FF #1 cover-- missing persons report
I imagine this will be old news to many people here, but on Kirby's cover to Fantastic Four #1, five bystanders appear on the sidewalk. Also, several of the shopfronts have addresses and even words on...
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Yup, the changes on the reprinted cover of FF 1 are pretty well-known, but it's still a disappointment that Marvel didn't present the published version in the Masterworks. But heck, the MMW and DCA...
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Quote:What I find dissappointing is that Masterworks didn't correct the cover, even when it got "remastered" (hahaha).Probably nobody realized there was anything wrong with the version that was...
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I don't think there's any doubt that the Heck story is true - remember, it was only a 13-page story, and I don't think Heck was paid a heckuva lot to do it...I think it's also pretty well-known that...
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Quote:I think it's also pretty well-known that Joe Giella was hired by DC to redraw one or more Golden Age Batman stories for the Archive series...I came to work at DC some time after this book was...
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Quote:Yup, the changes on the reprinted cover of FF 1 are pretty well-known, but it's still a disappointment that Marvel didn't present the published version in the Masterworks. But heck, the MMW and...
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Aside from the problem of actually finding nice copies of these old comics, could someone please explain to me why Marvel (and DC) *doesn't* use scanned images of the actual comic books for their...
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GoranthosIt's a myth that software can easily remove color from a comic. I've explained this before, so I hope not to bore anyone.Coloring on Silver Age Marvel titles was applied in an inverse order...
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While this thread centers on cover reproduction issues and problems, I do wish that the editors at Marvel and DC would make a little more of an effort to let fans know what they need in terms of...
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Quote:Would it not have been better to use printed pages of the Iron Man story from T.O.S. for restoration than to have Mr. Heck redraw them totally? Why not ask the fans if they have a battered or...
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Quote:Aside from the problem of actually finding nice copies of these old comics, could someone please explain to me why Marvel (and DC) *doesn't* use scanned images of the actual comic books for...
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Quote:Coloring on Silver Age Marvel titles was applied in an inverse order to how it is now. Black went on first, then other colors. For this reason, there is rarely a true black on an old Marvel...
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Fin Fang FoomHaving had the opportunity to hold and look through FAMAC's Journey Into Mystery book, I am now a fan of scanning actual published issues rather than doing restoration. Getting to see...
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Thank you, Fan Fang Foom, that was indeed what I was getting at. Since I don't know much about the process, I really don't/didn't understand why the color has to be removed *at all*. My question was...
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Dang, I knew someone would ask for a source!While I've heard it from various places, I don't have a published source. Bob Hughes, a comics historian and GCD indexer, is probably where I first heard it...
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One more recent post from Bob Hughes on usenet:"The latest Batman Archive features the first appearance of Alfred which was obviously taken from the mid-sixties reprint rather than the original story....
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Quote:Here Bob seems to be saying that Giella's tracing was actually done 30 years ago for a comic book reprint, and the Archive utilized that old tracing rather than an original source...Thanks for...
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Quote:Thank you, Fan Fang Foom, that was indeed what I was getting at. Since I don't know much about the process, I really don't/didn't understand why the color has to be removed *at all*. My question...
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Yes, the Silver Age Classics from DC marked the end of DC's long association with the letterpress printing done at Sparta, IL, a northern Illinois town. Since those were published, I don't believe...
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Interesting thread and sadly I have never noticed the disparity before (sigh ... call me a Yancy Streeter). While I don't own the comic, I do have a gorgeous (mint) 24X36 framed poster of the cover...
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