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Post by Brian Morris on Aug 12, 2004 15:35:37 GMT -5
I liked the enlarged format for the artwork it allowed the small items to be seen. But, I was very disappointed with the companion book. Compared to other collected volumes of work put out by DC and Marvel separately in the past this one was lacking. I would have liked to have seen pencils from the series itself, concept drawings, even promo pieces published at full size. I feel that both the editorial teams at Marvel and DC let us down. I am also glad that I did not order the signed edition, for this version was not worth the $75 price tag. Vu is there a chance that you can get some input from George as to what the two editorial teams wanted in this collection as opposed to what we received.....Thank you.....Brian
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Post by Torsten B Abel on Aug 15, 2004 4:58:51 GMT -5
In response to what Vu wrote in his comment on the main page, I'd like to add a few things:
The person who purchases the original art does not automatically obtain the copyright to those pages. That means, even if you own a page of the original JLA/Avengers story, you do not have creative control over what is going to happen with that page. Unless given explicit permission to do so, you are not allowed to make copies of it, and the only thing you actually do own is the physical artwork itself. Therefore, If DC and Marvel wanted to reprint the pages, they would NOT have to ask the owners of those pages for permission, seeing as the characters depicted are their property, and the pages have been drawn by George (just FYI: If the pages were "fanart" depicting trademarked characters, DC/Marvel couldn't publish them without the artist's permission, but the artist also couldn't publish them without permission from DC/Marvel, and they could even legally force the artist to destroy the unsolicited artwork depicting their trademarked characters if they wanted to).
Now, I recall George saying somewhere that he still has hi-res scans of the original JLA/A artwork. Couldn't the reprints of those pages for the companion book be done by using them, or would the result look inferior to copies done from the original pages themselves? Were the non-copied pages actually done by using George's scans?
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Post by sleeper on Aug 15, 2004 9:51:04 GMT -5
I was thinking DC Comics could probably just publish Wizard's cover without their permission (since Tom Smith has these on his computer), so why didn't they ?
As a formality, I think DC would have still had to ask Wizard to have the cover re-published.
If I were Wizard, and DC published my covers, I would be a little upset.
But still, it's NOT that difficult to ask Wizard, hey can we use this? I don't know what DC was doing....
By the way, I saw the Hardcover at another comic shop, the outer slipcase (similiar to the Crisis Slipcase) is the cover to JLA/AVENGERS #3.
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