My first Qualified Manufacturing Error... posted by com1cbook

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I love image. I hate Shadowhawk.

 

To me Shadowhawk represents the worst of every high-concept, low-quality, gimmick ridden cliche that derailed the comic book industry in the 90's.

 

I got this back from CGC yesterday.

 

I love image. I hate Shadowhawk.

 

To me Shadowhawk represents the worst of every high-concept, low-quality, gimmick ridden cliche that derailed the comic book industry in the 90's.

 

I picked this book off the shelf the day it was released because I thought it was novel. Today I cherish the metaphor. When you strip away the die-cut foil, and remove the embossing from the cover. Shadowhawk was nothing more than the big smudge of ink you see here.

 

My first Manufacturing Error, and my first Qualified label.

 

If you like ME's then I hope you enjoy this one.

If you hate Shadowhawk, then I hope you enjoy it even more!

 

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Clearly this cover missed a pass through the foil machine, and I guess the same machine probably does the embossing as well.

My only disappointment is that even though the label states "MANUFACTURED WITHOUT SILVER FOIL ON COVER."

I wish it would have also noted the missing embossing.

 

The effect is pretty dramatic for multiple reasons:

• Of course Shadowhawk's chromey helmet is now a flat white.
• The mysterious "WHO IS" words are missing due to the absence of the embossing.
• The artists' signatures were also embossed and are therefore missing.
• And the overprinting of the black obfuscates the Image logo and price, etc...

 

Not to be confused with the newsstand variant which was printed in flat grays.

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And here is a look at the regular cover.

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This is pretty cool for a hardcore Image collector like me, and a 9.8 to boot. It's a keeper.

 

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[newshane]

Definitely a keeper! A very cool book for sure.

 

Shadowhawk was terrible.

 

Just a Darkhawk rip-off and terribly drawn and written. I never understood the former hype on Valentino.

[DHudgins]

Nice