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And a graphic demonstration of why art should rarely be shot UP for reproduction! Most of these heads were drawn a little but larger than a 25¢ piece, and it's really jarring to see how soft and muddy they become when printed larger than that! They were drawn for reduction.

(Drawing for reduction was one of the things I took a long time to learn. At 10x15 inches, the blank page presents an awful lot of white space and, especially without having balloons and captions to take up space, I had a great urge to fill every inch. And some of that space-filling was also the job of the colorist. Trying to back that down a notch or two is one of the factors that contributed to the "open" period of my work, when some pages would look disturbingly like they belonged in coloring books. Happily, that is mostly behind me -- tho it was odd to work on some of the TREK books, where I was deliberately keeping it open for "Desilu color".)

This business of the green tunics appearing gold floors me every time it arises on this forum. There are countless still photos extant from the studios of movie and television stars standing patiently in costume for color tests.

Is it really to be supposed that Star Trek's creators were the only ones in Hollywood who didn't test materials to see how they'd react when photographed? That they somehow didn't know Kirk's tunic was going to be broadcast into living rooms all across America and the world as a heroic gold... That's somehow a wacky accident because they couldn't get the color they really wanted? They really couldn't have gotten pale green, no matter how hard they tried?

We know they did make-up tests for color assurance. There are funny stories about the labs color-correcting them back to flesh-tone, remember? But somehow, the costume department had no idea whatsoever what colors the tunics were going to be until the show hit the air...? Really? It couldn't be that they maybe knew how the material would photograph and went with that on purpose?

Why not give the folks behind the cameras a little credit here? I know it was a long time ago and they weren't as smart as all of us are today, but hey, maybe they might just have known what they were doing... What's say, huh?

We have a whole Forum Section for discussing this stuff!

Ha, ha.  When I read your post, Mr. Byrne, in my head I heard the klaxon when they call for a RED ALERT on the TNG series.

Now back to your regularly scheduled Marvel Head Logos discussion . . .

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And a graphic demonstration of why art should rarely be shot UP for reproduction! Most of these heads were drawn a little but larger than a 25¢ piece, and it's really jarring to see how soft and muddy they become when printed larger than that! They were drawn for reduction.

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Even tho' it may look soft and muddy, I just love that image, at any size!  It's like a warm fuzzy blanket.