richard63 wrote:
What also comes to mind is a series of posts by another poster expressing outrage that Marvel was reconstructing pages (as if they keeping it a secret for the previous 20 years) and basically trivializing the work that the restorers do, telling a number of people here how to do their jobs...

"this is from ASM #29, a low res 200dpi scan.took about 10 seconds.im sure with better scans a professional would get more satisfactory results. decoloring a page is not hard."

"i disagree, it looks reasonable.think what a pro could do. " (after being told his crappy greyscale photoshop job looked crappy)
What particularly vexes me regarding that coverage is we are talking about preparing commercial art for publication, not fine art that hangs in the Louvre. And even then, many of those works have been restored over the years. Should I expect a discount from the Louvre because the Mona Lisa has been retouched by "the lesser hands of an army of unknown artsts" over the centuries?

This is not an instance where I'm still claiming this to be my grandfather's hammer, after my father replaced the handle and I replaced the head!

Reading that Daniel Best reporting -- such as it was -- I think it makes it even more compelling to share the story about Cory, his team of artists and craftsmen, and the labours they go through to bring us comics that haven't been republished in as many as 70 years. Comic history, almost forgotten and long neglected, now restored and preserved for the enjoyment of future generations.