Phantalien

Do we get to see any of the art you were trying to show off?

Castlevania at 12th place Contra at 22nd place That's crazy!

Didn't Harlan Ellison have letters printed in comics?

It was a peanuts trading card. The problem was that you got a tiny booster box and the tiny box had the set of 33 cards. On top of it there was supposed to be a randomly inserted Charles Schulz autograph in a booster. I got my sister 3 boosters thinking we would need to try to collect the set, nope, instead got 3 sets.

Weren't there a few 4-color comics for peanuts too? Or did those come out in the Silver Age?

Excellent pick up. Cover art is so much better than #1

OOoooooh I never knew this thread existed. This is more my domain even though I don't have anything this old. One of these days I want to find a color Sunday Krazy Kat strip . However I was given a reprint of a Little Nemo page from when he was climbing through the city.

I am pretty sure that in #1 the bottom right person is Bela Lugosi.

Thanks. I try to stick to NM complete in box stuff, but a lot of these games are next to impossible to find like that, especially the scarcer SNES titles. Much, much tougher than comics of that era. I think I will star a video game collectors thread soon. There seem to be a lot of us and it would be nice to have a place to share pickups and post stuff for trade. A gaming collection thread would be great. I'm a huge fan of Sega Master System. No one likes the system which makes the games cheap. Patrick I am partial to Turbo Grafx 16. I can never find those

Everyone knows that the highlight of that pickup is the MR. T bookmark.

Yeah the Mad was an insert in one of those Super Special issues. Nice haul of comics

Expectations are different based on the situation. In a social transaction where I am holding a door for someone I would expect a thank you. There are a lot of people who do not say that and most often happens when I am in an affluent area. This is more of a business transaction than a social transaction that you are talking about, you are using your time to assist this person who did not know about it. Did you deserve anything? No. If you felt you did then you should have handled it differently. Finecollector was right. The fact that you imply that you deserve something really ruffles my feathers.

Thread winning phrase right here! Good reading material right there!

I believe you're right about it being his first professional gig. Had no idea it was listed in Overstreet in the 80's, how odd that they would take it out. Help used to be listed in Overstreet and then at some point they took it out as well. Haven't looked at a price guide in a few years so I'm unsure whether or not it's been reinstated. Always wondered why they removed it. That's so weird. I haven't looked at a new Overstreet guide in years either, but it doesn't really make any sense to exclude titles like this, even if it's to honor Mr. Overstreet's dictum that adult-oriented materials be excluded from his guide. Judging by today's standards, there's nothing particularly subversive about Help, and Powermowerman is (and always has been) utterly benign. Since Creepy, Eerie, Vampirella and a couple other Warren titles are in Overstreet and Famous Monsters Of Filmland and it's ilk are not, I assumed Help was considered in the latter category by some committee at some later point. Does anybody know if Overstreet lists Warren's 1984/94? It resembles the comic titles like Creepy, but the content is pretty 'adult' by comparison....and even that label can be argued by those who would just call it "out and out tawdry smut". I figure if Mad and Cracked are listed, well...why not Help? I always thought that it was due to the amount of hand drawn comic art inside the book which prevented Help and others like it to be in Overstreet. Also since MAD started as a comic it was always grandfathered in. Kurtzman stuff is always good to read and enjoy. Help also contained some very early Terry Gilliam work, maybe his first professionally published work outside of college.

That is wild! I have never seen that one. Love the kid in the bottom right that says " It will kill you!" These days the company would get sued if a box would say that it would kill you. Consequently the companies got sued because of lack of warning labels.

Adventure comics #431 IT was originally a swapmeet find and I spent my last buck or two on it and my dad wouldn't let me have any money to get the next 3-5 that were in the comic box. It took me 10 minutes to choose #431 because of the cover art. I sold it when I first joined ebay YEARS ago. I actually sod a lot of things on ebay at first because it was easy money at the time and I was just learning to drive so I wanted money. Adventure #431 is the one I miss the most but these are other issues I sold at that time... The X-men #3, #6, and Superman 3-D.

Love those Spectre Adventure Comics

I remember enjoying this on TNT back in the day, but not as back in the day as some of you guys...

That matting for Lightning bolt needs to change. I don't know which one I would want the most.

Shave those sideburns Mattingly!

I wanted to go to get cards signed but I didn't know if that would be perceived as tacky. There are at least 20-30 artists who also did art for MTG. There are so many people who do some amazing art and they just happen to have done MTG art, Omar Rayyan and Rebecca Guay.

Very nice. Great game and a fun cartoon as well. Earthworm Jim is the best comic book that was never a comic. (as far as know)

you can't compare. That card is 20 years older than Baga's work. The company was paying them peanuts at that time ($250 per card illustration IIRC). Baga is no doubt getting thousands per card now that its a much much larger enterprise (as he should). So comparing the time, level of detail, or pretty much anything else about the new art to the old art is apples to oranges. The old art is rough and ready and that has a certain charm. The new stuff is more polished and intricate and that has its own charm (while having lost the old charm). The new pieces are better illustrations - flat out. But they are also way more corporate and sometimes a little soulless as a result (note the word 'sometimes' - not always - not an attack on anything present company may collect ). (The counterpoint is that the early art is sometimes crude). Its absolutely tangible in the art that the artists today are under much more supervision and direction, which isn't suprising. Back in the early days Jesper Myrfors was the art director and from what I've heard he let them do anything - and you can see that freedom in the work. Of course... Jesper, bless his heart was for my money definitely one of the weaker early mtg artists, so he probably couldn't throw stones from a glass house I would like to add a bit to this. I talked to some of the original artists Mark Poole, Jeff Menges, and Christopher Rush (maybe some more). Of things that were mentioned by one or more was... 1. MTG almost did not get made as there were money problems at the beginning. One of them mentioned that they were propositioned at one time, then a year later they were given the OK to create their art. During that time some art was made but not enough for a whole set. 2. The amount of $$$ they made was not mentioned but one of them said that they worked on enough paintings to pay for a month or two of rent. 3. There was an option to receive stock in the game/company. When Hasbro bought them out, it was well worth it I assume. Beyond the above post... Terese Nielsen is an amazing artist and I am not surprised her paintings went for a lot of money. Christopher Rush's work will go for a lot no matter what. Even though the art is not as "perfect" as today I feel there is a type of historical significance when it comes to older art. Also remember, he is the one who created the mana symbols. My friends and I don't have the money to get original art but when we go out to gencon we try to "pimp out" our decks with signature cards instead of foil cards. It's different and fun plus we get to meet the artists. We do try to find something of the artist to buy to help support them.

Hi, I have a comic strip I got for a birthday present and want to know the best way to get it framed. What should I ask for/look for when trying to frame it and preserve it from the sun? Any assistance would be great!

I don't make enough money to buy original MTG art, or at least the ones I would want. Heck, when I go to Gen Con a number of those prints are pretty expensive too. After talking to a number of artists there is less and less original painted art as time goes on, but I am sure you all have figured that out. I think it is real neat you can get the old original art and am surprised that Wrath of God did not fetch at least 100k, it is pretty iconic as far as MTG goes and the amount of times it has been reprinted. That art convention is about 3 hours away from me, it may be worth going to for fun.