Thor #244 - caption error? 0

[Aweandlorder]

Just found this in a batch of thor comics I just purchased from original owner who has subscribed to these straight from Marvel. Looks like the bubble vector was left empty and was marked with a brown sharpie.

Whats interesting is that I dont know if it was done after printing, since the inside front cover seems like it doesnt have any bleed through from any markings from the front cover

So

Ever seen anything like this?

[ADAMANTIUM]

It looks to me like cooking grease or something other than a marker... But idk

[Mercury Man]

"My mystic mallet cannot stop them, but my GIANT baked potato will!!!  

 

 

[01TheDude]

Beware the flying turd he doth has released!

[lizards2]

Excelsior!!

[jools&jim]

If you look very closely at the upper left-hand portion of the blotted out word balloon, you can still make out the first word of the dialogue ("IF"...).

Not sure how it was defaced, but it does look like the original text was there at some point...

Edited July 21, 2017 by jools&jim

[kav]

my guess is someone smeared a solvent over the balloon smearing the ink.  acetone possibly.

[Aweandlorder]

Not seeing anything that resembles letters in that balloon honestly. My guess was that they tried to fill it in with similar color to the background. Otherwise none of it makes sense

[jools&jim]

35 minutes ago, Aweandlorder said:

Not seeing anything that resembles letters in that balloon honestly...

Here's what I saw, but maybe it's just a coincidence of the color streaking...

[jools&jim]

Btw...did you ask the original owner?

[lizards2]

1 hour ago, jools&jim said:

Here's what I saw, but maybe it's just a coincidence of the color streaking...

With that close up view, I can clearly read it now!  "John is dead!"

[Aweandlorder]

1 hour ago, jools&jim said:

Btw...did you ask the original owner?

Yes he was as clueless as me. All the rest of the books (60+) were spotless. No marking, no cut-outs. In fact, some of the had their original subscription folders still which was kinda neat.

I figured I'd post this just in case someone else saw something similar with that book

[kav]

Well I did a test on one of my books acetone has no effect.  I know some solvents like methylene chloride will dissolve pretty much any organic compound.

[Senormac]

someone figured out how thick the paper of a comic book cover is

[01TheDude]

seems like using a yellow highlighter to fill it in followed by some exposure to sunlight and heat might have that result.

[catman76]

Just looks like someone filled it in with some kind of marker and some markers will dissolve printed inks if you go over them with it.