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Ecclectica
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I just saw Scott Eder recently adjusted the price for one of the few remaining Omaha item on the market that is not in auctions. This one has been in his stock for years.
Can't blame him: he probably saw the recent HA results :
What could been seen on his website in 2023:
... and now, on his Ebay account:
Strangely, this remaining item can't be seen on his webstore:
... so let's hope the eBay listing is not an error.
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On 3/20/2024 at 6:42 PM, Nexus said:
Read several ZOT! TPBs a long time ago : it was a nice read IMHO.
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On 3/20/2024 at 4:01 PM, Bronty said:
Yeah maybe. I see that POV, but on the other hand if the market was 12 year old boys, its not hard to convey gorgeous to them. Draw a couple balloons on a stick (or whatever passed for that in the 60s) and you're done.
I still love Heck's women nowadays so I suppose I must be (secretly) 73 years old.
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On 3/20/2024 at 6:42 PM, Nexus said:
Gahhhh, I was 2 minutes too late ! (to send the link myself)
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On 3/20/2024 at 2:27 PM, Bronty said:
It looks a little more dated than average, doesn’t it? I’d say it was more stylized than most and that’s contributed to the dating in a similar way to how Don Heck Tales of Suspense Iron Man stories look incredibly dated ( he spent a lot of time getting clothes and hairstyles and so on right for the time, which now look kind of ridiculous to modern eyes).
For Heck, romance comics effects IMHO. But that's what's precisely made him, maybe, the right penciler for the beginnings of Iron Man : you believed immediately that Tony Stark was a playboy, dating the most gorgeous women of the time.
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On 3/19/2024 at 1:32 PM, Sean I said:
https://www.comicconnect.com/item/1034657
Also published Byrne X-Men, albeit Hidden Years, for less than $700?
It was already sold in 2018 with its color guide, by a french collector. For what's worth, if I remember well, the price was not that high even then.
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On 3/19/2024 at 6:05 PM, delekkerste said:
It was always edited - I'm not sure why it shows up blank in the preview (still does) but blacked out when you blow it up.
Transparency (GIF like) ? It even become grey too, if you zoom in.
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On 3/19/2024 at 2:02 PM, delekkerste said:
This one (pleasantly) surprised me. Having paid a very big price for the JSF cover I bought a couple years ago, I was glad that this one did not bomb.
Oh. The new screenshots are edited now... Come on!
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On 2/29/2024 at 4:04 PM, Dr. Balls said:
I remember seeing that somewhere recently, but I don't think I ever saw the final price - do you know where that page was listed at?
$13,200.00
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On 2/29/2024 at 3:17 PM, PhilipB2k17 said:
I'm waiting to see who will be the first person in our hobby to get a piece restored by Robert Wayne Dennis since January 6, 2021
I have one of my son's old drawings that would fit.
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Not for this story. I only know the culprit behind the damage of several (I know at least 6) pages of the Star Hawks strip by Gil Kane, in the same storyline. I see them appear from time to time at auctions.
I can post horror pictures more or less unbearable if someone is interested. I collect them.
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On 2/26/2024 at 5:15 AM, Grant Turner said:
Who is the dealer from Boston?
I questioned myself too, and supposed the dealer was from North Marshfield (at the south of Boston), but maybe I'm wrong.
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Coincidence.
In https://nick-caputo.blogspot.com/ new entry :
"[...] they had their own card set! The display box utilized art by Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko [...]"
That's an occasion to read again Nick Caputo's excellent blog.
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On 2/20/2024 at 10:15 PM, zhamlau said:
Think about how many guys would have to buy this comic just to say their Ditko Spider-man cover collection was complete! LOL could probably sell 5k to them alone!
Well, this variant is not cheap to acquire nowadays :
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On 2/20/2024 at 6:52 PM, zhamlau said:
What I never got is that with all the variant covers that get published these days, why hasn’t someone thought to use one of these classic era unpublished pieces as a variant cover? You don’t think Marvel would love to have an original previously unpublished Ditko cover variant on some key book/product?
They already thought of that :
(Amazing Spider-Man #700 - January 2013)
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Ditko seemed to like this kind of leg positions for the character :
(from the Mandel collection -> https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=721757)
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On 2/13/2024 at 7:02 PM, J.Sid said:
That Moebius is awesome!
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I can understand you.
I have waited for quite a few years to obtain a both delightful and affordable Omaha piece.
For those who are still waiting :
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Sold on eBay in late November for 450 USD at most :
Now on sale at AS' for 1500 USD :
https://www.anthonyscomicbookart.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=94563
Problem is: Anthony's staff took for granted the original description of the original seller but... is the "Hericane" character really an existing one from the DC Universe?!?! IMHO, seems more to be a random superbabe sketch by AH, but I'm all ears.
eBay artist selling AI art as originals?
in Original Comic Art
Posted · Edited by Ecclectica
Me too.
I believe this couple first generates printed "blue lines" of AI produced drawings, then cover them with some pencils lines, inks and colors... They keep all the drawings the AI provide they like, and sometimes even 2 incoherent variations produced by the AI, then work on them. It explains the "it will go to the fire if unsold" slogan (they don't have a bit of attachement to the "original" AI drawing).
Clearly elaborate remarks by an organized two-person team (one for the pencils/inks remark, one for the colors remark). This way, they can have an output of seven drawings a day (see the dates at the back of the pages using the eBay back listing - each page with a same date has a small difference so we have here different pages indeed). Clearly they are basically real artists, with at least one of them that can really draw, who did the mass production gamble here. I don't think two persons would be able to conceive this whole art output at this rate, but if we add the AI in the equation, we can put in perspective that competent inkers in the comic industry can achieve this rate and even more - I remember Kyle Baker performances of the second part of the 80's, when he amazed even Joe Rubinstein.
What is the difference here with, say, artists that mass product copies of their same drawings using some "tricks" ? (I'm thinking about Neal Adams profile sketches for example - the way he produced them was not a secret. I have one in my collection and love it, even knowing this)
Both a thin and a huge frontier line between them IMHO.
Adams, with his profile sketches, was acting maybe as an human xerox machine, but of his own work... and it was still a task entirely done by a human.