Savage tales #2 question

[Roquefort Raider]

I got my hands on an inexpensive copy of Savage Tales #2 on ebay. That's the issue that introduced the splendid adaptation of R. E. Howard's story Red nails by Roy Thomas and Barry Smith.

Now my copy has a problem: the first few pages of the actual story are missing. Strangely, it's not as if the pages they were printed on had been torn away: the book is apparently intact, and page numbers suggest that none are missing. It's as if the first pages had simply not been printed.

Since I've never heard of such a printing problem with that issue, I wondered if it was a known glitch.

Cheers,

- Ben

[prince hal]

Not that I'm aware of, RR. I bought it when it first came out, and it was fine.

There's a tabloid-sized edition in color. If you like the story, you'll enjoy that version, too, I'm sure.

[Red Oak Kid]

The ROK is intrigued by this.

According to my copy, the first page of Red Nails is numbered #5. This means that the front cover is page one, the inside front cover is page 2(tho there is a mysterious #3 in the lower right corner of the Wayne School coupon), the table of contents is page 3, page 4 has a photo of a large hand and a woman, and page 5 is the splash of Red Nails.

How many actual sheets of paper are in your copy? To determine this, open the book to the middle where you can see the staples. Then count either the left or right corners.

My copy has 18 sheets of newsprint + one sheet of slick cover stock.

[Sir Tim Drake]

I own a comic that's had all the ad pages torn out, but it was done in such a careful way that I could hardly tell, until I noticed a little piece of paper between two of the remaining pages. So you should examine the comic again to check for indications that some of the pages were excised.

[T GUy]

I've had a look for my copy, but it'd appear to be in A Box rather than the shelf where I was hoping it'd be. The GCD entry (http://www.comics.org/details.lasso?id=26786) agrees with ROK that it's 76 pp. including the cover and helpfully informs us that the first part of 'Red Nails' therein is 21 pages. Is this what you've got, RR?

And isn't 76 pages an odd length for a magazine? (i. e. not a multiple of 16 plus 4 pages for the covers).

[T GUy]

There's a tabloid-sized edition in color. - princehal

Marvel Treasury Edition No. 4, which is where I first saw the maginificence that is 'Red Nails,' I think before I'd read the Howard story itself.

[Roquefort Raider]

Not that I'm aware of, RR. I bought it when it first came out, and it was fine.

There's a tabloid-sized edition in color. If you like the story, you'll enjoy that version, too, I'm sure.

Yes, it was a great version (and colored by Smith, too, unlike the recent colored reprint published by Dark Horse). The story was further reprinted comic-sized by Marvel sometimes in the 80s but I didn't buy that one, already having the Marvel Treasury edition and its French version published by Les Humanoïdes associés. (I guess there is such a thing as too much of a good thing)!

Thanks for the info, people; I'll check if my issue has 76 pages.