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perletwo (perletwo) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-07-13 21:36:00

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char: bouncing boy/chuck taine, char: computo, char: duo damsel/luornu durgo taine, creator: keith giffen, creator: pat broderick, creator: paul levitz, group: legion of super-heroes, title: legion of super-heroes

Legion of Super-Heroes Annual #1 - "Dammit."
In the Computo post down the page, crinosg requested a look at pre-Crisis Duo Damsel's more seriously handled reaction to the death of her third body.

That's in Legion of Super-Heroes Annual #1, in which Brainiac 5 uses the Computo technology in an attempt to help a comatose little girl, Danielle Foccart. Results: Predictable - Computo gets loose and takes control of LOSH's all-automated headquarters, whose systems begin attacking the Legionnaires - and locking out any potential help. One page, not my scan.

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	jlroberson 2009-07-14 02:54 am UTC (link)
	Nono, the "breep"s were always very much a part of it. One thing that's always bugged me about newsprint coloring: why so much damn pink? I know that they actually had a mandated set of colors to work with, but why so much of that one? It's just a personal thing: I've always thought pink was one of the uglier colors. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	perletwo 2009-07-14 03:08 am UTC (link)
	Maybe something to do with the printing process being used at the time? If you're asking specifically about pink in LoSH, I'd guess it was a) referencing neon light and/or b) part of the overall bright shiny iPodishness of the Giffen-era Legion. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

jlroberson
2009-07-14 03:52 am UTC (link)

I'm assuming it was certainly the reason for the "banned colors"(colors that were possible but that were mandated against by editors). But no, when I look at comics from the 70s and 80s--particularly the latter, and especially DC(though Shooter-era Marvel has just as much) I keep seeing as a background fill color this ugly salmon pink. And it NEVER looks good. So I'm wondering why it was used so often.

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perletwo
2009-07-14 04:12 am UTC (link)

I know the color you mean. I think one thing to keep in mind is that all those old 70s and 80s comics on newsprint fade incredibly; it may be that whatever mixes of shades they started out as, they've all faded to that dusty salmon base. (Think about the very early Batman scans we've seen here where Bats looks practically naked; whatever purple or grey wash they used faded to a skinlike grey-pink.) Not sure there's any real way to know if the salmon-pink was intentional or if another pigment leached out of it over time.

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	geoffsebesta 2009-07-14 06:18 am UTC (link)
	BREEP it is not pink it is pale scarlet BREEP (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	jlroberson 2009-07-14 08:21 am UTC (link)
	Okay, pale scarlet. It looks like someone spilled Kool-Aid on it, is all I'm saying. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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