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John Byrne
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I thought the Thing’s girlfriend was Alicka, but had no problem with Mxyzptlk.
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Rick Senger
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| Posted: 19 August 2025 at 5:18pm | IP Logged | 2
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I recall reading Flash 257 as a kid and getting really confused because everyone's face was green on a bunch of interior pages. I kept going back and re-reading the pre-green-faced pages to see if the villain (the Golden Glider) had somehow caused these discolorations as some convoluted part of her insidious scheme but there was nothin'. I finally figured the colorist (Jerry Serpe) or someone else in production must've simply made a mistake and a bunch of pages were mis-colored. But for a while I figured it had to be me missing something because how could the creators of my beloved Flash comics ever make an error?
However... today I just googled the issue to give a pictorial example, figuring that many people would recall this blooper and I can find no evidence or mention of the rampant coloring errors (by far the most I've ever seen). I'm left wondering if they caught and corrected the coloring mistake and my copy was somehow a rare early print that snuck through. If this was a rarity alas my brother and I wrote all over the book and it's quite ratty (I brought it to overnight camp where it got passed around... never good for a comic!) so I'm sure it has no value even if super rare. But now I'm curious whether other people had this Flash 257 experience!
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John Byrne
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Sounds like a classic “wrong plate” example. Like maybe the blue plate slipped in instead of the magenta.
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Rick Senger
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Considering how long I've been reading comics I still have precious little understanding of how the printing process works.
Over your many years in the field you've surely encountered plenty of production mishaps but are there any that stand out?
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Brian Miller
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| Posted: 19 August 2025 at 5:36pm | IP Logged | 5
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I thought Illyana had a "Souls Word".
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Haha! I’ll never un-see this now!
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Peter Martin
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QUOTE:
| Since those British hardcovers were being published in the late Fifties and early Sixties, I don’t know what qualifies as “antiquated”. |
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Antiquated, in the sense of having gone out of use with the passing of time. Yes, I had older books -- maybe published in the 50s or 60s -- as a child which used the spelling, but my Monopoly set was from the 1970s. I grew up in the 80s and 90s in England and I can attest that, by then, the 'gaol' spelling had given way almost entirely to 'jail'.
Edited by Peter Martin on 19 August 2025 at 6:38pm
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Eric White
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| Posted: 19 August 2025 at 8:53pm | IP Logged | 7
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When I was a little kid in the 70s my two favorite artists were John Byron and Paul Gull-Uh-See.
In 1979 Chicago elected a Mayor Jane Byrne and around the same time I had a middle school teacher named Miss Gulacy and all was right with the world again.
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John Byrne
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Jane wasn’t a REAL Byrne, though!
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Brian Price
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| Never dawned on me the penciller could actually use ink on a piece! I thought ONLY the inker could apply inks to the page! |
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A little embarrassed to admit that I hadn't thought about it in years, but yeah, I was still under the impression that Terry had traced John's signature. It's funny the things that you reason out when you're a kid that you never think through to correct when you're older.
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James Woodcock
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I used to think it was THE FUMAN TORCH.
But I was only 5 or so.
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Doug Centers
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| Posted: 19 August 2025 at 10:56pm | IP Logged | 11
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One of my early comics was an Atlas title Phoenix, which I pronounced Foe-eenix. I knew it couldn't be right but I had not seen and heard that combination of letters before and my brain just couldn't come to terms with it. I wish I could remember how I put it together, man what a relief it must've been.
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Vinny Valenti
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I still mentally mispronounce Walt Simonson's last name (with a short I), even though I've known for 2 decades that I was wrong for another 2.
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