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funatic · 08-08-2017, 01:59 PM

Mine just came in the mail! Cracking it open now...

First impressions:
- Pretty awesome to see the original layouts for such an iconic issue of comicdom!
- The scans all seem the slightest bit fuzzy, or maybe just light on ink? Only noticeable if you scrutinize it, might be because they're preserving the sort of off-white original paper tone.
- Has issue 1 ever been printed this BIG before??
- Little section in the back with some old promo posters and character model sheets, around half of which I hadn't seen before. Wish there were a few more extras. Surprised they didn't include the first turtle sketch.
- All in all a pretty nice presentation of book that's been reprinted a million times.

EDIT: Just read in the nice little intro by Kevin that a lot of the pages from this issue were originally done 8x12 since they were trying to stretch their DuoShade dollar. Wow never knew that! Makes the art even more impressive in retrospect, and maybe explains why these scans (which are a bit larger than 8x12) look a little less than 100% crisp.

08-08-2017, 01:59 PM	#11
funatic Mad Scientist Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Northampton, MA Posts: 1,226	Mine just came in the mail! Cracking it open now... First impressions: - Pretty awesome to see the original layouts for such an iconic issue of comicdom! - The scans all seem the slightest bit fuzzy, or maybe just light on ink? Only noticeable if you scrutinize it, might be because they're preserving the sort of off-white original paper tone. - Has issue 1 ever been printed this BIG before?? - Little section in the back with some old promo posters and character model sheets, around half of which I hadn't seen before. Wish there were a few more extras. Surprised they didn't include the first turtle sketch. - All in all a pretty nice presentation of book that's been reprinted a million times. EDIT: Just read in the nice little intro by Kevin that a lot of the pages from this issue were originally done 8x12 since they were trying to stretch their DuoShade dollar. Wow never knew that! Makes the art even more impressive in retrospect, and maybe explains why these scans (which are a bit larger than 8x12) look a little less than 100% crisp. Last edited by funatic; 08-08-2017 at 02:13 PM.