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General Category => Comic Related Discussion => Topic started by: bminor on July 30, 2012, 08:03:04 AM

Title: Whiz Comics #1 ashcan, Inside front cover... (Thrill Comics)
Post by: bminor on July 30, 2012, 08:03:04 AM

I was just viewing the Whiz #1 cover that I put up on the site last year and noticed something interesting.
Interesting to me as a printer and a comic nerd. There was some show through on the cover art.
That is, you could kind of see what was printed on the back side of the cover of that ashcan.
Opened up Photoshop, flipped the image, adjusted some contrast a bit and here it what I could come up with...

THRILL COMICS
Printed in the United States of America
VOL. 1 JANUARY 1940   NO. 1

CONTENTS
THE EPISODIC ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN THUNDER

The bottom three lines of text I can't make out.
Anyone else care to try???

Title: Re: Whiz Comics #1 ashcan, Inside front cover... (Thrill Comics)
Post by: narfstar on July 30, 2012, 09:27:10 AM

My guess would be a standard indicia copyright notice. The purpose of the ashcans was to secure a copyright after all.

Title: Re: Whiz Comics #1 ashcan, Inside front cover... (Thrill Comics)
Post by: Roygbiv666 on July 30, 2012, 10:04:10 AM

I don't know PhotoShop at all, but is there a way to "remove" an image? Like take the actual cover with the bleedthrough, flip it, then remove it from your combined image?

You could on CSI ;-)

Quote from: bminor on July 30, 2012, 08:03:04 AM

I was just viewing the Whiz #1 cover that I put up on the site last year and noticed something interesting.
Interesting to me as a printer and a comic nerd. There was some show through on the cover art.
That is, you could kind of see what was printed on the back side of the cover of that ashcan.
Opened up Photoshop, flipped the image, adjusted some contrast a bit and here it what I could come up with...

THRILL COMICS
Printed in the United States of America
VOL. 1 JANUARY 1940   NO. 1

CONTENTS
THE EPISODIC ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN THUNDER

The bottom three lines of text I can't make out.
Anyone else care to try???

Title: Re: Whiz Comics #1 ashcan, Inside front cover... (Thrill Comics)
Post by: RJ Bowman on July 30, 2012, 11:08:42 PM

There's a trick I've used where you duplicate the image layer, change the new layer to a negative image, then set the new layer to "lighten" or whatever additive setting your software uses, then you can adjust the transparency to try to remove the front image and reveal the reverse side image. I was once able to get fairly clear reverse-side images from scans of Eric Harris's (Columbine) notebook that were released to the public.

Title: Re: Whiz Comics #1 ashcan, Inside front cover... (Thrill Comics)
Post by: Roygbiv666 on July 31, 2012, 05:01:54 AM

Quote from: Roygbiv666 on July 30, 2012, 10:04:10 AM

I don't know PhotoShop at all, but is there a way to "remove" an image? Like take the actual cover without the bleedthrough, flip it, then remove it from your combined image?

You could on CSI ;-)

Quote from: bminor on July 30, 2012, 08:03:04 AM

I was just viewing the Whiz #1 cover that I put up on the site last year and noticed something interesting.
Interesting to me as a printer and a comic nerd. There was some show through on the cover art.
That is, you could kind of see what was printed on the back side of the cover of that ashcan.
Opened up Photoshop, flipped the image, adjusted some contrast a bit and here it what I could come up with...

THRILL COMICS
Printed in the United States of America
VOL. 1 JANUARY 1940   NO. 1

CONTENTS
THE EPISODIC ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN THUNDER

The bottom three lines of text I can't make out.
Anyone else care to try???