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Post by Dizzy D on May 10, 2021 2:29:20 GMT -5
I don't have the scans, but Uncanny X-Men #51 introduces Erik the Red as a "villain" (actually Cyclops in disguise). The character on the front cover has a completely different look (looking more some kind of sci-fi viking with a large red beard, than the masked character inside).
And Uncanny X-Men #245 has a cover by Rob Liefeld. On it, Longshot has five fingers on each hand, which usually would be anatomically correct, except Longshot is an alien who has only four fingers on each hand. Poor Rob, even when he tries to be anatomically correct, he still gets it wrong.
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Post by foxley on May 10, 2021 8:01:29 GMT -5
This one is a doozy. This is from one of the variant covers for Marvel Comics #1000: It is a collage of striking images from across Marvel's history. So what's the issue? See those two men kissing. That's Alan (Green Lantern) Scott and his partner Sam from DC's Earth-2 book. Seriously Marvel!? WTF?!
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Post by Farrar on May 10, 2021 8:13:28 GMT -5
Creative team: Alan Davis, Adam Kubert, Graham Davis and others. I think you mean Graham Nolan. Yes, of course--thanks. Actually my type-ahead initially gave me "Graham Nash" -- noted comic book fan and one of my all-time fave musicians.
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Post by mikelmidnight on May 10, 2021 11:54:58 GMT -5
If I were to hazard a guess, I would say either an error on the color guide or the printing plates. I wonder if the colorist didn't have the guide completed or made a mistake and used opaquing fluid (like white out, but and older liquid) to make a correction, leading to the white portion of the gloves.
I normally barely notice coloring mistakes, but this one was so consistent that it does look like someone had made a mistake on the guide and the colorist followed through.
On the other hand, it's been established that the Earth-2 Batman and Superman changed uniforms more often then their Earth-1 counterparts, so I guess the real answer is that Bruce experimented with white gauntlets on a single occasion and then decided he didn't like the look (or maybe he accidentally bleached them just before going out and didn't have time to wash another pair).
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Post by MDG on May 10, 2021 14:06:19 GMT -5
If I were to hazard a guess, I would say either an error on the color guide or the printing plates. I wonder if the colorist didn't have the guide completed or made a mistake and used opaquing fluid (like white out, but and older liquid) to make a correction, leading to the white portion of the gloves.
I normally barely notice coloring mistakes, but this one was so consistent that it does look like someone had made a mistake on the guide and the colorist followed through.
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I think it's likely that two people cut the separations for this story: the one working on the blue seps was looking at a "gloved" version of Batman, and the one cutting the gray was looking at the longer "gauntlets." (This would assume that at this time, Batman's uniform was colored as a percentage of black. Later on, the gray was a mixture of blue and red.)
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Post by dabellwrites on Aug 17, 2021 17:50:40 GMT -5
Botching the colour of GL's gloves in GL\GA #76 stands out as an unfortunate distraction considering the power of the moment being depicted Dennis O'Neil's heart was in the right place, but the over-handed way he addresses these issues turns me off.
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Post by dabellwrites on Aug 17, 2021 19:04:44 GMT -5
From Wonder Woman (1942) #247. I'm sure all the boys loved it, but according to Carol A. Strickland, this was a glaring color error. Something I notice is how her bracelets are different colors,the one closer to the light is darker than the one farther away. Also, the dark-haired woman is Diana, I guess they felt Wonder Woman needed a reason for her to not have a Greek name.
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Post by Prince Hal on Aug 18, 2021 9:57:32 GMT -5
Botching the colour of GL's gloves in GL\GA #76 stands out as an unfortunate distraction considering the power of the moment being depicted Dennis O'Neil's heart was in the right place, but the over-handed way he addresses these issues turns me off. I guess you had to be there.
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Post by dabellwrites on Aug 18, 2021 11:20:44 GMT -5
Dennis O'Neil's heart was in the right place, but the over-handed way he addresses these issues turns me off. I guess you had to be there. Maybe you're right. The 70s was really where the whole racism and social issue took the spotlight in Hollywood, music, and comics.
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Post by mikelmidnight on Aug 18, 2021 11:33:39 GMT -5
As for a "how did that get out there?", how about Marvel presents #7, which features a sexual act between cosmic entities! In a Code-approved book! Granted, it's more implied and you had to have some awareness of metaphors for sex; but, it's pretty blatant, for the period.
I missed this comment the first time around. Steve Gerber was the tits, I swear. Actually, there was a strip in an early issue of Zap comics which had a very similar theme and I'd always wondered whether Gerber had that in mind.
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Post by arfetto on Aug 18, 2021 11:40:27 GMT -5
The first blatant coloring mistake I ever noticed as a kid was reading Amazing Spider-Man 157. Spider-Man crashes through some lady's apartment accidentally and in the panel he is drawn without pants...as in, his bottom portion is the color of Peter Parker's skin.
Since I do not know if I would be allowed to post the mistake version here, I will post the recolored digital version to give you an idea: The odd thing was his spider-boots were colored correctly. It is just, the blue part of his pants were the color of his skin haha. So I spent a long time trying to figure out how this mistake was made and decided maybe the colorist was playing a joke and it just slipped past the censors haha. Maybe someone here knows the real answer though!
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Post by String on Aug 18, 2021 13:16:04 GMT -5
Scarlet Witch being colored green on the cover of her first two appearances (while red on the interiors). Wanda's constantly changing costume from a one piece to a 2 piece from panel to panel or page to page in the Avengers issues by Ayers, Heck and Wood (circa 18-20). These were things that jumped out at me while doing my Scarlet Witch read through... -M Wasn't there also her hair changing color from brown to black to brown again?
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Post by badwolf on Aug 18, 2021 16:12:13 GMT -5
Mastermind's robes are also miscolored.
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Post by coinilius on Aug 20, 2021 5:02:08 GMT -5
I’m not sure the green scarlet witch costumes are ‘mistakes’ exactly - I always figured they just deliberately coloured her that way to make the cover images more striking or something, and this being the early days of marvel they just weren’t as interested in whether that was ‘correct’ or not…
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Post by commond on Aug 20, 2021 9:32:03 GMT -5
No one cares about the Toad?
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