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The New Mutants #45 cover + overlay / LifeDeath HC pg.139

Location: MY COLLECTION - Marvel Comics
Artist: Barry Windsor-Smith (All)

Location: MY COLLECTION - Marvel Comics
Title: The New Mutants #45 cover + overlay / LifeDeath HC pg.139*
Artist: Barry Windsor-Smith (All)
Media Type: Pen and Ink
Art Type: Cover
For Sale Status: NFS
Views: 4504
Likes on CAF: 6
Comments: 13
Added to Site: 12/27/2007

What I did here is giving the cover to Giorgio Comolo and have him pencil and ink the frame that distinguished all the 25th anniversary book on it.

Well, not really...I love Giorgio and his works, but something like that would be very unlikely to happen! So, what actually happened is this: A) I scanned the actual published cover at 1000dpi; B) visualized it in Photoshop at 200%; C) cleaned the whole thing up, meaning that I went in and erased any and all colors, leaving only the blacks and correcting parts that were badly printed; E) selected the blacks, which weren't actually 100% black and filled'em in with full black; F) overlaid the blacks on the cover scan.

Since this process took several hours, I didn't do it for the scan only, but will now have the overlay file printed on mylar and then frame it on top of the cover, likely with some whiteout on the back where the frame is not supposed to have actual art showing through.

Also published on "L'Incredibile Marvel: 75 Anni di Meraviglie a Fumetti" exhibit catalog, 2015.

Displayed at the "L'Incredibile Marvel: 75 Anni di Meraviglie a Fumetti" exhibit, Napoli, Mostra d'Oltremare, 2015

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Ken Z Member Since 2006

Posted On 12/27/2007

This is going to look great framed up! Congrats on getting this!

John Bamber Member Since 2004

Posted On 12/27/2007

Stunning, But I'm not entirely sure you shouldn't be giving this to me :)

Dominic Milano Member Since 2005

Posted On 12/27/2007

Magnificent!

John Yon Member Since 2006

Posted On 12/27/2007

Now that's what I call great! Congrats!!!

Chris C Member Since 2004

Posted On 12/27/2007

Molto Bene, Paisan.....really wonderful and your efforts only serve to perfect the presentation of this cover.

Ben Bressel Member Since 2003

Posted On 1/2/2008

enrico, amazing. what did u trade away? Phew!

Mike W Member Since 2007

Posted On 12/18/2008

Spectacular job, my friend!

David Mandel Member Since 2004

Posted On 8/3/2009

WOW!

Ben Herman Member Since 2003

Posted On 2/11/2010

Okay, you lost me after "I scanned the actual published cover at 1000dpi." But however it was done, I cannot argue with the results. This looks magnificent, Enrico.

Bennett Pisek Member Since 2003

Posted On 12/16/2010

Great piece to own. One of my favorite covers. 1000 dpi? a person can have lunch during that scan. :)

James Henry Member Since 2005

Posted On 9/9/2011

Gorgeous cover and very nice work with the Marvel Anniversary border!

Thomas Vanderstappen Member Since 2005

Posted On 4/29/2012

Very nice

Alex B Member Since 2008

Posted On 3/12/2014

Stunning ! Congrats for this beautiful cover !

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