So with respect to the king what was with all the pink and purple back then...

So with respect to the king what was with all the pink and purple back then? Was there just like a surplus of that color ink at the time or what?

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That’s not the original color intended for Galactus

Printing limitations of the time period.

Color printing was expensive, comic books were cheap. By limiting the colors used to a handful (mostly red green blue yellow and purple) they saved money. The process was also imperfect, so keeping to colors that were bright and different from each other you reduced the chances of print errors (like the one that famously turned Hulk green).

What where the original colors?

>#1: red/green coloring, I’m assuming from the original issue
#2: purple/green coloring from a reprint
#3: updated reprint, either a Masterworks or some other collection, which keeps coloring from version #1
#4: another updated reprint, this time of version #2, but the green has been replaced with the familiar blue.
#5: yet another updated reprint bringing his coloring and his costuming more in line with how he is universally (heh) depicted

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Meant to quote the whole thing.

Anyway, in the next issue he was apparently more or less his normal colors and the g on his chest was gone.

Wow. Im gonna be honest. External reasons or not the final coloring really does look the best. Especially the arms

holy crap where can i find more comparisons like that?

No idea, found it on some website I'd never heard of thats seemingly for a podcast about philidelphia, I guess they made it?

damn, would be cool to see a set like those

Left one looks like the military dude in he-man

That faggot Galactus has always been a /fa/ victim.

Galactus cares not for the fashion tastes of mere mortals. Worlds have trembled before the sight of his pink armor.

Don't different alien races see him differently?

The hands seem designed to have been bare given the detail of the knuckles and sinews so coloring them as they're gloved is a bit weird.

I don't think Jack Kirby had that much control over the color schemes of characters. That was most likely up to the colorist. Notice that many villains changed color schemes a lot over in the early days. Hulk used to be grey, Ronan the Accuser used to have pink skin, the Sandman started wearing a purple shirt to match the color scheme of the rest of the Frightful Four...

It's especially hilarious when you notice that the cover and the interior issue used different colorists. The SCARLET Witch wears GREEN on the cover of X-Men #4 for God's sake.
But the example that stands out to me is how everyone thinks that Fin Fang Foom is green, but that was only on the cover of his initial appearance. In the actual comic he's orange. Presumably when FFF was brought back years later, the colorist simply glanced at the original cover art and went with green without actually reading anything.

yes and it's a damn shame that this doesn't come up more often in the comics

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Because it is dumb. Pretentiously dumb.
He's a giant humanoids, he's not a cosmic squid or a giant alien manta ray or a glowing ball of death. He has a ship with a humanoid's chair in it, so unless his furniture appears differently to various alien races it makes no sense.

Byrne as a writer is the worst.

The only colors you could print were based on a very limited palette. This was because there were only four basic inks and they were used with the Ben Day process, which overlays dots of different colors on one another to fool the eye into seeing other colors.

However, because the inks were CMYK, you could in theory reproduce any color with them. You just couldn't always make the gradation between colors convincing.

Because of the limitations on the number of distinct colors you could create (partly because comics were printed on cheap paper, which "bleeds" inks out to merge with one another) you had to choose striking, contrasting colors. This meant that around the areas where two colors met (and remember, your heroes would be meeting these colors quite a lot) where the kind of muddy-brown darkness that attempting to replicated fully painted art would arise, you'd instead just get crisp lines so far as the human eye is concerned.

For the same reason, the backgrounds are often just white sky.

#3 is on my Omnibus, which is just a reprint of the Masterworks. Now I'm really curious where #4 and #5 come from.

>so unless his furniture appears differently to various alien races it makes no sense.
He's a planet eating monster with a space ship the size of a solar system. Shapeshifting furniture is nothing to him.

He uses an humanoid shaped armor to go around, but the details are varied. Besides, most depictions in the panel are humanoid in the sense of head above torso.

Galactus' true form is only known to Eternity... well at least according to Englehart.

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It's canon to his origin that his suit is a containment/life-support system kind of like Kosh's encounter suit. What if it regulates more than just his energy?

I don't know about you Yea Forums, but to me Marvel has always been best at cosmic.

>perfectly square mark on the heel of his palm
>should be bare
nah

I agree with you. Make Mine Marvel Cosmic.

I have a reprint and it looks like #3

>calling Galactus a faggot
I actually liked his costume even though it was pink and blue, just like I also liked Archangels pink and blue.

Ronan the accuser was white skin and green and not blue and black like the movies, it’s not a terrible look I actually liked it. Sandman only wore purple for the Frightful Four and that was for only one issue I think. Source: I have them both.

Absolutely, the double page artwork and space layouts are incredible

You're blaming the wrong person anyway. Kirby didn't color the book. It was done either by Stan Goldberg or Marie Severin.

>So with respect to the king
Do you seriously believe Pencilers pick the colors? Get the fuck out cartoonfag retard