in color, as printed
alternate color version
as nature intended, before the split
page 12 & 13 merge, in color as never printed
pages 12 & 13 merge, alternate color version
Location: Gene Colan
Artists:
Gene Colan
(Penciller)
,
Bill Everett
(Inker)
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Great page! Putting those two back together would be so tempting...
Art Crime? It's what's for dinner.
I won't tell. Go for it, dude. You are the sequential page master for the nonce, so do as you like. :) I'm digging all these Colan pages you're posting. Thanks. And congrats!
Have you been selling body parts to pay for these? It would explain why you are so keen to reunite pieces.
Another stellar half-page! Did Colan know ahead of time they were going to cut a page in half, or did the layout guys get lucky that at least one page from this issue had a horizontal gutter cutting through the entire page at the midpoint? Colan used to do a lot of 4 panel pages, but he also used diagornal gutters and irregular panel layouts a lot so I could easily imagine a 19 page book of his with no convenient place to slice a page in half...
That's a good question! My guess is that the artists were told in advance to leave a half-page horizontal gutter on page 12 (to divide into pages 12 and 13), but there might very well be comics where it was on different pages. I have half-pagers from Cap #136 and 137 and Conan #2 that are all pages 12 and 13.
It looks like the half pagers started with FF #100 and lasted until FF 113, and they're in Spidey #84-99, all paginated as 12 and 13.
Good sleuthing! Your wonderful collection provides great statistics on Marvel's interior page structure in the Bronze age. I'm fascinated by the ways Colan and the other great pencilers of the time structured their pages and told their stories so effectively.