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I think it's more of a marriage of this one and the famous Trophy Wall one. debaucherous.. Joker pose looks familiar too.

Beautiful Granov cover!

No Heritage does not let you bid on your own item but that doesn't mean you can't ask someone else to bid on it for you. Heritage strongly discourages reserve prices so I bet this happens way more than any of us suspect.

So I got 3 new pieces this week. First up is a page I picked up at Wondercon that I've had my eye on for a year and was able to get the dealer down to a price I was happy with. Keith Giffen and Larry Mahlstedt Legion of Super-Heroes #302 page 21. Long Live the Legion. The next 2 illustrations are from Shawn McManus, who's doing a fantastic run on Vertigo's Fairest Title right now. One's for me and the other for my daughter, I'll let you guess which. Thanks Shawn! I didn't even bother going over to coollines. What's the point, right? I made it to the Art Collector's Dinner organized by Brian Peck and had a great time talking art. It was nice to meet fellow boardies, Steve, Chris and Aaron.

I just updated my CAF Gallery with 2 new pieces, which can be seen by clicking on the link below. http://cafurl.com?i=18976 The first piece is a 1989 11x17 illustration by Steve Rude of the The World's Finest heroes, Superman and Bat-man, both inspired by Golden Age versions of the Characters. The second piece is from a book that I've wanted an example from but have only ever seen one before in a friends CAF gallery. A beautifully finished Kevin Nowlan page retelling of the first meeting between Superman and Robin, the Boy Wonder, based on layouts by Dave Taylor. Also, since the beginning of the year, I have been slowing re-organizing my Galleries by themes rather than all by artist to try to avoid a lot of galleries with just one piece in it. So please feel free to stop on by and let me know what you think. Best, John Cogan

Hi all, while not new to the hobby, I do believe this will be my first time posting new acquisitions to this board. I've added 3 new pages to my collection, the latest of which arrived last night from Spain, Thanks Horacio! First up, I'm thrilled to add a page from one of my favorite 80's books, Miracleman.This page by John Ridgway is from the 12 page "The Red King Syndrome" Prelude/Interlude story. In this carefully crafted tale by Alan Moore, the reader learns just how powerful Miracleman can be as his subconscious mind rearranges the molecules of his costume to redesign his chest emblem while he is asleep. It'a great page featuring Miracleman, Young Miracleman and Kid Miracleman, Johnny Bates, who hasn't yet turned into a bad seed.Now if only I can find Garry Leach and Alan Davis Miracleman pages at reasonable prices, it would be a miracle. Next up is a great 80's Gil Kane Green Arrow and Black Canary page from their back up feature in World's Finest Comics #282. I've seen a lot of Kane's 80's pages before and while I love the printed look, I've always passed on pages before because Gil did almost all of it in markers, which have almost always started to bleed or fade. But for this page I made an exception because of how memorable the story was to me. In this two-part, back up story which ran in World's Finest Comics #282 & 283, writer Mike W. Barr reaches into Oliver Queen's past to for the mother of all villains: the mother of the guy GA shot and left for dead in an alley way back in 1973's Denny O'Neil & Neal Adams classic "The Killing of an Archer/Green Arrow's Dead/The Fate of an Archer" which was a 3 part back up in Flash #217-219. In that classic tale, GA is attacked in an alley and after his shoulder is injured, the arrow he let's fly finds it's target but with unintended lethal action. Distraught over these events, Ollie calls BC to bid her farewell then flies of in the old Arrow Plane to shave his head and join a monastery. Then BC and GL are looking for GA, Dinah is hit by a car and needs a transfusion, only she has a rare blood type, which Ollie just happens to be a match, so now the search for GA is more urgent than ever. Obviously, Hal finds Ollie and fixes Dinah and live happily ever after, for a while. I always thought that Barr's idea to bring the mother of the dead man into to the picture seeking revenge on Green Arrow was a cool idea and this page is chock full of action and has an appearance of Black Canary. And last but not least, I'm proud to say that I now own the majority of my grail issue, Teen Titans #14 from 1968, having just added my 13th page out of a total 24 page story. Yes, my goal is to reassemble this issue before I kick the bucked, so if you have page from this issue or have a buddy who does, please let me know, even if the page isn't for sale. But if you have one and are looking to sell, please give me a shot to buy it or trade you for it. While the issue on Comics.org is credited as both Pencils and Inks by Nick Cardy, those with a keener eye than me have pointed out that the issue was probably just inked by Nick. Either way I love the issue, it's a childhood grail of mine. While some have suggested that the penciller is Lee Elias, I've never thought so, mainly because Elias is the credited penciller on issue #15 and it looks nothing like the previous issue to me. Frank Springer is a suggestion for penciller that I've heard a few times and seems to fit. If anyone knows anything definite, please let me know. If you come by to visit my Gallery rooms, you'll see the other page I have from this issue on display, "Requiem for a Titan!", or Robin gets his butt kicked as a solo player.

I use artist's archival tape that I found at Pearl's art supply. Easy to peel off if necessary.

Two great pick ups Mike. Congrats.

While I'm not new to collecting Original Art, been buying published art since 1993 (sketches back to the 80's), I'm quite new to this board. This past year and a half has been slow on acquisitions as much that I'm interested is now getting into the five figures range and I also had been busy with life issues. While I rarely buy commissions, but might start more in the future, my most recent acquisition, which is a commission, I got in trade from comic book writer/New York Times Best Selling Author, Brad Meltzer. In October 2012 Brad contacted me through CAF asking me if I was willing to sell or trade a splash page I had from issue #16 with Ollie and Roy in costumes leaping into action (see additional image), with a billboard in the background that asks "Trust your Friends?", which was Brad's motto from his first novel. Turns out he didn't put it in his -script but editor Bob Schreck had it added. Brad had been searching for the page for a long time as I guess I was quicker than he was when the page was first available from the artists. I didn't want to sell it but asked if he could get Phil and Ande to do a commission of the "Green Arrow Family" that I would trade it. I rarely ever do commissions anymore and when I have I've had great results being patient as both Alex Ross and Dave Gibbons each had my sketchbook for about a year. This piece arrived earlier this month but have only now had the time to post it.