My Custom Bound Hardcovers of 2020

Here I run down all of the custom hardcovers that I made during 2020 while I was in quarantine.
If you want to make your own custom hardcovers I made a handy guide to help you out, which you can watch here: • Beginners Guide to Cus...
Here are the mappings I made for Green Lantern and Spawn.
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[@jrandt08]

The month you were born Omni is a wonderful idea

[@jrandt08]

Spawn Collection is the nicest I’ve ever seen.

[@thecomicarchive]

Thanks man! I dig them. I started the project before the compendiums came out and I’m not gonna lie, once I heard about them I was like, did I make a mistake? But I put so much extra stuff in there, not to mention how much the ads and letters take me back to that time.

[@funnypicturescomics]

EXCELLENT WORK! This is absolutely just incredible! Would have loved to do this with my 90's comics!!

[@jrandt08]

@2:03 the full art double page gutter is fantastic!

[@timburnham1283]

Those all turned out great! I especially love the Spawn and Savage Dragon volumes. :-D

[@timburnham1283]

Commented before I got to the completion of your GL binds! WOWZA! :-0

[@thecomicarchive]

Thanks so much! Definitely some fun ones to have on the shelf and read.

[@michaelbaez8417]

Pretty dam cool.

[@ShakeyHands25]

Do you have a guide for the Geoff John's Green Lantern ?

[@thecomicarchive]

I do! docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yFddrr9MP8Bs5CkxHyqGN-WfVNkG7XJwm6pgjCYX_Yc/edit

[@wreynolds85]

These books are beautiful. I’m starting the exact same Green Lantern project. I’m looking to get pointed in the right direction for the mapping you did. Is there a resource that I can look up the mapping? Is your book zero Green Lantern Rebirth the 6 issue set?

[@thecomicarchive]

Thanks so much! The zero book I redid recently. It was all sorts of stuff from before Rebirth like zero hour, emerald twilight. Things that are referenced heavily in Geoff Johns run. Then books 1 starts with Rebirth. I’ll put a link to the mapping I used in the video description.

[@alexbraun3595]

I’ve still been needing to have some books bound. There’s so many books I want to get bound. I wanted make a complete omnibus for Appleseed, a complete set of Image 1963, and a complete Lone Wolf & Cub.

[@thecomicarchive]

I would love to see a complete lone wolf &cub. I did Appleseed and 1963 and those are great candidates for custom binds.

[@alexbraun3595]

@@thecomicarchive I wanna see what those look like.

[@GuyEndore]

I like the monthly marvel volume! How much does it cost to have books bound?

[@thecomicarchive]

The price can vary a lot depending on what you want but most places start at about $25 a book and go from there.

[@noahidecomics]

Yeh, this is probably pretty cool to me, actually.

[@1993peterbradley]

Hey! Great work! Quick question about the covers, how do you get the images in a sufficiently high quality so they print well? Do you scan in your comics at a high resolution or do you find what you need on google?

[@thecomicarchive]

Thanks! For the graphic covers I usually do one of two things, scan in covers or elements I need at 400 to 600dpi (what I did for green lantern), or I use screen captures from comixology (what I did for spawn).

[@jonathansoko1085]

Also, there is a large community for this stuff and im sure if you ask others that have cool covers you want to use for yourself, they will give it to you

[@Shade_91]

can you send them a book and have them just copy the covers and spine?

[@thecomicarchive]

I believe so. I enjoy doing the design side of things but I think they can just scan the covers and spine and print that out. You should email Tom and Houchen (his email is on their home page) and ask though.

[@Shade_91]

@@thecomicarchive okay cool thanks for the help

[@benportzer]

How many issues were in the batman book

[@thecomicarchive]

It’s issues 1 through 23

[@jacksonahr]

@@thecomicarchive that is awesome. You’ve been inspiring me to do “smyth sewn” instead of other methods. Did 1-23 use “smyth sewn” binding or did it use another one given how large that collection was? Thanks in advance for the answer!

[@thecomicarchive]

Yep! These were smyth sewn. I try to keep my smyth sewn volumes to about 20 issues but occasionally I will go over that.