Richard Epperley<\/a><\/strong> and the title blurb. It almost looks like a negative image.<\/p>\nThe cover on the right fixes things by coloring the skin of the man and woman (and leaving the octopus more eerie looking) and calling attention to the title. And the octopus looks more threatening.<\/p>\n
Putting the color plates on the wrong press units happens from time to time. In the newspaper business, eagle-eyed press operators always carefully check the first few copies for this problem (and many others) as the press slowly starts up.<\/p>\n
Should a plate error occur, the press is quickly stopped, and the printing plates are swapped. Then the presses resume. The bad copies are chucked into the recycle bin, never making it out of the door. Meanwhile, the presses pick up speed as more and more clean copies roll off.<\/p>\n
The cash-strapped Rural Publishing probably couldn’t toss away hundreds of color covers and just reprint them. Heck, within a year, it was teetering on bankruptcy.<\/p>\n
While a dozen bad copies may cost a newspaper company a few cents each over tens of thousands copies in a pressrun, problems with a pulp cover \u2014 if not caught quickly \u2014 could cost a pulp publisher much more.<\/p>\n
As a result, it appears there are more copies of the mistake than there are of the corrected cover. So instead of the “oops” becoming collectible, the more sought-after one is the properly printed version of Weird Tales<\/em>‘ first number.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sometimes “oops” can mean collectibility. Take, for instance, the famous “inverted Jenny” postage stamp. The stamp’s upside down frame (rather than the plane) and its rarity make it a very valuable stamp. But curiously, I rarely see mention of one glaring “oops” in the pulp world: the cover of the first number of Weird Tales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_has_post_settings":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"At Yellowed Perils: Something's weird with that cover. #pulpmags #weirdtales http:\/\/wp.me\/p2qgXO-Jx","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[29,32,11],"tags":[],"hashtags":[],"class_list":["post-2823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pulp-art","category-pulp-collectibles","category-pulps"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2qgXO-Jx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2823"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2839,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823\/revisions\/2839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2823"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=2823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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