On 2015-10-01 02:14:44 +0000, Spectre99 said:
> Enjoy
I was curious what you did and what sources you adapted so I did a
little comparision of the various versions of the material. Looks like
you did use Fantasy Masterpieces #10. It resizes perfectly. Looks like
a clone stamp to remove the "originally presented in..." blurb.
Interesting choice to pad the whitespace borders. To match other
pages/sources or personal choice?
Did you many cleanup the white space or just use filters? Stretching
the reprint to fill the page (rather than leave the copyright notice
are blank) elongated the characters and globe making them thinner (even
more so than the original -- see reprint analysis below).
For your files, I would suggest you add a restoration or remix tag to
indicate the files include reprinted material.
I find the comparision of the original print to the FM #10 reprint to
be very interesting. It's obvious that reprint fidelty was not much of
a concern. They stretched the image to fit the compressed space (need
for the copyright notice) distorting the team figures making them
shorter/wider (except the globe which remains round?).
Also interesting is the fact that the reprint has worse print quality
than even the fiche scan of the original. I wonder if they were not
working from original art or was just it a case of a lower grade
printer? They obviously had separate art and lettering resources or
they pasted together copies of each separately as they're not scaled
the same.
That and they recolored the issue and it appears simplified
(easier/rushed), but is hard to tell as fiche reproduction of color is
spotty. The first page appears moodier in the original and they didn't
even color the sky in the reprint.
And they added "SQUAD!" for some reason.
May not be of interest to anyone but me, but I find the reproduction
choices back then and the ones today with the new techniques and
digital tools available curious. Obviously there' a business decision
in deciding what resources to expend. It's obviously not done for a
love of the original source material. :)
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