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In Itoyas, by subject. (Micronauts and... well... everything else.) After that, by publisher, mostly. Marvel Micros, Image Micros, IDW Micros. Marvel Battlestar, Liefeld Battlestar, Dynamite Battlestar. Etc. More-or-less in book and page order. Commissions separate from published.

This doesn't look to have been cross-posted from CAF announcements to here, so I'll pitch in. (The actual posting on CAF has a '2018' date rather than 2019, which must be a typo. I've heard independent skuttlebutt of this date in 2019) Truth be told, I skipped traveling to the show last year, but, this time around, with confirmation of the date well in advance, I'll strongly consider it! Have been to the NJ show several times, but would love to come and rub shoulders with the West Coast crowd! Andrew LA Comic Art Show Saturday May 11th 2019 Show Hours: 10am - 4pm Admission: $20.00 at event door, 15 and under Free Location: Hilton Garden Inn Los Angeles/Redondo Beach 2410 Marine Avenue, Redondo Beach, California 90278 *10 minutes from LAX. Free Parking. Last year, The LA Comic Art Show was the first West Coast convention dedicated exclusively to Original Comic Book Art. This year it's back bigger with more show, floor space and with special guest Mike Mignola! The LA Comic Art Show is the first West Coast convention dedicated exclusively to Original Comic Book Art. You'll find no comic books or collectibles, but an incredible array of thousands of pages, covers, paintings, and pin-ups: Original Comic Book, Comic Strip and Illustration Art from the 1940s to the present! As well as some of the Nation's top Art Dealers and Exhibitors, LA Comic Art Show will feature an exclusive display of Grail Art: a selection of the most sought after Comic Art pages! In addition, The Jack Kirby Museum will project over 1,200 Kirby original art pages from their Kirby Digital Archive! Artists, students, collectors, investors and fans alike will be able to buy, sell, trade, and celebrate Original Comic Book Art! LA Comic Art Show is conveniently located just 4 miles from LAX, and the hotel is only a minute walk from the Metro Green Line’s Redondo Beach Station. For accommodations, you can contact the Hilton Garden Inn directly at (310) 727-9999. For further information or to reserve a table please contact: Bechara Maalouf Email: nostalgic5@aol.com Phone: (781) 910-6704 https://www.lacomicart.com/ Facebook: @LAComicartshow Twitter: @LAComicArtShow1

Let's hope the original arrives unscathed.

As they say in the U.K.: RESULT ! Looking forward to hearing the details!!

You can sure see the Michael Golden/Arthur Adams influence in this page!

Probably a shill bidder.

I presume the FBI (and most other U.S. Law Enforcement) is not an option, as the OP is a Canadian citizen. Bill at CAF might know - though he's posted elsewhere that the OP was the only person contacted through this guy's CAF account.

I have had a longstanding, informal personal policy of not interacting with sales inquiries from CAF accounts with no galleries. This cements it. I understand that some collectors like a low profile. Too bad. You dudes who are so insistent to be as off-the-grid as possible: no rep = no deals.

Yup, that HA post was hardly definitive.

I've acquired three which I'd posted here. None of them were found due to posting on this thread, though. One was due to some near-fanatical (yet clever) research on my part, the other two were blind luck, with both pieces dropping into the hands of dealers. Found one on his WWWsite, the other located me out-of-the-blue through my CAF gallery. I still like this thread, though. Feels good to contribute to it.

A success story!!!! Huzzah!! Well done, all!

Yep, noted that, thanks. Glad to have a shot at it.

This is excellent advice. 'Formal' communication does not have to be confrontational. Depending on Norm's record-keeping skills (a slim hope, I suppose) the executor may even have access to formal or informal sales records which might point in the direction the piece might have gone. Best of luck!

Thanks for the follow-through!

What I collect would probably be considered pretty specific. I own the complete 6 page story "Battlestar Garlictica" by John Severin from Cracked Magazine: Story can be read here I think it would be a hoot to pair that story with its Mad Magazine counterpart 'CattleCar Galaxica' by Angelo Torres. Anyone know where that story might be? Andrew

THIS. This is the primal instinct of the true Black Hole Collector. They're not worried about theft. They're worried about being troubled with other people's offers.

This page wasn't published? Then the spill must have happened before it got to the publishing stage. Some of those blots look pretty deliberate. I wonder what the story is. Is its replacement extant? Did they use stats of this page's unblemished panels? Not without value. If I owned the published (replacement) page, I'd want this one to go with it.

While looking through the Simonson FB Fan group, I noted a cover produced by Walt for 'Marvel Premiere' issue 57. It has always been a longtime favorite issue; with a young Dave Gibbons showing off his indelible take on Tom Baker's unforgettable Fourth Doctor Who. Seeing it again clicked into place an old irritation over a Pat Broderick cover; that something about it was VERY familiar. The cover for MICRONAUTS was published three months after the MARVEL PREMIERE / DOCTOR WHO cover. Presumably Pat or the Bullpen must have re-used the background pattern for some 'color' on the Micros cover; the art for that Micros issue would have been in the process of being created just as that Who cover came off the presses. Somebody could have just reached over and nicked it. Presumably Simonson designed the cover pattern for his cover, would they have asked his permission to re-use it, or just plowed ahead? I know enough about the printing 'color plate' technology of the time to have guessed that the Micros background was probably a separate piece, and the above pretty much confirms it (though it could have been a stat of the pattern, I guess). To my knowledge, the cover for Micros #27 has not surfaced yet; I wonder if the pattern 'lives' with the figure art, or if it's long gone.

Which is what I've ultimately done with my framed pieces, actually. Frame and forget.

You guys are being SOOOOOO helpful to the O.P.

In over 10 years of collecting, I have yet to encounter a single Golden-era Micros color guide (either the 1979 originals or 1983 reprints), so I couldn't say with authority what a FMV might be. Personally, I would be willing to pay $100/page if they were laid in front of me. So, I guess that would be a FMV start. There's no way to know for sure if they even survived.

Yes. Luckily I have friends (in and out of the hobby) to help keep things in perspective.

A good question. The most recent public sale of a Golden Micros page was THIS HERITAGE WIN from last year. $2630 (with BP). Not too unreasonable. It's an action/spaceship page, and has all the Micros plus villain Shaitan. Last week's eBay page has none of the Micros, only featuring secondary characters Slug and Prince Argon (eventual Force Commander). It's a near-splash and very dramatic. I'd place FMV for last week's page at about the same as the HA page, perhaps a touch less. But in the ballpark. YMMV.

I was hoping to be able to avoid troubling the seller. But I've just now sent along a request to forward a message, along with an offer of a tip for his trouble. We'll see.

I've checked with The Usual Suspects, both flippers and dealers, with no joy. The other known Micros collectors have weighed in, no joy there either.