Vintage Magnus Robot Fighter #3 color cover art

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this may soun dumb, but what did they use to color?

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Jaknife wrote:this may soun dumb, but what did they use to color?
They were hand colored with Dr. Martin water color dyes. They would make a reduced copy of the B&W line art on water color paper & mount it to a card stock board. Then they would color it by hand. It would then be scanned and seperated by computer into the color plates used for printing.

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damn, how long did that take? besides that, it really is a good picture.

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Cool art.

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Did Shooter actually ink the cover? Why'd he sign it? :-)

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Post by Ryan »

Looks like Shooter pencils to me. This is a guess, but the inks look a bit like Gonzalo Mayo

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Inks are credited to Alan Weiss with pencils by Tom Ryder
(on the back side of the piece).
I think JayJay would have Shooter sign a lot of her color art.
I'm guessing because of his involvement with Magnus and
being EIC.
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By the way, I visited your site and signed the guestbook, Dan. It's awesome.
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sonicdan wrote:Inks are credited to Alan Weiss with pencils by Tom Ryder
(on the back side of the piece).
I think JayJay would have Shooter sign a lot of her color art.
I'm guessing because of his involvement with Magnus and
being EIC.
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ahh, interesting. Now that you say it I can see a bit of Weiss in it, but I've never seen Tom Ryder pencils before. I wonder why Weiss didn't do any more work for Valiant? My guess is he was going to before Shooter was axed. Well it's a nice piece

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Re: Vintage Magnus Robot Fighter #3 color cover art

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Holy Cow, that's awesome! Thanks for sharing 8)

This is my first post on the Valiant forums, I just discovered them today. I have some Valiant art that I'll try to share as well

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Holy Cow, that's awesome! Thanks for sharing

This is my first post on the Valiant forums, I just discovered them today. I have some Valiant art that I'll try to share as well

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ahh, interesting. Now that you say it I can see a bit of Weiss in it, but I've never seen Tom Ryder pencils before. I wonder why Weiss didn't do any more work for Valiant? My guess is he was going to before Shooter was axed. Well it's a nice piece
I don't think Ryder penciled much else for Valiant...lots of inking tho'!
I'm not familiar with Weiss. What else has he done?
Oh and Ryan, how'd up like all the snow here in Nebraska?
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sonicdan wrote: I don't think Ryder penciled much else for Valiant...lots of inking tho'!
Yeah, he's a good inker. Last I saw he was doing Way of the Rat with Jeff Johnson. Good stuff.
sonicdan wrote: I'm not familiar with Weiss. What else has he done?
He's an old timer that did a lot of work for Shooter during his Marvel era. But what I remember him for is Wardancer from Defiant, which I thought was excellent (at least artwise, I can't remember the story much anymore)
sonicdan wrote: Oh and Ryan, how'd up like all the snow here in Nebraska?
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Very nice pic Dan. All of a sudden I feel motivated to scan in more of my art and expand that section on my page to include all Valiant art. It could take awhile though.

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any ideas on what happened in that upper right hand corner? it looks like a "touch up" with something different than the ink used overall...not that i'm complaining about the piece-it's very nice. just wondering.

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When I was coloring stuff I would sometimes touch up or extend the line art. Sometimes to allow me to shift the cropping on the cover but sometimes just because I was fooling around, too. I also used to make little brush strokes in the margins of the page to point my brush for doing detail work. In case you guys ever wondered why those were on a lot of my pages. In those days, I didn't really think about the pages as being something I would sell.

And I had been asked so many times by collectors who bought my work if I could get Jim to sign the pages, too, that I just have had him sign a bunch of them that I was selling.

PS. I just posted some new Magnus color pages on ebay tonight if you guys want to check them out.

http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?V ... =jayjayzee

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nice pages....i wish i wasnt poor. Oh well maybe if they last till wednesday i can pick one or two up

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Post by Clark Kent »

I just sent my payment for 2 pages from JayJay, and along with the 4 pieces of art I bought from hillmanthe2nd yesterday will be my first pieces of Valiant art.

You rock!

By the way, I'm the one who took the Magnus #4 pg. 13 and Magnus #5 pg. 5 from JayJay.

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I can't wait to get some more original art...my new hobby and way to spend lots and lots of money!

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I was soooo close to buying the Magnus #5 page. I bet it looks great up close. congrats


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