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Color & Black & White??

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PUNYHUMAN

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Why were early golden age books in color for the most part then would turn into black & white in the stories?? I heard it was because the companies couldn't afford to print in full color or was there another reason?? I love collecting these early comics & seeing it , it's the beginning of comics as we know them.

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Larryw7

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Jules Feiffer says in THE GREAT COMIC BOOK HEROES that some early comic book features were B/W so that people would think they were newspaper reprints, thus giving them a legitimacy that strips created just for comic books did not have at the time.

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