RICKYBOBBY

Congrats on the grail.. that’s an awesome piece.

10 hours ago, Unca Ben said:

Chic Stone's brushwork isn't too shabby, either.  Look at the heavy line-weight he used to outline the figure, varying it at the wrists & ankles, shoulders, and top of the head.  Just beautiful.  Makes the figure really pop off the page (and out of the background).

The Kirby/Stone collaboration is hard to beat.

I agree with you 100%. Marvel did a good job  of picking Chic Stone for all those early Kirby Pin Ups and Masterworks Pin Ups. They are all absolutely fabulous!

Hey all.. happy New Year! I just added my first piece of the year.

Incredible Hulk #393 Pin Up - by Herb Trimpe as he revisits Hulk #181 for the 2nd time in his career!

Thanks for looking!

https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1520846

RB

3 hours ago, KirbyJack said:

That’s terrific! 

How big is it?

Thanks! And the piece is a large twice up page. Silver age glory!

On 12/30/2018 at 2:02 PM, batman_fan said:

Beauty, Kirby did a really nice rendition of Alicia.

Thanks and I agree! I mean he is her creator - can’t get better IMO

I didn’t know! Thanks for enlightening me 

Just added this Kirby Thor battle page!

Thx for looking 😊

https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1517237

RB

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33 minutes ago, Timely said:

What an impressive page!

Thanks!! 🙏🏽 

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33 minutes ago, Nexus said:

Maybe. But only real Kirby art.

And what do you mean by “real”? Who was implying imaginary Kirby art would sell for millions? 

2 hours ago, artcollector9 said:

I don't subscribe to the 'buy what you like and even if the value goes down to zero you are ok' philosophy. 

Once art got over $1000 a page, it is an investment. It's not just fun drawings on paper-hobby purchase, not for me at least. 

It's money that belongs to my family in the end and I need to be careful with it. 

I do not see a doomsday scenario of boomers aging out and dumping collections. I think people collect differently now, than they did 20 and 30 years ago. 

I think 25 years ago with cheap art prevalent collectors still spent all their disposable income on comic art, they just got so much more for their money-- so a guy who loved Kirby might have 10-15 Kirby pages. Now with prices so high, the collection who wants Kirby gets 1-2. 

I also think a lot more people collect comics and comic art today, than 25 years ago. 

It's not that ALL comics and comic art will always go up-- market taste and other factors including purchase price etc will have a large bearing on whether one profits or loses when he sells. 

But I think in the next 20 years, top tier comic art (and we could discuss how to define that) will continue to rise to heights unthought of today. 

Just as Warhol and other art is now $50-100 Mil (and DaVinci hit $500 mil!) a great, vintage Kirby cover for $2-3 mil seems plausible, right, and inevitable. 

 I agree with this statement. I can easily see prime Kirby covers go into the millions.

46 minutes ago, Panelfan1 said:

Easy reader approved comic art by Sal B and Mike E.

Yup - its juvenile, and the clown here is not Pennywise. But a long time bucket list item. 

See CAF  Post here.

 

 

Love this piece. Always had a special place for Spidey vs Hulk covers. Hope to own one day myself,

By the way - your CAF link doesn’t work so I couldn’t comment.

Oh I wish I had something to share here ...

Picked up this Jack Kirby Silver Surfer penciled commission. It’s only around 75% by Jack according to Mark Evanier but it’s still a nice piece. 

http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=1498745

Thanks for looking!

16 minutes ago, romitaman said:

I sold the asm #100 cover and the captain america 109 cover to the same collector... I assume he is getting out of the hobby now!

How long ago was that Mike?

This thread reminds me of the Kirby recreations from 94. All it took was one person to say he didn’t do them - with no proof or evidence and literally destroyed those pieces. 

12 minutes ago, pemart1966 said:

In Mitch and Larry's book referenced by Mitch a few posts above?

Thanks .. I missed that!

FF pencils are 40k. Was this even published anywhere? Was it published in the Kirby Collector magazine even?

RickyB

To the OP - if you have held on so long I would suggest waiting another 3 years if you can. The reason I say is because there is a very high chance these 2 (SS and Galactus) will be the next MCU arch. The books value will increase and you can probably get closer to that 44k (and if not more) the longer you wait. 

Good luck on whatever you choose!

RickyB

7 minutes ago, O. said:

Thanks. I'm not a Big John/Wolvie fan but would've snapped it up in a heartbeat at that price!

 

Someone did..it was gone within a few hours if i recall correctly.

6 hours ago, O. said:

Wow that's a Steal

Where did it sell at?

 

Mitch at Graphic collectibles sold it.