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As a guy who thinks a lot about how to tell if Kirby is real I have zero opinion about pretty much any signature unless I know the page passed through Jack. I don't think it's a secret that Roz signed for him frequently, and as an associate of his said once, "the easiest thing about Kirby to imitate is his signature." Hats off if you can tell - I can't, unless there's something egregious going on.

I thought the JIM 110 page would have gone slightly higher (28-30K-ish), as it's incredibly well drawn and has a lot of great elements. The AV 6 went around where I expected, and it's also a terrific page. I don't see the Kirby market as soft so much as becoming more predictable, unless the page that shows up is A level or at least A- and fresh to the market. Those seem to still overperform. The best of the DC pages in this auction were, to my eye, the Demon - the rest were pretty good but not going to blow the roof off. I just took a swing through the archives and don't see a ton of Demon comps in the past - there were two bonkers results this year, 20 and 28K panel pages, but pretty much every other panel page HA has sold from that book has come in cheaper than the ones today. The data is, as the kids love to say on TikTok, inconcloo.

Annnnd it's open...

I'd love it if you can elaborate. One reason I don't think this is the OA is that it's not on that paper with the Curtiss Way demarcations on it. Again, happy to be wrong.

Without the book in front of me (looks lovely - can't wait), my hunch is that this isn't OA but it's still really interesting. It looks like a stat of the OA with the additions pasted over that they used every time they reprinted the book starting in 1966. I'd be delighted if it was original, though.

This is one of the better Ditko ASM pages I've seen come up - I think the long distance panel gives us that great perspective of Spidey in New York City - and I also love how Ditko seems to think buildings were constructed like the Cabinet of Caligari.

Howdy! I have gotten many queries and actual submissions already - thank you all so much for your interest and your passion. I think we can say an artist is important if we keep needing to talk about him, and there's something about Kirby that means even 88 issues into it, there's a need for the Jack Kirby Collector to keep trying to explain what those pages mean to us. If anyone else is interested, don't be shy - just drop me a line. Basically we're looking for anything from a paragraph to a full length essay about what Jack's art - owning it, chasing it, looking at it, being inspired by the physical page on your wall - means to you. Also scans of the artwork you own, or owned, or chased, to illustrate your story. I already have some great and crazy acquisition stories, some fine artists who explain what Kirby means to their work, some really interesting social analysis from overseas, and stories of meeting Jack at cons. I'm happy for our group and how even decades into it, there are areas to explore. We're aiming at an Oct 15th deadline, so you have time. G PS This page sat in Kirby's house for months, if not years. But it wasn't hand-drawn artwork, so at the time no one was interested. I ended up getting it from Roz as part of a larger deal (I wouldnt say it was thrown in or free, because Roz didn't play that). There was no Reed figure or dialogue balloon so I went to Kinkos with a copy of FF 51 and blew it up 200% and then exacto-knifed the piece to completion. This is one of those cases where Jack's art exceeded the ability of 1960s production. I always through of his collages like Harpo's harp solos - something the artist had to do for himself that we could take as an intermission - until I saw this in person and understood how much work he put into it and why. The page hung over my desk for a decade because of the unbridled creativity and because I loved Stan's dialogue. It's kind of a perfect feeling for launching into the unknown.

Howdy! John Morrow, editor of the Jack Kirby Collector, is putting together a special issue devoted to collecting original artwork by Jack Kirby. Here's his announcement: Since TJKC is for Kirby collectors, we're doing a whole issue ABOUT collectors! In #88, we'll explore people's quest for and purchase of Jack's original artwork, and what it means to them to own not just of the art, but the Kirby comics themselves. Collectors share personal stories about meeting Jack and never-published photos from their encounters, choice fan-art and fan-fiction pertaining to Jack, and some of the coolest memorabilia and Kirby art you've ever laid eyes on! Plus there's a gallery of Kirby pencil art, our regular columnists, and Mark Evanier moderating the 2023 Kirby Tribute Panel from Comic-Con International. It's a whole issue BY Kirby fans, FOR Kirby fans, and features a deluxe wrap-around Kirby cover with fold-out back cover flap, inked by Mike Royer! Edited by John Morrow. John has deputized me to look for material, so I'm posting this to solicit your stories. If you have an essay or story you want to write about a certain piece of artwork you have, what it means to you, how acquiring it was insanely difficult, or even more generally what Jack's originals mean to you, drop me a line and we'll go from there.

"I choose to be anonymous because bravery."

Ah, to have a signed piece of artwork Patricia Highsmith wrote!

I am looking for that appropriate IT FOLLOWS gif. Let's see if this does the trick...

The winner will DEFINITELY find it easier to flick a booger off his fingers than to ever rehome this.

Long gone but well loved.

We are ants.

Hey, how many pages did Sal draw? That's the number we're looking to replicate.

I got very very late onto Sal's commission list and the request went unfulfilled - I wanted an Elf with a Gun, as a page with him on it is pretty much the final missing piece of my collection.

Octopus bukkake shot through a storm of confetti. But I'm not McFarlane's audience, I guess.

I dunno, my hunch is real and real rushed. And as to "Who says I'm bad?", well, uh, I do.

As I recall (I don't have it handy) there's something in a fairly recent JKC about this, but it's not an answer, just the same questions you have. Jack really took his foot off the gas around then and the Mister Miracle books are kinda aimless. Editorial interference? Apathy because the other books had been cancelled?

Your analysis is very humane, but Stan's brain didn't work that way.

But...but...but...it's from HeRitAGe aUxiOns: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/Kirby-Fandrall-Swordsman-hand-painted-on-paper-75-c-0054DE688B

This scam's a little different: https://www.ebay.com/itm/194854764937?hash=item2d5e3fc189%3Ag%3AhFoAAOSwlAdfwrt-&mkevt=1&mkcid=1&mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&campid=5338181027&customid=&toolid=10049 It's a real piece of Kirby art, just a fake auction with information hijacked from a fake account. They change up their profile and email every so often.

I thought it was Ron Wilson.

I need to check some sources before posting this for real.