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Al's taking orders if you want to buy something. Check out www.alplastino.com. Choose the bio page and scroll down for his e-mail address or click the link in the description in my CAF. Tell him Alex sent you.

I just received a new commission from Al Plastino. Al drew the very first story of my all-time favorites, the Legion of Super-Heroes. I also picked up a Dave Cockrum sketch of Wildfire. The links are: LSH by Plastino - http://cafurl.com?i=14209 Wildfire by Cockrum - http://cafurl.com?i=14210 As of this writing the Plastino commission has 64 views and 8 comments. It has really moved its viewers. I think Al, who is 88, really outdid himself. IFeel free to click the links though and read the stories. Comments are welcome of course. For those that don't like to click, here are the images (for some reason my PC made a mess of my scan. The CAF links are better.) The 1st Appearance of the LSH in Adventure 247 by Al Plastino

Re: JLA/JSA team-up I love seeing that old Mike Sekowsky art on the JLA. It's a thrill to know that some of it survived and this is one of my favorites. Good job! PS. My first comic was the first issue of the second team-up JLA #29.

Ken, I remember that page and I have looked in my copy for decades. What a great example of a really good run.

I'm not sure what a "grail" is, but I know what I want that I probably won't get. There are two items: 1) A group shot of the Legion of Super-Heroes by Curt Swan. You can see examples here: http://www.comics.org/issue/246678/cover/4/?style=default http://www.comics.org/issue/246679/cover/4/?style=default The latter one is in David Mandel's collection. He beat me when it came up for auction as part of the Brad Meltzer led fundraiser for the restoration of Jerry Siegel's boyhood home. 2) The cover or splash (or really any inside art) for Justice League of America #29 (1st Series). That's my first comic. I know where two pages are and that's a start. Now to find the money. http://www.comics.org/issue/18536/cover/4/?style=default I can't complain though, I have some wonderful art from some of my favorite creators - Superman/Swan, Bat Lash/Cardy, TT/Cardy, DD and BW/Colan, S&S/Mayer, Santa and Rudolph/Mayer, and many others. Plus, I have the CAF Favorites Gallery to link in my favorites owned by others. What a great site. http://cafurl.com?i=12727

Ryan Ottley does a great job and Invincible is a fun book.

I tend to enjoy a simpler line - Jeff Smith (Bone, RASL), Mike Kunkel (Herobear and Kid), Thom Zahler (Love and Capes) all are high in my ranks.

Yeah, I have to agree. It is very cool. Now to get it framed and find a place to hang it. What I really needed for Christmas was more walls!

Merry Christmas. Kathy surprised me with a wonderful painting of The Batman by Sheldon Moldoff. I was a big fan of his Batman so this was a very pleasant surprise indeed. Please check it out here. However, I have a question. Does anyone know for whom the dedications were written? See the supplemental signatures from Mr. and Mrs. M. Thanks. I wonder if it comes from the same collection as my Santa and Rudolph Treasury back cover since both came from the Time Capsule in RI. Also, I gave my middle daughter, Elizabeth, what I call "Pig on a Bike" by Scott Morse. I've admired Scott's work for sometime and would love to get an S&S commission by him someday. When I ran across this at my LCS, Bedrock City Comic Company in Houston, among some pieces that CAF'r Mike Steenbergen was selling, I knew it would be the perfect gift for the girl who has wanted a pig for a pet for most of her life. If you met her beagle, you'd know she was almost there - that dog is a stomach with legs. Anyway, she was thrilled and has a place picked out in her apartment. You can see it here: here. It's been a very nice Christmas. The Batman Pig on a Bike

Thanks, Malvin. I thought I was the last OA collector left on earth. Of course, that wouldn't be all bad.

At the risk of monopolizing the thread, take a look at what my wife gave me for our anniversary. Fred Hembeck's finest work IMHO. You can read about the cover in my CAF - http://cafurl.com?i=13843.

My eldest child, Allie, graduated from college yesterday. I knew/hoped that this day would come and I wanted to give her a gift that was special for the two of us. The first comic that I bought my girls was Betty and Veronica Double Digest#14 by Dan and Jim DeCarlo and I thought that a recreation would be a good idea. Sadly, Dan and Jim are not longer with us. By chance, I "ran into" John Sterling Lucas on eBay and we got to talking. John is the one who brought Katy Keene back to light after a long hiatus. He did it with the blessings of Bill Woggon, Katy's creator. My girls love Katy so we decided to expand the cover scene to include a picnic with Katy, Sis, and my daughter, Allie. You can see the results here: You can see the original cover, the pencils, and the inks in my CAF. As always, comments on the piece in the CAF are welcome.

Dave's been Gene's regular inker for commissions for some time. As one person commented on my CAF, Dave is one of the few who really "get" Gene's pencils. I really like what he did. Did you go look at the larger scans on my CAF gallery?

In 2005, my wife bought me a wonderful Daredevil and Black Widow commission for me by Gene Colan. He suggested that I should get it inked and colored by Dave Gutierrez, but we couldn't do it at that time. Recently, I contracted with Dave to ink (from a scan) and color (digitally) the piece. You can see all three here at full size. The description has links to each piece. Here's a thumbnail