Common "fading" on Marvel Special Edition #15 Title? 0

[serling1978]

I've had the full run of MOKF for a long time now and for the first time in a while I dug them out and noticed the title of the first issue looks to be oddly partially faded. 

I'm wondering if this is actually a printing defect and here's why. The words "Master", "Kung" and parts of "Of", and "Fu" look faded at the red border, but nothing else on the cover is faded. Fu Manchu's head overlaps the title and none of that is faded. Also, Shang Chi and some wording is to the side of the title and no fading there. 

I got curious and looked up numerous high grade slabbed examples and found the exact same fading on quite a few which leads me to believe it was a printing issue and not actual fading. Any other MOKF owners seen this? 

[jcjames]

Not really sure what I'm looking for, maybe it's a slight variation of the amount of red ink? Don't think I see it on this one. The red color of little Shang Chi's gi in the upper left matches the amount of red in the letter borders, so may it's just an ink-level difference between copies.

 

Edited April 4, 2021 by jcjames

[serling1978]

I was also thinking some ink level difference seems to be the case. I've seen all kinds of books faded from the sun or indoor light, but even cases with only part of the cover being faded it doesn't match up with this. 

[The Lions Den]

I would agree. It looks like just a slight variation in the printing process. It shouldn't affect the overall grade...