YEAH, YEAH,...LETS SEE EM BOTH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Mephisto]

Yea, but what do you know. You're just some crazy conspiracy theorist.

 

Well it's not the first time I have seen Original Art scanned and set basically with only black and white colors so that the brown stains are lightened up.

http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=33588&GSub=3223

Notice the grey smudge by the !. That is actually a light brown smudge but the scan from the dealer I bought it from makes it appear otherwise.

[OldGuy]

Yea, but what do you know. You're just some crazy conspiracy theorist.

 

Well it's not the first time I have seen Original Art scanned and set basically with only black and white colors so that the brown stains are lightened up.

http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=33588&GSub=3223

Notice the grey smudge by the !. That is actually a light brown smudge but the scan from the dealer I bought it from makes it appear otherwise.

 

You know I was kidding, right? You know far more about OA then I do. Hell, even Lon from Heritage knows more then I do.

[Mephisto]

Oh I know you were kidding. And not that I am defending Heritage but I have seen several other dealers whose scans seem to basically show only black and white so brown glue stains and other smudges are often a ghostly grey instead of [#@$%!!!] brown. It's just something to be aware of when buying art.

 

This is a pretty good example of this phenomenon.

Here is a page as it appeared on a dealers site. Notice the darkness to the word bubbles and how they appear a greyish black. http://home.hvc.rr.com/jokersballz/ssg.jpg

 

Here's how its appears in someone's Comicartfans collection. Here the word bubbles appear brownish.

http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece...at=0&UCat=0

[heartened]

Hi guys,

 

I think most people scan their original art in grayscale or b/w, regardless of whether they intend on selling it ever. So, if you are looking to buy a piece based purely on a scan, be sure to ask them to rescan it in color. Obviously, this is only important for art that's, say, over 20 years old, as newer art is almost always in immaculate condition. The real condition problems (browning, missing or falling-off stats, glue stains, marker, excessive white-out) seemed to cluster around the 1970s. Fortunately, that's a decade that I don't really collect.

 

Best,