Weird SA Horror Find...

[Robot Man]

Hi Guys

 

I rarely look or post over here in SA because I'm really a GA guy at heart. I picked up a weird book this weekend and thought maybe you guys would know some thing about it.

 

It is probably a very late issue of Unusual Tales by Charlton. There is no number on the cover and the inner covers are blank. Outer cover is printed in black ink only. The interiors are in color. It has a box in the bottom right cornet that suggests it is a give-a-way from Turkish Taffey. I couldn't find this listed in Overstreet unless I missed it. Can any one tell me anything about it? Thanks!

 

 

 

[entalmighty1]

I know some Canadian variants have blank inner covers, but I typically see that with Marvel Annuals. I'm sure somebody here will pipe in soon for some better information for you.

[shadroch]

Any chance its simply a xerox B&W cover attached to a coverless copy?

Are you certain the interior matches the cover?

Just spitballing here. Interesting find. I hope it turns out to be a real rarity

[porcupine48]

odd.

ive a complete run of this,so I checked..it is issue 24-1960

big difference besides no colour,is that the regular issue has an image of the Taffy on the bottom right corner wher yours is blank.

[Robot Man]

No it is a printed cover on the same paper it should be. I assume the regular production issue does not have the blank spot with "Courtesy of" in the spot. The back cover appears to be missing something that was maybe in color. I've seen that ad and this one looks odd. Can anybody provide a scan of the regular production issue? Still a mystery to me. I can't imagine it's worth a ton of money either way because it is, after all, a crappy Charlton...

[porcupine48]

Hey,that run has great art in it.

the back is missing colour images..my scanner is not working but

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/UNUSUAL-TALES-24-1960-FN-THE-COMPLETE-ANNIHILATOR-/311670508774?hash=item4891028ce6:g:qZ0AAOSwyLlXpP2X

[adamstrange]

Looks to me like a promotional version of a standard Charlton comic. The purchaser would use an ink stamp to put their name in the blank box in the bottom right.

[Sqeggs]

Looks to me like a promotional version of a standard Charlton comic. The purchaser would use an ink stamp to put their name in the blank box in the bottom right.

 

That would be my guess. Cool find.

[Iksar]

I've run across Charltons with blank inside covers before. Charlton was notorious for cheap printing quality and I think this one was an early press run that got distributed wrongly.

 

Comics are printed with CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and blacK).

 

It looks like this cover was only done with the black plate on the front cover only.

[porcupine48]

if you see the link I put up,there is a pic of back cover with plenty of colour

[Iksar]

Yes, and the "normal" cover has plenty of full color. The OP's book has no CMY ink on the covers. Just BlacK.

[Tony D]

I've run across Charltons with blank inside covers before. Charlton was notorious for cheap printing quality and I think this one was an early press run that got distributed wrongly.

 

Comics are printed with CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and blacK).

 

It looks like this cover was only done with the black plate on the front cover only.

 

This. I've also seen Charltons with blank inside covers. Which makes number identification difficult since the indicia was usually printed on the inside front cover for charltons of this time period. Charlton did their own printing in Connecticut and their quality control was poor.

[rjpb]

Looks to me like a promotional version of a standard Charlton comic. The purchaser would use an ink stamp to put their name in the blank box in the bottom right.

 

That would be my guess. Cool find.

 

The Turkish Taffy image was blue and red with no black ink used,that's why it shows as blank.

[adamstrange]

Looks to me like a promotional version of a standard Charlton comic. The purchaser would use an ink stamp to put their name in the blank box in the bottom right.

 

That would be my guess. Cool find.

 

The Turkish Taffy image was blue and red with no black ink used,that's why it shows as blank.

 

I didn't read the small print. Probably should get new glasses.

 

Based on that I agree that it looks like a printing error, for which Charlton is well known for.

http://www.comics.org/issue/169610/cover/4/

[Mio]

Gimme.

[Robot Man]

Thanks for the help guys. I originally thought it was a give-a-way because of the "courtesy of" box. I now believe it is a printing error. Was a fun find.

[Moondog]

I just sold 4 others similar to this Bob. I got around $25 each for them. B/W covers or some had one color. Blank inside covers. The books inside were different from the covers too. Weird. That's Charlton for you - even their cool books are crappy.

[porcupine48]

any left sir?