I guess I wasn't making myself clear. I'm definitely not opposed to restoration. I've worked in the graphic design field for over 40 years, and have had many occasions where I needed to recreate illustrations, logos, or artwork and have often produced such work under the requirement that when you placed my re-creation next to the original, you could not tell the difference. If there was a noticeable difference, my work would be rejected. In art school, I had many assignments where I had to recreate an illustration of a master. I was expected to copy their line weight, feel, composition, everything down to the smallest detail with the goal being an exact reproduction that was extremely difficult to differentiate from the original. I was graded accordingly.

If the restoration doesn't get as close as humanly possible to the original, then I'd rather have a straight reproduction of the original source. Case in point: the cover to JLA #2 as printed in the DC Archives. Obviously redrawn, and not a good restoration, IMO. I would have rather they just scanned the original comic cover and used that. Ditto the JLA #1 cover in the same volume, which appears to be picked up from a house ad and not the actual comic (the title box is angled as it appeared in the house ads, not straight as it is on the actual comic, and the entire image appears to be enlarged from the source). Ditto for a few of the Showcase Flash covers, the replacing of Supergirl's head on an Action Comics cover, and I'm sure there are many others.

Maybe I'm being nit-picky, but in the case of Newsboy Legion I think that while the scans and art restoration appear to be true to the originals, reducing the images to fit the 7" x 10" format actually impairs the restoration quality. I would rather see fewer stories in a volume reproduced at a size that matches the original printing.

Of course, this is the publishing business, and what I'm asking for is probably completely cost prohibitive, at least in the case of items like the Newsboys.