After price variants, color variants ?

[pickycollector]

Everybody knows today about the price variants but there was a time that, except for the famous Star Wars #1 35c variant edition, most of them were not considered as a different book, rather than a curiosity or a variant indeed.

 

Shouldn't the same apply to color variants ? Today, except for the famous FF #110, there is not much recognized. Why ? I see very often two books that look very different. The other hobbies (stamps, cards) recognize color variants, why not comic books ?

 

Personally, I recently began collecting copies with color variants of the titles issues I do like.

 

Here are two examples and I am sure many of you could provide this thread with many others:

 

Silver Surfer #2: blue version vs violet version

 

 

Conan #1: dark version vs brown version

 

[Wally's Comics]

could a lighter color book be because exposure to UV rays and sunlight?

 

(like in that surfer book) the red color fades faster than others in light exposure.

 

 

or it could be like you think a lighter color strike.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Stronguy]

On the Surfer it looks like the blue plate was running low. I've got several books that are similar. The Conan, on the other hand, looks like a difference in the brightness setting on the scanner. Look at the CGC label on the 2nd one; that's so bright it burns my eyes.

[seank]

I recommend you stay away from Fiction House comics, and probably Golden Age in general.

[FlyingDonut]

I don't have scans, but the 1974 Sandman book has a blue cover and a lavender one.

[pickycollector]

On the Surfer it looks like the blue plate was running low. I've got several books that are similar. The Conan, on the other hand, looks like a difference in the brightness setting on the scanner. Look at the CGC label on the 2nd one; that's so bright it burns my eyes.

 

Hi Stronguy,

 

For the Conan, it's not a scanner effect, I own a CGC 9.4 of the dark version and a 9.2 of the brown version and I can tell you that they look in hand like what you see in the scans here.

 

I agree with the Silver Surfer and other books that have lot of blue on cover. Sometimes the blue toner plate become low and you have a purple or violet cover instead. Still, that look like two different books.

[Forbush-Man]

I recommend you stay away from Fiction House comics, and probably Golden Age in general.

 

 

Yep! A whole lotta "color variants" to pick from in that arena.

 

[Jeffro.]

I don't have scans, but the 1974 Sandman book has a blue cover and a lavender one.

 

Yes, they do. One of the lavender ones was one ebay forever with a ridiculously high BIN. Don't know if it's still there.

[Forbush-Man]

The biggest "color Variant" I know of is the Cap #1 on Comiclink. CGC 8.0 for $50,000.00.

 

Sorry, but if I'm spending $50,000, I want ALL my colors there.

[Real Elijah Snow]

the most recent book that i have noticed is new mutants 87/ I have had some that were very orange and some that were a very deep red. Sorry no scans, as i don't currently have them.

[dupont2005]

I have a copy of Ex-Mutants #1 (Malibu) with the title lettering in white instead of yellow, have never seen another copy like it, online or off. I thought of adding it as a variant to the Comic Book Database but didn't think it was worth the effort. I believe I have a few other odd colored comics but off the top of my head can't name them.

[topofthetotem]

Well I called Overstreet on this subject a few years back specifically on the SS #2.

 

What I was told was that the books are not separate variants.

 

They are all part of the same printing run and that on occasion a colors at the end of the printing process run out.

[seanfingh]

the most recent book that i have noticed is new mutants 87/ I have had some that were very orange and some that were a very deep red. Sorry no scans, as i don't currently have them.

 

The same is true for Judge Dredd #1.

[dupont2005]

[CJ]

I don't have scans, but the 1974 Sandman book has a blue cover and a lavender one.

 

Yes, they do. One of the lavender ones was one ebay forever with a ridiculously high BIN. Don't know if it's still there.

 

Yep, there is a copy on ebay. (Well at least it was there last week)

[HeyMoe]

Aren't these printing errors, rather than variants?

[plasticide-migration]

I have a copy of Ex-Mutants #1 (Malibu) with the title lettering in white instead of yellow, have never seen another copy like it, online or off. I thought of adding it as a variant to the Comic Book Database but didn't think it was worth the effort. I believe I have a few other odd colored comics but off the top of my head can't name them.

 

Ah ha, that reminds me, EC's Impact # 1 has two different colored logos, yellow and white. But this gets into the 1st/2nd printing question, as the first batch was pulped for substandard production. (I forget which color is which, a quick Google probably has the answers).

[InvstmntComcSuply]

I have a copy of Ex-Mutants #1 (Malibu) with the title lettering in white instead of yellow, have never seen another copy like it, online or off. I thought of adding it as a variant to the Comic Book Database but didn't think it was worth the effort. I believe I have a few other odd colored comics but off the top of my head can't name them.

Its only the UPC versions Linky

[dupont2005]

Ah, I didn't even know mine was a UPC version until I dug it up

[Offbeat Archives]

Ah ha, that reminds me, EC's Impact # 1 has two different colored logos, yellow and white. But this gets into the 1st/2nd printing question, as the first batch was pulped for substandard production. (I forget which color is which, a quick Google probably has the answers).

 

That was due to Gaines farming the first batch out to Charlton for the printing.