I just read the Amazon listing for the (OOP) WONDER WOMAN CHRONICLES , VOL 1 , which indicates that the visual of an African-American " sleeping car porter " , drawn in the " blackface " manner of the time in the original version , is printed in a " corrected " - redrawn - version in this book .
The question of the merits of this aside , what other examples of this are there , especially with " big-time " Marvel/DC stuff ?
Replies
I've seen a few of the black faces in Ditko's Spider-man recolored...
But the most obvious redrawn art, was the reprinting of some of the Golden Age Captain America in Fantasy Masterpieces (1966) where something obviously has been removed from the hand of the villian, a daggar, or a bowstring or otherwise sanitizing the art for the post-code world of the 1960s. Some of the edits made the story not make sense, for instance, trading a dagger for a violinist's bow string. What damage could that do?
...Yeah , that was the Code , Roy Thomas said so in ALTER EGO .
Re-coloring Ditko's realistic African-American faces ? Huuhh ?
Some of the edits made the story not make sense, for instance, trading a dagger for a violinist's bow string. What damage could that do?
A garrotte, perhaps?
No, the bow was held as if threatening as a dagger or knife to slashed down.
...BTW , the Hardies and Nancy were , in many cases , greatly to 100% " retconned " , while retaining the same titles !!!!!!!
I'll say more about this later .
( And , this itself refers to the...Silver Age?? of N/H , not the present-day new ones I believe still issued . )