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Thomas

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  1. The cover from G.I.Joe #27 by Mike Golden is the one piece I wish I could own and/or wish I knew where it was. It was the first comic I can remember reading as a kid in school and what got me hooked on reading comics.

     

    I'd also consider any interior page from G.I.Joe #27 by Frank Springer but there's one page with Storm Shadow on top of the train that I really like.

     

    Another would be the G.I. Joe Yearbook #1 cover, again by Golden.

     

    The covers to Web of Spider-Man #1 (Vess) or #4 (Byrne).

     

    Any Cosmic Odyssey art. That stuff is few and far between. I only know of two pages for sale, one is way overpriced and the other has an awful (coffee?) stain on it.

     

    Alternatively I've been trying pretty unsuccessfully to acquire an Aragones Groo page. You'd think this wouldn't be too hard but I haven't seen too many come up for sale.

  2. Personally for me, neither. If I had to pick, I'd want the piece used in the published book hands down. Otherwise it's relatively easy to acquire non published art and have duplicates of it. By that I mean blue line pencils are fairly easy to acquire online http://www.artofjohnbyrne.com/pencilscans.html (as an example) and then commission an inker to ink those blue line pages and you can have that page in your collection but so does someone else. Then you're back to a commodity which is relatively widespread and more common than a one of a kind piece which is part of the allure to collecting OA to me.

     

    I want the hand of the penciller on the page I purchase. I want to know it was on his board and he worked on it.

     

    I really wanted a Kirby page from Super Powers until I found out they're all lightboxed and I'm not too terribly interested in owning a pencils only page so that's another page I'll never own.

     

    -Tom

  3. My brother actually ended up buying some Spidey pages by Glapioninks on ebay and the auctions were very vague about whether they were inks only lightboxed pages. My brother found out and went back to Glapion and asked about it and he tried to pawn it off since the auction never stated there were any original pencils in there and pretty much said too bad.

     

    I think he let his daughter colour one of the pages actually. hehe

     

    -Tom

  4. I don't even collect pages that don't have lettering on them and this pencils on one page and inks on the other are making it even worse. There's so many good pages out there that are pencilled/inked/lettered that I couldn't be bothered with any of the new pages that are missing all of these elements.

     

    The tough thing with this is getting art by new guys. I'd love to have an Humberto Ramos page but I don't think I've seen any that are pencilled/inked and lettered so I'll never have a page. Same thing with Chris Bachalo although he has some older stuff that hopefully will have lettering on the page other than Shade and Steampunk (I hope).

     

    -Tom

  5. I got these today. I've been waiting for them for awhile as John's rep Jim Warden was getting the pages signed for me from John Byrne and I got one of the pages personalized too. Both pages are pencilled/inked/lettered by John. As a fan of New Gods stuff and The Demon, I was very happy to get these. Jim Warden is the best art rep I've dealt with time and again.

     

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