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Thank you, exactly! I will try to reshoot it.

Thank you for this! That last paragraph corroborates what the art dealer (and my eyes and others') tell me, that Meskin and Jerry Robinson did finishes over Kirby but he worked on all the pages. I hate that the guide calls this into question, not that I plan on selling it, but other than the Stuntman pages and the couple Cap outliers you showed, the Boys Ranch pages are the earliest Kirby left out there in the collecting community.

Did you have those pages? I don't think there's much early stuff out there, as I said. I posted my Boys' Ranch earlier in the thread; guide does disservice of saying #6 is Kirby splashes and center spread only, rest is Meskin. But well-known art dealer (I bought it in the 90's) swore it was Kirby, and every vet I've showed it to agrees. Meskin finishing Kirby layouts sure, but it looks nothing like straight Meskin. Sinnott said the foolproof test would be the ears -- said Kirby could not draw them, and he was always fixing them. I may for my own satisfaction take it off my wall one day and show it to him.

Wow....wonder if it's an outlier ... I used to work with a guy who was Roz Kirby's niece. He did say the family had lots of stuff, but he did not know exactly what. Last I knew, Joe Sinnott had the last complete drawings Kirby did. They were cover recreations of Avengers #4 and FF #49. It was years ago and I cannot remember the exact story of why they were recreating these two, but they were with Sinnott to be inked when Kirby died. He pulled them out to show to me (I was interviewing him for CBM) and he pointed out the uncharacteristic shakiness in the lines in some places. He said he could not bring himself to ink them and was leaving them as they were.

Very cool...I think Stuntman pages are the earliest Kirby remaining (at least available)...Have you seen any besides Stuntman and Boys' Ranch?

Very cool stuff, Ameri!

Tops the f-bomb on zabu's butt on Ka-Zar #1.

Awwww.....what the hell.... yeah baby! The SA key that even those GA big guns have a soft spot for!

I think a lot of collectors don't "get" this book....it's not just another prototype, and it's not just the first Ant-Man without a costume yet. It's the first Hank Pym, and it's the first and most significant (with due respect to Groot, Hank has been impacting the MU since the beginning) of the anthology shorts to become a part of the MU fabric. And it's relative scarcity was far more apparent in the pre-Internet days. But you guys are the choir on this topic...sorry, but that felt better...

Awesome pages, Subby or no!

Btw, I nominate exitmusicblue for a Boardie Genius Award (Do we have those?) for this brilliant thread!

Cool; thank you....confirms my take!

The Lightning to Elektro

Dive to dive-bomb

ASM 129 Going rate? I haven't had one of these in about a year. LCS picked raw one up but owner wasn't there to give me an asking price. Glancing quickly, looked to be 4.5-5.0 range. Looking at eBay the book seems to be about $100/point in lower to mid ranges. This seem about right? I know it's heated up again fairly recently but haven't been paying close attention.

One of my faves too; congrats Rick! On a related note.... Am I the only one who remembers a time when the guide notated with Babe #5 with "(exist?)" It gives me hope of one day finding a Blue Beetle 43!

Thanks! She has no back cover, and her front is taped on and torn, but I was making a trade and couldn't leave her in the wild. Small corner chunk off the back of the ISF30, but it's otherwise flat, bright and clean (unless you count the marking of the coveted "AT" pedigree written into the logo )

Sheena to Lorna

Thx Oak and Jack....it was a fun little road trip through some small towns where the multi-topic collectibles shop with a co ice section is the closest thing to an LCS proper for miles around. Hence the eclectic mix. For the non-Archie fans, that's the infamous one where Archie and Betty get naked in a motel.

Now there's a pair to beat a full house! Congrats!

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