Bird

2) steve leialoha 4) norm breyfogle

Sure. C'mon over. I have about 8 pieces of cheaper OA set aside for that thread alone. The rules are on the first page and are fairly straight-forward. Older raw comics, newer comic runs, memorabilia, slabs, OA - you can find it all in PIF.

Yes it is got my first art piece fom them for a whopping $11 dollars, it was pretty funny since I saw the price written on the back for $30. I just went through and bid on about 30 items. We shall see how I do. I usually do not do that but have some extra hobby cash right now and see some real bargains, mostly art-wise. Hopefully you wont be putting that war chest up against anything I like last Clink auction you did bid me up on that Buscema Avengers page after all. But at least we both got one in that auction. HA! Those were darn fine Kang pages. each with a tremendous close-up. I thought I was lucky to get mine a bit cheaper than yours. You got Kang origin if I recall correctly, so that is sweet. Okay, now I know who you are David! Hello. Hello, Bird or should I say Sean! Nice to know the other page is also in NJ, if your going to the Artcon in March, I'll bring the page with me, and you can bring yours, it would be nice to see it in person. Sure, that would be fine. I plan on really working the room and would love to take some time and chat.

Hey, anyone who just happens to wander in here is encouraged to check out the Pay It Forward thread. It has been slow lately in there, but that thread has rejuvenated my participation on the boards and I have met some nice people ni there and had a ton of fun. Not to mention I got a nice X-men slab, two pieces of OA and gave away some cool comics, including a cool Ray Bradbury signed set of books. Check it out, and if you used to do it but have stopped,please look in and maybe get back involved. We need more good will in there and in the world in general. And there has not been a cross word in there since I started two months or so ago.

I made some valiant attempts. The Batman one, maybe a JLA cover? I gave up after missing that weather hint. I feel like Robin waiting for Batman and the Bat-Computer to tell me the Riddler's next move.

Yes it is got my first art piece fom them for a whopping $11 dollars, it was pretty funny since I saw the price written on the back for $30. I just went through and bid on about 30 items. We shall see how I do. I usually do not do that but have some extra hobby cash right now and see some real bargains, mostly art-wise. Hopefully you wont be putting that war chest up against anything I like last Clink auction you did bid me up on that Buscema Avengers page after all. But at least we both got one in that auction. HA! Those were darn fine Kang pages. each with a tremendous close-up. I thought I was lucky to get mine a bit cheaper than yours. You got Kang origin if I recall correctly, so that is sweet. Okay, now I know who you are David! Hello.

have you ever heard Van Halen doing ZZ Top La Grange? Sick.

Yes it is got my first art piece fom them for a whopping $11 dollars, it was pretty funny since I saw the price written on the back for $30. I just went through and bid on about 30 items. We shall see how I do. I usually do not do that but have some extra hobby cash right now and see some real bargains, mostly art-wise.

I have already started self-insuring. It seems like the way to go. Thanks from me as well for your insights.

Nice Hulk. I like it a lot.

Four slabs in post office limbo. They were supposed to be here yesterday but no update since 5 am Thursday! After that I was going to say only one more on the way but I did just get two more through comiclink,including a $6 slab. Oh comiclink, bottom feeder heaven!

yes there used to be basic formulas for this type of thing but now it is more artist, character,story rather than strictly cover, panel, splash, double splash. but yes, one big image is more money more often than not

Want to borrow my sweater? I may have to dig out some shorts. I went with Stormwatch on that.

5) Brandon Choi

I had that made into a shirt and wear it proudly. I am wearing a shirt with a Rudy Nebres commission on it right now as well..

I kept the bags for future use. The OA I have been buying for 20+ years; I still remember reading a CBG and seeing that creators appeared at conventions. I called that poor woman up and asked about a guest list. She replied, well just let me know who you are looking for - that was a mistake. I started going to shows and getting my books signed. I saw Paul Ryan doing free head sketches and went to OA then and there essentially. now I am selling and consolidating which allowed me to buy that Winsor McCay - it cost me a Cerebus page I owned for 22 years and 2 BWS Rune pages but it was worth it.

+0 The thrill of victory and the agony of my feet.

well, it is my journal so here it is. I have 32 pieces of OA framed and on the walls. Here is a link to my attempt at reducing my collection to 50 truly awesome pieces of OA. The Fifty in bird's CAF

The guesses I made were wrong and the one I did not make was right! So here is another guess 5) Bill Willingham

okay, a baggy bunch of replies. 3/3 reveals the wisdom of the bag I guess. But I am displaying and not planning on boxing them. But I will see if the bags distract from the display value, better safe than sorry. I moved them off the shelf, that wasn't going to work for long. I have a running ledge around the room I am now putting them on. That is my signed Muhammed Ali glove (I met him myself and had him sign it. Late tiny Pakinson's-influenced sig,but still...ALI!) in the corner and a recent OA acquisition above, a Winsor McCay editorial cartoon with UNcle Sam from 1932/1933.

I WAS GONNA GUESS THAT! d'oh!

SOLAR 5 9.6 white pages This is the first of the slabs I bought from high grade comics. Thanks Bob! I saw later how plentiful this issue is in this grade but that matters not to me; Bob gave me a price I am comfortable with even AFTER I did my post-buy research. Barry Windsor-Smith only entered my awareness with Valiant Comics. I guess I had heard of his Conan but that was about it. Well admitting a mistake or an omission bred of ignorance is not usually easy for me but this was friggin' obvious. Long story short, I will have some good BWS slabs on my shelf.

Okay, sorry, one more. I just got this email now...Julie Slick + Marco Machera w/ special guests: Pat Mastelotto & Tim Motzer & Out of the Beardspace So that is some synchronicity, huh?

Okay, last post in my Ditch takeover. I was just listening to Thela Hun Jinjeet with my 11 year old daughter and doing the guy telling the story and also Adrian's guitar noodles. She knows how crazy I am and is now wagging her head along to The Sheltering Sky.

Purchased from a boardie. Thank you Nathan! I bring you The Defenders 26 8.5 I always loved The Defenders growing up in the 70s. I have a bunch of these as readers and they are my originals from buying them in the shelf, stuck in the slots and many crushed to the bottom at Clancy's Newstand on the corner of Beachwood Blvd. and Rt 9 in Beachwood NJ. this was before spinner racks, which is how Clancy's sold there comics for most of my later childhood. Later I would allow 7-11 to stock my collection when I worked there for a few years. That did not end well. Ah, the folly of youth. So this is a great cover I think. Sal B and Vinnie Colletta, who'd a thunk it? nah, both of those guys were real artists and we should not judge them harshly just because Sal had a brother and Vinnie had an eraser. More to come. Soon. I already told my wife where these will be going once this shelf gets full, which could be Sunday.