but its detached..boo $35

 

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Me too. That's the one book that I really needed in this thread. Can't believe it was up for sale and I missed it.

The sharks never rest on this board. That's why I took a year or two off from this place.

Kudos and thanks to:

sd2416

and of course, cd4ever

for always being true stand up gents and a credit to the boards.

Thanks. That kind of clears it up for me.

Fiction House books, during some portions of their runs, generally exhibit much less intense colors that might otherwise be expected. It is by no means inherent to all of their issues as the both the early ones and the last ones will usually be uniformly consistent in their colors and equivalent to books of other publishers. I've not taken the time to chart when the problem months are nor have I seen anyone do that, but certainly some part of the 40s have books with generally less intense colors.

 

While there is speculation, no one has yet offered convincing evidence that there is something inherent to the inks & printing method that result in colors that fade quickly. Copies of FH comics don't match up with the patterns that I see from the two comic publishers that I know have this problem.

 

An alternative scenario, and one that I think more likely, is that inks of dubious quality with low pigment content were used resulting in copies that vary more widely within a print run than might otherwise be expected and that appear washed out. We do know that other companies -- Superior (their 1950s issues) and Charlton -- had this problem uniformly across their titles.

Sorry if this has been covered before, so please forgive me. I just recently started collecting Fiction House books a few months ago and I noticed that many of the books that I have been purchasing usually have slightly faded covers. This seems to occur with more frequency on the FH books than other golden age books from other publishers that I'm buying.

I'm just wondering if this is a fairly common problem with the FH line. I've been buying these books from a lot of different sellers so it's not as if it was all from the same collection.

Anyway, any comments would be most appreciated. Thanks.

Kudos to Scrooge who was very generous with some nice extras in my order! Really great to deal with!

Kudos to 143ksk for some beautiful Betty and Veronicas with extras thrown in. What a great person!

Mucho Kudos to Whet for going beyond the call of duty for a seller! You deserve much good karma and are incredibly appreciated!

Thanks to Shin (sckao) for a great package of extras that he included with my order. It was very nice! Great to work with!

Connie and Chris