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Re: Spook 28

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dwilt

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Re: Spook 28
« on: March 29, 2019, 07:00:02 PM »

Seems to be missing the first page of the Rulah story. GCD says "Splash panel art appears to be by L. B. Cole and may be new to this reprinted story" but I don't see this page at all (the story starts with the second page). In the original (Rulah #21) the first page was on the inside front cover, one of Fox's annoying habits.

Link to the book: Spook 28
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positronic1

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Re: Spook 28
« Reply #1 on: March 30, 2019, 07:28:12 PM »


Seems to be missing the first page of the Rulah story. GCD says "Splash panel art appears to be by L. B. Cole and may be new to this reprinted story" but I don't see this page at all (the story starts with the second page). In the original (Rulah #21) the first page was on the inside front cover, one of Fox's annoying habits.

Link to the book: Spook 28


One of the reasons I always like to check out reprints of Fox stories from the late period -- always hoping to find a replacement 1st page "In Living Color" to replace Fox's original single-color title page. For whatever reason, the first story of any given Fox issue rarely seems to be the one chosen as a reprint... coincidence or not?

One might applaud the policy as giving the reader more pages, but in Fox's case, I don't know that to be true -- those comics contained paid and/or house advertising, so one might think it was merely a case of moving the pages around. In Dell's case, they rarely carried ANY advertising, so the story continuing on the inside back cover, and even on the back cover, just meant Dell's stories were jam-packed (still disconcerting to see the next-to-last story page in stark B&W line-art, though -- it worked much better when Dell used the ibc for a single-page bonus feature).
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Yoc

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Re: Spook 28
« Reply #2 on: April 02, 2019, 01:04:52 AM »

Thanks for letting me know about the duped page.
A fixed version of this book is now up on DCM here:
https://digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?dlid=32452

I'm sure it will show up here in the near future as well.

-Yoc
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positronic1

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Re: Spook 28
« Reply #3 on: April 03, 2019, 07:13:56 AM »

It IS a different page from the first page of the original story in RULAH #21:


The L.B. Cole artwork in the splash panel was taken from the cover of TERRORS OF THE JUNGLE #17:

« Last Edit: April 03, 2019, 07:18:14 AM by positronic1 »
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Yoc

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Re: Spook 28
« Reply #4 on: April 04, 2019, 09:28:17 PM »

That is very interesting.
Thanks for sharing that P.

-Yoc
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