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    Show off your 1st OA you ever bought

    in Original Comic Art

    Posted

    What a fun topic. I still have my first purchased published page and first sketch by an artist for me. It was at the same show and it was by Tim Sale! I still have both pages:

     

    Superman For All Seasons Page

     

    Tim Sale Quickie Wolverine Sketch

     

    Malvin

     

    Now this is just frickin' redonkulous. You have amassed your collection of over 500 pieces and everything has been since Superman For All Seasons? Less than 15 years? :censored::censored: I am never selling you another :censored: thing. Man, I thought I was sick.

     

    Well, yes, I guess that I am sick. But you too!

     

    As soon as I win the lottery my collection will quickly expand too ;)

    Lichtenstein Comic Inspired Art Estimated at $35-45 Million

    in Original Comic Art

    Posted

    So, this gem showed up in a recent Profiles in History auction and immediately caught my attention. When I saw a copy of the same book among the display of Still's personal effects at the Clyfford Still Museum, that sealed the deal and I decided to go for it.

     

    This is a presentation copy of "The Secret Life of Salvador Dali" inscribed to Disney art director Robert Cormack with a double-page hand-drawn portrait by Salvador Dali. It bears an extraordinary association presentation drawing by Dali in ink on the front flyleaf verso and half title recto of a strolling nude and Satyr, inscribed by Dali on the half title, “Pour Robert Cormack, Avec le mellieur souvenir de notre collaboration --- Dali, 1946". Cormack was a Disney art director who worked on Fantasia, Bambi and Three Caballeros. He was to have been the director of the ill-fated 1946 Disney/Dali animated short titled, Destino, which went unrealized for more than 50 years due to the studio’s financial problems (and cold feet) at the time.

     

    Enjoy!

     

    Wowzers, that is awesome!

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

    in Original Comic Art

    Posted

    There is a lot of great stuff posted here. These are some of my favorites:

     

    I have been a big Wrightson fan for a long time, and his ST pages are my favorite:

     

     

    I really enjoyed the MCP series back in the day, the Keith covers were the best:

     

    Marvel Comics Presents #98 - Sam Keith cover

    http://i968.photobucket.com/albums/ae162/joeshaffer1/1655d790.jpg

     

    Fun, beautiful page:

     

     

    Great looking page:

     

    Stuff of Legend: A Jester's Tales #1 - page 5

    http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b190/pirate23/Issue7-PG5172dpi.jpg

     

    One of these years I am going to own a WD page, but no way will it be nearly this iconic:

     

     

    Simpsons, Infinity Gauntlet. Is there a more perfect fit?

     

    Simpsons Infinity Gauntlet #1 homage

    http://i41.tinypic.com/t65j0n.jpg

     

    I love Frazetta, and this is a well-executed homage:

     

     

    Great use of shadows on this cover:

     

    New to OA Collecting, Advice, tips?

    in Original Comic Art

    Posted

    One thing that I make sure I do is read the story that the art comes from. There have been plenty of time when I see an incredible splash page, but then I read it in the context of the story and (1) it is the only decent page of art in the entire book or (2) the story is .

     

    Some may disagree that story is important, but to me it is vital.

    CELEBRATE THE DOUBLE COVERS

    in Comics General

    Posted

    Hi, wondering if anyone can give me some advice. I was looking through my old comic collection and found an issue of Thor #339 (during Simonson's run) with 7 covers on it. The issue itself is not very valuable, but I'm wondering if the extra covers would make it worth it to submit to CGC. Would they grade all 7 covers? Is this a record for most extra covers? Thanks, any help would be appreciated.

     

    Nice find! (thumbs u

     

    I'm not sure how CGC handles books like this. I'm sure the first grade would be the outer cover, but after that I don't know if it would be the most interior cover or not that would get the 2nd grade. Either way, we'd love to see a picture of the book with the extra covers fanned out. :wishluck:

     

    The highest graded cover is the actual grade for the book, and the grade of each other cover is noted.

     

    (This also assumes that there is nothing funny looking that resembles re-assembly...you never know what strange things previous owners do to their books.)

    Golden Age Collection

    in Golden Age Comic Books

    Posted

    I'd never read that poem before.

     

    Thanks for posting it.

     

     

    From Wikipedia:

     

    Kid Lavigne

     

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    Pro career: Kid Lavigne became a professional boxer in 1886 and was undefeated going 31-0-6-2 in his first 40 fights.

     

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    I am glad to see that Wiki posters are still up on their counting and addition skills.