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I don't necessarily agree with you. I think that nowadays collectors are more focused on what the big auction houses are offering and the excitement that comes with the competition of bidding against other collectors. To give you an example of this, at one time I owned a selection of Magic the Gathering paintings. I decided to sell all bar a few examples I wanted to keep. Over a period of months I drip-fed art for direct sale on one of the MTG FB groups and only a few paintings sold at my asking prices. Later on I decided to re-offer the same paintings that no-one seemingly wanted to buy first time round on the same FB group . . . only this time in auction format. Guess what happened? All the MTG paintings sold at much higher prices than I was originally asking for them.

I've offered it for sale a few times in recent years with no takers. I tend not to leave For Sale stuff up indefinitely so after a few months it went back into my collection!

Unpublished pre-code ACG cover from my collection. Issue range, for which this cover was intended, would have been #s 28 - 33 (1952). Artist is Ken Bald. How many pre-code ACG Horror covers are know to exist?

Day six of my sculpt of an alien soldier from the OUTER LIMITS episode, 'Keeper of the Purple Twilight' and to all intents and purposes, I'm done. Having a day out in Liverpool (UK) Thursday drinking beer and will come back to the bust on Friday with a fresh-ish eye to make any last minute touch-ups. All being well, I'll move on to making a plaster mold over the weekend - from which I will make latex copies . . .

A few hours later. The ears are now fully shaped, ready to add some detail.

Days four and five of my OUTER LIMITS full-size soldier alien sculpt from the episode, 'Keeper of the Purple Twilight'. Mostly there with the ears to do. I made a pair of plastic card ear shapes which I've inserted into the left and right sides of the head, ready to build upon. All being well, I should be all finished off sometime during the course of the weekend - ready to create a plaster mold from which I will make multiple latex copies . . .

New work-in-progress. Full-size clay sculpture of one of the alien soldiers from the OUTER LIMITS episode, 'Keeper of the Purple Twilight'. This will be my third effort. From sculpture, I will create a plaster mold from which I will make latex copies . . . ready to be (rigid) foam-filled and painted. The sculpting is the easy part . . .

My favourite John Buscema work was the Savage Sword of Conan books inked by Alcala.

Hi all I currently have two large Robert McGinnis paintings on consignment with Mike Burkey priced at $10,000 apiece: http://www.romitaman.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=24905&ArtistId=2510 and: http://www.romitaman.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=24901&ArtistId=2510 If of interest to anyone here, speak directly to Mike Burkey, thanks!

What's the point of saving funds for something that may never surface? It's like waiting for a decent restaurant menu to appear . . . and starving in between meals.

Haven't read the book and now I'm intrigued . . . what did Gobby want the laser drill for? Looks like he's stolen it from a dentist.

I've owned several hundreds pages of EC art during my years collecting (now nearly all gone bar two complete 1940s issues of pre-trend art). Best surprises are when you come across drawings on the back. Johnny Craig was a good bet for extra art

I'm intrigued as I'm a fan of painted art, nowadays specializing in movie poster paintings. Do you have a link to your painted artworks?

Artwork by Fortunino Matania The Rainhill Trials changed the future of rail travel – and so changed the world – forever. As I live in Rainhill, and admire Matania's artwork, this small illustration (image size of 5" x 7") was a must-have for my collection.Some background information on the Rainhill Trials and Stephenson's Rocket . . . "Before the growth of the railways in Britain the average person was born, lived and died within a radius of 15 miles. Within 20 years of the Trials, however, a network of railways had grown and it was possible for a working man to afford to travel from the north to London. The Rainhill Trials were the first of many such tests but they were by far the most significant and decided two important facts: the first was that the steam locomotive had sufficient possibilities to be used on railways and, secondly, the Trials showed the way in which locomotives should be developed. Thousands of people from across the country descended on Rainhill, near St.Helens, to see the very best of British engineering design compete to be the winner and claim the prize money of £500 – many thousands of pounds in today’s money. The impact of what they witnessed would be felt for many decades to come."

It's a really solid Buscema SS splash . . . what's not to love? It's not as if you're spoilt for choice on available splash page examples. Mere mortals would be happy to own such a page . . . and only the BSDs with more money than sense would adopt a dismissive attitude towards such things (snobbery).

To be honest, I don't think there's much between any of the three pages and I can see merit in each and every one. Why make a contest? Just enjoy each and every page for the range they bring to your collection.

Nah, I'm old school . . . I only work traditionally Digital, shmigital . . .

Used to own the unpublished Kirby version and preferred it to the published JS version

Reynold Brown BEHIND THE HIGH WALL (1956) movie poster painting. Not necessarily my best Reynold Brown painting, but I'm a Film Noir fan and this one fits the bill for me. Steve Ditko AMAZING SPIDER-MAN # 32 splash. Content is far from ideal, but Ditko Spidey splashes are very thin on the ground and this one was affordable - so I'm happy. Tom Chantrell THE 300 SPARTANS (1962) movie poster painting. Frank Miller was a fan of the movie and would later revisit this childhood love. Frank Hampson DAN DARE (1958) painted cover art from Eagle.

Off the top-of-my-head, I'm struggling to remember exactly. Either # 4 or 5. I honestly think that Rae was specifically going after the LIS cover paintings to try to tempt me into doing a trade with him. He must have picked-up on the fact that I was a fan of the series having scored the # 25 cover at the time. For a while, before I'd learned anything about his shady past, Rae was trying to get me to release art to him in trade. Thankfully, I didn't bite.

The LIS cover was faded before Rae acquired it. Dan Forman was a previous owner. Rae scammed an earlier LIS cover from a Spanish friend of mine using his infamous 'Kirby/Royer' pieces as trade-bait.

Dimensional Designs 'Soldier' resin kit, standing about 12" tall. I painted this one traditionally, which I should probably re-do in parts now I'm using an airbrush . . .

1964 Outer Limits episode penned by the late great Harlan Ellison. If you're familiar with James Cameron's 1980s Terminator movie he plagiarized Ellison OL teleplays, including 'Demon With a Glass Hand'. The helmet prop was later modified and re-used for Mork and Mindy:

So what was the thank you gift . . . a No Prize . . . or a signed photo of Rascally Richard?

Some work-in-progress shots of my full-size 'Soldier' bust. From clay sculpture . . . to plaster mold . . . to latex casting (foam-filled with rigid-drying polyurethane) . . . to surface prepping, etc. I produced a total of three Soldier busts. Two sold to American collector friends and the third I kept for myself. Starting a new project soon . . .