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Really have no idea. I was researching myself and couldn't find anything

Ok back on topic CA360 1st crossbones seems to be picking steam again

Fb is the new craigslist We listed a garage sale for Saturday in one of our recording studios. Listed on both CL & FB on Friday night around 7pm Woke up Saturday morning bombarded with over 50 messages on FB and only one txt on my phone from CL I sold 1 DJ/PA system, a couple of marshal amps and accessories for $1200 in less than 4 hours

Ok last thing regarding AAdams. I just found this early early drawing of his (1982) this is obviously very loose and proportionately incorrect. But it clearly shows signs of the beginning of what would only 2 years later become the industry standard of comic book art. In sharp contrast with early McFarlane work, this has heavy detailed line work, diverse composition of texture work, coupled with good girl elements that would later become the key signs you'd identify his art with.

Um.. if a joke makes sense.. it's not a joke.. see what I mean?

The joke is if an iron man comic book made it to the dollar store than the Chinese stuff typically found here in .99 cent store got priced out of the vendor budget. I hope it works now and.... Hahaha

It's called a joke but geez I guess everyone's too busy being serious today

If this stuff has gotten into dollar stores it means that the tariffs on china are working

Slabgate is coming!

We're all in a mini correction now, so not sure any things happening with our beloved collectibles anytime soon

Watch out for DCs recall variant month coming to stores next month

Classic X-Men 1 is actually a pretty tough book in 9.8 that has some demand. Easily a $200 book

Comic books became hot and, well, cool when SDCC started becoming "a thing". I was collecting seriously in the 80s and stopped around the crash in the 90s. I remember years later seeing reports about SDCC in regular news channels and thinking, wow, how about that, it's actually cool now to be a geek! fast forward to today and SDCC along NYCC are the modern day Cannes Film Festival versions announcing new movies and new roles even for movies that are not comic related. There are soooo many actors/directors/film makers that showed interest in comic book characters that signaled this new era of comic book "coolness" starting with Tim Burton, Christopher Nolan, many others. Comic books will cease to be hot when they stop being cool

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Sorry ordered by mistake. What's your refund policy

Also.. it's seems that (and I'm shocked no one mentioned it so far) there's a weird stamp embedded all across the book which says "photobucket"

I like how this guy comes in, breaks the news, and gets no likes after so many people profited from his contribution

I agree with that, with the exception of Mojo. I think Mojo was the prototype of all evil characters in the 90s since he was soooo animated. Also, Adams started getting sh*** inkers in the 90s. How on earth are u gonna assign Al Milgrom as an inker to Adams (with his FF run)

it's pretty crazy when you think about what happened back then. Art Adams work would trickle in slowly, but due to his fast growing popularity at the time Marvel needed more. I'm pretty sure that the editors at the time pitched that to artists like McFarlane, Liefeld and the likes, being that they were very new to the game "wanna get more work? Look at what this guy is doing... can you give me THAT??" And it worked! The very first time I bought a mcFarlne book was ASM 298 (although his style started to change already with his tec run). I remember it like yesterday. I was absolutely convinced it was an Art Adams book and that the preview catalog made an error.. at least the cover... since I saw the preview for it on a mhc newsletter. When I received the book I was very happy that there's another guy that's drawing like AAdams.. Mcfarlanes work in 298-300 were as close as you'd get to Adams.. it all started to go away right after that... I think probably because the black suit was easier to draw. The same thing happened with Liefeld with H&D mini #1. I was 100 positive that was Art Adams just from the previews

Of course! Art is not science. There are people that mistake Cubism for Renaissance. Surely you wont waste time convincing them the differences of one from the other. If a person cannot see that this came first Before this: after it looked like this only a year earlier: ... You'd waste your time with providing a million more examples. Which is kinda what I resorted to now!!

Here are just a few excerpts online that will help you understand Art Adams' influence on McFarlane, Lee & Liefeld. This is a VERY well known FACT, clouded by clueless readers who didnt collect during the 80s and do not know of the TREMENDOUS influence that Adams had on these artists. He is in no shape or form more popular than them. Its just sad that it got to the point where people nowadays are not even aware of this http://www.cbr.com/art-adams-longshot-image-is-something/ https://www.revolvy.com/main/index.php?s=Arthur+Adams+(comics) And this, although sarcastically written by a hobbyist, actually talks about why comic books look so bad today.. All because of one Art Adams http://geniusboyfiremelon.blogspot.com/2008/01/dont-you-know-its-all-art-adamss-fault.html

Early prototype here if you can afford it

Off of his "Art Of Todd McFarlane" book. You guessed it... not a single mention of the one person who arguably influenced him the most:

Let's assume that he is. An Art Adams page takes much longer to assemble from layout to color than a McFarlane or Liefeld page. If the emphasis is on perfection it will always result in a slower technical process. And Art's attention to those fine details was much more evident in those early wonderful years