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Jul 17 12 11:55 PM
Phonics Monkey Vol 2 wrote: Fin Fang Foom wrote: I have some of the first Superman and Batman archives and chronicles, but compared to Marvel DC is centuries behind the reconstructioh process... To each his own, but keep in mind that some of that stuff was first reprinted decades ago, when the process of preparing Golden Age material to be reprinted was often very different, and even the computing power available for a digital process was still relatively modest.If you can find a copy of the hardcover reprint of Marvel Comics #1 from (I think) the late 1980s, you'll see it's on par with other reconstruction efforts of that era.(And if you could see how this material was first presented in the Masterworks, you probably wouldn't be so complementary.)Right, but the fact that DC is still using their rustic restoration files from 25 years ago shows how far behind they are. It's like using a movie mastered for VHS, and slapping the VHS files onto a BluRay disc and saying voila. Standards change. Marvel has continually refined and improved their product, while DC has not. Technology has allowed for greater restoration, and DC is once again behind Marvel.
Fin Fang Foom wrote: I have some of the first Superman and Batman archives and chronicles, but compared to Marvel DC is centuries behind the reconstructioh process... To each his own, but keep in mind that some of that stuff was first reprinted decades ago, when the process of preparing Golden Age material to be reprinted was often very different, and even the computing power available for a digital process was still relatively modest.If you can find a copy of the hardcover reprint of Marvel Comics #1 from (I think) the late 1980s, you'll see it's on par with other reconstruction efforts of that era.(And if you could see how this material was first presented in the Masterworks, you probably wouldn't be so complementary.)
I have some of the first Superman and Batman archives and chronicles, but compared to Marvel DC is centuries behind the reconstructioh process...
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