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I recall Mary Wilshire being a pretty good artist. When you ask Sienkiewicz to ink anyone (ANYONE), you kind of expect him to treat pencils as layouts and he'll do his thing. I imagine he'll follow what's there and not actually redraw panels. BUT Sienkiewicz does the blacks and adds so many flourishes that it's hard to imagine the pencils. I saw Joe Staton at a show where he had a page inked by Sienkiewicz and happened to have a copy of his original pencils, forgot which series/issue. It was just unreal what Sienkiewicz did.

Breaking up the logjam with... 3 Hail Marys !! Mary Marvel turnarounds by Ryan Sook. I've seen the finished version on CAF.

Sold for $530.00

No idea. I think it's some kind of 3D digital model based on the McFarlane drawing. The ebay listing shows 2 views. For posterity here are the images from the ebay listing: VEVE ECOMI Todd McFarlane Batman Black & White FIRST APPEARANCE #1251 NFT VEVE Digital Collectible. VERY LOW minted number #1251 / 7500. Buyer must have an active VEVE app account and provide user information (Screenshot of username and QR code ideally) exactly as is displayed on the VEVE app to receive the digital collectible. Transfer will take place after payment has been cleared.

VEVE Todd McFarlane Batman FIRST APPEARANCE #1251 NFT Digital Collectible Low Serial Number #1251 / 7500 Currently $425 with 47 bids and 9 hours remaining https://www.ebay.com/itm/265141222142?var=0&mkevt=1&mkcid=1&mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&campid=5336399660&toolid=10001&customid=CAFHotHeader

... rhymes with Simonson Green Arrow

Same. Who ever said "sex sells" was right. Even so, I got what I consider to be a "bargain".

Mr Lodge is the Watcher. Archie 555 by Stan Goldberg / Bob Smith

Nice Art Adams sketch !! Hooper: Big fish... Jaws recreation in pencil by original artist Roger Kastel on 11 x 14 gesso'ed illustration board.

My avatar is a "gimme" Bernard Sachs (mostly known as an inker, e.g. over Sekowsky's JLA) These guys could be twins. And... headband in every panel.

N I A G A R A F A L L S ! ! ! Slowly I turned... step by step...

Looks like Jeff Bastita https://www.deviantart.com/jeff-batista/art/Zealot-Pencil-Ink-original-art-FOR-SALE-803361266

Is that really some dry brush work in the shadow of Sauron's wing ??

I was thinking Nicole Kidman.

I have a Red Sonja story on CAF, written and drawn by Bruce Jones http://cafurl.com?i=26124 I also have this one by Alfredo Alcala on CAF

FWIW, I happened on my copy of David Anthony Kraft's Comics Interview #78 (1990) which has the interview with Todd Reis who traded his 3-D dioramas for Batman commissions. Unfortunately, it looks like art may have been photographed in color and printed in black and white. About half of the art is line drawings which printed fine. But several pieces are described as being color pieces and don't look that great in the article. Among them, art by Bill Sienkiewicz (chalk pastels), John Byrne (oil paint !!), George Perez, Don Newton, Jerry Ordway, Giordano, Ken Steacy and Brent Anderson (chalk pastels). Also, I've seen other pieces in recent HA auctions. I have the Mike Nasser drawing that's shown in the article but I acquired that in the early or mid 1990's. If there's any interest, I can post scans of art from the article. The interview shows the original Walt Simonson commission and 1983 published piece for comparison. In the interview, Reis does not mention being upset over Simonson giving the image to DC (bolding and italics as per the article): Todd: ... There's an interesting story: That was drawn by Walt for my collection, and before he mailed it to me, he showed it to Len Wein who was Batman editor at the time. He had to have it for a cover, so he had Doug Moench write and Don Newton draw a story, based on the Batman and Joker fighting atop this tower. It wasn't quite the same, I believe they used an Aztec or Inca tower in that particular story; but nevertheless, it was based upon this piece which then became the cover of BATMAN #366. It could be that Reis was not upset at the time of the interview and became upset later. But the interviewer and Reis make various comments/critiques of other commissions. So I can't see that there was really an issue re: the Simonson commission.

I edited my comment to make it clear the a-hole was Reed Richards. I think Norm Macdonald is great.

Another NM... Norm Macdonald. Not sure if he's really a comic book fan... Anyone familiar with his Fantastic Four riff ?? One of my co-workers thinks he (Reed Richards) is an a-hole. This skit kind of confirms it. I think Norm is hilarious.

Next Men

Out of curiosity, how many of us would take a serious run (i.e. at auction) at an animation cel or animation pencil drawing from Harley Quinn's 1st appearance in BTAS ?? I generally have little interest in cels unless they're relatively cheap. The flaking paint or shrinking cels seems scary. I can go for a decent animation pencil drawing, again if they're kind of cheap.

For reference: https://www.comicconnect.com/item/903150 Also... Herb Trimpe - G.I. JOE (A REAL AMERICAN HERO) #119 Cover ($19,100): https://www.comicconnect.com/item/902632

These days, it's more likely the publishers will go off-brand with characters they DO own.

The description said "Spirit Book #3" and HA said it's from the 1970's. Were you able to determine if there ever was a Spirit Book 3 in the 70's ??

top middle - Ed McGuinness lower right - Dave Ross Craig Young ??

Didn't you mean... Peanuts... followed by strips in no particular order??