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Mysterious and gorgeous new web compilation underway. – Jonathan Lethem
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If this Comic Book Cartography blog hasn’t changed your life yet, just give it time. – Comics Beat.
We admit – we are huge nerds for maps… which is why when we heard about Comic Book Cartography... we clicked on the hyperlink as hard as one can. – Comics Alliance
When we saw a blog filled with vintage comic book maps and diagrams, our heads just about exploded. Warning: visit this site and your productivity for the next hour will absolutely tank. – io9
Comic Book Cartography raises as many new questions as it answers. – The L Magazine
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Wishing you a somber Earth Day, 2010. We have met the Galactus, and he is us.
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Source: "Fantastic Four" #49, 1966
Source: Reprint story in "Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen" #131, 1970.
In the PreCrumbrian age, the ancestor of E.C. Comics published the 232 page "Picture Stories from the Bible - Complete Old Testament Edition" (1943).
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"All I see is little dots." - Talking Heads
The scans on Comic Book Cartography come from vintage comics because we love dots as much as we love diagrams. We love the cheap old four color process – which was simultaneously the barrier we struggled to see past and the space where every comic book frame opened up into infinity.
The four color process is the white noise of comics, full of hidden messages, revealing pocket universes.
Comic Book Cartography has spun off a second gallery, dedicated to these pocket universes. Dot fetishists are invited to join us at http://4cp.posterous.com/
This is the brilliant work of Chris Sims, Senior Writer at Comics Alliance. The original post also gives pointers on how to compose molecules of your favorite superheroes:
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Source: We've lost track of where we scanned these, but both are from reprints of early FF issues.