Our Marvelous American Heritage

A couple of choice pieces of original art currently on Heritage Auctions.

Jack Kirby/Joe Sinnott – Fantastic Four #86 Cover

I can’t say for sure if the Pro-White changes on Doctor Doom were made by Joe and/or someone at the Marvel office. In this collection of Joe’s brushes, in the middle of the container you’ll see one with dried Pro-White.

Ditko’s inking is a good contrast to Joe because he favored a pen for outlines, using a brush for emphasis and solid areas.

Steve Ditko – Amazing Spider-Man #18, p.12

In Defense of Audio

Something from today’s Washington Post:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/08/18/bidens-bogus-claim-that-afghanistans-military-was-larger-than-nato-allies/

“Roughly 40% of the total [300,000 security forces] consisted of Afghan National Police (ANP) whose forces varied sharply in quality, were largely conventional police and could not play an effective paramilitary role or properly hold even supposedly secure areas,” writes Anthony Cordesman of the Center for the strategic and International Studies in a report published this week on the Afghan military’s collapse.

Someone named Anthony Cordesman also wrote this:

https://www.theabsolutesound.com/author/anthony-cordesman

To the extent that new surround recordings exist, they now seem to consist largely of SACDs from a few leading U.S. audiophile recording firms like Reference Recordings and a number of European firms that have helped keep SACD alive after Sony largely abandoned it, and that are now beginning to experiment with other methods of surround recording.

Coincidence or the same guy? Same guy. This is a question that’s been asked and answered in audio circles for decades.