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I specifically chose a Serpieri page that didn't have nudity. But I wouldn't get one that didn't have Druuna. Getting back to the horror theme, here's Iko Racho pencils from Tommy Zombie: And a Walking Dead scene from art student Rocky OBK.

That's good to hear! I met him last year and had him do an "artist's choice" sketch. He gave me Snake Eyes.

Related news from the world of European art https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/20/style/medemblik-stolen-paintings-returned-arthur-brand-tan/index.html

I loved his sleek work on LSH with Larry Mahlstedt. His sense of humor came through more in Ambush Bug and JLI. I met him at Dragon Con 2019. He was there to talk about writing. I asked him if he was doing any commission sketches. He said "Maybe Mon El, come by my table later" but ultimately decided not to do any art. Better that, than turning in a half-hearted effort.

Its gone now! Fun show as always. Thanks, Xatari and Dinesh.

I picked up an entire twelve page Marvel specialty comic from penciler Karl Moline. Marvel produced it for the Children's Hearing Institute which serves the greater New York area. In it, Tony Stark meets two hearing-impaired characters, one who has cochlear implants and one who has traditional hearing aids. They fight sound-based villain Klaw, a great choice, while discussing hearing loss prevention. All pages except the opening splash were very Morlock priced; I include them all for completeness.

Time for Dragon Con 2023! If you're going, let me know.

Heritage's log-in through Facebook has been broken since yesterday (or maybe a few days before; not sure). Hope they fix it soon.

"Sellers" do this to bring attention to their page so you will look at the other pages. Looks like it worked!

Yep looks like the same signature.

I quite like Marcello Ferreira.

The eBay seller may be a victim himself; let's wait for the dust to settle. I'm probably not the only one here who has been tricked on a good-faith purchase before.

Here is the stolen Supergirl #22 page 14 https://www.ebay.com/itm/155706136345?hash=item2440cf1719:g:s~cAAOSwWG5kvVWD and page 15 https://www.ebay.com/itm/155707045081?hash=item2440dcf4d9:g:U~MAAOSwTmNk0Ikc

This is the stolen Flash/Speed Buggy #1 page 10. https://www.ebay.com/itm/155706136345?hash=item2440cf1719:g:s~cAAOSwWG5kvVWD

The listing has been taken down.

Also because people trying to circumvent the ToS are often scammers. My sister got burned on a car purchase that way.

Paul Smith puts several of these up on his web site sporadically throughout each month, usually in the middle of the night. His price is clearly too low for the market since they are typically gone in minutes. I happened to log on at the right time and got this one, not even knowing how lucky my timing was.

Yes, but I only got it four years ago, so...

I was underbidder on the complete Sabre issue. Somebody got a good deal on that, but I could not press it further than I did due to other recent acquisitions.

Are they rebooting Kamala with powers to match the "solid light" she has on the Disney+ TV show? Those were taken from another character, Sapheara, a hearing-impaired heroine who appeared in a one-shot that Marvel published in 2014 for the Children's Hearing Institute, to teach kids about their cochlear implants. Here's the splash from that, to bring the topic back around to original art.

Larry comes up regularly in the "Comic Art Buyer Beware" Facebook group: November 2021 https://www.facebook.com/groups/1037885522982765/posts/4118853961552557/ March 2022 https://www.facebook.com/groups/1037885522982765/posts/4523666754404607/ May 2018 https://www.facebook.com/groups/1037885522982765/posts/1432680053503308/ May 2022 https://www.facebook.com/groups/1037885522982765/posts/1432680053503308/ August 2019 https://www.facebook.com/groups/1037885522982765/posts/1432680053503308/ June 2019 https://www.facebook.com/groups/1037885522982765/posts/1432680053503308/

I also reunited two consecutive pages from Pat Broderick's run on Legion of Super-Heroes.

When artists sell their pages, books get broken up from the get-go, sold to different people piecemeal. This is unfortunate from an artistic perspective since each narrative was intended to be taken as a whole. But the economics of the industry ensure that it almost always happens that way and is both difficult and expensive to reverse. Have you ever been able to reunite pages from a single issue, especially consecutive pages? I just brought back together two Geof Isherwood/Ricardo Villamonte pages from the 1986 Marvel space pirate series Swords of the Swashbucklers -- a DPS, no less, which amazes me that it was separated between the two artists in the first place, but that's what Marvel's randomization system caused back then.

Considering how much lower Comic Connect's fees are than Heritage's fees, I am happy to wait an extra week or two for the art to arrive. I agree that they should wait until the end of the auction to start sending invoices, though. Part of the issue is that the auction also includes their standing collection of "buy it now" pieces. In fact, in their most recent auction, four of the six pieces I purchased were in that latter category.