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Not sure if this is the right place for this, but couldn't seem to figure a better option. I'm going to be in the market for a commission, but unlike anything I've been after in the past where I knew what artist I wanted, in this case the artist isn't as important. Last year as a school project my son had to write a short story - he decided on a superhero story, and made it a comic (complete with very bad art). I'd really like to get a commission done of his character as a present for him. So I'm looking for artist suggestions that would do a color commission of an original character (I understand that is sometimes an issue) in a classic superhero style. Now ideally since the artist pedigree isn't that key to this I'd rather not break the bank on this, but I'm happy to spend appropriately for a quality piece and to ensure I'm dealing with a reputable artist. Any suggestions?

I was looking back through the thread, and don't know how I missed this. That is really awesome!!! (thumbs u (thumbs u Thanks - I am eager to see it finished!!! Looks great, who's the artist? I've had a few ideas for Joe commissions but I've never followed through as I haven't found an artist doing commissions that's got GI Joe samples (so I know I'll get something I'm looking for). I do have an Atkins cover on the way, but now looking for something in multiple character 11x17.

Nice Joe page, Recondo is certainly a figure I remember fondly, and Stalker was my first ever Joe - my dad brought it back as a gift after he'd been away for a month on military exercises. He had no idea what he started! Very cool page, congrats!

. You seen 100 GotG covers in Bill's CAF, you seen 101. I just don't want to see 102 - I want the next one. I'm happy to at least have a Valentino page on the way to me, next up on the want list is definitely a cover.

Nice find on the Joes Chip! I sorted through my old personal collection a month ago and matched up the weapons, was some work, but brought back a lot of good memories. Would love to hit a find like that to fill in some of the gaps!

I love the matching frames, and what you've got described as the mounting process sounds perfect. Do you mount things up yourself? I've been thinking of a similar approach to matching frames, but I'd be interested in being able to switch out the art in the future - not regularly, but I've only got room for 5 or 6 frames, so I'd want to frame my best pieces and be able to switch them in the future if/when I upgrade.

While like everyone else I love the Avengers and Arrow cast books, I'm likely most envious for the GotG Bautista book as it fits far better with my collecting focus, and is much closer to the attainable range for me than those other books will ever be. Congrats on all the awesome pickups!!

Great cover, I have to get myself a classic Hawkeye cover some time. I loved this series, even more so than the regular Avengers books of the time.

Love that GOTG book!!

That's awesome, while I'm a current fan of GotG, the main reason for that is my love the Infinity Gauntlet series. The first massive crossover I read completely when I was younger, and it really started my love for all of the all encompassing crossover series (I love team books, and these things are even better when all the teams get together). I'm incredibly jealous, I have to keep my eyes open for any art from this series in the future. Congrats!!

Yay, it's mine! I love what you're doing with the site, and the feature posts etc. Hopefully this spring I'll have more time to get my collection organized and the relevant parts posted now that hockey coaching season is dying down.

Normally I'm just a lurker in this thread as I rarely have much to share, but I love these recent board pickups, so had to do up a post. Sellers scans as mine would also be cutoff as I have no slab scanner.

Great Man Cave boostergold - While I love the hardcover collection, the item I just had to comment on was the Bionic Six figures still in packaging! I came across mine in the basement last month looking for some other old toys, had all the figures and van and bike - loved playing with those.

I have to agree, it's rare to see a submission where I'd be interested in every single book you got back (well except the PLOD). Nice stuff and congrats!!

To be fair to my wife, it's not just the statues - she's not a fan of the comics or OA either. That said she's not against them in the house as long as it's in my cave and not elsewhere. What she'd have issue with here is the cost, and there's no concealing the cost when FedEx shows up at the door with a large tax/customs import bill on delivery.

This thread is killing me, I finally went over to browse through the sideshow site and found 3 statues I want. Paying for them is hard enough, finding room to display them harder - getting them into the house without my wife noticing - impossible.....well unless I ship them to a friend first hmmmm

Love that Batman #251 by Adams, definitely on my list to get that one SS some day.

That's it - very popular in the statue community. I'll have to get pictures of mine and add to this thread. If you end up interested, I'd suggest setting up a search on Craigslist/kijiji - I got 2 last year for the same price as one new, and they'd had lights added so less than half price and the condition is perfect. I've had far more luck on kijiji for display cases then I ever have for comics!

My Christmas presents to me arrived today. I'm fairly new to OA, so I wanted to get something with Hawkeye featured as he's the main focus for my current collecting. These two pages worked out great because Deadpool is one of my other favorites, and I liked this story for a quick light read. Couldn't decide between the 2 pages so I got them both.

Finally posting some SS books that I specifically got done for me (thanks to DScott), previously I'd just been buying from others. These were all done at NYCC, happy to see 3 9.8's, the only 9.6 was actually expected to grade low, I'd have been fine with a 9.4, just got that done as it's the book that I used as a reference for a Tony Daniel sketch I also got done at the show (you can find that in the obvious place). Now that I was somewhat successful in picking 9.8's out of my own collection, I get to start digging through boxes for candidates for SS on my trip to ECCC, building that wantlist is becoming very long!

That is just awesome! Congrats!

Those are awesome, now I'm starting to add some books to the SS wantlist that are going to be harder to get. I loved Planetary!

Love this book, I wanted to get West and Ward previously, but now with the Batman '66 books out there it's an even better option, have to add one of those to the wantlist.

For me, I go by the motto of collect what you like, and because I like it, I want to see it. While there's certainly some potential of long term value in the items, that's not why I buy them. I buy them because I like them and therefore want to see them. Same philosophy with my other collections, if I'm not looking through my card collection regularly, I get rid of it as it's stopped meaning something to me. I would agree with the other statement above, if I'm just going to display a copy, I might as well just get prints of high end books I don't own that look cool. Just my 2 cents.

Infinity Gauntlet 1 and Gen 13 0.5 back to back - those are 2 books that definitely sit near the top of my SS want list congrats to both of you!