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Update from John Just found another page! Keep spreading the word, and we'll get 'em all! Please share this everywhere you can!

I've had some restoration done, e.g., on my 1 page Sugar and Spike story. Click that link and you can see the before and after. I was concerned about the rubber cement on the word balloons and general stability. I think it helped. Beyond that type of thing, nope.

BTW, there are a couple of sites where you can ask this question in the privacy of your own home. I use Is it down for everyone or just me?

I hate old ads!

TwoMorrows is looking for a little help. They wrote: “TwoMorrows Publishing URGENTLY needs your help finding a few images for our upcoming hardcover book JACK KIRBY's DINGBAT LOVE! It collects Kirby's final unpublished stories from his DC Comics projects Dingbats of Danger Street #2 and #3, True Divorce Cases, and Soul Love. Here's a link to download a small PDF file showing what we need, and please help spread the word! www.twomorrows.com/media/DingbatLoveArtNeeded.pdf

He's in Houston on Saturday. I figure I'll stop by and see what's new since HeroesCon.

I travel a lot during the week so generally the weekend is better.

@MrBedrock, Richard Evans, wants us to know that he'll be hosting a gathering later this year for comic art collectors. So, your planning! We anticipate it occurring late summer/early fall comic art gathering at the Bedrock location at 6516 Westheimer Rd, Houston, TX 77057. I hope our members in Texas cities like Corpus Christi, San Antonio, Austin, Waco, the Metroplex, Beaumont will all attend. More information as it becomes available. Feel free to post questions here and I'll get answers.

Yep. All downhill from there.

My favorite character, my favorite artist, and the first piece that I ever bought. Click for a bigger picture and learn more about it.

Overall, my comic habit is no worse than my friends’ golfing and hunting hobbies. Just keep it at your play money level and save for the big stuff.

One standard art pricing answer coming up. Hope it helps.

Bland?

Still looks good to me. I would suggest using CamScanner on your smartphone to "square" up such pictures.

Gil Kane's Atari Force. Click to embiggen.

@dichotomy Powerful!

@awayne83, congrats on your pickups. For what it's worth, if you use apps like CamScanner on your smartphone, you can get pictures that don't suffer from the skew that comes with most photographs.

Really good read by the way. Thanks for sharing. When I buy art, I tell my kids I'm squandering their inheritance - it's no joke. It's probably better than spending it on going to dinner or a movie, but not much.

How about the development of a cover. I don't own any of this art, but he various pieces showed up about the same time so I collected them. Click to see a bigger image and to see the individual scans. Marie Severin on layouts Kirby on pencils Frank Giacoia on inks Printed cover

Yep, art might be a good long term investment (20 years), but short-term? No way.

Some fun pieces from Charlotte’s HeroesCon 2019 Sandman by Colleen Doran (she’s great with a pencil, in my Artist's Choice sketchbook) Sheldon Mayer and his Creations by Dave Aikins (remarkable, in my Sheldon Mayer sketchbook) Almost by Lee Weeks (print with remarque, my wife saw this print and had to have it, astounding) Black Orchid by Luke Daab (a Sheldon Mayer co-creation in my Sheldon Mayer sketchbook)

Who are the artists?

I had to spend two weeks in Raleigh, NC for work. I could have flown home, but it would have been a very short trip so I decided to stay over the weekend. Turns out HeroesCon was right in the middle so I spent the weekend in Charlotte. I'll post about the weekend later, but today I want to show how I squandered by children's inheritance (again). Click image to embiggen. Tim Sale - Femme Fatale Dale Eaglesham/Ruy José - Justice Society of America (1997) 11 pages 4 and 5

If you'd like to have some help in pricing art, you might find this useful. It's posted as a spoiler because it's long and many have seen it. Suggestions are welcome to improve it.

One of the most famous ads - the Roman Soldiers - was recreated by its artist, Russ Heath, and is on display in the CAF. Click to embiggen.