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On 6/5/2019 at 9:33 PM, Mmehdy said:

Here are my top 3 art items and top comic book in my opinion in the entire sale

1- Kelly Freas  "The Long Road Home"...Kelly's Astounding run of 1950's cover are amazing, including "Martains  go Home" and many other. This painting is a masterpiece., the story is interesting....just the mix of colors and mood on this one. I had heard that Jerrry W had this painting and it cost him about 40K.......its worth it.

 

Makes sense. They were very good friends. I ran into Glynn in an airport once and he said he was just coming home from a get-together of the late collector's friends in remembrance of him. He also helped Jerry produce the Art of Ray Bradbury book.

In the spirit of Huey, Dewey and Louie from "Maharaja Donald" (March of Comics #4), I went to the 1978 Houston Con (my first out-of-town comic con) with a little (very) bit of cash and five low grade issues of Crack and Smash with Lou Fine art. I traded the five comics for a Golden Age Murphy Anderson page from Planet Comics and a complete Fiction House jungle girl story. I then traded the complete story to some guys for $300 credit toward an Amazing Fantasy 15 that a friend wanted. My friend gave me the $300 cash, which I used to buy a pretty decent copy of Police Comics #1. Forty-one years later, I still have the Anderson page, though the Police Comics #1 is long gone -- a victim of the normal post-graduate poverty that many of us have experienced. I had bought and sold other pieces of art for the years preceding the mid 1980s when I would get back into buying art to keep. I took another respite from about 1988 to the mid 90s to have a kid, start a business, etc, but held on to most of my collection. Been buying art ever since.

Just added a new piece of art to my CAF. Frazetta's Egyptian Queen!!

Just kidding, but it's still Frazetta.  Contains nudity.

https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1553291

Just added my first new art of the year to my CAF. Nine pieces, including a 1970s Toth splash, a swell Joe Kubert Enemy Ace page, a violent Bob Powell Cave Girl page, a first year Stan Lynde Rick O'Shay daily, plus Moldoff, Timm & more.

https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerynew.asp?GCat=3878

20 hours ago, Collectr said:

Unsurprising that Beerbohm would have likely had some pretty good stuff in that stack. He was at the forefront of the market in those days.

I asked him about it a couple of years ago. He didn't mention Fiction House art... the only specific thing I recall him remembering was a stack of Perez Teen Titans pages.

Tom Grindberg can be very Frazetta-esque. He's actually really good at emulating a number of styles, while being far less derivative than Hoffman.

12 hours ago, MrBedrock said:

Fun, fun, fun!

It was, and well worth the drive. Thanks for hosting, Richard!

Looks like there will be two to three peeps from the San Antonio art collectors cult making the trip.

14 minutes ago, comix4fun said:

Really depends on the page and how Bell did on it. I've seen good and bad Bell. 

It's probably around 1/2 of an all Ditko page for pages with similarly attractive story elements and characters. 

That seems right on the money with Heritage results. 1 D/D at 65k, 1 D/B at 33.

11 minutes ago, comix4fun said:

One big reason that people may not think about when searching for them is that, compared to Spider-man pages, there were far far less produced. 

The Strange Tales stories were shorter in length (usually 8 pages as opposed to 20-22 for ASM stories) and a good chunk of the Dr. Strange Ditko stories were inked by George Bell, changing the look from the more desirable "all-Ditko" pencil and ink work.

I did the math at one point of every page produced there were over 900 All Ditko Spider-man pages (including pin ups and annuals) and something like 289 All Ditko Dr. Strange pages produced. I have to double check my numbers but that's what I remember.

So before we even get into what happened to them since, lost, destroyed, not properly stored, etc. the starting point was more than 3-1 of Spider-man pages created to Dr. Strange pages created. 

What do you think is the ratio of value of a Ditko/Ditko to a Ditko/Bell?

It's a great piece and should pull in $150-$300K or more. That said, and not to denigrate this cover at all, but it is, arguably, the weakest of the Frazetta FF covers. I mean, if you had to rank them top to bottom, keeping in mind that it's like pointing out the weakest team ever to win a Super Bowl.

I'm a big fan of disparate CAF updates, and they don't get any more contrasting than these two. An Ernie Colón full page splash from the first issue of Amethyst (1983), and a 1936 Hannes Bok painting...
https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerynew.asp?GCat=3878

I've also recently added pieces by Jeff Jones, Linsner, Neil Vokes, Percy Crosby and others.

13 minutes ago, Rick2you2 said:

At that price point?

The $720, not the 3K+

On 11/16/2018 at 12:39 AM, Unca Ben said:

I really like the Dillin/Greene combo.  

I agree 100%. Other inkers, not as much, but with Greene... 

On 12/1/2018 at 6:29 PM, JoeBruin said:

Hi Roger

Sorry about that. I'm only in town until Friday. 

Yes...JL is me on CAF.

Maybe the San Antonio delegation will have to break tradition and do a mid-week roadie...

17 minutes ago, Will_K said:

Who is your alternative for 12 x 18+ mylars ??

Still looking. I wish Gerber's customer service was better. I wouldn't mind waiting the multiple months it takes to come.

Dang, it it was a weekend, the San Antonio contingent would come up. Are you the same Joe that goes by JL on CAF? -- Roger K.

On 8/13/2014 at 12:27 AM, AKA Rick said:

Go to BAGS UNLIMITED they have all sizes of mylars for original art and documents (showing specific dimensions for size customization)

 

They've become a good go-to place for supplies.

I've used them on a few occasions and have always had quality issues. The seal on their edges is frequently very weak. About one out of every five large (12x18+) sized mylars has been split.

On 11/13/2018 at 10:59 AM, vodou said:

...If Axman has the time and money, I'd suggest getting the piece chemically analyzed as to age of materials used...

You don't even need to go to that effort. Tossing aside the fact that positive transparencies were never used in the comic book web printing process in the U.S., you can easily determine if a transparency is a proper photographic transparency. If it was printed on a water-based inkjet like an Epson, it is water soluble. On the printed side, run a wet q-tip along the edge of a crop mark where a little bit of damage wouldn't matter. If it smears, it's not a photo-based transparency. If it was printed on a eco- or bio-solvent printer like a Mutoh, you could do the same thing with a little alcohol on the q-tip, as water wouldn't affect those inks, but those printers are more expensive and less likely to be used for these purposes.

6 minutes ago, BCarter27 said:

A "teen-ager" with a magical rotary-dial phone. How quaint!

Is that a rope with icicles? Or solid ice? Great, I'm going to be stuck trying to figure this out all day...

The whole story is in my CAF. It may or may not help clear things up.

https://www.comicartfans.com/galleryroom.asp?gsub=151475

Obscure? Hold my beer. Gill Man and the Human Icicle.
 

There are lots of art collectors in this part of Texas who could come in from San Antonio, Austin, etc, but a Thursday night is difficult. We had one of these on a Saturday two years ago and it was a lot of fun.