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You'd think, but I can see grapeape's position. Once upon a time there was a piece of art that I wanted - the seller and I were close to a price that was a little above market on it, which was fine. Then he doubled the price because he'd googled me and decided I was rich. "You can afford it," as he said. Well, needless to say...no. And that thing has kicked around auctions ever since, never close to the higher price, often just around what I would have paid for it, and I have never had any interest in it since. PS No, I'm not rich. You'd have to have a pretty optimistic viewpoint on novel-writing to think that.

I think that's a John Willie directly over her left arm in the freeze frame. You don't see those every day.

"Hi, Sal, it's me. Yeah, no problem. Look, if you're drawing Pittsburgh, the thing to remember is that all the women are whores. Okay, bye."

It's okay, I don't think Miller's contribution will dilute the value of Sal B's work.

https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/83517549_signed-comic-book-illustration-after-jack-kirby https://comics.ha.com/itm/original-comic-art/jack-kirby-doctor-doom-unpublished-calendar-illustration-original-art-marvel-c-1968-total-2-items-/a/7136-92277.s?ic4=ListView-Thumbnail-071515

And a two-fer from the same auction. Fake Kirby Fake Royer: https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/83324150_jack-kirby-american-1917-1994-and-mike-royer

I have to say, this one is pretty hilarious: https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/83324208_jack-kirby-american-1917-1994-ink-drawing Does someone more familiar with contemporary Thor know when this costume started? It seems to be a salute, if that's the word, to Journey 83/

Oh, didn't realize that first post was from our old lives.

"Meet up?" Is Boston not sheltering in place?

Well, clearly what you have to do is buy a second portfolio and then fill both of them up.

In The Art of Jack Kirby book, Ray Wyman does a lot of calculations on this topic. It's a great book, btw - there's a month-by-month chronology that I hope someone updates sometime that shows how insane his work ethic was.

Three to six pages a day. Famously when Steranko was late with Cap 112 (or, as Steranko claims, Stan overreacted), Stan called Jack on a Friday and on Monday Jack sent in 20 pages and a cover.

https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/83117258_signed-pencil-drawing-after-jack-kirby?from=alert&utm_source=SavedAlert&utm_campaign=SearchAlert_20190911_B&utm_medium=email&utm_content=item Another copy from the Roz sketchbook. Please enjoy the stamp on the back. Clearly the forger thought he deserved to give himself a kind of prize.

I screen shot this and hope on Memorial Day to raise a glass to your prediction. Hope you're right. But I think there's going to be a different outcome.

I love doing deep dives like this and am looking right now. You can play along too. But I got distracted by sorting "sold-Jack Kirby-oldest auctions first" and am now scrolling through 19 years worth of results. So much stuff I forgot about! 2760 Kirby results! https://comics.ha.com/c/search-results.zx?N=52+1067+790+231&Ntk=SI_Titles-Desc&Nty=1&Ntt=jack+kirby&ic4=KeywordSearch-A-X-071316

I am very curious whether this auction is going to happen as scheduled.

"Jen? Jen who? Dis Wilford."

Yeah. He did a couple of "self"-portraits that were actually Spidey and Dr. Strange and an inkwell, but more to the point, he did one, and as far as I remember only one, small-ish piece of Spidey running at you (not that different from the big poster design) for a fan who wrote in and requested one, circa 1965. Albert had it back in the '90s. I had it in hand, but can't quite remember every detail. It was, as I recall, on a piece of stationery, or paper that was stationery sized, so it was probably about 5 x 8 or so? I want to say it sold for the price of a decent action page. Can't remember how it was inscribed.

Those Wilford Brimley issues of ASM were some of the best in the run. This might be one of those recreations for Sotheby's. It was a toss up whether Mike's shop was going to be brimleyman.com or not. (if you need an emoji here to know whether i'm joking, it might be time to take a walk outside and pet a dog.)

https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/82801642_jack-kirby-1917-1994 craneo rojo es no bueno.

Thank you, Andrew. I just shaved my soul patch.

Did Ayers ink a lot of Romita's stuff? How do people feel about his work over JRs compared to the usual suspects?

Oy.

I am always ready to believe there are shenanigans going on, so sure, maybe it's a scam here, but there are plenty of other things that have sold that the new owners are instantly amenable to offers on. I'm not seeing the same thing you are, though - I see the sold at $12K thing, but I don't see the $15,600 you're supposed to offer. Is that what happens when you click on "make offer?"