An internal style guide for DC’s characters created by the legendary José Luis García-López is getting a high-end release that’s going to make a lot of comics fans happy.
Standards Manual, a publisher that crowdfunds and releases “artifacts of design history,” like a book of old New York subway maps and The NASA Graphics Standards Manual, has teamed with Warner Bros. Discovery Global Consumer Products to release the DC Comics Style Guide from 1982. The 384-page manual, which will include an introduction by former DC publisher Paul Levitz, is available to preorder now on their website.
The 1982 DC Comics Style Guide was created to serve as the definitive guide to the design of DC’s heroes, in particular for products and packaging of DC’s very wide range of licensed products and promotions. García-López, along with inker Dick Giordano, created the artwork for a three-ring binder that showcased artwork that licensees could use for advertisements, tie-in merchandise and, of course, as a guide for artists working on DC’s titles.
Over the years additional pages were added to it, but as times and designs changed, it eventually was no longer used. García-López released the artwork for it on his Facebook site a few years back, which only fueled interest in a book like this; DC has never released a copy to the public before.
Here’s some of the interior artwork:
The book can be preordered now for $90, while the price at launch will go up to $95. It’s expected to start shipping on Aug. 31.
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