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Harvey. Tons of covers.

Just curious, is that insulation story a likely urban legend, or is there some actual evidence for it?

Many Dragon Lady strips on Heritage were from earlier and more valuable periods, which could mislead the OP. This one is from the last DL arc by Caniff. I love it, but they don't go as high. I agree with Art Dealer on this one, give or take.

Salute! The good old days, eh. I was prepared to go higher, was quite pleased with the price. Lucky I didn't consult anyone about it!! I've since shown it to a few people who seemed less impressed with it than I am, so I guess it's in the right collection. To me it's a treasure, but I have to admit, the market value is slight compared to a published cover from the run, even one of the less interesting later ones.

If I'm not mistaken, the last C-link auction had no Ruby-Spears Kirby presentation boards, after a steady stream of 20-30 pieces in every auction for the last year or so. Does anyone know if we are done with the drop? It was a mind-boggling ride, if so.

This is back? Sold on HA in 2020 for 25K.

I post almost everything on CAF, but I do have a piece acquired in my first year of serious OA collecting (2009-2010) that I've always kept for myself. It's an unused pencil cover for a book that made an early impact on me, and when I saw it it provoked an ineffable sense of possibility, the forking paths of comics history--the dream books that might have been. The published cover was by Romita, & it's pretty solid, but I give the edge to Big John.

Man, I wish I had the foresight to get one of those Kelly Jones flyers.

I got a four-way tie for favorite this year, but I'll go with this one for rarity: a published Osamu Tezuka page from 1960, in color no less. Of course Tezuka produced approximately 6 jillion originals, but only a tiny percentage are in private hands.

I second this! Shopping on C-link is great!

I'm not sure. The really strong ones rarely come up. This was the best I can recall seeing at public auction in the last maybe six or eight years.

Without monster, I should say

Both strong Wrightson Frank plates (without frank) closed about 55K with BP

Demon DPS about 47K with BP, a little low I thought. In general I think the prices are mostly not crazy this auction so far.

The live auction is happening now. Closed at 144K with BP

Let's see that T-shirt bro!

I've had a deep love for the comics medium since I was a kid. I very much look for examples from the masters that showcase both their drawing and storytelling strengths. Character is lower down on the list, with more of a nostalgiac pull. I've got no interest in a weakly designed page of any character at all.

Congrats! Kirby was firing on all cylinders on this story. Even this non-costume page is filled with wonders.

I guess the mystery is, what did Toth & Manning see in Marsh that many collectors here don't? Both of them wrote appreciations of Marsh, which broadly agreed on both his strengths--design and storytelling--and weakness: lack of dynamic musculature. His Tarzan is the polar opposite of Burne Hogarth's. Toth identifies Marsh as a West coast artist along with Dan Spiegel, and comments on the more laid back approach of the Whitman artists in comparison to the intensity of the New York artists like Eisner, Kirby, and Fine. Marsh was an Angelino, like the Hernandez brothers, and as I've been reading through the Dark Horse volume 1, I'm constantly reminded of Gilberto especially: not just graphically, but in the freshness of incident, the breathing room in the story, and the humanity of the characters. There's a lot of Pal-Ul-Don in Palomar.

Ok, I guess one man's very few is another man's more than we need!

OR, we could more charitably read these examples as literal translations from the native language, rather than awkward constructions in English. In a later episode I just read, Tarzan and young Korak ("boy") encounter a tribe Tarzan knows, and Korak apologizes for not having learned their language yet. Broad language fluency is one of Tarzan's signature "powers". But in any case, Marsh didn't write the -script. I find his depictions of the African characters graceful and devoid of the caricature we might expect from artists like Will Eisner or Lou Fine.

I think you're joking, but I count eight or nine panel pages, all Tarzan--nothing at all from his western work. Volume one of the Dark Horse Marsh Tarzan anthology runs to 700 pages, and there are ELEVEN volumes! I'm hoping there might be an old head in this forum with knowledge of the fate of Dell/ Gold Key OA in general. I believe there's very little of Barks originals as well, right?

So, like, do people think Jesse Marsh actually sucks? Crude, static? Be honest! It's fine. Or is it just that he worked on properties that are rapidly losing pop cultural valence? Am I the only one that would like to find this page?

Anybody collect him? He was the first to create original Tarzan content for comic books and his run lasted for nineteen years! He was super fast, mentored Russ Manning and inspired Alex Toth and Gilbert Hernandez with his elegant simplicity. He was tremendously prolific, but there are only a handful of examples on CAF. Where's all the art? I have one, from Dell FC 161, only the second Tarzan comic ever, so this is an early example, but you can already see the clarity of his page design.

I didn't realize the Kiss covers were his greatest claim to fame! For me he was the ubiquitous Warren cover artist of the '70s, the obvious successor to Frazetta. Safe journeys, Ken.