Eelco

My first page was a John Byrne Champions page. I bought it from a for sale page post in a newsgroup it was in 1997.  Do people recall those groups? 

My first pieces were bought there not that long before I bought my art from eBay. 

I do not own it anymore:

Selling several pieces:
Prime FF art pages by John Byrne

Mike Mignola Superman 18 cover

Milt Caniff Terry and the pirates daily 

Consider partial trade / cash options. 
Time payments can be discussed. 
The art is on CAF:

https://www.comicartfans.com/galleryroom.asp?gsub=159102

Please send private message or through CAF  

On 4/23/2022 at 9:47 PM, Drummy said:

Speaking of Sal, I was at the NJ Art Con this morning and saw the dealer who bought this recently...had the entire book up for sale.  Not an important issue, but a cool one with lots of action and heroes.

Dan

Wow cool and rare to see such a complete seventies book by Sal! Thanks to share. 

Great short summary Glen! Love the photo!

On 11/4/2020 at 2:11 AM, Drummy said:

I've been going back and forth on this topic for fifteen years.  I was all in on the Marvel SA keys, then almost all in on Bronze age Marvel superhero art, then -- when prices started going way up between 2010-2014, I sold the art and went back to the keys thinking they would be cheaper in the long run (which has surprisingly proven true despite the MCU and other bumps).

Now, though, I have 16 of the 22 books I really want to own/display, so I'm looking at a few art pages again on the side.  Once my grail books are all in hand, I figure I'll keep going with collecting the art so long as it's semi-affordable and a nostalgic joy.

My latest pick-up is below for any Sal Hulk fans out there, from issue #208!

Dan

 

Enjoy the page Dan! 
 

Eelco

25 minutes ago, Unstoppablejayd said:

I know it is an important piece.. but visually it is not very interesting. But I guess three people love X-23!

With this kind of art I guess I am totally out of the loop, I had really no idea what this is about.  

 

From a favorite nostalgic story of mine and love the Sinnott inks in this story. And also very sweet first panel. 
 

2 hours ago, glendgold said:

The top tier was torn off in the warehouse as a show of "loyalty" to the guy running it at the time  (the first three pages of this  issue are similarly torn) so the Baxter Building images are just a photocopy. Sinnott says he always started a new issue by inking the final panel of page 2  so it's possible that Thing/Torch frackus is the first FF image he ever did.

I was lucky enough to visit Joe and his son at his house two years ago. Incredibly sweet guy, still working on the ASM Sunday strip, still with it. Very devout, and proud of his collection of every piece of correspondence Stan ever sent him.

Terrific page Glen, these early pages are so cool!

1 hour ago, thethedew said:

Mike Burkey is in the process of breaking up the pages for ROM # 32.

Your ROM #3 is now the Last Complete Issue of ROM, Spaceknight. 

Please keep it that way.

Which reminds me of the time when several of those Rom books were sold for the first time in 2002. I had the chance to pick up early complete Rom stories including the annual with the X-Men back then but my interest was and still is in his Hulk art. So I passed at the Rom art....hmmm..
 

19 minutes ago, mxs7 said:

Bought this years ago without knowing what, if anything, it was used for. Later discovered it was both a Marvelmania Catalog cover and a pin-up in a Marvel Treasury Edition. But the most insane fact about this piece, discovered with the indispensable assistance of Glen Gold, is this is Sal's try-out art that landed him the Avengers gig!

I apologize for the poor image...Mike

 

Wow awesome! I recall seeing that image and always loved it!

A topic I like 

My grail Defenders piece by Sal:

https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=857162

1 hour ago, comix4fun said:

It is totally different. 

Arnie in GIANT blue sharpie along the bottom 1/4 of a Conan cover = Abomination

Adding 4-5 sigs (in the last couple of years) to the bottom of a landmark six-figure X-men piece (that survived for 30+ years without them) that are relatively unobtrusive = ill-advised and not particularly well thought out.

People tolerate signatures in the art area that were added 20-25-30 years ago given that there's not much they can do about it now, that it happened when perhaps the significance of the piece (like the 137) didn't have the same gravity on the hobby and when they certainly weren't as revered or valuable. People don't show the spirit of preservation and stewardship of the art when they add signatures to a piece like this, basically today, when it's survived this long without them and when almost none of the signatures added have anything to do with the pencils and inks on the piece itself. 

So the reaction to seeing an old sig in the art area of a piece where the sig was done in the 80's etc. is going to be different than when someone buys a piece at auction today and decides they are going to "enhance" it with several more signatures in the art area. 

Exactly looking at the X-Men 137 I feel it is a shame they were added in the past couple of years.  

For me Byrne's Dr Doom is a big favorite.

Here is a great page by him with Dr Doom:

It is from the two parter FF 246&247.

Eelco

There is not much talk ( if any) about the Kirby Journey into Mystery cover.

It is a very bold cover image, large art and Wood inking. I think an impressive piece.

Still 155k is a lot of cash.

And the Thor image is small. ( Would a larger Thor image then go for 200-250K )

Is this the result of "image is king( even though the main image is not Thor)" combined with the "Kirby/Wood" combination?

Just wondering ....

ASM 229 is pretty embarassing.

Still a classic story. And cool cover.

ASM 98 and Green Lantern 76

I am a fan of visually appealing comic art.

So Adams has more appeal to me than Kane.

But wow look at this ASM 98 cover. To me this is about the best execution of layout and suspense in an ASM cover.

The tilted layout, the falling Spidey and cornering menacing Green Goblin are the best.

I like this more than ASM 97 and that has a larger image and is Romita.

Adding that this is all from the classic run(before Andru took over, no disrepect to him, he is my nostalgic spidey artist) with a classic villain the Green Goblin.

Just that this is Kane stopped the price at this level I think.

Green Lantern for me that is just historic comic importance and then anything can happen happen.

And yeah sorry I am also in the camp that feel the cover art image itself has not that much visual appeal.

Eelco