Michael Browning

Found these today:

I’m a few days late adding this, but I just recently added a Frank Frazetta oil painting to my collection: http://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1436929

Yes. I see this at other stores. My local shops all sell these fairly high (higher than they were a few years ago but not at week-of-release prices ... yet) and usually get around $25 and $10, like you say.

What are the rarest of the DCU variants?

They've slowly climbed back up and I know shops that buy every copy they get in and sell for $15-$20 each.

I've got a newsstand that I showed earlier in this thread, so I know what they look like, but the one with the sticker is weird to me. I can see a used bookstore putting a price sticker on it, but a USED bookstore putting an ISBN sticker on there? Why waste the time when a price sticker would suffice?

This just arrived in the mail: Betty and Veronica 103 page 6 by Dan DeCarlo.

My grail is the cover to Ghost Rider 73, which the late Dave Simons, who inked the cover, believed to be one of the pieces he gave away to friends as gifts that were probably thrown away.

I remember well scrambling around to find copies of this book for cover price. I knew about it only a couple weeks before it came out and had reserved two copies at a local comic shop and tried to reserve a couple at another shop. When I went to the latter shop, the owner said they sold out immediately and, if I wanted my reserve copies, I had to pay the wall price for them, which was $50 each. Years later, when that comic shop went out of business, they had a couple long boxes of Superman 75s where they had ordered almost 1,000 copies. They made a ton of cash off of them, but they could have made so much more if it wasn't for the greed of the owner. Nowadays, I see this issue escalating in price again, but only moderately. I don't think anyone was ever put through college by selling their two or three copies, like they thought they would. In retrospect, this one comic made me very aware of pre-orders and caused me to want to start a folder at the other comic shop. It was truly a great story and will go down as one of the greatest events in comic book history.

No, sorry. The original poster didn't want it bad enough to actually pay a very fair amount for it. He thought he was going to get it very cheap, but I paid a lot for it and was only asking $100 more than I'd paid and that was too much for him. This is just one reason why I rarely ever sell anything on here and another reason why I hate the current state of our hobby.

I read this comment from you and went and bought a copy for $8 shipped. Wow, I didn't know it existed.

I sent you a PM regarding this. Please reply.

I was extremely blessed when I first got on comicartfans.com, I found my grail and was able to make a cash/trade for it. Flash 323. Then, I set my sights on other covers that I really had a nostalgic feel for, like Saga of the Swamp Thing 3. I'm thankful that Tom Fleming had the Doom Patrol 1 cover by Steve Lightle up on his site for sale and that he allowed me, a young comic art collector with NO experience in the hobby, to trade him for it. When I got into the hobby, I never had any idea that I would be able to acquire what I thought of as grails. But, like I said, I have been extremely blessed. There are still pieces out there that I'd love to find and buy, but none are really that major, just "grails" for me because of my nostalgic feel for them. I want the mechanical covers to Ghost Manor 36 and Space War 28 or Space War 30 (because those three "covers" were created from inside panels and only mechanicals or silver prints should exist for them). I want the cover to Ghost Rider 25 back. I want the cover to Archie Giant Series 522 by Dan DeCarlo. I want the cover to The Beagle Boys 38.

My very first through-the-mail art purchase was from Dan Parent way back in the 1990s when he'd run those 3 pages for $25 sales in the classifieds in Comics Buyer's Guide and I was buying covers from him, then, for $50 each. I've still got all those random pages and a friendship with Dan from all those years ago. He even drew me and my wife into the lead story in Veronica 155. (That is officially my first appearance in a cameo in a comic. We later made our full first appearance in the Jonah Hex: No Way Back graphic novel. Both appearances SHOULD be worth a fortune.)

Getting the Gil Kane Ghost Rider 25 cover BACK after stupidly trading it away many years ago.

So, a used book store would put an ISBN number on a price tag? I've never seen a used bookstore do that. And, the funny thing is, this came from a store stock that had all these from when it was published and they had ordered a stack of them from Diamond back then.

And, here's a weird one: Spawn Batman with a UPC code sticker on the back.

I found this in a shop in Kentucky today: Saban's Masked Rider. I have never seen one before.

I know absolutely nothing about these variants, but I did find NM copies of Final Night 1-4, Wonder Woman 96, Green Lantern 65-67, Green Arrow 110-111 and Steel 24 today -- all with the DCU logos.

I just found a copy of this in a longbox of comics I have. This and about 20 other Image newsstands, along with a bunch of Malibu, Comico and NOW newsstands.

I love Dan DeCarlo, Dan Parent and Fernando Ruiz Archie art and have a few pieces by each.