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Heritage (cont)

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Here are some Day 1 NYCC photos, enjoy! Albert

Frank Miller’s Dark Knight splash is

Happy Batman Day! Today (Sept 21, 2019) marks the 80th anniversary of the Dark Knight for DC Comics. I recently added this Matt Wagner Batman splash...a “picture perfect” image of the Caped Crusader swinging through Gotham City. Enjoy! Wagner Batman #3 splash

Lots of great discussion lately on the boards about the game-changing Swamp Thing run by Moore/Bissette/Totleben. Inspired me to post my Swamp Thing #34 "Rite of Spring" DPS where Abby eats a piece of Swamp Thing's tuber that sends her on a hallucinogenic sexually-charged experience...to feel the collective consciousness of all plant life on earth, as Swampy does. A head-turning (literally) piece with incredible details and mind-blowing content from Vertigo's historic artistic collaboration. Link

Sal's title splash from Marvel Team-up Annual #1 (1976), the first comic I ever read with the New X-Men. These guys are different but pretty cool, I thought.

Mike Zeck's dramatic opening splash from Kraven's Last Hunt, part 2: "Here Lies Spider-man" ASM #293 p1

I owned the Bradstreet Punisher #5 cover-- bought it for $800 a couple years ago and sold it here on the boards for $1500 in June. IMO a choice Bradstreet cover, but I never valued it above $2k based on comps. Saw a different Bradstreet cover in SDCC, priced sub-$2k if I recall.

My collecting themes are: 1. Full-figure covers and splashes from 1972-86 2. Transformation and origin recaps 3. Catch phrases and oath pages 4. Classic/memorable cover homages 5. Calendar, licensing and poster arT 6. NYC landmarks / skyline

Here’s my Werewolf By Night #7 transformation page by Mike Ploog with all the classic elements...a full moon, carnival barker excites the crowd, and Jack Russell transforms into the Werewolf! Link

Happy Friday to all. I’m an OA collector looking for someone with a reader copy of Fantastic Four Annual #2 that can send me a scan of page 19 from the FF story (has to be from actual copy not Essentials or a reprint). I’ll pay $10 Paypal for your trouble. I have my OA on CAF and like to post a scan of the published page along with the art but don’t have a copy of FF Ann #2. Please PM if you can help. Alternative, happy to buy a beater / coverless copy. Thanks! Dino

My preferred storage is mylar + board (actually conservation acid-free foam board, lighter and thicker than standard board) and bundled in groups of 8-10 pieces in large ziplock bags for further protection and easy handling. I like my art organized upright in bins so I can flip through my collection (like I did comics) instead of Itoya portfolios. The custom blue stickers (with my name and contact info) keep each mylar tight up top and serve as tabs— allowing fingers to naturally flip through without any mylars ‘opening’ up.

If helpful, this photo shows the relative mylar sizes. Twice-up pages have 12.5" x 18" or 13" x 19" image areas but the boards typically extend beyond 20" length due to bigger top/bottom margins. That's why 1422R mylars fit twice-up better.

#1 Batman (no surprise) over #2 Thor.

I've bought mylars from eGerber for a decade now, excellent quality and prices. I get eGerber mylar in these sizes: 1218R for standard pages, 1422R for twice-up/oversize and 1824R for DPS / wrap covers...no problems with the larger size mylars.

Sorry to hear. Curious, do you guys include HA 20% BP in your est. loss/haircut? Is buying at $X and then selling for $X with BP mean breakeven or 20% loss? Not so bad if most of your loss/haircut relates to transaction costs not pricing. Personally, I liked that Michael Golden Avengers page alot (and highlighted the piece in this thread pre-auction). I did notice something in composition, however, as 11 of 12 Avenger heads were either cropped or obscured by panel borders, drapes or other heroes....plus the abundance of text paste-ups probably didn't help. Otherwise, I'd have bid more aggressively as the art is gorgeous.

1. Bernie Wrightson 2. Frank Miller

Interesting debate. Economists use "market capitalization" (the net market value of all outstanding shares) and "gross domestic product" (the market value of all final goods produced) to define and compare the productivity of companies and nations alike. Applying these concepts here, I am inclined to rank artists in terms of the (theoretical) GROSS COMIC ART PRODUCT (GCAP) aggregate market value of all the published comic artwork produced over his/her lifetime. This would naturally reward professional longevity, market value (using relative collector demand and pricing as a proxy) and diversity of contributions (e.g., penciller, inker, painter but not writer). At the same time, this approach would discount (1) artists with exceptional talents/influence but brief careers; and (2) artists who left comics industry for commercial work like Eisner, Schomburg, Steranko, etc. Simply, if I were to put a market value on all the published comic art produced (known, existent or not) by any artist (G-CAP market value), my Top 5 would probably be: 1. Jack Kirby (artist 1936 - 1994)- King Kirby is #1, no surprise. 2. Charles Schulz - 50 years of Peanuts, over 18,000 strips. Probably the most financially successful artist earning $30-40MM per year. 3. John Romita Sr. (artist 1949 - 2007)- 60 years at Timely, DC and Marvel...prolific penciller and inker. Long Spidey and DD runs and I’m told he pencilled, inked or “face edited” on every Marvel title throughout his career. 4. Frank Frazetta (artist 1947 - late 90s) The legend...painter, Warren/EC/National comic artist, strips, and book covers. Some of Frank's published sketches are more valuable than many artists' prime covers. 5. John Buscema (artist 1948 - 1997) - THE primary artist for all Marvel titles that Kirby conceptualized like FF, Thor, Avengers plus Spidey and Conan. Apologies to Osamu Tezuka (artist 1946-1989) - Godfather of Japanese manga, and later graphic novels. Staggering artistic production / page count but hard to value/assess FMV....and to Joe Shuster who drew Action #1-24 (FMV would be astronomical ) That's my YMMV.

Twice-up cover, 1958

Today, on the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing (July 20, 1969), I’m proud to post this cover for Space Adventures #23 "First Trip to the Moon" published in 1958....over a decade before Apollo 11 and Neil Armstrong walked on the moon! A classic sci-fi image in glorious twice-up size. Link