Working on "Blind Compassion"

I know, I got stuck with recreating the third Hulk newspaper story at around two-thirds. You can’t imagine how much work it is to get these strips clean and appealing as they should be. Lately I checked the eighth storyline "Blind Compassion" which ran from 1980-02-26 till 1980-05-18. It is the last one that also appeared in the Italian magazine "Eureka" but stopped at 1980-04-14.

Publisher Ace Tempo Books printed the story in the fourth pocket book. But a lot of textboxes were cut and panels appeared in a different order. Even some of the panels and speech balloons are missing in their entire. That's what makes it difficult to restore and recreate the strips like they originally appeared in the newspapers of 1980.

Thirteen dailies are affected by missing text. The only way to get it back was through the microfiche newspaper archives on the internet. For sure it's not the best to take these low resolution templates, but better than nothing. So, with three different sources I at least managed to recreate the original look of those strips. The little boxes with credits and date are cut or left out in the pocket books. I had to fake them using parts of other months. At this point, the strips you see here are just added together almost without any cleaning of the pages done.