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Does your framer have a website? Those are amazing. About how much does it cost for one of these to get framed? How about the Turtles for example? I have a few pieces I'd love to have this guy do the framework on.

I will reply more in depth to some of your replies at lunch time today. Deadlines loom over my head so I need to focus this morning on inks! =) Thanks for all of the replies! Best, Jason Moore

is the above comment directed at me? If so, I'm confused as to why. I don't have anyone here on ignore. please let me know. best Jason Moore

There was a Jason Moore that worked on two of the Caliber Presents books. Ink Machine Productions Is this you? Yep, it's me. I also inked The Realm for Caliber starting with issue #16. I was around during the formation of Caliber and the very first meetings at Gary Reeds comic shop with Gary, Vince Locke, Guy Davis, Mark Bloodworth, Jim O'Barr and Randy Zimmerman. We would all meet once or twice a month and bring our current artwork to show off to each other. It was an amazing inspiration to see the beginnings of The Crow before anyone else had ever seen them it at all. The beginning of the wonderful series Baker Street vy Guy Davis who wanted so desperately to be separated from his pencilling work on The Realm. Just so much talent in one single room for 5 or 6 hours at a time...talking shop, discussing artwork techniques etc....an unbelievable and inspirational time for me back when I was a tiny little 16 or 17 years old. Ah...the good ol' days =) Thanks for remembering me though! That actually meant a lot to me. I really appreciate it =)

well, I hate to break it to everyone, but the back cover to Deadworld #10 is NOT the very first printed appearance of The Crow. It may be the first appearance on a comic, but not the first printed appearance ever. Caliber printed an advertisement circular that they distributed to local comic shops in the Michigan area called Caliber Rounds. I used to get them from Gary Reed directly when I would visit the Caliber offices to turn in my inks for The Realm. This is actually the very first printed appearance of The Crow. These advertisement papers were published in July or August of 1988. Higher resolution scans are available if anyone wants them. I don't think many people have any copies of these at all and if they do, they don't show them off . I have never seen any other copies of these anywhere and I talked with Gary Reed (publisher of Caliber Press) just this past weekend and he told me that he doesn't even have any copies of these for his archives, so I loaned them to him to scan. Even though this is not the actual comic, wouldn't this still be considered the actual first printed appearance of The Crow? These wouldn't hold any value because they aren't printed in "comic form"? Just curious about this as I found these after digging through boxes of old stuff in preparation for a trade paperback collection of a Arrow Comics project of mine. Looking forward to hearing thoughts on this! Best, Jason Moore

So, is everyone still considering the very first appearance of the Crow in print to be the back cover of Deadworld #10?

First time posting here in this thread. A few days ago I was finally able to pry this from the hands of my friend Vince Locke. I added my story about why this page is so important to me in the description. I know some people like to read those sort of things. I might post more scans of other artwork I have in the coming weeks! http://comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1177394 Best, Jason Moore

Having been an inker over Kelley Jones and Kyle Hotz for many many years, inking something like this by Wrightson would be a dream! Beautiful prelim for sure!