The Brave & the Bold No. 116 Cover by Jim Aparo
Another of Aparo’s inset covers for a 100-page The Brave & the Bold. A creepy idol comes to life in a supernatural team-up of Batman and the Spectre.
Reformatted for full cover presentation. New colour and cover packaging by me.
As published.
Stat of the original art by Jim Aparo in the 100-page cover layout.
Clean-up of the scan with the art extended at the top to fill the cover.
Homage to the original cover colour.
Re-created trade dress added.
New colour version.
Alternately-coloured trade dress added.
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Brilliant “remastering”. Seriously. Was hipped to your work when you did a remaster of B&B 112. Now, this, more recent, bit of remastering appeared on the Aparo site and… wow. What’d really be great would be seeing a book’s worth of your remastering work on a lot of Jim Aparo’s covers. ‘Til then, I’ll keep an eye peeled for more work right here (B&B issues 113, 114, 115 and 117 are really in need of it; as are Aparo’s Detective Comics covers 440, 441, 442, 443, 444 and 445). As the natives here in Australia say: Goodonya!
Thanks, Dorman. Appreciate the kind words.
If/when I find scans of the other 100-page B&B cover art, I’ll be happy to turn them into full-cover versions. I do have scans of a couple of the Detectives, but they’re too low-res and blurry to work with.
Absolutely superb work on the remastering. Am loving every example that I’ve seen on your site so far. I’d be interested to see what you could do with expanding the Adams cover to Detective Comics No. 421.
Also, have you given any thought to colouring the Batman drugs issue that Frank Robbins drew, but was never published?
Hi Ian –
Thanks for the kind words.
Whether I can do a piece or not comes down to the quality of the lineart scan. If it’s small and heavily compressed, it’s not worth it. Thankfully, many people share high-res scans of art.