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Grant Turner

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    The Official November Heritage Auction Thread

    in Original Comic Art

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    The X-Men 2 Beast page that I got for 19.5k (in trades) earlier this year, and then I subsequently traded for a different page from the same book, ended up on Heritage and sold for 32,000 (38kwith BP)!

    I suppose I could be bummed about money left on the table, but I’m actually happy as I figure it raises the value of my page.

    for those keeping score it sold for 13k in 2017... that’s a crazy jump!

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    Certificate of Authenticity Neal Adams

    in Original Comic Art

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    “Yes, he has a template and lightboxes over it, so that it is still all original art.  For characters not on file, Neal has said he used Google search.  For the price those headshots are going (quality is still awesome), they are relatively affordable and should be considered more like a glorified signature, or an upgraded remarque.  It really doesn't matter if it's lightboxed or Googled for me - it's still Neal's handwork.  But your mileage may vary.”


     

    I didn’t know that.
     I was fortunate to meet Neal at a smaller comic-con with less foot traffic than average I suspect.  He drew a Havok headshot for me for $250 that was by hand (no template) and (since he was bored I imagine) he added some extra stuff from the normal head bust.

    Still one of my favorite pieces, and hanging out with him for a while, and watching him work, was worth the $250 alone

    here’s an example of the template and the one he drew for me

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    What's on the Front of your OA?

    in Original Comic Art

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    On 11/7/2020 at 12:04 AM, drdroom said:

    I'm always impressed when someone can read Stan's notes. What does the other one say?

    It says “lemme down”

    I have a page from Avengers 9 where Stan seems to be making a playful dig at Don Heck, but for the life of me I can’t quite decipher it!

    What's on the Front of your OA?

    in Original Comic Art

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    My X-Men 2 page has a correction note that says Cyclops. I wasn’t sure what needed to be corrected, but on investigating it appears that the figure in the panel was drawn by Kirby as Angel, but Stan had it changed to Cyclops (which was the right call as a panel on the prior page makes it clear that Angel is on the other side of the room with Professor X).

    my guess is the inker Paul Reinman made the corrections (you can see an erased line where the wings used to be, and the shadow toward the bottom was modified from what I suspect was meant to be the bottom of Warren’s wings)

    pretty cool at any rate.  I love seeing the behind the scenes action of how these stories came togetherimage.thumb.jpg.1f37b9c23765d377e70ab12b61dc72cb.jpgimage.thumb.jpg.e0d72c07f0a3179367ae404a62ea29a9.jpg

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    The OFFICIAL "This week in your ORIGINAL ART collection?"

    in Original Comic Art

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    Just a quick heads up... I recently posted a new acquirement from X-Men 2 (pg.9 ) of which, I was very excited to get.
    Well, within a few weeks, I had an option to pass it along and get a DIFFERENT page from the exact same book (actually the next page in the sequence).  I actually prefer this page as it features a bit more of the team, Professor X, and the Vanisher, while the other page was a bit more Beast centric (not that there’s anything wrong with that!). 
    at any rate, I just didn’t want my old page to pop up somewhere and have people wonder why. And I didn’t want anyone to think I was just flipping the page, as I actually made a fairly straight across transaction for the new one.

    So with that, I’ll say goodbye and shed a tear for page 9, and I’ll post page 10 when I get it in hand (hopefully next week!)

    And should someone end up with page nine, congratulations, it’s even more stunning in person!

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    The OFFICIAL "This week in your ORIGINAL ART collection?"

    in Original Comic Art

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    I was amazed that this page was floating around (and amazed at how cheap it was)

    first appearance of AGENTS OF SHIELD’s Mac, (albeit in the comics he was a gangly, white, Texan).

    Interestingly, the word ballon glued on to the first panel has disappeared and it seems his name was originally intended to be Hugh not Al.

    at any rate, I was really happy to stumble upon this

    Nick Fury vs SHIELD issue 3 pg 7 1988 Paul Neary (1st appearance of Alphonse “Mack” MacKenzie

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