A buddy of mine, who owns more stuff than any ten people you know, had a Billy-assembling party at his unbelievably small and cluttered house. He brought home twenty-four of the shelves on a flatbed pickup and we had to put them together on picnic tables in his front yard as there was no room indoors.
But, sad to say, it is indeed the black-finish Billy that is failing me. If you were considering one for your Rebellion GNs, look elsewhere. I have three shelves on this one stocked with Rebellions, DCs and Titans, not to mention occasional bits of cardboard in to keep the lower rights from curling, and there's simply too much weight for these fragile things to hold up. Shame, because it looked so nice matching with the black Billy on the other side of the sofa with the digest-sized comics.
As for dulled color, I kind of like D&Q's John Stanley Library. The way they treat the paper so that it looks aged really brings Melvin Monster, 13, Nancy, etc to life.
