A treasure trove for comics nerds of my generation: this style guide was produced by DC Comics over thirty years ago for licensees of their many iconic characters. I remember many of the images from seeing them on beach blankets, tee-shirts and other items over the years. The majority of the art in the guide was illustrated by artist José Luis Garcia-Lopez. Where comic book artists as a whole have traditionally been quite expressive and interpretive, Garcia-Lopez’s clean, strong line was able to forge a reasonably canonical notion of what these characters “really” looked like.

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