Monday, March 26, 2012

Uncanny Restoration

 1979's X-Men Annual #3 featured a cover by Frank Miller and Terry Austin.
However, a printing error resulted in the full cover art not appearing on the final cover.
As seen in this black and white version, there was a color overlay that was omitted when the final cover was printed.

However, while other blogs might be content to merely show you the original art, Citizen X is not!  Through the magic of Photoshoppery, I have meticulously restored the cover to closer resemble what may have been the artist's original intentions.  Gaze onward in amazement!

That is all for now, students of the X.

2 comments:

  1. Now THAT is cool!!! (I figured out how to do that sort of thing in Photoshop, too. Haven't done it much, but there was this one pin-up where I made several copies of a piece of line art, deleted portions of each, then turned each section into a different color. So much "neater" to do on a computer than it would have been the old way.

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  2. At the time this was published, the technique was called a "color hold", and the different colored lines had to be done on a separate page. This is probably what led to it being left off altogether.

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