From August 1981, Rich Buckler and Dick Giordano put a new spin on a horror icon for DC Comics.
The published cover.
Scan from Heritage Auctions.
The cleaned-up art.
Re-created trade dress laid in.
Original colour reconstructed.
New colour.
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Beautiful. If only someone back then had thought of putting the bar-code square on the back.
In the early days of barcodes on products there were strict rules on size. The other consideration was that advertisers did not want a UPC in the middle of the full-page ad they’d paid for.
Today, better scanners mean we can have quite thin UPC codes, and some publishers have transitioned the codes to the back covers.