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11 hours ago, DTM700 said:

Great collection! I love the full body Bagley Venom! Very cool. ?

Thank you! Yes the full body venom is probably my favorite to.

 I know how you feel. They don't seem to come up on here to often. There was a captain America one on here but I couldn't work out a deal, would have wanted it. You should try sending Romita a letter to his fan mail address!

On April 15, 2017 at 10:38 AM, fmaz said:

Agree that the signature looks spot on. Here's mine by way of comparison.  The sketch looks a bit "off" but I think the conclusion that it was done quickly and without underlying pencils explains it perfectly.  I'd say it's the real deal. 

Wow I'm so jealous of that. I hope to get another sketch from him that's penciled and more detailed. The two I own are drawn in pen with not much detail.

On April 13, 2017 at 8:16 AM, comicwiz said:

This one's from an autographs page from '73 - interesting seeing the differences in his sketch and sig over twenty years apart

Wow that's one amazing jam peice, so many big names. Hope to get something like that done when I go to a con in May! Bagley, Layton, Nicieza are going as well as other big names

14 hours ago, srezvan said:

Moved in to a larger house a few months ago. Got a larger home office and had lots of time to plan what I wanted it to look like. Here's one corner of the room. I tried to make the room as changeable as possible. Slab displays at the top, poster flipper for sketches, shelves for raw books, and a couple of options for action figures. If I ever have the time and motivation, I can easily swap things out.

 

 

 

Wow that's an awesome display, the Herb Trimpe sketch looks cool.

10 hours ago, comiconxion said:

Looks real to me.   I know I met John in New York in the late 90's and he offered to do quick head sketches for anyone that wanted one for free.  This is earlier than that, but he probably offered something similar wherever he appeared to do this.  Signature looks right to me as well.  Sketch is a little looser, but looks like he did it without penciling first.

Thanks for the info! Yes it seems like he went strait to the pen without pencils first. The prices for his sketches have been going up a lot latley 

3 hours ago, entalmighty1 said:

Are those LED lights inside the display cabinets the stick-on variety?  I've got some IKEA Detolf's for my mini-bust collection and am looking for something like that.

They are not, I had to screw the LED lights into the top of the cabinet.

20 minutes ago, jcjames said:

Love the pinball machine - adds so much character and "electricity" to the displays.

Are those books typically displayed ON the machine though? Terrific set of books, but hope they're placed there just for the pics. They get lost/distract a bit being on the machine, IMO.

Very nice setup though

 

Thanks for the compliment, they are usually displayed there, tried to make a John Romita themed display on that side of the room, but have been thinking whether I should take them down. Just wish I had space to display all my silver age spidey keys:/ Oringinal art has been taking up all my space 

Thanks everyone!

Hey guys, so last night I won an auction for a John Romita sr Spider-Man head sketch which was done in 1996, bought it so I  could display it with the letter and autograph I got from him after sending a letter (unfortunately he does not sketch anymore). Anyways, I was wondering if any one can provide any insight whether the sketch looks real to them and where John might have been signing in 1996 (Included a pic of it below). Thanks- Daniel

So a while ago on this board I said I was getting my Amazing Fantasy 15 signed by Stan Lee at Fan Expo. Well about 2 months ago I got it back from CGC....

Finding out it had a tiny bit of trimming was disappointing, but I cant be too upset because of such a good deal I got it for, would have been way to good to be true if it had no restoration. Glad to own this in my collection though, my ASM run wouldn't be complete without it 

On 10/14/2016 at 6:04 PM, Kevin... said:

Hey Team,

 

Looking for some advice on this piece that a good friend of mine purchased in his store today. Pics below, sketch done at a Wonder-Con back in '99. Roughly 24" x 12" size parchment with a John Romita original Captain America sketch. Any thoughts on value?

 

Thanks for the help....

 

 

 

 

would you be willing to part with this? Love Romita's work, mostly on spiderman 

I too have sent to Ditko, sent a letter last May and have sent two more scince and got all of them back, he's definitely consistent. I reccomend you guys send something to John Romita Sr, sent him a package with a couple posters last year and a few months later got all of them back signed (even gave me a Spidey sketch on one of them) and left a nice message on paper. Sometimes he may ask for $20 to be donated to THI but doesn't ask everyone (didn't ask me too). If you guys want I can give you his mailing address, just don't send anything expensive.

Thanks for the response, it is too bad that the original owner had to put tape on it, It dosent even really bother me that the tape will lower the grade, just would be really disappointing if it ends up being restored......... I traded pretty much all of my grails for it and have alot riding on the grade it comes back as.

Thanks for the response, it is too bad that the original owner had to put tape on it, It dosent even really bother me that the tape will lower the grade, just would be really disappointing if it ends up being restored......... I traded pretty much all of my grails for it and have alot riding on the grade it comes back as.

Hey everyone, decided to join the collectors board today. I have been collecting comics for about 7 years now (I have done alot of buying, selling, and trading on instagram for the past 2 years) and thought it would be a good idea to chat and discuss with all of the other board members on here. I first want to start off by talking about the Amazing Fantasy 15 I traded for a few months ago (why else would I be in the Amazing Fantasy 15 club) anways, I got it signed by Stan Lee at Fan Expo Canada and sent to CGC (hoping it comes back a 1.5-2.0). The thing that worries me is that CGC might consider the tape on the spine restoration (even thought its not holding any loose peices together, but just preventing it from anything happening to the spine) I have called CGC numerous times, but its a different answer evreytime. What do you guys think? Hopefully you can access the picture of my copy that I uploaded......