Terry Doyle

Art Auction Catalog # 21 (July 23 and 24, 1985) comprising of 12 pages. Quite a lot of color in this particular auction. Selected pages to follow . . .

Probably the best (non-Timely) Schomburg cover I've seen come up for sale.

From this auction I bought item # 30, "Well Trained" a 7-page George Evans story from Shock SuspenStories # 15. I later traded-away this story art to Ken Danker as part of a deal towards an EC cover.

Art Auction Catalog # 20 (March 27, 1985), comprising of 16 pages. Selected highlights to follow . . .

Take special note of item # 40 . . .

From this auction I bought item # 10, "Lost Battalion!", a 7-page Johnny Craig war story from Two-Fisted Tales # 32. Unusual to see a Craig war story in a Kurtzman-edited title. Even more surprising is the fact that it's a ghost story. I later sold the artwork to an American friend working over here in the UK.

Comic Art Auction Catalog # 19 (November 14, 1984), comprising of 20 pages. Interestingly, this auction offered double the amount of EC art normally featured (a total of 8 x complete books' worth of art). Of special note is the Frazetta solo story, "Squeeze Play", from Shock Suspenstories # 13 - which carried an opening bid of $7,000. Also, towards the end of the catalog, Russ featured 4 pages of art for direct sale. Selected highlights as follows . . .

Hi Benno Good to hear from you. I'm scanning these catalogs, sequentially, so there's every chance the Foster Tarzan you refer to will appear in due course (at which point you can step in with your story). As mentioned, I'm concentrating on selected highlights, but Foster certainly rates as a must-have for my scanning efforts. I intend to talk about our trade as and when VOH # 33 makes its debut, later on (it also ties-in with a feature I wrote for Comic-Book Marketplace). Back with more stuff tomorrow . . .

Ferran, it can be quite painful for me, too (in the sense that my collecting focus moved towards cover examples, which I should have bought more of!)

Yeah, prices were a lot lower back when - and so were wage packets! I used to work lots of overtime to build funds-up for Russ's quarterly auctions. Even if prices seemed high then, they're positively astronomical nowadays.

You're welcome, Anthony. Still got a ton of stuff to scan and post . . . will have something new tomorrow.

I know the feeling, Steve. The Weird Fantasy # 14 cover came to me at a much higher value than the $533 price Don originally paid . . . and the replacement Neal Adams (which I bought in recent years) was a lot more than my $75 Supes cover! I've no complaints though.