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I don't understand all the sturm und drang about a breach at CL. Have people already forgotten that HA was the victim of a ransomware attack in 2019, or that a live comic art auction after they resumed operation froze up for a while (perhaps while payment was made in Bitcoin?). This is the company that turns a check payment into an ACH transfer, and in this country, the banks have made it absurdly easy for someone to empty out your bank account if they have your account number (better that than the banks have to invest in the kind of checks and balances that banks in the rest of the world are required to have).

Lifelock is a scam. You're paying someone to sell your personal information to third parties. Credit Karma provides the same service for free, you just have to live with their constant solicitations. People should reserve their ire for the credit reporting agencies (Equifax, Experian, Transunion), who keep track of all your credit information and have seen major hacks, hundred of millions of records stolen. That means all the information needed to open credit cards or apply for loans in your name has already been stolen from these companies with their brain-dead 1960s IT systems. The only way to protect yourself is to freeze your credit file at all three of these companies, as has been said.

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That's a picture of Yannick Chastang, the restorer blowing the whistle on the shenanigans, using an X-ray fluorescence device to examine a desk for restoration. Think of it as looking for evidence of bleach.

Hmm, this sounds familiar. Dealers accused of tricks that turn ordinary desks into £1m antiques

In this case, the image is taken from the Maroto panel from the Dax story that inspired the Sanjulian painting.

The problem I see is access. I'm sure there is plenty of art that has sat in piles like that for literally decades. What's the point? It's not gold bullion. Isn't art supposed to be looked at? At least a lot of Walt's art is now available in artists editions, no longer mouldering in a closet. P Craig Russell has tried to keep his own art. There is a story of him at Flo's desk the Marvel office back in the day when he saw the art for one of his stories on her desk. This was when the policy was to return some art to the artist and some to the writer. So Craig took the art, removed all the dialogue balloons, and left them with a note for the writer, This is what you contributed to the story.

I think he's mostly known for inking Ditko on Captain Atom. Only 40 when he died of a heart attack, very sad. Carpe diem.

It's an excellent reference, but I question if it makes the Companion obsolete. The latter includes interviews with several Warren alumni (including Warren himself). Companion's bibliography has some of the same errors as Richard Arndt's book, which makes me wonder if they took their bibliography from him (It was floating around the internet for a few years before he published it). Arndt's book is also a good complement to the Companion, because it covers all of the B&W horror magazine field, including Marvel and Skywald.

The problem with this era is that they were doing 1950s horror comics in the mid to late 1960s. Sure it has Ditko's best work (yes, Virginia, better than Spiderman), and great work by Torres, Toth, Crandall and Williamson (and some great early work by Adams), but it had clearly run out of steam by the end of that decade. They limped along publishing stories they had earlier rejected, until Vampirella turned things around for them. For some of us, the 1970s were Warren's best era. Not just the Spanish artists like Sanjulian, Enrich, Gonzalez, Maroto, Garcia Mozos and Torrents, but also the best work by newcomers Corben and Wrightson. That period takes off when Goodwin comes back as editor, also writing early Vampirella stories. Look up lists of people's favorite Warren stories, most of them will come from this later period. Even 1984/1994, otherwise an embarrassment of juvenile porn, has some of the best work by Nino and Nebres. And unlike EC, Warren didn't bury the art in long discursive descriptions like Feldstein did. Say, is this thread going to cover 1984/1994?

Completely wrong. If you look at the Marvel Masterworks program for reprinting all the classic Marvel work, the worst form of reproduction is based on scans of the printed work. A large part of the reproduction involves restorers redrawing the original lifework. In many cases, that Kirby linework you're looking at is actually Mike Kelleher's redrawing of his linework. If you've got the original films that were used for printing (that can be a big if), then that can help a lot, but you're still relying on cr*ppy printing technology from years ago, and on the quality of the films. Just look at Marvel's reprinting of their B&W magazine content. The best example of reprinting of classic content are the slipcased EC archives from Russ Cochran, all shot from the original art. Compare that with the garbage reprinting of golden age horror from PS Publishing, where they just scanned the comics. As another example, look at the sad Absolute George Perez Wonder Woman that was published just before he died, with all the deficiencies in the printed work made obvious when it was blown up to absolute size.