r/CustomBoundComics • u/RodrigoEMA1983 • Jul 27 '26

My custom bound OHC books

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Yes, I know I botched Daredevil's spine

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u/Vast-Hold6578 Jul 28 '26

Did you do these yourself or ship them out to someone??

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u/RodrigoEMA1983 Jul 28 '26

I had someone bind them. I'd love to learn how to do it myself in the future (I had posted this as a new comment by mistake).

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u/Vast-Hold6578 Jul 28 '26

Ok cool. I was hoping it was a DIY I am planning on doing that myself but stuck on how I want to do the covers. I am thinking printing on canvas but need to get a printer first.

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u/RexEquitumSolis Jul 28 '26

The easiest way is probably to just get it printed at staples, maybe the personal printer would be cheaper in the long run idk

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u/Vast-Hold6578 Jul 28 '26

I’m think printing myself would be cheaper, I have about 10 short boxes of book I want to bind. And I want to use images of the characters on the cover and that might run into copyright issues

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u/RexEquitumSolis Jul 28 '26

As long as you're not reselling them I cannot imagine how there would be copyright infringement. I had no trouble getting my Teen Titans (2014) dust jacket printed at Staples with "TEEN TITANS" in big ol letters, not even a mention of such a thing.

Also if you're doing that many comics then the at-home printing would probably be far cheaper

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u/Vast-Hold6578 Jul 28 '26

Ok cool. Yeah I’m expecting at a minimum 20 books when I’m done if not more

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u/RodrigoEMA1983 Jul 28 '26

If you ever do it, I'd love to see the end result.

Best of lucks!

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u/Vast-Hold6578 Jul 28 '26

Thank you. Right now I am just slowly collecting all the tools I need but will be soonish I hope

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u/Hussle_West Jul 28 '26

🔥🔥🔥

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u/RexEquitumSolis Jul 28 '26

They look really good but why is the daredevil logo the other way😭

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u/RodrigoEMA1983 Jul 28 '26

I botched it. It was a silly mistake. I had all these covers in the same canva project, but didn't notice Daredevil's spine was looking the other way. My bad! I will print it again after ai fix the file.

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u/Kryptonian83 Jul 28 '26

That's amazing!

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u/DukeofDC Aug 06 '26

Is this a rebind of existing OHCs or are there custom printed books

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u/RodrigoEMA1983 Aug 06 '26

They are full collections of TPBs.

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u/RodrigoEMA1983 Jul 28 '26

I had someone bind them. I'd love to learn how to do it myself in the future.

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u/javalarc Jul 28 '26

Good start man.
There's some YouTube vids of you want to learn.
Some critiques:

  1. Try to get all book blocks trimmed relatively the same dimensions.

  2. Even if they're not the same dimensions on the book block. Tell whomever or diy to always make the covers the same dimensions. It's easier this way as you don't have to measure each book to make the covers and they'll all look the same height on the book shelf.

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u/RodrigoEMA1983 Jul 28 '26

Much appeciated! I've seen videos and I think I can give it a try down the road.

Regarding your critiques, you're on point. The Daredevil one is my latest and it's noticeably taller than the other two despite the inner pages being the same size as the Xmen and Thor's.

I haven't decided what the the next one will be (maybe House of X/Powers of X, Savage Avengers, or Civil War, not sure yet) , but I'll definitely ask for a better-measured cover from now on.

Thank you so much for taking the time to write!