Pulled From My Files #30: SPECTRE 52 title

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My hand-lettered title over pencils by Tom Mandrake on THE SPECTRE #52 dated April 1997. Photocopied so I could refer to it when I did later parts of the story. Since it was lettered on the pencilled art, it wasn’t something I could cut and paste onto another issue, but it helped to have the style to look at when I lettered later chapters. Some time in the early 1990s I bought my own copy machine, and it made it so much easier to save reference like this. Before that I had to drive to the library to make a copy of something. Today I can simply open a previous digital file if I need to, but at the time, once I shipped the pencilled pages back to Tom Mandrake for inking, I wouldn’t see this again until the printed comic came to me a few months later.