![]() Artists and publishers didn't consider the eventual yellowing of paper when choosing their colors. One hundred years ago, publishers never dreamed that comic strips, and eventually comic books, would ever be enjoyed for more than a handful of readings before being tossed into the trash or fireplace. It was simple economics… newsprint was cheap. It was white, and it was intend to be white… well, more accurately, an off-white. The point is, comics weren't printed on paper with the intention of giving you a yellow background. Leave it in a box in a cool, dark attic, and it can take decades. Keep it on a table indoors and it could take months. If you leave the paper out in the sun it may begin to turn yellow in a few days. Newsprint is a very low quality paper, and, depending on the conditions, will turn yellow relatively quickly. It certainly isn't bright white, but it is FAR from yellow. Hop into your time machine, head over to your favorite newsstand in 1942 and open any comic book… the paper isn't yellow. Wanting reprinted comics to look yellowed and faded makes as much sense as manufacturing a new, rusted out, beat-up version of a classic automobile. That is how those old comics look now, after years of unavoidable deterioration. 'Old' comics DIDN'T look like that when they were first printed. One of the things that baffles me most is when people want their comic book reprints to 'look like the original printings', and they think that should include yellowed paper and faded colors. Have you ever purchased a brand new newspaper? You know, a newspaper that was printed on the date that you bought it? Was the paper yellow… of course not. ORDER BEFORE JANUTO GET OUR SPECIAL 'PRE-ORDER' DISCOUNT! CLICK HERE!
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