No shades of grey as such... The reprints I am talking about are more or less the same as the comics you have, except it's as if the comic page never made it to the colouring department. Or, put another way, the comics are just the pencils, inks, and lettering. Nothing else.
Here is a page from "How to Tame a Wild Volcano." The actual page is normal size, but I have had to drastically reduce the size and quality to put it here... But hopefully you can get an idea of what I mean.
I talked about this a bit in my
Australia & New Zealand: the Reprint Anthologies thread, which is around here somewhere... And I believe I discussed in this forum with the great India Ink about exactly how (?) the Australian and New Zealand publisher physically obtained the comics pages to reprint... The reprints started in the 40s and go all the way through to the 80s, or thereabouts.
(this is called, "black and white reconstruction" officially, but in plain English it's "tracing." Similarly, it's credited to "Rick Keene," which translates to "caffeine-crazed chimpanzee with a Sharpey")
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