Motor City Comics #1 (1st print) scans

[Reverend]

As per CJ, I was going to say it looks as though someone flattened the comic and slid the insert between the cover and the guts, right between the staples. Anyone could've done it.

[stage52]

  Comix Junky said  " You guys are too eager to declare your copies one-of-a-kind.
We need more bah-humbug skeptics around here"

   Well I'm with Comix Junky on this.  I am a Bah Humbugger. I am very reluctant to declare new printings without knowing the printers intentions.  We have been here before with this subject. Sometimes we seem to look for a definitive answer where none exists. Sloppy standards made for multiple presentations. 

[human]

The yellow layer on the road could have been caused by the yellow screen filling or "toning", a transient artifact caused by the press water roller running dry. I seem to remember that the orange circle on the back of the first edition contained an ad for the Print Mint, since we were distributing through them; I'll have to see if I still have one. I'm searching a 67-year-old brain for something that happened one day 38 years ago.

I would humbly suggest that y'all google or otherwise educate yourselves in pre-digital offset printing. It would help you make informed instant decisions in collecting. I taught digital publishing at Austin Community College for 15 years, so I know there's a huge difference, especially in prepress. For instance, until 1972, when the first digital color separations became available, all the books and posters were drawn by hand: a different drawing for each color plate.

Prior to 1972 it was possible to get color separations from a color slide of a complete color drawing, but for a comic-book sized cover, the process would cost roughly as much as a new VW Beetle. Computerized, the price dropped to $400. Now you do it for nothing by hitting the return key. (Hence all the endless 4-color junk-mail catalogues)

jdave

[50Cent #II (1st print)]

Thanks again J. Dave, so the 1st printing with yellow road may have just been a variant.

I've got a later printing of Motor City Comics #1 that has the interior pages switched so the inside front is on the inside back and vise versa, they are both upright so the sheet wasn't inserted up side down, do you recall any info. regarding this printing?

[Comix Junky]

"Prior to 1972 it was possible to get color separations from a color slide of a complete color drawing, but for a comic-book sized cover, the process would cost roughly as much as a new VW Beetle."

You was robbed.
In '69-'70 we was doing color seps in our highschool darkroom, using color filters.
The filters weren't cheep. But just a one time investment. and cheeper than a used Beetle.