{"id":43541,"date":"2024-07-11T06:50:21","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T10:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=43541"},"modified":"2024-07-11T06:50:21","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T10:50:21","slug":"the-frankenstein-monster-in-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2024\/07\/11\/the-frankenstein-monster-in-color\/","title":{"rendered":"The Frankenstein Monster in COLOR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Panel from Frankenstein Monster No 10\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/53846466278\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53846466278_dac245c5d2_z.jpg?resize=640%2C486&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Panel from Frankenstein Monster No 10\" width=\"640\" height=\"486\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>This panel from <em>The Frankenstein Monster<\/em> No. 10 published by Marvel in 1974 screamed out to me. I miss traditional comic coloring! It is so much better than the overwrought digital coloring found in modern comics.<\/p>\n<p>Art by John Buscema \/ inks by Giacoia and Esposito \/ Color by P. Goldberg<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>In case you are interested, <a href=\"https:\/\/scarysarah.medium.com\/a-brief-and-broad-history-of-post-golden-age-pre-digital-comic-book-coloring-9fe9e386149a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a> is an interesting article about the way comics used to be colored back in the analog days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This panel from The Frankenstein Monster No. 10 published by Marvel in 1974 screamed out to me. I miss traditional comic coloring! It is so much better than the overwrought digital coloring found in modern comics. Art by John Buscema &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2024\/07\/11\/the-frankenstein-monster-in-color\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[335],"tags":[331,158,312,726,9,67,3661,308,336],"class_list":["post-43541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-i-miss-about-comics","tag-331","tag-analog","tag-comic","tag-comic-book","tag-comics","tag-frankenstein","tag-illustration","tag-marvel","tag-vintage"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-bkh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6705,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2012\/02\/20\/comic-movie\/","url_meta":{"origin":43541,"position":0},"title":"When The Comic Was Better Than The Movie","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"February 20, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"I was leafing through some old comics looking for something that would fit this category when I came across this ad: Gene Colan's recent death had brought about a number of articles and posts in appreciation of the great one's art. Those articles as well as a recent reading of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;What I Miss About Comics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"What I Miss About Comics","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/what-i-miss-about-comics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/J2-041.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/J2-041.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/J2-041.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":9703,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2012\/09\/10\/analog-computer\/","url_meta":{"origin":43541,"position":1},"title":"Analog Computer?","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"September 10, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Isn't that a contradiction in terms? Apparently not. Analog computers had a long and fascinating history before the development of transistors and well before the modern digital computers we all use to see how fat our high school classmates have become or to show friends and family members what was\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;What I Miss About Comics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"What I Miss About Comics","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/what-i-miss-about-comics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/analog-computer.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/analog-computer.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/analog-computer.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/analog-computer.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":37973,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/06\/22\/what-i-miss-about-comics-perfectly-legitimate-ads\/","url_meta":{"origin":43541,"position":2},"title":"What I Miss About Comics &#8211; Perfectly Legitimate Ads","author":"Joe","date":"June 22, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"This along with a number of other classified style advertisements for perfectly legitimate products and services appeared in Marvel Spotlight No. 25 published by Marvel Comics in 1975. It was a comic adaptation of Ray Harryhausen's 1958 fantasy epic The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad. My guess is that Marvel was\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;What I Miss About Comics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"What I Miss About Comics","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/what-i-miss-about-comics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/AUTHENTIC-LOOKING.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/AUTHENTIC-LOOKING.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/AUTHENTIC-LOOKING.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":14674,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2013\/10\/23\/bag-full-of-horrors\/","url_meta":{"origin":43541,"position":3},"title":"Bag FULL of HORRORS","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"October 23, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"They're TERRIFYING! SCARY, too! AND they obey your commands! Can you imagine it? I used to drool over ads like this in the comics and would have gladly drained my moon bank of it's contents to have a BAG FULL OF HORRORS, but cooler heads prevailed. My sensibly frugal parents\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;What I Miss About Comics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"What I Miss About Comics","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/what-i-miss-about-comics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/BAG-FULL-OF-HORRORS-det.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/BAG-FULL-OF-HORRORS-det.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/BAG-FULL-OF-HORRORS-det.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":40675,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2023\/05\/28\/there-may-be-opportunity-what-i-miss-about-comics\/","url_meta":{"origin":43541,"position":4},"title":"There may be OPPORTUNITY \u2022 What I Miss About Comics","author":"Joe","date":"May 28, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"I was never a fan of poetry so I can't imagine soliciting the amateur efforts of scribes across the continental United States and Canada. Somebody at the mail drop was going to have to read these submissions whether they were typewritten or scrawled by hand in pencil, ink or crayon.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blast from the Past&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blast from the Past","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/blast-from-the-past\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/poems-wanted.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/poems-wanted.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/poems-wanted.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":37325,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/03\/08\/hypnotize\/","url_meta":{"origin":43541,"position":5},"title":"Hypnotize!","author":"Joe","date":"March 8, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"I had a good chuckle when I saw this ad in a comic that was published when Richard Nixon was still President. \"With the magic power of hypnosis you can hypnotize at a glance, make people obey your commands without subject's knowledge.\" Ridiculous! 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