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[QUOTE=Loren;161258]I had the Ostander/Mandrake run bound by them just a few months ago. They didn't already have a Spectre die-stamp, so I did the Photoshop work needed to have one made:
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Those are fantastic!
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[QUOTE=Loren;161258]I had the Ostander/Mandrake run bound by them just a few months ago. They didn't already have a Spectre die-stamp, so I did the Photoshop work needed to have one made:
[url=https://flic.kr/p/mJf81i][img]https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7105/13605183325_793194a440.jpg[/img][/url][/QUOTE]
I'm soooo jealous of those! They look amazing and it's an amazing run
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I was thinking about doing this with trade paperbacks. Anyone ever done it.
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[QUOTE=World1;165781]I was thinking about doing this with trade paperbacks. Anyone ever done it.[/QUOTE]
People bind their trades all the time.
If you mean binding books into paperbacks people have done that as well.
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Hermit;165787]People bind their trades all the time.
If you mean binding books into paperbacks people have done that as well.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, I meant TPB to HC.
I'm thinking of trying it with New mutants, Thundercats or Catwoman. I'm wanting something different in HC. I may actually try Catwoman if my research on collected editions of her prove worth it.
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Did they have to cast two different dies to do the front and spine, or is it a digital die that can be reshaped, or are they both just the same height as each other? Hard to tell from that angle, but those book look sharp as hell. I think I'm going to do the same green-on-black for my first bind of Savage She-Hulk.
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[QUOTE=krisis;166204]Did they have to cast two different dies to do the front and spine, or is it a digital die that can be reshaped, or are they both just the same height as each other? Hard to tell from that angle, but those book look sharp as hell. I think I'm going to do the same green-on-black for my first bind of Savage She-Hulk.[/QUOTE]
It's the same die. The perspective makes it look like it's in different sizes.
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Sharing my first bound books.
These were test books, trying to convert Marvel Epic TPBs into hardcovers.
I love the result as they lay open flat and minimal gutter loss.
[IMG]http://foticom.dk/my_pictures/epic001.jpg[/IMG]
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I will get this treatment done to awl the books containing favorite stories.
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Those are really awesome.
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[QUOTE=Henrik K. Kristensen;192575]Sharing my first bound books.
These were test books, trying to convert Marvel Epic TPBs into hardcovers.
I love the result as they lay open flat and minimal gutter loss.
[IMG]http://foticom.dk/my_pictures/epic001.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://foticom.dk/my_pictures/epic003.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://foticom.dk/my_pictures/epic005.jpg[/IMG]
I will get this treatment done to awl the books containing favorite stories.[/QUOTE]
Really awesome! Did you include the front and back cover of the TPB Epic Collections?
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I got my Spectre by Doug Moench volumes back from Herring and Robinson. They are fantastic! I'll try and post some pics later today, but I couldn't be happier with how they turned out. I'm thinking of sending in Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight next.
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Those epics are nice. Did they still charge you the same? I hate to spend $20 extra on something like that, but then again its also in a nicer package now.
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Been a long time since I visited CBR. And in that time, I started to do some comic binding through Herring and Robinson. I had a question for those of you more familiar with binding:
Custom Covers. Do you all find a place with hi-res images of covers you want to use that don't have logos, barcodes, etc? I tried Comic Book Gallery but couldn't find some I needed. Wondered if there were any more recommended sites to find them.
Thanks in advance
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Finally, I have my first two bound books - and I am already addicted! They are both from Herring & Robinson, and took about 8wks total from send to receipt.
The two projects were The Savage She-Hulk #1-25 oversewn and The Saga of the Sub-Mariner #1-12 (+ Prince Namor, Sub-Mariner #1-4, to expand the last few pages of Saga to the full story) handsewn. These were both junker runs I had for cheap but also really wanted to see collected, so they seemed like good experiments.
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I know it's 9 issues slimmer, but Namor seems to be handily beating She-Hulk on gutter loss at the middle [I]based on Namor's handsew[/I] [COLOR="#FFFFFF"]of the based on how much margin the handsew takes up. As you can see from the top view above, the handsewn book is more tightly bound - but I don't know that it's a good thing.[/COLOR]
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