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Well no I’d say he was never average. He basically was like a .301 hitter with 90/90/120 rub/rbi/hit combo with 22 hr average a season....just he did it for 30 seasons (like 80-100 war?) Anyone who does that not only goes HOF he goes first ballot. Haha I love sports comparisons.

Seems like an appropriate response to finding out her folks are alive, no? She supposed to be yawning?

To be fair these are later illustrations he did going for a look.

Ouch, all the supergirl work?

God they are on a tear aren’t they? Alonso has bee off since the all star but he will pick it up.

Nice, Jack Davis (I assume)and Barks I wouldn’t have on their but I like it. My list would be if called to make it now: 1. Kirby 2. Adams 3. Miller 4. Wood 5. Sal B (also might switch out anyone but Adams or Kirby for Kubert, Schomburg, Byrne, or Wrightson) Sal is easily in my top 10, but like you I can swap him out for others. He gets there on longevity and adaption over 6 decades to always stay relevant and liked by generations of readers.

Who might I ask than is your top 5?

He is clearly my favorite Spider-Man among all versions. He makes every MCU he is in just that much better. He even pulls off the rarest of feats, a British actor doing an actually good American accent.

Oh well not all doom/gloom. Won a few pieces for various collections. Really liked this, bought it for a friend who loves Blackhawk. (Btw if anyone has any 50s-60s pre costume change DC Blackhawk art for sale or trade let me know I’m interested)

I hear ya. I came in about 8k under expectation, and overall I lost money even with one huge win piece. It just sucks because the prices didn’t make sense based on market. Oh well sometimes you gotta take a loss. What sucks is I know three pieces in particular will go back up to auction or sale in the next year and will all magically do much better. It’s hard to buy pieces in major auctions and instantly make money, I managed to give that experience to at least 3 folks...You’re welcome ...sigh...

Made my argument, stand by it. I understand many might view average selling price per page as the standard for top 5, nothing wrong with that. I’m just not one of ya.

I think the best way to explain it is this way. I look at the body of work, the 6 decades of top level production, I see the greatness in that others did not have. I look at the sheer number of main stream material he produced at a high level for generations of fans. I see greatness. I guess it’s the Mark Schultz argument all over, is greatness defined by single great periods of limited production that’s mind blowing? Is he top 5 to you? Is Frank Frazetta or Dave Stevens top 5 American comic artists? Their clearly more talented and produced higher caliber work than any name mentioned here...I ask, are they top 5?

1. Russ Manning...it’s not even close 2. Russ Manning still

Hmm, not a good auction for me. Lost money overall, that first sale hurt and a few lots just died right at or below cost. My first bad auction in a few years. I just always seem to struggle in summer signature sales.

You are welcome to your opinion

Yeah the last 5 or so years was pretty spotty mostly inking granted but each of the three has issues 1.Eisner was only doing his own creator driven work, so it’s not like he was getting work he was just out self publishing the same stuff over and over. It was nostalgia driven for the last 20 years of his career you can argue. 2. Kubert has such a distinct style that it was basically hiring him to draw his same lines and characters after his 35 year window (putting it 46-81 when he started just being Kubert for the name draw of it). 3. Heath again his window when you were hiring him for his ability to tell the story and not just be “Russ Heath:Icon” is 30-35 years. Yes these HOF caliber talents had long careers very close to Sal agreed. But Sal worked on nearly every type of book from every major publisher and worked constantly from 68 on, and only on major material. He went right to the big show with no minor league time (Dave Winfield ?) and did dozens of books a year for decade after decade adapting to the times and styles of the era and whatever partner he was working with. None of the other three can say that.

Oh...my...god.... What a damn near perfect experience. The world he created, it was so complete and intricate. It was maybe one of the best period pieces I’ve ever seen. The snap to dialogue was damn near Mamet. I haven’t enjoyed dialogue this much since “heist” back in 2001. This played so similar in many ways to inglorious basterds it was insane. No one mailed it in, no one sucked at their role. Even Lena Dunham didn’t ruin her scene, a minor miracle. This movie felt like a huge cultural response to the safe over produced focus tested we normally see. I can’t recommend this enough. 9/10

Completely disagree. Having a purity of form and intent in a visual narrative medium like comics isn’t some failure of the creator. What you call distilled and without grace, I call clean and distinctive to his own style and ability. You can hate one the process that got there but you can’t deny the technical and layout strength of the work...well you can since it’s all opinion, but I and many others would disagree.

Will Eisner was only doing his own work, and was a shadow of his former self. Russ Heath the same (pains me to admit it)....but i think Joe Kubert comes close. His style was so strong he could only really make his work happen though. Sal was the catch all inker for a lot of folks. Did some catch up review. Sal was working on large name material as an artist appropriate for the job from 1968-2018. Granted many jobs he has done in the last 5-10 years have had a nostalgic component, but he was still doing issue inking up to last year. His window of main stream character/company/title work is 50 years. That surpasses all three listed (each a giant in the field) in terms of them producing marketable high quality work and not just getting work due to the nostalgic draw. None of the three can say that, Sal holds that spot alone...also If the only way to combat someone saying an artist is top 5 all time...is to bring up other guys who also could be on that list as being of equal qualifications...I think helps out the argument I’m making. I stand by top 5 greatest American comic book artist.

What surprises me, is this had everyone on it, in one historic panel everyone remembers. Even Prof X, Spider-woman and Carol Danvers were on it. Last 4 pages look like they sold 15,14,15,44, and then mine at 9 something. Oh well I guess.

Pages like it sold 15,000 on comic connect in 2015...four years later it sells for 1/2 that?

Ouch I took a bath on that Michael golden avengers annual 10 page. Lost so much on that page that it eliminated all profit I made off the larger deal I made to get it. Damn...

Yeah, you’re probably thinking about the Chiefs wide receiver...simple mistake.

Yep, I’m just getting past the “oh it’s only Sal Buscema” bias and actually looking at the work and history.

? You and I were joking around I thought...I’m sorry man I didn’t mean anything.