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ComicConnect Navigation If I wanted to find all the art in this auction that was by (let's say) Jack Kirby, how on earth do I do that?

Oooh, good point!

Funny -- I have a few pages from Latimer and none of them have stamps on the back.

Your seller told you a mighty specific story -- Evanier, pencil piece, etc -- at least part of which doesn't seem to line up. So maybe see if there was something lost in the translation, because I don't think sending off a request to Kirby for a pencil piece is a situation you forget. Kirby didn't lightbox. It would be Adkins -- if it is Adkins. It does look like Adkins, but he would have been aping Everett's style, so it's going to be tough to make a positive attribution without a signature.

Hey! It's lightboxed from Thor 174 p. 5.

I haven't seen this image before. The pose and composition look like Kirby. That he'd draw, as a commission, a figure standing 1/4 profile, is really weird. But not impossible. You can't reall tell from this photograph whether this was lightboxed (traced) or not. You'll need to shine a bright light on this and get your nose about six inches away from the glass to look for pencil marks. It's really hard to erase all of Kirby's pencil marks (though Royer often managed it). Adkins did lightbox some things; other things, he didn't. As other people have said, it's also odd that there's no signature on it. There's a ton of stuff Kirby didn't sign, but he usually managed to do so with commissions. But that pose is truly odd. It almost seems like something from a panel that was blown up, which would throw a little weight on the possibility of it being lightboxed. I dunno -- look hard for pencils and let us know what you find. (If you bought it framed, there's a small chance something written on the back might clear this up.)

If you sort it by highest price, you'll see some expensive tragedies inspired by ignorance: http://www.ebay.com/sch/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg=&_from=&LH_Complete=1&LH_Sold=1&rmvSB=true&_ssn=leadpink&_sop=3

Wow, there is great stuff in here. The Chiang!

www.ebay.com/itm/282461163604 Apparently this is from that brief run Jack did when Cap's parents were retconned to be brother and sister. G

What a great Kosmic Krackle page.

More No. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Jack-Kirby-Captain-America-Avengers-original-comic-art-ink-drawing-on-paper-/262939615096

20 years ago I wrote an article about the problem of fakes for the Kirby Collector (it's not on line anywhere and I don't have it handy). In short, if it's a sketch and you don't feel like an expert, don't buy it. Period. This one looked bad to me for several reasons, one of them being the size, but the other being the pointy lines. Jack drew with a more charcoal-like pressure. Cap's face here looked traced. But I still wasn't 100% sure, because someone took the time to make it look convincing. Yes, there are other ways to tell if Kirby art is fake. No, I'm not so sure anymore that explaining those ways makes sense. G

This is also courtesy of Bruce. I'm alarmed by the stamp on the back, because that's an extra level of wrong.

He did do a great job, but it's a fake. I posted it on FB and the lovely and talented Bruck McCorkindale was kind enough to post comparisons. For me, it was the firm line the guy used -- Jack's was more powdery. I note that the screenshot below is a little small to really see the differences -- if you're interested, I'd encourage you to go to the auction and blow up details.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1978-Captain-America-by-Jack-Kirby-109-Provenance-signed-No-Res-Auction-/272630853342 I'm suspicious of this, but maybe I'm wrong this time. What do you think?

This is in Canada. Kirby did do a pin-up like this and the pencils were reprinted in the Kirby Collector. I think John had Sinnott ink a light box and add the Torch (and my memory isn't 100%, but Sinnott might have also added the heart-in-flame-motif). In any case, this is a fake and a tracing of an original Kirby. https://new.liveauctioneers.com/item/52465373

This is a great Q&A. Loved reading it, as it reminded me of getting to know Will all over again. We first talked (using those telephone things) after responding to a CBG ad (in one of those newspaper things) about a Kirby/Sinnott page I think it was a trade of my $300 TOS 98 page and some cash for his $700 FF 70 page) in 1993 or so. Will became my best friend in the hobby even though we didn't meet for over a decade. If I recall correctly, I knew where some art was that Will was interested in, and he offered me a finders' fee, and I said I'd rather just keep sharing information instead, and that was part of what fueled hundreds of conversations to come. Nice to see this!

No -- you'd have to ask Scott about this, but my understanding is that he planned it to have one page count, and then found enough good stuff to add more pages -- all before anything went to the printer. So settle down, no worry about getting stuck with a second printing, collector friend.

Lather, rinse, repeat: http://www.ebay.com/itm/262904244835?rmvSB=true Hungary has enough problems without this guy.

I'm fairly sure they added pages after their first count.

Hey, look, in case you missed out on getting ripped off last time, here it is again. Or it's another one that looks just like it. In either case, don't buy this if you're thinking you're getting a Jack Kirby piece. You aren't. http://www.ebay.com/itm/332111677127 Last time some poor bidder paid $776 for one of these -- if it was a real auction and it was a real bidder.

+1 to Brunner Steve Leialoha. He's not just a Bronze Age guy, he's a chameleon, btw -- his inking on (say) Colan is completely different than on Buckingham.

Yeah. The one on eBay is probably by Royer, too, as the lines look confident. I can't place the original pencil piece, but I feel like I've seen the pose somewhere.

Huh. http://www.comicartfans.com/sketchbookPiece.asp?Piece=592727 This has a different signature on it. Does anyone have the Photoshop skills to see if the line work is identical?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/332088216080?afsrc=1&rmvSB=true Remember: this piece is a Royer lightbox. There aren't any Kirby pencils underneath it. I wish there was some way to tell bidders that.