Ecclectica

Several I found, but you probably know them already : - 2 Marvel trading cart from Art Thibert, like this one : https://www.artbythibert.com/product-page/marvel-trading-cards-1 - Spiderweb Art has many pieces done (obviously) by the Hildebrandt brothers, like this one : https://www.spiderwebart.com/productsd.asp?snob=100337 - Metropolis Collectibles has a large selection of Marvel Masterpieces done by Simone Bianchi, like this one : https://www.metropoliscomics.com/item/791892 - and Tri-state Original Art has this art, never used : http://tri-stateoriginalart.com/gary-frank/gary-frank-1994-trading-card-art/

No, and I'm not sure I will do one someday. I come from the comic fanzine world and I'm used to present pictures and words to suit what I want to show. The way CAF display things doesn't always suit me, so I will probably build in the future a small website dedicated to my modest collection.

Many thanks for the members who have already replied. I just wait a little further in the week-end and will reply to you.

Hello, I'm a french collector looking to add some small gems to his collection. I've bought 10 pieces of original art last year and would be interested, this year, to add to my collection several ones that I have spotted recently (range price 200-600 USD - I'm only a small fish here :-) ). But I have now in front of me a problem I barely had in the past : the sellers don't want to send the pieces outside USA, for reasons they do not want to clearly explain... I tried to ask them for this reasons but they didn't respond. I suppose they want to keep their sales inside USA for conveniency, and do not want to bother sending a piece overseas, maybe just in case problems would happen and/or had already happened to them in previous transactions (even if I insure always the shipping and had 0 problems in the past, using principaly several USPS shipping formulas). I suppose the current pandemic doesn't help to consider to change their mind. So I'm looking for a US collector here who would be interested, rewarded of course with a fee each time, to receive the piece of original art for me in USA, and then send it to me in France in the same package (with the marks of the previous shipping masked with tape) with a specific USPS shipping formula. I know there are some address services which exist, but after discussing this kind of service with persons who used them, I would prefer to have a true collector of original art as a correspondent, for the sensibility to our hobby. So, if you are interested, you can send me a PM. The only thing I ask is that I will just make the forum alias (only the alias) of my future correspondant known in this thread to our fellow collector members, just for transparency. To conclude, if some collectors are in a reverse situation than mine (even if I never heard of a case of a board "locked" here, similar situations probably exist), do not hesitate to contact me. I can help.

Loved this adaptation (the french edition) since childhood. My junior high school had a copy (!) Finally bought it 20 years ago. Great art. Great adaptation for a great movie.

Same for me. Bought one page last year. Nice experience, and they even gave me (for what it's worth) a COA.

Already back on sale... https://www.ebay.com/itm/133619611773 I agree, for this time, it's not a attempt for a (new) flip ! :-) (I hope the 3rd owner of this board this year will not loose money - reserve price ? - and that this beauty will find somebody who intent to keep it)

Sorry to bother you, but why do you name it a pipe dream ? Pages from Byrne SSH can be seen for sale from time to time. Some examples below. This one is still on sale : https://www.nostalgicinvestments.com/comic-art/she-hulk-33-p24-signed This one sold only 3 weeks ago : https://comics.ha.com/itm/original-comic-art/john-byrne-and-keith-williams-sensational-she-hulk-36-story-page-11-original-art-marvel-1989-/a/122049-11414.s (IMHO, this one was great) And this one sold only 1 months ago : https://comics.ha.com/itm/original-comic-art/john-byrne-and-keith-williams-the-sensational-she-hulk-36-story-page-9-original-art-marvel/a/7236-95057.s

I forgot : I contacted this seller several times in the past to tell him he was selling fakes (with proofs enclosed). His attitude in the responses showed clearly to me he was not an innocent victim of the Kirby studio in Peru, but somebody who was looking to do a commerce of fakes.

Well, what I do most of the time is to use the "Report item" function. And select the right option (see below) ... and, above everything else, provide a short proof in the comment section, which appear when you click the "Continue" button (I generally send an shortened version of an URL linking to the legit art. Ex : for a fake Kirby, the link to the real piece of original art from the Kirby Museum. Why use an URL shortener ? Because the web text field for the proof is rather small, so maybe a long URL to the proof wouldn't fit). All in all, you have to do your homework carefully, but if your case is legit, maybe Ebay will listen to you. And, to conclude, thanks for the people here who helped anyway.

The Ebay seller selling fake Ditkos has returned again, this time with this : https://www.ebay.fr/itm/164586301247 (this is becoming worse and worse. At least, his previous fakes were fakes of drawings done by Ditko or fakes based on characters Ditko drew in monthly series) Can some of you signal to Ebay this fraudulous auction, like I did already ? It will helps, I hope, with enough returns, to prevent a collector from being robbed just before Christmas...

I had some trouble last week on this precise subject (favorite searches grabing no results or not starting). I guess NicoV had to do some maintenance this week-end, because everything is now back on track. I will not complain, even a minute : it's so a wonderful site.

You can find less expensive items in the Ariel Olivetto and Mike Vosberg sections of his site.

Right. From my own experience, that's what sellers pissed about usually do.

I thought that by 1998, all Marvel comics had switched to digital lettering, but maybe I'm wrong... In comparision, DC still put lettering on pages in 1998 ; they made the switch later. Anyway, there are others pages on CAF from that issue which don't have lettering too : https://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=1017553 https://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=220087

Well, he seems to change title and description according of what we tell him... In the first version version of the ad, before I contacted him, there wasn't even the mention "Spectacular" in the title, only "Spider-Man"...

I just got a response from him. I share it with you all : "My add title says spectacular Spidermsn the cover and splash for 259 was done by a Romita the rest of the book had other artists go to This is a known fact" Well... Between this response and the new description... "Original Art Spectular Spiderman #259 Romita Spiderman Splash. Ross did only the Green Goblin upper corner of splash This is the best image of Spiderman he has ever done Romita man sold and advertised sketch of a earlier issue for $200,000 this image is better Shipped with USPS Priority Mail." ... it leaves me speechless...

I saw that too. This morning, I sent him an email with link pointing to proofs that it was a splash from Spectacular SM #259 (Luke Ross / Al Milgrom - 1998) and telling he should expect considerably less money... I'm not sure he will listen...

Exactly what I was thinking. I was in-between deciding if I would post this. The original price was under market indeed, but the short time the new owner kept it (and also the fact this is, however, a trully marvellous Garcia-López DPS, worthy of his legend) convinced me. Nothing contentious, but, technically, a flip.

Nice Twilight double-splash from José Luis García-López. Sold the first time on Ebay around June 2020 in the 500-700 $ range (sorry, can't remember the exact price) Re-sold one week ago for 1247$ https://www.ebay.com/itm/ORIGINAL-DC-ART-TWILIGHT-1-1990-COMIC-SPLASH-PAGE-JOSE-LUIS-GARCIA-LOPEZ-SCI-FI-/264937229622?nma=true&si=0WFy5Hlv1sSlxheBVsCBhD8n1rg%3D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

I guess we're all waiting for the picture to come, to give you an opinion... :-)

Just saw this, so I wanted to relay it because I find it funny : https://www.comicartfans.com/ForSaleDetails.asp?ArtId=5597381 "This was something that was sold to us awhile back, that Rob Liefeld himself has said is a forgery, so we want to do right by the hobby and rid it from this earth. First to claim for $20 gets to decide how we destroy this forgery : set it on fire, take it to the gun range, run it over, etc... We will videotape and share the destruction !"

Amateur stuff in my opinion for this one. The Spidey is really McSpidey inspired ! :-)

Just my 2¢ Kieron Dwyer's #368 "advanced" version of the cover ? (compare with #367 cover) #367 was the last Dwyer issue, with Lim doing the #366, and really beginning his run with #368. It was a transition time, so maybe the editor had to choose between the very last cover partially done by Dwyer and the one done by Lim, by then the new regular penciller. Maybe Lim was even given the idea of Dwyer cover composition, and Lim emulated it. I haven't looked already, but I'm already convinced the inks are not by Danny Bulanadi, the regular inker of the C.A. title at this time. Maybe inks were done by Dwyer himself (he inked himself sometimes - ex : Marvel Comics Present #42) to "finish" at least the job. But there are details here which remind me of Al Williamson inking... but others details seem not right for A.W. inking... (Williamson was one of the inkers Dwyer worked with at the time. Ex : Daredevil #289 & #290) So my best bet is it's a 100% Dwyer cover, roughtly finished.

For that matter, they should have included an issue of Checkmate. ... but I digress.