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Action 1 Original Art

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Fedoraman

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The whiteout is a nice touch of "authenticity".

 

Just for fun! :)

 

In 1951, Bette Nesmith Graham, (mother of Monkees member Michael Nesmith) invented the first correction fluid in her kitchen. Working as a typist, she used to make many mistakes and always strived for a way to correct them. Starting on a basis of tempera paint she mixed with a common kitchen blender. She called the outcome fluid Mistake Out and started to provide her coworkers with small green bottles on which the brand's name was displayed.

 

By 1956, Bette Nesmith Graham founded the Mistake Out Company and continued working from her kitchen nights and weekends to produce small batches of correction bottles. Ironically, she was fired from her typist job after she made a mistake she did not manage to correct. She had typed in her company name instead of the bank's. After this stroke of bad luck, she decided to devote her time to her new company.[1]

 

The inventor offered the product to IBM, which declined the offer. She sold the product, renamed Liquid Paper, from her house for 17 years. By 1968, the product was profitable, and in 1979 the Liquid Paper Corporation was sold to the Gillette Corporation for $47.5 million with royalties.

 

In 2000, Liquid Paper was acquired by Newell Rubbermaid. In some regions of the world, Liquid Paper is now endorsed by Papermate, a widely known writing instruments brand.

 

Interesting story!

 

But if that is true, what is the white stuff on this cover:

 

superheroes_DetectiveComics.jpg

 

Published in 1943?

 

 

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rockman2008

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The whiteout is a nice touch of "authenticity".

 

Just for fun! :)

 

In 1951, Bette Nesmith Graham, (mother of Monkees member Michael Nesmith) invented the first correction fluid in her kitchen. Working as a typist, she used to make many mistakes and always strived for a way to correct them. Starting on a basis of tempera paint she mixed with a common kitchen blender. She called the outcome fluid Mistake Out and started to provide her coworkers with small green bottles on which the brand's name was displayed.

 

By 1956, Bette Nesmith Graham founded the Mistake Out Company and continued working from her kitchen nights and weekends to produce small batches of correction bottles. Ironically, she was fired from her typist job after she made a mistake she did not manage to correct. She had typed in her company name instead of the bank's. After this stroke of bad luck, she decided to devote her time to her new company.[1]

 

The inventor offered the product to IBM, which declined the offer. She sold the product, renamed Liquid Paper, from her house for 17 years. By 1968, the product was profitable, and in 1979 the Liquid Paper Corporation was sold to the Gillette Corporation for $47.5 million with royalties.

 

In 2000, Liquid Paper was acquired by Newell Rubbermaid. In some regions of the world, Liquid Paper is now endorsed by Papermate, a widely known writing instruments brand.

 

Interesting story!

 

But if that is true, what is the white stuff on this cover:

 

superheroes_DetectiveComics.jpg

 

Published in 1943?

 

 

Possibly Snopake? Liquid Paper may have been the most famous brand but it wasn't the first correction fluid.

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Aman619

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thats probably a white gouache paint--- water based, used to white out india inking...

 

what made Liquid Paper special and different was that it was devised and marketed to office workers, typists, as it dried opaque and really fast, and could go right back into the typewriter without drying time, no smearing etc.. hence, Liquid "paper!"

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rob_react

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The whiteout is a nice touch of "authenticity".

 

Just for fun! :)

 

In 1951, Bette Nesmith Graham, (mother of Monkees member Michael Nesmith) invented the first correction fluid in her kitchen. Working as a typist, she used to make many mistakes and always strived for a way to correct them. Starting on a basis of tempera paint she mixed with a common kitchen blender. She called the outcome fluid Mistake Out and started to provide her coworkers with small green bottles on which the brand's name was displayed.

 

By 1956, Bette Nesmith Graham founded the Mistake Out Company and continued working from her kitchen nights and weekends to produce small batches of correction bottles. Ironically, she was fired from her typist job after she made a mistake she did not manage to correct. She had typed in her company name instead of the bank's. After this stroke of bad luck, she decided to devote her time to her new company.[1]

 

The inventor offered the product to IBM, which declined the offer. She sold the product, renamed Liquid Paper, from her house for 17 years. By 1968, the product was profitable, and in 1979 the Liquid Paper Corporation was sold to the Gillette Corporation for $47.5 million with royalties.

 

In 2000, Liquid Paper was acquired by Newell Rubbermaid. In some regions of the world, Liquid Paper is now endorsed by Papermate, a widely known writing instruments brand.

 

Interesting story!

 

But if that is true, what is the white stuff on this cover:

 

superheroes_DetectiveComics.jpg

 

Published in 1943?

 

 

Artists don't use white-out. I know it kind of looks like white out, but it's not. You can't ink over white-out, it gums up and it smells. What you see on comic art is what's commonly called "white opaque"

 

Here's a bottle from Copic

 

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It's a white, thick watercolor paint that you can apply with a real brush (not that ridiculous thing in the white-out bottle.) I'm not sure exactly what the formula or brand names would have been in the 1940s, but they would have had something similar if not exactly the same to the products we use today.

 

Actually, the products likely would have been better (albeit more toxic) since they would have been able to use lead and other now-shunned substances to make the pigment.

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Sal

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yeah, that Schnapp article is good so far, but the author not only is suggesting that Flee's mock-up is the real thing, but that the infamous photoshopped newsstand image showing four copies of Action 1 is a geniune picture as well.

 

(shrug)

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Sal

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i tried to, but got a "permanent fatal error" from my email client.

 

Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the recipient domain. We recommend contacting the other email provider for further information about the cause of this error. The error that the other server returned was: 550 550 No Such User Here" (state 14).
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G.A.tor

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i tried to, but got a "permanent fatal error" from my email client.

 

Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the recipient domain. We recommend contacting the other email provider for further information about the cause of this error. The error that the other server returned was: 550 550 No Such User Here" (state 14).
well, at least you tried (thumbs u
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Sal

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yeah, i actually sent that immediately after writing the post above...the way the article was written, it really seemed as though the author thought both the Flee Action 1 OA and the newsstand image were both authentic and was hoping to at least let the author know they weren't.

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Moondog

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yeah, i actually sent that immediately after writing the post above...the way the article was written, it really seemed as though the author thought both the Flee Action 1 OA and the newsstand image were both authentic and was hoping to at least let the author know they weren't.

 

I thought I read that the blog was shut down in 2007...

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