Highway 62 Revisited

From MICRONAUTS #48

This is the following page to that last one.

Now, what’s unusual about it? Go ahead. I’ll wait.

Okay, you got your answer? Right. The color splashes in the background. They’re not trapped by black. Now, this far from the first time this technique was used, even in THE MICRONAUTS, but it’s really effective here. You have to remember, this was before digital coloring, when everything had to be replicable on offset presses that could mass produce. And the team on this one pulled it off pretty magnificently.

The page itself is pretty cool, with Mantlo channelling the King at his most cosmic and Guice/Bulandi delivering.

I actually wonder what the original page looks like, if Guice separated out the individual elements on rubylith or what.