famac wrote:
"If you look at the Greg Theakston reprints - I think that's the way to go. I think he even prints the Golden Age material a little larger than actual print size."

I recall how BLUE BOLT wound up reprinted in both THE COMPLETE JACK KIRBY from Pure Imagination and its own one-shot from Verotik.  On the one hand, you had oversized B&W (with chapters all over the place mixed with all the other Kirby & Simon material from the same period), on the other, you had all the episodes back-to-back, regular comics size, in color.  But it was some of the WORST coloring I've ever seen... and I suspected it might have been reproduced from scans of the original books, IF the original publisher had the worst coloring of any publisher from that era (and then whoever did the scans did the WORST "restoration" job I've ever seen-- there were some severe technical problems with that Verotik volume).  Most annoying was that the 1st episode-- the one from BLUE BOLT #1-- was not included in either version.  Try watching a FLASH GORDON serial beginning with "Chapter 2".