The Time Machine, btw, was my first extensive use of a 3D model.

Story behind the comics: DC agreed to the original black and white edition conditional that I turn in copies of the pages before I applied the tones. This way they planned to do a color trade paperback.

I agreed to this, although it meant I could not do the pages Wally Wood style, using the grays to define shapes and even line.

And then……DC LOST the stats of the untoned pages. LOST THEM. Gone. Vanished as if they had never been.

So no color printing.*

Years later, when DC moved offices, the stats were found behind the flat files in the former editor’s office. DC was no longer interested in the color version at that point.

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*Not really connected, but marketing did initially solicit the miniseries at the same price as their color GNs. I insisted they could not rip off the fans like that. They responded that changing the solicitation would mean shipping three months late. “Tough,” I said, holding my ground.

So the book shipped late, as a result of which several projects of mine hit the stands at the same time—and OMAC was declared to look “rushed”.

All of you who purchased it for a buck less than DC wanted to charge—you’re welcome.

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Much less use of tones there.