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When you replied to my claim on Ike's FB post, I thought you meant that you had beaten me (again!). Better luck on the next Sprang!

Unpublished Faux Sugar and Spike #100 Cover featuring The Legion of Super-Heroes by Jeffrey Moy

Published Skippy in "He Hadn't an Eye for It." (1933-07-06) by Percy Crosby in many, many newspapers

Published Sugar and Spike #93 pg 11 - How to Play "Arrgh!" by Sheldon Mayer

Clicking an image will take you to the CAF page for the piece where you can learn more. Published Pages Sugar and Spike #93 pg 11 - How to Play “Arrgh!” by Sheldon Mayer (all) I think Sheldon Mayer was brilliant. He pulled Superman from the “reject pile.” He was DC’s best editor in the Golden Age. He stepped back and did what he loved most - cartooning. His best work showed up the most in Sugar and Spike. That wonderful series ended with issue 98 due to Sheldon’s failing eyesight. DC produced a decade later a 99th issue. That 99th issue is labeled as such and was part of a “Silver Age Classics” series. One of my collecting goals has been to get a one-page, published Strips Skippy - 1933-07-06 - Crosby, Percy Skippy was huge. Percy Crosby licensed him to everyone for every kind of product. He missed one an it contributed to his downfall - peanut butter. It’s a wonderful strip with a thriller of a backstory in Percy’s life. Charles Schulz acknowledge Skippy as inspiration. I love his sketchy style and his sense of humor matches mine. Commissions General Discussion of my Faux Sugar and Spike #100 covers As mentioned above, I think Sheldon Mayer is brilliant with Sugar and Spike capping his career as a cartoonist. That wonderful series ended with issue 98 due to Sheldon’s failing eyesight. DC produced a decade later a 99th issue as part of its “Silver Age Classics” series. This issue was special in two ways: It contained new to the US material created by Sheldon after cataract surgery restored his eyesight. This material was sold outside the US initially. There’s supposed to be a lot of it. The others issues in the series were straight reprints. It was numbered to continue the original series on the cover; the other members of the series used the original issue numbers on their covers. One day, DC will resume publication of S&S in the US with the material he did for sales outside the US. When that day comes, it will need to be a big event with many variant covers. I am here to help with that! This has been a great year for these with one arriving just after the start of 2020 (an extended Christmas present) and the other as an anniversary present. Faux Sugar and Spike #100 featuring the Legion of Super-Heroes by Jeffrey Moy Jeff was the artist on a long run of the Post-Zero Hour Legionnaires series. It was a delightful book that started the Legion over. This era is often know as the Reboot Legion or the Archie Legion. The tale represents our heroes (S&S) teaming with the LSH to find the brains (Bernie the Brain and Braniac 5) of the groups. He nailed it. Faux Sugar and Spike #100 Cover featuring Maggie Simpson by Bill Morrison Bill is best known for being the Editor of MAD for a time and for his long run with Bongo Comics who published The Simpsons. I love this one. Sugar is one-upped by Spike and Maggie is taking over! You an see all of the faux S&S covers here and in the figure below. Preliminary drawing for Sprang’s The Batcave Revealed Late in his life, was rediscovered by Bob Koppany who wrote a wonderful book about and his career, The Art of Richard W. Sprang. In the book, Bob wrote about four “Batcave” commissions. This is the preliminary for one of those four. Here’s the finished piece which I do not own (click to see the auction result). Regards, Alex Johnson Visit my CAF gallery at http://cafurl.com?i=12727 Your comments are more than welcome.

@Alex Keyfes, you might find this thread of use to you - Pricing Comic Art. Click on the spoiler text (Reveal hidden contents) in the first post. It covers a lot of basics and offers general advice. Let me know if you find it useful or have suggestions.

@Heidjer Staecker, the big worries are heat, humidity, and ultra-violet light. A/C will handle first two. LEDs (unlike fluorescent bulbs) emit very little UV so if the shutters are closed, you should be fine. I'd prefer incandescent lights, but ... There's a lot on the web about UV from LEDs and they all say the same thing.

New Art Day - Faux Sugar and Spike 100 cover featuring The Legion of Super-Heroes Yes, once again, my daughter's inheritance has been squandered; this time on an anniversary present for me! Thanks, Kathy! Two of my favorites (Sugar and Spike plus the Legion of Super-Heroes) on one cover! This piece feature the time traveling LSH visiting our heroes. The LSH is looking for their Brain(iac 5) while S&S are confused by the fact that their friend, Bernie the Brain, is also missing. Jeffrey Moy did a wonderful job taking my terrible art direction and making it awesome. Thanks, Jeffrey! https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1772654 or click the image

I think he's underrated and this was a great story from which to get a page.

Are the people in the background known? Would be cool to be one of them.

New Art Day - Sugar and Spike in "How to Play 'Arrgh!'" from Sugar and Spike 93 Back in 2005, I made my first art purchase, my wonderful Curt Swan Superman. However, that evening, I was really trying to win a published, one-page Sugar and Spike story. I failed at that. Now that quest is complete! Click the image to read more and get a bigger picture.

Two new pieces: Sugar and Spike in Infants' Inspiration by Barry Kitson (click to embiggen). It's an interesting piece. Girl with Balloon is one of Caitlin's favorite pieces of art. I think she may have had an impact on the image. I also stumbled upon the Color Guide for one of my covers. I've placed it in the Additional Images section of the cover. It came with an overlay with instructions to the production team. Check it out. Click to embiggen.

That's magic!.

New Art Day - Young Fara from The First Kingdom by Jack Katz. Liam Sharp published a bunch of Jack’s previously unseen art in The Unseen Art of Jack Katz as a Kickstarter. One of the options was a remarque by Jack in the book. I could not resist. The image is from a 93 year old artist! Check it out here: https://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=1753691

This is the good stuff!

You can see mine on the wall (pre-remodel) here.

I'd add that Bookshop.org is a reasonable place to shop; they were setup up to fight Amazon and directly support independent book shops with cash why you buy from them. Forbes has a good article about them here. Note: I have no idea if the author's get paid.

Here's Glen's page on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Glen-David-Gold/e/B001KH8O00%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share There's a funny bio on the left of the page.

I keep my collection in a MS Word document as a set of tables. Why word? I just prefer working in it and because I have other items (text) in the same file. That was awkward in Excel. I do have a matching spreadsheet in which I can place the MS Word table using copy and paste. That spreadsheet does my statistics - total spent, number of pieces by an artist, number of purchases by each source, etc.. I've never linked the portfolio location to the record in the MS Word document. I only have a few portfolios and they are labeled by content/theme so finding stuff (for me) isn't too hard. I should probably consider that. Since all of my art is on the CAF, the title for the art has a link to that page. Here are my headings: Title of Art Artist Source Type Price BP Tax S/H Date Comments

At least one that I know, he was audited by the IRS and had to pay up. It was painful. He is assiduous about record keeping now.

I can't answer your question with any degree of authority, but I doubt a grand. I fall in the $200 side of the argument. That said, if you'd like some ideas on how to get estimates, you might consider reading this post that I've done.

Oh, yeah. I had a birthday celebration (65th! How did that happen?). My birthday was a couple of weeks ago, but we are all busy so we celebrated this past weekend. I got presents! First and foremost, Kathy, Allie, Larry, Lars, Elizabeth, Rebecca, and my mom, Mary Louise, teamed up for a family portrait by Dan Parent. I'm still working out why he keeps including Mr. Weatherbee, Archie's principal, in these! The comic we are reading is one that I plotted and that Thom Zahler Cartooning scripted and drew telling how I met and married Kathy. You can read that story here: https://outside-affiliatelinksnotallowed.com/YoungRomanceNo1 The rest of the gifts you can see in the other picture except for two: My BIL, Roy, made me cookie dough which I ate. My co-grandfather, Neal, bought me a rather interesting book "have a little faith" by Mitch Albom. You can read a little more about this piece and learn how to contact Dan by clicking here: http://cafurl.com?i=26364

Beautiful work. I can see why you did it! Congrats.

I put them in my Itoya and use archival corners to hold them in place. A photo book would probably work just as well.

Updated with two new FB groups (Deal or No Deal, Commissions).