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Ecclectica

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  1. 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 !"

     

  2. 12 hours ago, ft88 said:

    Next is a Punisher Spider-Man poster size drawing. Punisher looks weak but Spider-Man is pretty decent. 
     

    Or is this just some dudes hanging out at a shop drawing comics. 
     

    couldn’t find any thing on Lorenz or Loreny
     

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    Amateur stuff in my opinion for this one.

    The Spidey is really McSpidey inspired ! :-)

  3. 16 hours ago, ft88 said:

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    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.

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    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.

     

     

  4. 15 hours ago, RBerman said:

    In the current Netflix hit series "The Queen's Gambit" there are a few scenes set in an early 1960s drug store. It has a magazine rack and a comic book spinner rack. The spinner rack (as you can see in freeze frame) is stuffed with anachronistic comic books like Spectacular Spider-Man and Wolverine. (There is a Hot Stuff as well, which might be era-appropriate depending on the issue.)  In a subsequent scene set months later, the same comic books are still there.

    For that matter, they should have included an issue of Checkmate. :nyah:

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    ... but I digress.

  5. 8 hours ago, grapeape said:

    In 1993-1994 Jack Kirby and Ayers made a recreation of the cover. In August 2008 the recreation came up for sale again  (I don't believe it reached the reserve)as it originally sold at Sotheby's I believe. It could be that pic is of the recreation cover.

     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

    I think that too because we can see in the bottom of the ad the kind of signatures Kirby (at the left) and Ayers (at the right) did on these recreations (source : https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1417814) . The missing CCA stamp is probably an hint too ?

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  6. 54 minutes ago, Eltanin said:

    The first picture looks great!


    The second looks like he's about to paint his walls and ceiling and has placed old papers on the floor to protect it.

    Indeed. It's the opened white paint bucket nearby which worry me the most... One unfortunate kick in it and...

  7. I'm happy Mark Spears's name has surfaced now in this topic, because I was writing just before a long reply demonstrating (with several samples from the 90's to now) why it could not be Bart Sears signature and style... You saved me time and efforts. (relief) (worship)

     

    Several samples from Mark Spears CAF pencils gallery show these sketches are from him indeed.

    https://www.comicartfans.com/galleryroom.asp?gsub=2052

    Many others B&W samples as significiant (style and signature) there.

     

     

  8. A few hours ago, before your new posts, I was thinking the blond guy with his pants could be Ka-Zar, so I looked in all Astonishing Tales (V1) and in Ka-Zar series (V1 and V2) issues without success. Maybe BWS did this Levi's ad story (?) when he was working on Astonishing Tales ? Or converted an unpublished begining of story from him into an ad ? For fun ?

    For the second piece : I have, myself, a prelim from BWS in my collection, and even without signature on yours, I'm convinced your art is from him too. The way some things are simplified on your prelim, like the feets, legs, anatomy, etc... on secondary characters, or details on the torso on the main character are very much in his style. Look at this BWS reference, for the torso case :

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    Maybe your prelim was a cover prelim ?

    I have a suggestion : write an email to wsstudio@barrywindsor-smith.com and join your pics in it. Margaret Stewart will hopefully reply, and maybe she will ask Barry. I know at least one case of unsual art for which she did this in the past, and the owner of the art got a response.

     

    BTW, you have a nice collection of Kane's prelims on Warlock ! They're great !

     

  9. 6 hours ago, glendgold said:

    Oy.

    Thanks for contacting them. You're a good person for doing that. Not shocked that eBay did nothing - the surprise is that those Diktos were removed.  (I mis-typed that, but I think the misspelling is apt. From now all all fake Ditkos are Diktos to me.)

     

     

    Well, I will have to try again this week, because the crook already put the replacement piece on sale...

    https://www.ebay.fr/itm/164349821917

    (copy of this one - https://townsquare.media/site/622/files/2012/08/warriors3-1010.jpg - took me 30 seconds to find the original...)

    Any help would be appreciated (the voice of several persons will maybe help to decide Ebay to do something...).

    I'm still hope to kill the beast's eggs.

     

  10. Very sad, today... Ebay termination system seems on holidays and that's a shame...

     

    The same crook from Ebay got another prey yesterday night :

    https://www.ebay.fr/itm/164338456551

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    (I sent Ebay the wonderful video showing the King drawing the original one as a proof - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ckt_yZAWFk - , and gave them even the time mark were the drawing is shown clearly enough to see this Ebay item is a lame copy... Despite my efforts last week, the prey got caught...)

     

    If someone can explain to me why the Ebay service didn't take an action this time, I would be glad to hear it...

    Each time the crook catch a prey, he is encouraged to shop again in Peru...

     

  11. In these comics, which story are you looking for ?

     

    A page of the Bill Draut story in HoS #96 was sold in 2016 at Heritage :

    https://comics.ha.com/itm/original-comic-art/panel-pages/bill-draut-house-of-secrets-96-page-8-original-art-dc-1972-/a/121651-13045.s?ic4=GalleryView-ShortDescription-071515

    ... and Paul Handler has the splash :

    https://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=966399

     

    A page from the BWS story from ToS #5 was sold in 2007 at Heritage too :

    https://comics.ha.com/itm/original-comic-art/panel-pages/barry-smith-and-dan-adkins-tower-of-shadows-5-page-3-original-art-marvel-1970-/a/825-43397.s?ic16=ViewItem-BrowseTabs-Auction-Archive-ThisAuction-120115

    ...and they had the cover to sell too :

    https://comics.ha.com/itm/original-comic-art/covers/marie-severin-and-bill-everett-tower-of-shadows-5-cover-original-art-marvel-1970-/a/7209-93211.s

     

    I cannot remember if I saw a page of the Wood story at an expo dedicated to his whole career at the beginning of this year... but if it's the Wood story that interest you, I can PM you the mail of a french Wood collector who can probably tell you if the pages from this story (and from the one in House of secrets #96) were seen in the past 40 years.

     

    The Alex Toth story in HoS #96 was a reprint for HoS #48. A page was sold at Heritage in 2018 :

    https://comics.ha.com/itm/original-comic-art/panel-pages/alex-toth-house-of-secrets-48-story-page-8-original-art-dc-1961-/a/121822-11160.s

    ... and Stephen Donnelly can sell you this one ! 

    https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1135790

     

    To conclude, no traces from the Syd Shores story from ToS #5  IMHO.