drdroom

On 9/12/2023 at 2:28 PM, Bronty said:

Almost no covers before 1965 exist in general.   Except EC where everything exists. 

Harvey. Tons of covers. 

On 9/7/2023 at 9:44 PM, Brian Peck said:

Golden age artwork was considered worthless just part of the process. One story is a publisher used it to insulate the walls of his house.

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

On 9/14/2023 at 8:08 PM, tth2 said:

A number of Terry strips in the period surrounding the Dragon Lady strip were auctioned on Heritage during the past few years, so you should be able to get some sense of comps.  Having said that, I generally agree with Art Dealer’s assessments although the non-Dragon Lady daily should go for more than $1000 if the Caniff letter is included, as it provides very cool provenance as well as the explanation that that’s Claire Chennault. 

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.

On 5/9/2023 at 2:32 PM, BLUECHIPCOLLECTIBLES said:

You outbid me for that one.  I thought it should be worth more than it went for, but was overly influenced by people who say that unused or prelims are not "investment" pieces, which I have to remind myself is code for "I don't have any, and only what I have is valuable"

   

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. 

On 5/6/2023 at 8:32 AM, KirbyCollector said:

I'd like to request the members of the Comicart Collusion Club to leave this for me, thank you

https://comics.ha.com/itm/original-comic-art/splash-pages/jack-kirby-and-mike-royer-kamandi-the-last/p/7340-241003.s?ic2=mytracked-lotspage-lotlinks-12202013&tab=MyTrackedLots-101116

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

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

On 11/17/2022 at 12:26 PM, batman_fan said:

It was a great splash and I was expecting higher too but even at $47k, that is a darn strong price for a 70s Kirby double splash.

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.

On 11/17/2022 at 10:06 AM, drdroom said:

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

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.

On 11/17/2022 at 9:39 AM, batman_fan said:

That is one on my list.  I am expecting live bidding to drive it higher but who knows.

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

On 11/16/2022 at 2:23 PM, lobrac said:

*bump*

Let's see that T-shirt bro!

On 6/11/2022 at 8:42 AM, Rick2you2 said:

Those strengths are not what collectors want in art, like dynamic musculature, even though they are critical to moving the story along. We buy pages and admire panels, not pieces of stories to study things like story flow.

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.

On 6/17/2022 at 12:09 AM, Grant Turner said:

Page 9. Got it for 5.5k with the BP

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. 

On 6/10/2022 at 9:07 AM, pemart1966 said:

No, I wasn't joking   

I counted 19 entries of differing material and for a guy who's likely had most of his art destroyed and whose style is esoteric, I think that's a lot of examples.

As an "old head" I can tell you that yes, some of the art survived but a lot of it was destroyed...

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

On 6/9/2022 at 3:31 PM, Rick2you2 said:

  Crude art to match the dumb dialog.

“Three times the number of fingers on both hands!” 

Wow. I guess the natives have no word for 30.

And “white-winged boats from the ocean” mean the natives didn’t know what a sailboat is either.

Pass. I’d rather watch reruns of Jungle Jim.

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.

On 6/9/2022 at 4:16 PM, pemart1966 said:

 

"...there are only a handful of examples on CAF. "  I looked at CAF and thought that there were quite a few examples actually. 

"Where's all the art?"  Likely destroyed.  Some of it survived, of course, but the vast majority is likely gone.

 

 

 

 

 

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?

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.