Michael (OML)1

Trying again to see if there are any sellers. M

Agree re: exacto knife - I was thinking the same thing

Human Torch Comics #36 p.25 (Atlas Comics 1954) Art by Ayers except Torch/Toro by Carl Burgos http://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1441918

Captain America Comics #77 (1954) - John Romita splash http://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1441075

Selina said YES Commission by David Finch & Danny Miki http://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1435278

Hi Mitch -- sorry if I caused confusion -- the story was not about Gil -- so nobody should think it was. I know exactly who told me (her husband was a very well known Silver Age artist) and he and she were expressing the regrets that he didn't take very much as he rode the train while another artist took an entire car full. The company was throwing it all away and had it out for people to take if they wanted it. I didn't view it as theft or anything like that. I was just noting that on at least once occasion the publisher was throwing it all away and at least one artist took artwork that for whatever reason he did not want incinerated. I do apologize if this is off topic. I don't much post on these boards and if I have violated a rule, I apologize.

A wonderful artist told me that he once was at the DC Comics office in the early 1970s and there was a table of art and he was told to take as much as he wanted as they were tossing it.

sorry about that -- I just meant he never knew anybody in the hobby --

HA and privately from 2 dealers

The guy with the hat is very cheeky - there are well known stories about him badgering artists on trains and refusing to return art to sick artists (inside joke). As for whales, I have a friend who routinely spends a few hundred grand/year on comic art and until we met, he had never in his entire 55 years known a single other comic art collector -- just pursued the hobby by himself. M

Hit me up and let me know.

Hit me up and let me know.

great article

One of the key things the dealers offer is instant liquidity -- I'm a huge fan of the auction houses but it will be interesting to see how many people need the liquidity that a dealer can offer?

That is lovely - Desjardins?

wonderful -- can 't wait to watch this develop

great pix -thank you for sharing

super pick-ups Ron

I'll play - my 3 favorite covers that I don't own and would love too --

MIke - who offered this to you so we can all avoid that person?

I replied on CAF but these are all fabulous pick-ups Ron -- tremendous

THank you for posting - outstanding photos

I was the underbidder on the What If -- I wanted it because there are no covers with Cap and Bucky fighting Zemo and Skull and I always loved it. I dropped out as I needed the $$ for some other pieces which I did win.

Living - a Walter Simonson one minute later commission Gone - Lou Fine - one minute later

Frank Cho did a tremendous One Minute Later commission and I couldn't be happier. He is a super illustrator and it shows in this piece. http://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1406060 I opened Bleeding Cool today and found an article about the piece -- here: https://www.bleedingcool.com/2017/07/04/batman-swamp-thing-frank-cho-cover/ . Very kind words about the piece and my theme. Totally unexpected but neat. Anyway, I figured I should get the piece up in the gallery -- hope you like it.