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Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2018 9:58:05 GMT -5
The cost of an issue...
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Post by urrutiap on Sept 15, 2018 12:46:30 GMT -5
No. I dont think so.
Wasnt Savage Sword of Conan or whatever back then wasnt it larger and in black and white? Sort of like the Heavy Metal magazine?
Maybe thats why it cost more due to the size being bigger
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Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2018 16:54:56 GMT -5
One thing I miss from older comics is holiday themed stories. And snow.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2018 17:30:03 GMT -5
One thing I miss from older comics is holiday themed stories. And snow. Same here too. |
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Post by Duragizer on Sept 15, 2018 23:52:32 GMT -5
A DC Multiverse which wasn't a convoluted headache.
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Post by Confessor on Sept 16, 2018 3:43:00 GMT -5
Newsprint.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2018 6:54:28 GMT -5
That's the one thing I can do without. Muddied colors, bleeds through the pages making some balloons unreadable on the backside, etc. etc. always made me wish comics were on better paper as a kid. Now they are. -M |
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Post by Confessor on Sept 16, 2018 16:41:00 GMT -5
That's the one thing I can do without. Muddied colors, bleeds through the pages making some balloons unreadable on the backside, etc. etc. always made me wish comics were on better paper as a kid. Now they are. -M Personally, I prefer the muted colours and the limited palette that we used to get on newsprint. I think it's "warmer" and allows you to get a sense of the artist's line work much more than modern computer colouring on glossy paper does. I also love, love, LOVE the smell of newsprint comics -- I'm a comic sniffer from way back!  I can't say I ever had any trouble reading balloons because of bleed through on old newsprint comics though. |
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Post by badwolf on Sept 16, 2018 17:02:38 GMT -5
That's the one thing I can do without. Muddied colors, bleeds through the pages making some balloons unreadable on the backside, etc. etc. always made me wish comics were on better paper as a kid. Now they are. -M Personally, I prefer the muted colours and the limited palette that we used to get on newsprint. I think it's "warmer" and allows you to get a sense of the artist's line work much more than modern computer colouring on glossy paper does. I also love, love, LOVE the smell of newsprint comics -- I'm a comic sniffer from way back! I can't say I ever had any trouble reading balloons because of bleed through on old newsprint comics though. I smell all books but comic newsprint from the 70s & 80s will always be the best!
I too prefer the muted colors but I have on recent occasion had difficulty reading portions of them due to too much ink, too little ink, poor choice of color for caption boxes...
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Post by beccabear67 on Sept 16, 2018 17:19:31 GMT -5
I don't miss much of anything about the early '80s comics other than the cover prices. If the printing and newsprint had been good quality that would be great, but they hit new lows in paper quality and plastic plates right before the push for better paper and quality of printing (unfortunately often coupled early on with totally inappropriate color that was not done with such bright paper in mind). I have good feelings about the '60s and '70s comics design elements, but in the '80s very little worked for me. I didn't like having Spider-Man's head in the UPC code box of every direct Marvel unless it was one of his comics. I didn't like losing the 'Marvel Comics Group' banner across the top. I liked the checklist that became a regular feature though as of the late 1979 Marvel issues, so maybe that's one thing. DC changed less, but I missed the character features and Bob Rozakis things that had been in the '70s comics, and earlier those half page Henry Boltinoff strips.
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Post by badwolf on Sept 16, 2018 17:45:03 GMT -5
I loved the 1980s cover redesign that left more space for the art! But I guess I can understand missing the banner. I definitely miss the corner character boxes.
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Post by Chris on Sept 16, 2018 18:51:52 GMT -5
Dude, don't get high on your own supply! Oh, wait.. I guess in this case it's ok. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2018 19:04:59 GMT -5
Since several of us here had letters printed back then, I think it's safe to assume most were real. Cei-U! Mine was, anyway! although sometimes edited heavily - to the point that the letter printed was not the letter sent.
for example: the issue of Incredible Hulk, where a character finds out they are HIV positive. .and then immediately goes and kills themselves by parking the car on a railroad track in front of an oncoming train.
I hand wrote a letter to Marvel/Peter David to express my disappointment and anger that they would treat the diagnosis of HIV as a death sentence. (in fact, the letter started out "damn you, damn you, damn you. . . "
and they printed my letter -- but cut and pasted, and edited to the point that it was a good review of the issue. Then followed with an "editor's" response listing the National Suicide Prevention Hotline information.
so yeah. .I'm real, and I wrote in. .but what they printed isn't the gist of what I wrote (anger that Marvel comics presented suicide as a reaction to an HIV diagnosis. . in the day and age when there were already many treatments that made it NOT an immediate death sentence).
I did ask Peter David about this once at Dragon*con (a long time ago), and he had no recollection of this letter - so I'd assume the editors never even showed him the original letter, that was angry about his plot point.
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Post by kirby101 on Sept 16, 2018 19:30:09 GMT -5
I don't miss the newsprint, but I miss the way books were colored.
Modern computer coloring has two problems. 1) Is when the colorest does so much shading and effects that you loose all the line work. 2) is that colorest who don't understand the difference between computer screens and print. The computer brightens everything, and colors darken whe printed, especially reds. They should color for print(as they did in the old days) not for what looks good on their monitor.
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Post by badwolf on Sept 16, 2018 20:39:33 GMT -5
I don't miss the newsprint, but I miss the way books were colored. Modern computer coloring has two problems. 1) Is when the colorest does so much shading and effects that you loose all the line work. 2) is that colorest who don't understand the difference between computer screens and print. The computer brightens everything, and colors darken whe printed, especially reds. They should color for print(as they did in the old days) not for what looks good on their monitor. Yeah, over-coloring is still a problem. But with some restraint the digital coloring can look quite nice. I just finished the Simonson Thor omnibus, and once I got over the initial shock and sat down and read it, I have to admit it looks great. There were only a few instances where I thought it was overdone (and I'm not sure caption boxes need to have gradients). |
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