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Oct 22 09 1:04 PM
warlock664 wrote: As an example, there is an issue of AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, #157 I believe, where during a battle with Doctor Octopus Spidey crashes through a window into someone's apartment "sans pants" ! Apparently one of the color printing plates was missed, causing his pants to reproduce as flesh-colored. Obviously, his pants are blue in the rest of the issue. Should the mistake be preserved in that case, since it was an unintended printing error?
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Oct 22 09 1:26 PM
clessidraman wrote: I had not seen that, but there is a good reason Karnak stands out more, the manadrin costume is the same green as Karnak, and the Mandarin costume does NOT change color from issue to issue, so when side by side Karnak lighter green stand out next to the Mandarin darker green.
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Oct 22 09 2:10 PM
When I'm coloring a page, I try to "correct" anything that stands out as a definite mistake. We catch dozens of them on each volume ( we also miss some too ). To me a definite mistake is when a portion of a costume is different from the rest of the costume on the panel ( for instance, if a portion of Karnaks glove was blue and the rest was green ). But in a case like what is being discussed here, I'd leave the color as it was in the original. Although I assume it was a mistake on the part of the person who did the original color separations, I would have no way of being 100% sure, unless we found the original color guides. The fact that the entire costume is different places doubt in my mind that it was unintentional. Usually a mistake like that would only affect a portion of the object, a costume in this case. Especially as we go farther into the Marvel time line and enter the Bronze Age, there are more instances where the colorists would make conscious decisions to alter colors to affect mood and story telling. Again, I don't think that is the case here, but I don't feel it is our place to purposely change portions of the art that we can't prove are mistakes. Thanks! Mike Kelleher
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Oct 22 09 2:13 PM
BonanzaGuy wrote: No. Corrections for minor coloring errors are not revisionism. It's correcting an obvious printing mistake to give you the Best Possible Presentation of the comics. I want something better than the originals. Something definitive. Exactly. I don't comprehend the objection. This isn't the Mona Lisa, it's a comic book. Umm, you are the guys making the objection, not me. I'm very happy with the way they're doing things now.
Umm, you are the guys making the objection, not me. I'm very happy with the way they're doing things now.
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Oct 22 09 2:59 PM
michkelleher wrote: The fact that the entire costume is different places doubt in my mind that it was unintentional.
Oct 22 09 3:12 PM
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Oct 22 09 3:18 PM
yesternow wrote: Sheesh, let it go people.
Color issues are of no concern to me, So what Karnak's costume was blue for an ish, its better than wearing a green one for 40+ years.
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Oct 22 09 3:44 PM
Heathenson wrote: Bismillah! we will not let it go!
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Oct 22 09 3:49 PM
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clessidraman wrote: Except for the cover where there is no mistake....... I think it is more likely that the person responsible for the color separation at the time did do a mistake and perhaps he even realized that half way through and did nothing about it, lets keep in mind how cheap production was at the time. Question what purpose would it serve to change Karnak costume color for 1 issue? None what so ever, that is all the prove that is needed along with the understanding of how cheap the process was at the time and how little publishers cared about that kind of errors given the young age of the readership, how ever that is not the case any longer and these simple errors should be corrected not justified. And what about Medusa costume and hair in the next issue, was that intentional as well?
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Oct 22 09 3:58 PM
Cory Sedlmeier wrote: Coloring is kept internally consistent within a given issue. If a character's costume is a slight shade different, then that's what is preserved.
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Oct 22 09 7:47 PM
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Oct 22 09 7:51 PM
Punisher89 wrote: yesternow wrote: Sheesh, let it go people. Color issues are of no concern to me, So what Karnak's costume was blue for an ish, its better than wearing a green one for 40+ years.
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KirbyFan4ever wrote: Interesting how Stan chose Neal Adams to follow Kirby on both Inhumans and Thor.
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