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Washtone / Greytone Covers -- All of them in one place. . .time to weigh in

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thirdgreenham

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I just saw this thread now. How would you classify this book?

 

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Washtone!

Beautiful copy, too.

 

I'd agree to calling it a washtone/greytone. What a great cover!

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otherworldsj33

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The Tales of the Unexpected 15 is one of my all time favorite DC SA covers, washtone or not. On another note, I once owned the original art cover to HOM 92, and as great as the published comic looked, it looked awesome. Sometimes I wish I had never traded it...

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telerites

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I'm pretty sure this was posted earlier but is one of my favorites. Washtone?

 

I paid too much for it at a live auction. Bidding war against one other but it was part of the Henschel OO collection and loved the cover.

 

Gripes. I just realized we are in Silver and this is a Gold. I can delete if need be. Sorry.

 

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It's still an awesome cover and I want to know if people think it's a washtone?

 

And I want Andy to run a "best of washtone" cover contest!

 

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TeddieMercede

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I'm pretty sure this was posted earlier but is one of my favorites. Washtone?

 

I paid too much for it at a live auction. Bidding war against one other but it was part of the Henschel OO collection and loved the cover.

 

Gripes. I just realized we are in Silver and this is a Gold. I can delete if need be. Sorry.

 

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wow awesome !

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comick1

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I'm reposting this now that there are a number of participants. I love all the posts with books but I want to have everybody weigh in on the following:

 

Hi folks,

Friday night, stress at work, need for catharsis. Maybe it's time to revive this thread.

 

I had some thoughts as I was reviewing so many of the posts.

 

What do you think of this:

 

We vote them INTO or OUT OF 3 categories:

 

1. Calling it a washtone (if it has the wash tone non-inked-line EFFECT regardless of era, method, or process including wash, watercolor, gouache, charcoal, color blends or gradation, etc.) if it's more than 50% of the cover.

 

2. Calling it a partial washtone (using the above criteria--pivotal word being EFFECT) if it's less than 50% of the cover.

 

3. NOT calling it a washtone if it doesn't have the washtone EFFECT.

 

 

Using the criteria above, I can easily see us going with a majority vote for the following that would have a washtone EFFECT (thus qualifying as "washtone" even if it's not technically achieved by that method). These are just EXAMPLES of how I'm imagining the vote would go:

 

A. Washtones: GIC 69, 75, 83, HOM 92, Three Mouseketeers 6, Sea Devils 10, My Greatest Adventure 17, Peter Panda 30

 

 

B. Partial washtones: Secret Hearts 59, Date with Judy , Challengers of the Unknown 30

 

 

C. NOT wash tones: House of Secrets 1, My Greatest Adventure 18 and 20, House of Mystery 70, Star Spangled War Stories 80

 

Again, those are just examples. I think if we vote on those three categories, we don't need to have such a narrow definition of washtone and WE (that's us, baby) get to decide what's in and what's out by the vote.

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jimjum12

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It's still an awesome cover and I want to know if people think it's a washtone?

 

And I want Andy to run a "best of washtone" cover contest!

 

....yes, yes...... although there are probably 3 dozen that I just couldn't choose one or the other. My feeble human mind has trouble processing stuff of this magnitude in such a temporal quantitative fashion..... it's just too primitive. It's like "which cave is the best?" ...... "....the dry one!" lol:cloud9: GOD BLESS....

 

-jimbo(a friend of jesus) (thumbs u

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JohnT

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Hi folks,

Friday night, stress at work, need for catharsis. Maybe it's time to revive this thread.

 

I had some thoughts as I was reviewing so many of the posts.

 

What do you think of this:

 

We vote them INTO or OUT OF 3 categories:

 

1. Calling it a washtone (if it has the wash tone non-inked-line EFFECT regardless of era, method, or process including wash, watercolor, gouache, charcoal, color blends or gradation, etc.) if it's more than 50% of the cover.

 

2. Calling it a partial washtone (using the above criteria--pivotal word being EFFECT) if it's less than 50% of the cover.

 

3. NOT calling it a washtone if it doesn't have the washtone EFFECT.

 

 

Using the criteria above, I can easily see us going with a majority vote for the following that would have a washtone EFFECT (thus qualifying as "washtone" even if it's not technically achieved by that method). These are just EXAMPLES of how I'm imagining the vote would go:

 

A. Washtones: GIC 69, 75, 83, HOM 92, Three Mouseketeers 6, Sea Devils 10, My Greatest Adventure 17, Peter Panda 30

 

 

B. Partial washtones: Secret Hearts 59, Date with Judy , Challengers of the Unknown 30

 

 

C. NOT wash tones: House of Secrets 1, My Greatest Adventure 18 and 20, House of Mystery 70, Star Spangled War Stories 80

 

Again, those are just examples. I think if we vote on those three categories, we don't need to have such a narrow definition of washtone and WE (that's us, baby) get to decide what's in and what's out by the vote.

 

I'm in for this method. But here's a thought: should this be limited to Atom/Silver Age DC, just for the sake of keeping this manageable?

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