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Unfortunately, yes. :sad:

For my part, I wouldn't try to compare Byrne's WW run and his Superman run. There is too much distance in time between the two. The visibles differences are the results of the common, natural evolution of the artist's artwork with time. When you said "he consciously picked a different style for that work", I thought Byrne, maybe, had adopted a specific approach for this WW run I should know of. I suppose you wanted to say "he was drawing this way at this period of time", because when I compares the start of his WW run with something he did just before (Babe 2), or when I compares the end of the WW run with something he did just after (New Gods), and inking his artwork himself (important point too, IMHO), I see no differences. But IMHO, I see differences between the START and the END of his WW run. His artwork improved.

His stock, not always, and not always the components of his stock -> proof below. When I asked him by mail if he had still this page, he told me "No" (page already sold), but didn't remove it from his website at the time. Stayed like this for months. And about the page content :

I would not like this thread to derail, but if you could elaborate (or point me where to find to explanations elsewhere), I would happy to read about it.

On a sideline, not a bad idea to write a full name in a dedication after all...

Just a reaction, reading just the small part above : When one really love the art, beyond than its potential resell value, whatever happens, one never lose.

I just checked : it was $1500.

BWS Levi's poster ad - Early 70's Sold for 760 USD in December 2020 : http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=5893403 Now offered for 9000 USD : https://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=1842786 Even if the original price was a bargain and this drawing is a nice curiosity, the current price seems to be a little high for a prelim displaying a jeans pair try in Hyperborea (IMHO you can have a nice inked Conan page for this price).

I completely agree with you, but I suppose several factors are playing here... First, buyers buy what they can if they're Hellboy fans... After all, Mike Mignola doesn't produce a lot of drawings these days and his Hellboy pages, covers are even more expensive. So they grab what they can. Second, buyers are blinds... or youngs (or the 2 in the same time). Many fans see only Hellboy. You have to take into consideration that Hellboy started a looooooong time ago, and perspective matters. Consider the younger fans. I suppose some of them don't even know about all the things MM did before Hellboy... If you were there, like me, an active reader in the 80's/90's, we know that MM did several masterpieces in what is, for me, his "ten best years" (reference to "The wind rises" by Hayao Miyazaki) from 1987 to 1997. The MM paradox is that he concluded his "ten best years" period with a masterpiece on Hellboy, "The corpse", showing in some panels, alas, the root of the simplification path he has entrenched himself in more and more with the years. "Think, simplify"... Okay... but, on my side, I wouldn't exchange a page from Gotham by Gaslight, Triumph And Torment, The Jungle Adventure, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, Eddy Current, Fires of the Revolution, ... for a recent MM Hellboy page.

Probably.

Ouch ! For one second, I thought somebody had stolen my card from my collection, and I rushed to check if it was always here ! It is. I have exactly the same card, coming from an UKCAC edition in the 90's (probably the 1992 or 1993 one, don't remember)

Excellent ! I knew the inker was familiar to me, but I couldn't put a name on it. So a sequel, or whatever is it, to the "Danger Trail" MS was on the work. Many thanks !!!

Hi all, In Russ Cochran last auction, I stumbled on this page labelled : "Infantino - Unknown Title #?, Pg 2, DC, Original Comic Book Art (1994)" https://russcochranauction.auctionanything.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&auction_uid1=6303715 At reverse, there is a label : "Carmine Infantino - Possible 'Flash' art" What surprise me is the year of the DC stamp at the back : 1994, and the fact it should come from a #2. I thought the lastest major contribution of Infantino for DC was the "Danger Trail" MS done in 1993, his last DC work DC Comics Presents: Batman #1 in 2004, and nothing, in sequential mode, in the decade between (except some pin-ups). Does somebody know something about this art ? It seems to be from Infantino indeed, but somewhat downplayed by the inker (?) Too bad a pencil mention under the "Shot for code" is mainly erased because there aren't many signs on the page to tell for where it comes from, except the fact it was probably done indeed around 1994. A new series of the time ? A Flash MS ? Unpublished ? (or simply an error in the listing maybe, with somebody emulating here a bit of the Infantino style - that would be the first time at DC -, so it would explain why I don't find where it comes from. I says this because the R.C.'s guys aren't usually very careful to check for the creators on their pages to sell. There is another page in this auction lot, from a Superman issue, with inks by a "Schuktz" or "Mark Schultz", for inks done in fact by Tom Nguyen... I sent them, for their last batch, a mail to make them correct another mistake like this one and they didn't even bother to reply or do something...) So, the opinion from Infantino's specialists is welcome ! Many thanks in advance !

I'm only half-surprised. One of the most powerful drawing from Lee from his Image era. When this drawing came out, I thought he had made a good use of his Miller inspiration, and that is was a good occasion for him to show his range of abilities outside the pure superhero stuff.

ROM #19 p 1 (1981) Sold 750$ on Romitaman (pic référence : January 26th, 2021) : Now offered at 1400 € (1465 $) on this french website : That's quite an increase, just for a Neutralizer under the snow...

I'm very sad to see this news. Met Tim in a french convention 25 years ago. A very nice guy. He took the time to make me a very beautiful drawing I still cherish today. I will cherish this drawing even more now. A giant.

Same situation than for the Williamson/Garzón ones maybe... (same buyer)

I confirm : $25,000 when it was sold on Moy's site on August 16th 2021.

Indeed. What you're describing add to what I described between his initial purchase of the velum on eBay and the CC ad.

Nice to see almost nobody fell into the trap... CC changed their ad a little bit. That helped, but they should do their homework better next time before endorsing this kind of item... The final price will probably not discourage the trickster to do again this kind of setup in the future, but at least, he had only a small ROI for all his pityful efforts.

As a little fish in this hobby, I would say that I'm really pleased with my collection. Regrets of not buying when I had the chance, I have several, but remorses with what I have bought so far... none.

Sold within 3 minutes ?

If that means something for you, yes. I have in my collection a page from a New Mutants story Chris Claremont choosed 10 years ago as one of his personnal favorite single stories for a TPB. Clearly, if CC come again to a convention near my home, I suppose we will be both happy if he signs it.

Another thing you could do would be to browse the websites that display digital versions of comics that are now in the public domain, because luckily, these probably are. For example, I could find Sterling comics cbrs on this site (but apart from what you have already found, nothing else in it it seems) : https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=840 Sterling didn't have many books running, so I wouldn't be surprised the unidentified pages weren't published by them.

Yes, a fake board indeed. I didn't insist on it to make my subject short, but you're perfectly right. Maybe it's not the fake signature that irritate me the most, but the "Dec, 4, 1986" at the right for a comic published in the 90's...