Archie #617

[Fred Slota]

UPC 

76281646747661711

 

Something is a bit off with the cover scan in the system for this one, I think...

 

I just got one in a blind bag, and my cover is colored slightly differently than the current scan in the system.  Both the current scan and my book have the same coloring for the background, the seal, and all the clothing and hair.  Where the two differ is in the skin tones of the three characters.  In the current scan, Archie and Sarah have no skin color (white) and Barack has a graduated yellow skin color.  On my book, Archie and Sarah have graduated pink skin color, and Barack has a graduated brown skin color.

 

Any thoughts on what's going on here, and how I should enter and submit this one?

[Steven L. Dasinger]

I can't find any mention of the oddly colored. It may just be an issue with a faded color or a printing error (but if a printing error there should be more of them and (probably) be mentioned somewhere).

Sometime a single color can fade. If you look there are also differences in color in the stripes around their shirts (collar, arm holes and around the 'R'). So whatever color needed to be added to the yellow to make the brownish/burnt orange? color is missing (either faded out or not in the printing).

Unless someone else can find more of these covers or mention of the reason, I would just try to replace the strange cover.

PS I have a book where the color yellow faded out (just on the cover and not the back) making Green turn Blue, Orange turn Red, and Yellow turn White.

[Gregory Hecht]

It could also be that there was an issue with the scanner that was used to make the image being used in the database. 
 

Fred’s description of his copy seems to match the scan on mycomicshop so I suspect that the image used in the CB/AA database should be replaced with something more representative of what this comic actually looks like. 

[Fred Slota]

Wouldn't submit new scan.  Here it is...