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Andrew Hess
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The printer couldn't be bothered to make sure the colors were correct; they certainly weren't going to go so far as to flop the art so that it would read right, but not flop the S emblem!
The whole set has such low production values it makes me wonder why anyone would even want to buy them.
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Nathan Greno
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Andrew: That looks smaller than the usual comic. --- It is. My parents had a getaway to Mexico back in the mid 80's -- I asked them to bring back a Mexican comic book (I had never seen one). I could hardly believe my eyes -- they brought me back a JOHN BYRNE comic!!! What the hell??? ...and of course they had no idea what they were doing. They recognized Superman on the cover so they bought that issue.
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Nathan Greno
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JB: Haven't seen that standee before. Suspect they might have hidden it from me! Ouch! --- Sorry JB! I don't want this to turn into a thread that's hard on your eyes...
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Nathan Greno
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Jason: A life sized cardboard cut out of John Byrne's Doctor Doom exists in this world and I don't own it?????? --- I have only seen one -- I think they were used for promotion at video stores back in the mid 80's. I found this one on Ebay back in 1998/1999.
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Nathan Greno
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JB seeing his work butchered... Yeah, this thread was a dumb idea. My bad. Sorry JB. Maybe we should shut this one down...
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Andrew Hess
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Here's something from my collection that might be a little less offensive to JB:
Playboy model Petra Verkaik as a super-hero.
From my understanding, Petra contacted JB because of his work on She-Hulk, and she and JB chatted about maybe doing some sort of comic, and this was as far as it got.
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Jason Larouse
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I have only seen one -- I think they were used for promotion at video stores back in the mid 80's. I found this one on Ebay back in 1998/1999. --- Looks like the 90s Marvel logo on it to me.
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Nathan Greno
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Jason: Looks like the 90s Marvel logo on it to me. --- Beats me!
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James Woodcock
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A decade ago I was in a shop called Wilkinsons and they had a massive display advertising stuff. There was a picture of a woman on the display (I think there ay have been two different pictures). They were clearly Sue Storm by JB
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John Byrne
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JB seeing his work butchered...Yeah, this thread was a dumb idea. My bad. Sorry JB. •• Don't feel bad, Nathan! My art from that period is pretty bad in general, and I would not expect you to spot a hatchet job the way I do.
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John Byrne
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A decade ago I was in a shop called Wilkinsons and they had a massive display advertising stuff. There was a picture of a woman on the display (I think there ay have been two different pictures). They were clearly Sue Storm by JB•• Probably about 20 years ago I saw a standup behind a display of new YA books at my local Borders. It was some kind of California Surfers series, and the central surfer dude figure was clearly one of my Namor shots. It was a funny loop for me. Before I got into the Biz I visited the studio of an artist back in Calgary who was doing some ad art work and had done a "superhero" shot for something or other. He'd swiped the shot of Namor from one of Steranko's HISTORY covers.
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Philippe Negrin
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In the early days of LUG comics adaptations in France, there was a lot of censorship going on and lots of panel reworkings not only due to violent images but also because of page numbering problems. US comics of 21/22 pages were trimmed to 18/19 pages. If I had a scanner and extra time, I could show you some Alpha Flight butchering. The X-MEN BROOD saga also got reduced to a single episode I think. Slow realization of this led me to switch to US original comics.
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