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Shaun Barry
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Posted: 25 July 2024 at 9:35pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply

But with ever-so-slight modifications?  Spidey's right chin and left eye (in the corner box) seem like they've been tweaked somewhat from the Frenz version.  Maybe not an exact copy & paste?


And the Frenz outline around the head seems a tad thicker.  But they're very, very, very close!
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Definitely looks like the Frenz artwork,  with minor modifications,  as you pointed out, Shaun.
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Any “modifications” you might think you see could be entirely the result of the old fashioned cut and paste method.

Time to let this one go.

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(No matter how many times I look at this thread I keep seeing the title as “King of Comebacks”.)
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Its sometimes hard to wrap my head around the idea that creating comic books is a job, and that means that some things just turned out that way because the work had to get out of the door so they could move onto the next project.
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Years ago I was confronted by an angry fan (in print, not in person) when I mentioned that I was able to produce three pages per day (this was in my FF period) and so, since there are 22 working days in an average month and (then) 22 story pages in an average comic, I could turn out three issues per month, or just two and get ahead on the schedules.

The fan’s outrage came from his own inability to produce even one finished page per day. How was he supposed to achieve his dream of working in comics??

My response was to tell him to set aside that dream, if for him it meant working on monthly books. Concentrate on fill-ins or miniseries.

But he wanted to do MONTHLY books.

Within a few years a tsunami of unprofessional behavior had shifted industry (and fan) thinking so that not producing on a timely schedule had become badge of honor. “Growing roses!”

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The fan’s outrage came from his own inability to produce even one finished page per day. How was he supposed to achieve his dream of working in comics??

The professional standard is hard! I'm outraged! Work up to it? Nah. Lower the standard! Success!
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Just before I left Canada there was a storm in Parliament when it was learned that Native women, especially Inuit, were having trouble getting jobs as Air Canada flight attendants. There were a number of factors, including height restrictions, but one major “problem” was minimal educational requirements. The appalling schooling available to these young women made it nearly impossible for them to meet even the lowest standards.

Of course, this lead to demands for immediate improvement of the education offered to First Nation peoples.

Actually, it didn’t. There were demands in Parliament that the STANDARDS be LOWERED.

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So, is THIS a JB Spider-Man?
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(That one screams John Romita, Sr. to me, Jason.)
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