Doctor Strange by Paul Smith Artist’s Edition Review: Marvel Magic Preserved at Original-Art Scale

Doctor Strange by Paul Smith Artist’s Edition – Marvel Doctor Strange by Paul Smith Artist’s Edition gives Marvel fans an extraordinary opportunity to study Paul Smith’s acclaimed 1980s artwork as close to the original boards as most readers will ever get, preserving the ink, blue pencil, corrections, production marks, aging paper, and physical character of the pages in an oversized archival presentation. Some collected editions are designed to reread stories. Others are designed to preserve history. Doctor Strange by Paul Smith Artist’s Edition does both, but its greatest strength is letting readers see the physical craft behind the comics. Featuring artwork by Paul Smith and classic Doctor Strange stories written by Roger Stern, this massive Artist’s Edition is not simply another reprint of Marvel material. It reproduces original art scans in color and at or near the size the pages were originally drawn, allowing details normally erased by conventional printing to become part of the experience. The result is a book made not only for Doctor Strange readers, but also for comic artists, original-art collectors, Marvel historians, and anyone who has ever wondered what a finished comi...