(In an early issue of LEGENDS there was a scene in which Batman got hit in the face with a bottle of perfume, which shattered, spraying the stinging liquid into his eyes. As a good little art robot I’d drawn what I was asked to draw, even though I assumed those white eyes mean the openings in the mask were covered—something Neal Adams would play to when he showed the eyes as if behind white cloth in tight close-ups. For some reason, tho, in the next panels where I drew Batman with his eyes scrunched up, the colorist made them flesh toned. An obvious mistake nobody bothered to correct. This inspired Tony Isabella to chide me for showing Batman “with his eyes visible”. sigh)

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In the old days of letterpress printing, it was not uncommon for scraps of paper to detach from the roll and land on the plate, blocking the ink from reaching the actual sheet.

That was what created what I called the “Kukla, Fran and Doom” effect seen on that page.

“THISH LAND ISH MINE!”

At least no one accused me of drawing Doom with buck teeth—tho the Internet didn’t exist in its present form…….