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Well, this is intriguing: https://comics.ha.com/itm/original-comic-art/frank-miller-batman-dark-knight-returns-1-unused-splash-page-1-original-art-dc-1986-/p/7212-172001.s?ic4=ListView-ShortDescription-071515 Anyone seen this before?

Funny -- the first article I just looked at put some asterisks on that: https://www.polygon.com/comics/2019/5/20/18632646/spawn-300-todd-mcfarlane-image-comics-anniversary I didn't know about JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. Also Dave Sim wrote and drew every issue of Cerebus, right? I mean -- with help. Sounds like Todd has been an absentee landlord at times? I haven't been following.

Cerebus?

From The Guardian interview with Ware: Which living person do you most admire and why? For intellect: Art Spiegelman. For art: Robert Crumb. (later:) I discovered the published sketchbooks of Robert Crumb, which changed my life.

It's funny -- it's like trying to explain how Dylan is important. He's a figure so baked into where comics are now that he's almost invisible, huh? Since his influence over the beginnings of underground artwork is massive, you can see his shadow over most autobiographical work, too, pretty much anything you'd see from Fantagraphics and Drawn & Quarterly. His transgressive work, his self-analysis, his joining of funny animal work with a genius eye toward social satire...I can't say he's one of my heroes or anything -- his work is intensely problematic -- but we're talking about "impactful/important." And in the larger culture, those kind of comics have a lot of mainstream readers. I think you can make the argument that no Crumb/no Maus, or no Crumb/no Ware/Barry/Groening/Clowes, for instance. He doesn't have much to do with superhero stuff, however, so if that's everyone else's criterion, I wouldn't nominate him. Neal and Jim Lee and the other names above are more valid in that case, I think.

1. Crumb. 2. Or do you mean superhero artist?

That's easy: the Free Market Police who force the sale of the Swamp Thing 37 cover will use the proceeds to cover your loss. It's just the ethical thing to do.

I am envisioning this story as if you actually are Batman, and it is still heart-breaking.

I've always wondered what the story behind this cover is. You'd think it would have Dr Strange on it. I think it was repurposed from a pin up -- maybe Steve was working full speed and didn't have time for a cover?

This is a cool breakdown. Counting on my fingers, 22 of those books are known to be Out There, most of them broken up, and one is at the LoC. I'm sure the rest also exist.

"1st corpse"

I'm a fan of Garfield Minus Garfield: https://www.ranker.com/list/bleak-garfield-minus-garfield-moments/erik-barnes

A dealer sold something at the price he'd set. Words like "rectification" and "stole" and "stink" indicate you hate capitalism, apparently. I do, too, but until the workers seize the means of production, it's just you and me, pal.

Weren't we just talking about this guy? It's Labor Day, a celebration of workers, and Sal Buscema was Marvel's 1970s/80s/90s workhorse, as others have pointed out. Josh Grey just posted this over at CAF, and it might be the best Sal B. thing I've ever seen. It's not just the inker, though that of course brings a LOT to the image -- the composition itself is pretty powerful. https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?Piece=1573911&GSub=0&GCat=32006&UCat=32006 I'm also attaching the only piece of Sal B. that I still own -- the introduction of the Band of the Bland.

I am a fan of that Ditko Monster Menace cover. That strikes me as a steep reserve but at the same time I'd be totally unsurprised if it got triggered. It looks like he was having fun with it.

Interesting. I see pencils on the HA piece -- most obviously in the places that look to have been changed on your poster. Occam's Razor (or Glen's Not-So-Smart Razor) suggests that when they were about to print the poster, they noticed the pencil marks and so added some ink to give it a better contrast. Same with Jack's signature, which probably would have looked blotchy, given the production values of the day. I think there's one version of this piece, what HA is selling, and there probably was a stat somewhere with some reinking on it. That's just a hunch, but it seems the most likely possibility.

Over time. A friend of mine said that when he first saw this he wanted to cut the eyes out and wear it as a Halloween mask.

Likewise. Has something changed since HA explained that the extent of Jack's involvement with this piece is unknown? https://comics.ha.com/itm/original-comic-art/jack-kirby-and-possible-studio-assistant-silver-surfer-and-doctor-doom-large-pencil-sketch-original-art/a/7054-92176.s?ic4=ListView-ShortDescription-071515

Yeah, it's amazing - I don't own it but a friend does.

It's done in the style of John Alcorn (another piece of his attached here) but none of the MAD websites seem to give any kind of attribution other than "Ballentine Pop Art." Ballentine seems to have done a series of covers in this style -- I remember them from when I was a kid. Your friend's one is great.

Robbins had a jittery, energetic style that I appreciated, but I couldn't forgive him for this -- he had a thing for drawing characters spitting. And when they spat, a FOUNTAIN always came out. It was his version of #Eisnerspritz.

Bumping this, as I'm hoping the OP comes back to let us know where this came from so other people won't have the same issues.

Halperin just posted this consignment to his (public) FB page.