This is pretty cool … Rob at the Aquaman Shrine shares a page from DC’s official style guide that shows the Pantone color swatches used for several of their characters:
“I love how distinctive those poses by Jose Luis Garcia Lopez are–Green Arrow with his bow, Plastic Man being goofy, Batman a bit stand-offish,” Rob writes. He also notes the colors used to create Aquaman’s uniform, in case you were wondering what my title was referring to.
(Thanks Michael!)
November 20th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
That’s really cool. I dig DC stuff from the 70’s.
What would be even cooler though, would be, when you click on a pic in the blog, if it actually got bigger.
November 20th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
Oh, snap! You got served, Blog@!
November 20th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
Wow, dude. This is a great find. I love how the characters are expressed, like it was a series of “Class of” photos.
JLA ‘66 through ‘76 (rough numbers, people ;¬))
November 20th, 2008 at 10:34 pm
That image can actually be found in the DC Vault book that just came out.
November 25th, 2008 at 11:06 am
That’s actually one of my favorite images in the DC Vault book. There are tons of things in the book that I’ve never seen, like a really weird cigarette lighter from the 1950’s with the Johnny DC character on it!