By comparing old comic book styles to new we can see how the art work has evolved. These covers of marvel comic books from the 50s show simplistic colour pallets as the technology at that time consisted mostly of screen printing.
In more recent comics and advances in printing technology as well as digital approaches to illustrating, comic books have changed their styles to more realistic images rather than flat colours as we can see in the new Iron Man comic books.
A company based in London, Nobrow Press work in a unique way similar to the traditional methods. Artists submit different "Layers" of work in different colours to create a CMYK composition when printed repeatedly onto the same bit of paper. These colours are Cyan Magenta Yellow and Key (Black). Although black isn't a colour, the shade is created by mixing a variation of all colours. 
Whilst an artist was trying to create full black by having a dark colour, they realised it turned out grey so this created a bigger variety of tones and colours that can be created. 
Although 4 colours sounds very minimal, they can actually create a full spectrum of colours by mixing each carefully. 
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