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Pretty much the same list for the last few years:

Alex’ Comic Art Wish List

In the reasonably possible:

• Aparo B&B page (art and letters by Jim)

In the Serious Stretch Goals category, we have:

• Ditko Creeper
• Everett Sub-Mariner page
• Kirby Thor or New Gods page
• Rogers Detective (Batman) page from his wonderful run with Steve Englehart and Terry Austin
• Mayer Scribbly page (if there are any)
• Shuster Superman
• Sprang Batman
• Swan/Klein Superman or LSH page

Special cases - I know they exist, but I doubt that I could spend what it would take to get them:

• The splash to JLA 29 (1st series) or the cover, but I'd prefer the splash.
  • This one is on Heritage, but it's already beyond what I would spend.
  • There are two other pages from the book up as well.
  • It's almost $30K including BP with more than two weeks left to go.
  • It is nice to know it exists.  
• Cover to The Official Legion of Super-Heroes Index #1. 
  • The cover to #2 would also work, but it's in David Mandel's collection and I doubt that I could pry it loose.
  • I bid on #2 when it was up for auction to raise money to save Jerry Siegel's house, but I was the under bidder. 
• A four page Scribbly story recreation by Sheldon Mayer for the book The Greatest Golden Age Stories Ever Told.
  • It was up for auction by his son this year, but billed as the original art for the GA comic, but it was a recreation.
  • The family refunded the money and kept the art. Sigh...

Comic Strips:

• Skippy strip by Percy Crosby
• Peanuts by Charles Schulz
• Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson

7 hours ago, Varanis said:

Do you have a link to some examples of virtual museums? I find the concept really interesting. Have any utilized VR yet?

I think the most well known example in our neck of the woods is the Jack Kirby Museum and Research Center which is totally on-line. I consider it a real museum because of:

• It's tax exempt status
• It's board of directors
• It's activities to scan all of his existing work and make it available for viewing

Sounds like a museum to me.

54 minutes ago, grapeape said:

Almost....almost got Sugar and Spike on there!!!

 

I heard that and I'm so disappointed that Sheldon turned it down. They deserve to be front and center!

3 hours ago, Caltex98 said:

Absolutely amazing, Alex! I'm impressed (to say the least).

It was a lot of fun. I gave copies to my comic dealer, @MrBedrock, and his GM, Michael Steenbergen. Kathy and I signed Mike's. When I decided to get my first ever comic graded as a lark, Richard when through the 20 or so that I had left and picked out two to grade. He sent them off as a gift. It will be fun to see how they turn out in the grading process. Of the 30 original copies, I have two left. A sellout!

On 12/23/2020 at 3:56 PM, Blastaar said:

I was speaking more to the process. Does it count as “art’ if it’s a mass produced trace. 

I'll give an example. This is my Fone Bone by Jeff Smith.

Jeff did the pencils by hand. He took that and, by hand, lightbox inked 50 copies. Each copy is somewhat different. Those copies were then painted by his colorist on the Scholastic reprints - Steve Hamaker.

Original art? I think so.
 

On 12/24/2020 at 2:29 AM, Webhead2018 said:

Ya folks get really particular about light boxing and all. But heck most guys use light boxes and other programs same for digital folks. So to me if the artist is actually doing the work. I feel it's real art. Now if it's just copy and trace then to me it lessens it. But if it's there own work. Then that different. Same for folks who are inking or coloring another artist work. Yes they are tracing. But they are not ripping off others work and so forth.

Absolutely true. Many inked pieces start as separate figure drawings in pencil on scraps of paper that get fed to a light box for final pencils or direct inking.

In my experience, HA is really good about fixing these items when they are reported before the item sells.

10 minutes ago, Blastaar said:

I was speaking more to the process. Does it count as “art’ if it’s a mass produced trace. 

I think so. Inking is a skill; it's not just tracing even if a lightbox is involved.

On 12/23/2020 at 1:44 PM, Blastaar said:

Not sure if these count as commissions anymore as others have pointed out that much of these are tracings but I always loved Neal’s version of Robin.

If it's drawn by request, it's a commission.

If it's drawn on spec by the artist and you buy it, it's not a commission.

At least, that's the way I handle it.

3 hours ago, Unstoppablejayd said:

I love the little blurbs on Bechara's site ( this one is obviously wrong) but you can see his affection for the art in a lot of them. Just email him he will correct.

I just sent them a note.

2 hours ago, grapeape said:

In Bills defense (he needs no defense I love Bill) 😆 he misses a lot of questions on the ComicArtLive. There’s a lot going on......

B

If you are ever doing one of these, get a spotter to watch the questions and comments. There's no way that a normal, human moderator/host can do their job and watch what people type.

1 hour ago, RBerman said:

I bet we all have issues or whole series we'd love to own (and preserve) intact if price were no object. It's too late to accomplish for issues of the past, so the best one could hope for would be to find something brand new to hold onto.

Not I.

I really try to minimize the number of pieces by an artist featuring the same character. I love lots of stories, but have zero interest in owning an entire one. 

New Art Day - Mon-El by Cross

Cross does a lot of work for Aspen and I think she did a really nice job on this classic Mon-El from the LSH. A Secret Santa gift opened a few days early!

Click the image to embiggen: 

New Art Day - Mon-El by Cross

Cross does a lot of work for Aspen and I think she did a really nice job on this classic Mon-El from the LSH. A Secret Santa gift opened a few days early!

Click the image to embiggen: 

3 hours ago, ESeffinga said:

Did it look like this?

 

 

Eric, you silly man; that one is clearly signed and the OP asked about unsigned.

23 minutes ago, jjonahjameson11 said:

Can you please elaborate on this?

Prediction: For certain pieces, the seller can opt to have part (or all) the seller's fee turned into a bidder's premium.

I have an unpublished page, but not from a comic. It's from Sheldon Mayer's attempt to get Sugar and Spike into syndication on the comic page of newspapers around the country.

He tried twice and this is the "Sunday" from one of those tries. Click the link to get a bigger image and more information.

The full story is in the Description on the CAF link embedded in the image.
 

At least. It could go for more given some of the creators on it. It's likely as genuine Bob Kane as you are going to find, for example.

On 12/17/2020 at 1:44 AM, Dr_Strange said:

Mike says he did not do the partial inks which heritage attribute to him 

Today, the Heritage description reads: A few ink highlights were added to the piece offered here, by an unknown hand.