Well, I was one of those people, because I was looking for it Storm’s left breast (the one on “our” right in the image), the one covered by her robe. But it’s the other breast, Storm’s right (our left), the one beneath the towel with which she’s drying her hair, and it’s plain as day.

So maybe the people that aren’t seeing it aren’t looking for it on the correct breast. Or maybe I’m the only one dense enough to screw that up…

Actually, I’ll bet that Terry Austin was the one who added that nipple to Storm in that panel. I believe Byrne has said something to that effect on his site. And I know for a fact that inker Kim DeMulder was the one who drew in the She-Hulk’s nips in the Graphic Novel (Kim was one of my teachers at the Kubert School).

Yeah, I’ve covered the DeMulder one before!

That’s a fair enough point, John, though, about Austin/Byrne. I edited the piece the other day to note that it could have been Austin who added the nipple.

My mutant power is the ability to detect my own kin.

I agree that we’re all trying to see something that isn’t there. I think the combination of reprinting the page and enlarging the blurriness is playing tricks with the eyes.

The image actually gets sharper when you decrease the size of the image. It’s clearly there, and was clearly meant to be covered up with the coloring. When the coloring was removed, the image was shown – when it was never intended to be. There is no controversy here. It’s just a funny situation where the removal of the color showed something that was never meant to be shown.

Personally, I think it’s time American comics got over the whole nudity issue. The fact is that every super-hero in a spandex outfit is simply the nude human figure but with color. So what’s the big deal about seeing a body part colored the normal way?

Checking http://www.action-figures.ca/lost_world_warlord.htm

OK, they were REMCO figures and the designs included Arak, Warlord, and Hercules. Arion not included. Close, though.

…Certainly. We all know that Ororo has no nipples whatsoever. However, the real surprise in this week’s CBLR is that Kupps didn’t try to tie in MOTU with Arion, as he did almost everything else he did in the 80′s. Including the pathetic post-COIE Power Girl origin retcon that thankfully was relegated as not only never having happened, but totally swept under the rug and forgotten.

The supposed nipple being debated here is about as legit as the alleged penis in whatever shadow of whichever other misinterpreted panel as described in another column of this series,

Seriously? You can’t see that nipple that’s blatantly visible in the black and white panel and slightly visible in the colour versions? It’s blatantly there and blatantly not an accident of shading.

The penis on the other hand, I could easily see, but can see how it was an accident of the shading.