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A couple of pages sold by the Rogers Estate were never paid for, thus available for purchase again. The pages are: Dark Detective 6, page 4, for $550. Spider-Man 28, page 24, for $300. These, and some other pages, are located in the following CAF gallery: https://www.comicartfans.com/galleryroom.asp?gsub=191603 All payment and shipping ($20) made directly with Marshall's sister. Please send me a message if interested. Jason

I can let others address the word balloon questions (personally, I'm not a fan of the glue residue, but sometimes it is nice to see the artwork hidden underneath them), but the inking definitely looks like Pablo Marcos. But, his daughter, Judith is listed in the credits, and she did pencil a few pinups for Savage Sword of Conan a few years earlier, so I wouldn't think there is enough evidence to change that credit. It would make sense for him to be selling his daughter's artwork. Silvestri is the credited penciler.

I've added some new pages this week. It's just a fraction of what Jim has available, but they are representative of the different titles he still has, as well as the prices. I'll be adding more pages over time, but contact me directly, either here or via CAF, if you have any questions or want to see additional pages. https://www.comicartfans.com/galleryroom.asp?gsub=191605 Jason

Just a few left. I’ll send you a PM. BTW, to everyone, all the 3-D Man pages have been sold now, but I’ll be adding some new pages to the CAF folder next week.

Hello everyone! I've started selling some pages for Jim Craig, a Canadian artist who worked on several Marvel titles in the 1970s, as well as some in the mid-90s. First up are some pages from Marvel Premiere 35, the first appearance of 3-D Man. You can see what's available in my CAF gallery: https://www.comicartfans.com/galleryroom.asp?gsub=191605 Prices are listed in the CAF postings. Let me know if you have any questions. More artwork to come! Jason

New pages for the British reprints were produced by Marvel's British Department in New York, between 1973-1979, before they moved operations to London (and became known as Marvel UK). In addition to the new covers and splash pages mentioned above, they produced new pinups/centrespreads, for use in their landscape format comics (which these are both examples of). In total, about 2,300 new pieces of artwork came out of the British Department. It is where you will find the first published work of John Romita Jr, Marshall Rogers, Mike Nasser, Bob Budiansky, and many others (including Steve Stiles :)). I spent a few years working on a project to catalogue and identify the artists for these pages. If anybody has any British pages they want help identifying, send me a PM, I might be able to help! Jason

I can confirm both these centerspreads were published in the UK. You can see both of them via tlatner’s link to Andy’s site. I didn’t know the identity of the artist to the FF one until now, so it’s great to finally find out (after 40 years)!

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Have finished uploading all the pages to CAF! GI Joe is sold out. Still a couple of pages with Batman available. Jason

Hi Terry- All she has from that story is a stat copy of the cover, but not the original art. Jason

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Seems he’s deleted my comment as well now, but to be fair, he has changed the artist attribution to Espo as inker. Maybe he’ll know more once he gets the art in hand, or maybe not.

I come across misidentified artwork on auction sites on occasion, but was wondering what others thought about it. Usually one finds artists misidentified, but in this recent case both the issue and the inker are wrong. It sold surprisingly high on Heritage yesterday. https://comics.ha.com/itm/original-comic-art/marshall-rogers-and-al-williamson-marvel-comics-presents-81-daredevil-story-page-3-original-art-marvel-1991-/a/121842-13161.s?ic4=GalleryView-ShortDescription-071515 This page is not from MCP 81, but rather from an unpublished Rogers MCP Daredevil story, partially inked by him most likely. Several of the pages from this story have been previously for sale on a few dealer sites, including this page. I let Heritage know about the identity of the page, but they chose to ignore the information. There was another example at a recent Comicconnect (or Comiclink?) auction which had the wrong artists/volume number of a few Ka-Zar pages, credited to Larry Hama instead of Brent Anderson. In the Heritage example, having it being a published work and inked by someone like Williamson, likely helped up its final sale. It bothers me on a few different levels, but is this a concern to anyone else? Does this happen more often than I notice? Is it done on purpose? Jason

Just in case anyone is in the area, the University of Maryland Eastern Shore is currently holding an exhibition of the late Billy Graham’s artwork until October 25th. It’s mostly artwork loaned out by the family, but also some nice pages from collectors. Entrance is free! Here are some links with more information: http://www.moselygallery.com/billy-graham.html https://www.umes.edu/PR/News-Articles/2018/Mosley-exhibit--No-Longer--The-Irreverent-One-/ Jason

I'm wondering if this could be Adam Kubert pencils (layout looks like his work circa 1998-2004), though still no idea where it would have been published. I've attached a better picture.

Anybody know where this "Thing" page was published? Was thinking maybe from the Marvel Adventures FF series, by Carlo Pagulayan, but doesn't look look like it. Thanks!

Here are a few more unidentified British Marvel works Ghost Rider splash (1976): Not Wenzel, Bob Hall, Bob Layton, or Arvell Jones. Early JR jr? Spider-man and Vision (MTU) splash (1976): Not Jim Craig or Jeff Aclin. Planet of the Apes slash (1976): Rogers, Golden, Broderick? Or Aubrey Bradford? Dracula cover (1976): Some think it's Gene Colan, others not..... Thor (M21) splash (1976): No idea on this one, but familiar looking. Not Wenzel, Paty Cockru,m or Bob Layton.

I think you might be on to something with the Buckler ID, especially the left side of the drawing. Conan and flame doesn’t look much like him, but maybe one of his studio artists at the time (like Pat Gabriele?). Only problem is, I checked my records, and Buckler told me he didn’t draw this. However, I have found he said that about a few he did and did not draw, so he did make some mistakes identifying his old work (as many artists do). That’s why the OA is so great for this stuff (as long as there are some identifiers on it).

Hi everyone, I still have about 350 unidentified British Marvel work circa 1974-1978, so I thought I'd post some of them here to see if any of you might have and/or seen the OA, which could help ID the artists. Again, I know the odds are low, but it's worth a try. Or you could try your hand at guessing the artist, or if nothing else, see some cool Bronze Age Marvel artwork you have probably never seen before (unless you lived in the UK)! Think I'll try posting them in batches of four, and see how it goes. Liberty Legion Centrespread (1977): An interesting Kirby-style landscape poster. My best guesses are either Pat Gabriele (who passed away before I could check with him) or "maybe" Keith Giffen (who I have never been able to contact), but could be another artist. Avengers/Conan cover (1975): No good idea on this one, but it was published at a time that several Atlas/Seaboard artists (e.g. Chaykin, Buckler, Abel, Milgrom, Kupperberg) were doing some British Marvel cover work, since Atlas had just gone out of business. Not Pollard or Milgrom on pencils (maybe his inks, according to Al). Dan Adkins? Ed Hannigan? Fool Killer splash (1976): Has a familiar look to it, style wise. Not Vicente Alcazar, James Sherman, David Wenzel, Mike Nasser/Netzer or Val Mayerik. Have a feeling it is someone who worked out of Continuity Studios, but just a guess. Planet of the Apes cover (1976): Sorta "Suttonesque." Not Al Milgrom, Val Mayerik, or David Wenzel. Read in an old thread that the OA was stolen from a Minnesota Comic Shop about 15 years ago, so we know it survived through the 90s.

Thanks for posting the Avengers cover! David Wenzel was one of the more prolific British Marvel artists, drawing about 140 new splash pages, covers, and pinups for them. He drew 5 other British Avengers covers: issues 135, 137, 141, 142, and 145, several of which have recently hit the OA market, which I post here. Inked by the likes of Sinnott, Milgrom, and Vohland (not Vaughn. :)) Last year David came across a sketch book from 1976 which contained about 40 pages of preliminary sketches for his British Marvel work (in addition to a bunch of other material). An Irish OA collector purchased it from him (for something like $500) and posted them on his comicartfans account. A very cool discovery, with some nice artwork. Jason

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I saw a recent FB discussion about who the inker on this one was. Someone asked Milgrom and he thought it was Sinnott. Lots of different opinions, but seeemed like Giacoia was the most popular choice, Sinnott second, while several other inkers were proposed. I did discover an earlier for sale listing for this, back around 2002, and it was listed as Starlin/Giacoia back then. Joe Sinnott's son, Mark, has all of Joe's art records. He's never been willing to share them with me, but maybe I can get someone else to get a hold of them to check out his British work. It's amazing how the same piece of art can create so many different opinions as to the artist/s.

I think there a strong chance it could be a Buscema cover, but the Spiderman figure was redrawn by someone else, thus why Sal didn't recognize it. A similar thing happened on a British Spider Man cover originally drawn by Gene Colan (Super Spider Man 301), where they redrew just about all of it (probably John Romita Sr and Ron Wilson). Why they would redraw Sal's Spiderman would be anyone's guess though (at least the Colan piece was a bit "exotic" :)). I do know Frank Giacoia and Mike Esposito worked on several British covers together, particularly those published in 1975. They apparently had desks next to each other in the Bullpen, so would trade things off between the two of them. Have even seen both of their names on British art from 1977, so could have been common throughout the period. I did get in touch with Mike Zeck at one point, and though the timing is good (his first published Marvel story was a Drax/Thanos short appearing in Logan's Run, drawn in 1976), he told me he didn't do any British work (though some have told me this before, and turned out to be incorrect, like both Bob McLeod and Bob Hall, for example). JR jr can be a bit elusive, but I have contacted him in the past. Takes some effort though. BTW, there are eight British Marvel covers/splash pages up for auction on Heritage next month, including a Spider-Man cover attributed to Sal Buscema/Mike Esposito, but it comes with some questions regarding that attribution (Ron Wilson says he drew it, but there is evidence for both him and Sal), the others are two covers by Pablo Marcos, three splash pages by Jeff Aclin (one with Bob Layton inks), which he recently sold to a collector (and already up for auction), and a cover and splash from the Titans

I'm 99% sure Don and Duffy aren't the same person. http://www.bailsprojects.com/whoswho.aspx?mode=AtoZsearch&id=VAUGHN%2c+DON While, this isn't much proof, most I know about him comes from Arvell Jones directly, who also lived in the Detroit area. He's mentioned in this interview. https://www.cbr.com/standing-on-the-shoulders-of-giants-arvell-jones/ He also had a story published in Creepy 34 (August 1970), when Duffy would have been 18 years old.