Michael Browning

Here’s a few of my DeCarlos. I just traded a Josie bikini cover away last week.

His covers and pinups from around 1982-1984 are racy compared to the tame work he had done before and the work he would do AFTER the Cheryl Blossom problem (parents complained she was too sexy for Riverdale and their young readers). Archie editorial didn’t really do much editing of DeCarlo during those years and he pushed the boundaries, for sure. After CB was banned from Archie Comics, you can see on original art pages where Archie editorial made DeCarlo shrink cup sizes and white out cleavage lines.

Agreed. It’s more Mooney than Byrne. Also, I thought the final price was a solid result, especially since Mooney’s inks overpowered whatever of Byrne’s pencils there was under them and there was only one panel with Spider-Man.

My fault for thinking we were talking about the pinups and not just regular panel pages. Honestly, I haven’t seen many panel bikini pages sell over the last couple of years, though I do know of some private sales that have hit some high numbers. Pages from the 1960s and 1970s with bikinis do sell for $600 and up, depending on the images.

I think that a lot of people are saving up for the big November auction because there’s so much great art in it. Even the lower-tier stuff is great. I do think there are too many auctions right now. And, while I don’t think art prices are necessarily falling, I do think that there’s something to the idea of auction fatigue, too.

“Falling prices in OA”? Huh? I don’t think prices are falling at all and I’m not sure where you get that that’s happening. I know there’s a lot of wishful thinking, but I’ve seen no evidence at all of falling prices. Care to explain?

Great cover! I’m not sure it gets to the price level of a B&V bikini cover or pinup, but it’s definitely a fantastic and memorable image by DeCarlo. I have said it before, maybe somewhere in these forums, but I have always believed DeCarlo was Archie’s Dave Stevens. I also believe his early-1980s bikini covers were some of the best - and most daring - art of his career because he really seemed to be trying to push editorial to see how far he could go. His covers and pinups were still great all the way up to the end, but his early-1980s art pushed a lot of boundaries.

$600? Nah. Try $2,000.

Overstreet didn’t list it for years because they didn’t know about it and there wasn’t any sales data. I alerted them to its existence when I was an advisor and got the gold and blue editions listed.

Back parking lot behind the coffee shop. After the transaction was complete, we then went up to the porch of the shop and he wanted a smoothie (and I’d never tried one), so I bought us both smoothies and we sat and chatted for awhile. It was then that he made the texts to his friends and talked to me about being staunchly anti-vax and kept watching to make sure no one was going to get him. Honestly, though, he was a super nice guy who just had deep concerns for his well-being. 🤷🏼‍♂️

“Booth or counter?” Help me out, because I don’t know what that means. And, yes, both pieces are in my CAF gallery.

Why post a comment like this? I mean, if you don’t like the art, then give a reason. If you don’t like Glen, that’s up to you, too, but why try to insult whoever is buying the art? That’s just not good at all. I personally like the covers and would buy the DD if I had the cash. I think the Spider-Man, with all its detail, is the best of the three. So, what do you have to say about that?

Ken Danker originally bought it from Peter David, I believe, and had it in his collection for years.

Okay, so my mistake. My apologies to everyone I offended for NOT knowing the difference.

So, then, Rich was the agent for Harlan?

I'm glad HA pulled that art from the auction because it's not all Hughes. Has anyone reached out to Adam to see what he says? I don't think it's 100% real, but there are parts that look like it might have SOME AH! art on it. Maybe it was an unfinished sketch that someone TRIED to finish themselves? That hand looks like something Mort Meskin would have drawn, though, and there's no way Adam Hughes drew it.

I actually like both of these (the FF cover art isn't as bad as many people are saying it is, either, in my opinion) and, while I don't think they're worth $60K each, if I had the cash, maybe I would buy one just to own a Frank Miller cover (nope, I do not own one). I do think the prices are high, but these may be the only "affordable" Frank Miller covers for awhile. I agree that Miller's art isn't what we all loved on Daredevil and Dark Knight, but he's older now and his style has changed over the years. He is still Frank Miller, though, and that name still carries a lot of weight and value. I can remember when a dealer told me variant covers aren't worth nearly what the main covers are worth. It wasn't Glen, though, so I'm not bashing him. But, that does prove the changing dynamics in the comic art hobby and how dealers are now selling variant covers and collectors are buying them just the same as the main covers.

I corresponded with "Rich Henn" many years ago when I inquired about his Jim Aparo Wrath of the Spectre cover art and the Secret Origins Doom Patrol cover by Byrne, then, he stopped answering me around the same time that Harlan died, but, until I saw the art preview for the upcoming Harlan Ellison Heritage auction, I didn't realize that Mr. Henn was really Mr. Ellison. Did anyone else know? Below is a link to the CAF gallery and those pieces are what is in the upcoming Ellison auction. https://www.comicartfans.com/galleryroom.asp?gsub=106348

Maybe it’s by Barry Blair? He drew a lot of Elfquest comics, I believe.

Back around 1994-1995, the Valiant Nintendo comics could be found in bins and large stacks at Dollar Tree stores all over the East Coast. There were stacks of those and the WWF larger-than-digest-sized comics. I had a few of them, but didn't keep any because, at that time, I thought they were junk. Nowadays, these are some of the hottest comics at shows and I never see them in shops - unless I find beaten copies in dollar boxes of Gold Keys, Archies and Charltons and a few of the Nintendo Valiants sometimes are wedged between a Jughead and Scary Tales.

Thing things.

I’ve had several drawn by Bob and I would love to get more done by him. Below are the last two I got.

I could understand why this Frazetta piece sold so high if it was of a moose and squirrel 😉, but a moose and rabbit?

Can anyone tell me why this Joe Staton page sold so high?