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1 hour ago, stinkininkin said:

Bought this off the 7/11 stands and 13 year old Scott thought that was the coolest costume ever! I copied this cover once or twice, and this piece hits me squarely in the nostalgia nuts.

Did they use this image as a Marvel Value Stamp? I feel like they did.

He has another one for a different comic, too, just as vaguely described: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Marvel-Age-87-GHOST-RIDER-COVER-Color-Key-Film-by-Marvel-1-1-RARE/164364000290?hash=item2644db9c22:g:ngEAAOSwBCtfTpob

Acetate, right? My impression is that if you have the right kind of printer and a high-rez scan you can just load up pretty much any comic and make one of these that will be identical.  Like, if I wanted to I could have a rare 1/1 AF 15 or whatever?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Marvel-The-Uncanny-X-Men-234-COVER-Color-Key-1-1-RARE-Item-Wolverine-Cover-/164401552059?hash=item2647189abb%3Ag%3A3MoAAOSw8vpfbhb5&LH_BIN=1&nma=true&si=SdO%2BevSJNJcYgh%2FbM45ehaAmZQY%3D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

I genuinely don't know.

For about 12 seconds my heart was in my mouth, then I realized.

https://comics.ha.com/itm/miscellaneous//p/7236-47012.s?ic4=ListView-Thumbnail-071515

House ad. But still pretty cool.

8 minutes ago, exitmusicblue said:

::wakes up tied to a chair in a room with a single lightbulb swinging from the ceiling, as two somewhat mediocre figures emerge from the shadows::

"S... Sal-drawn Daredevil and Cat-Man??"

"That's right, chump... how much we worth?  How much??"

"A... a hundred grand? 500k??"

"Not good enough?!!"

"800k??  This is just a dream, a bad dream!"

"Oh, the nightmare's only beginning for you.  Guards, unleash the Boris HydraManticorePegasusDryadMulletedWTF Beast!!"

"NooooOooooo...."

Oh, if that was *all* you had to worry about.

Yeah, it's one of the 1994 Sotheby's recreations. The only pre-hero cover art known to have survived is for the issues where they reprintd the splash as the cover, like Tales to Astonish 34, Monster at my Window. There's a rumor that Journey into Mystery 80 popped up 25 years ago but I haven't heard that confirmed.

4 hours ago, drdroom said:

The Heritage description has let us down as well: "The board has been closely trimmed and there is some handling wear with a few small edge tears, but nothing that will take away from the eye-appeal, once the art has been framed for display (and trust us, you'll want to show this baby off)" ...I mean, I guess it is being shown off. It's just not quite frame-worthy.

Yeah, at least cut up some twigs and duct tape them together in a reasonable rectangle. Save the actual frame for your Sal Buscema art.

4 minutes ago, Twanj said:

FF #52 unpublished cover from HA from May 14, 2016.

https://comics.ha.com/itm/original-comic-art/jack-kirby-and-joe-sinnott-fantastic-four-52-unused-first-black-panther-cover-original-art-marvel-1966-/a/7137-92187.s?ic4=GalleryView-Thumbnail-071515

Sold for:$131,450.00

"Your bid of $1 ($20.00 w/Buyer's Premium (BP) ) on this lot was outbid."

You think the owner could spring for, I dunno, a 4mm mylar rather than whatever drycleaner baggie it's in. 

When I saw the FF 81 splash, I was thrilled -- I haven't seen it pop up before -- but the more I looked at it the less I liked it.  Brilliantly drawn and all, but the center is defiantly empty. Kirby has an intuitive understanding of composition, and that big dead space in the middle is weird. It just reminded me that after FF 76, he was less and less thrilled to be there, and the interior splashes became increasingly gratuitous.  This one wasn't bad, but how hard would it have been to have Mr Fantastic making a lasso with one arm to fill that dead space?  Anyway, it's very cool but it's not A+ to me.  Now, if the FF 95 Thing-Holding-up-a-Building interior splash ever shows, I bet that one goes way higher. Maybe even Sal Buscema money.

Maybe hold onto it till the miniseries hits Showtime next year?

Good luck getting anything made out of paper insured if you live anywhere between San Diego and Vancouver right now.  Seriously.  A broker I called told me not to bother asking.

1 hour ago, stinkininkin said:

Yeah, it was just a stellar example of Kirby art, so its appealing to collectors who are into art for arts sake (and Kirby art in particular). If character(s) is your prime art collecting motivator, than this particular splash is going to fly under your radar, no matter how good of an example it is.

I read Kamandi for the first time recently.  It holds up, but also has a lot of ups and downs.  The art is just 5-stars, Kirby giving it his all, and there are a ton of clever touches that I really dig.  The DBB inks are a shame, but the Royer issues really sing.

Never read Kamandi as a kid. I remember glancing at the comics and thinking they were just Planet of the Apes ripoffs.  (I was a harsh kid. Unlike, of course, now, as I am sweet and gentle.) 

1 hour ago, ronwlim said:

I'm pretty sure I was the underbidder on that one. It was just going back and forth between us. Alllllllmost went higher, but I stuck to my max. Oh well... sigh.

FWIW, ya got it up to double splash territory, so you put up a good fight (and no, I didn't bid). 

I think the Kirby Kamandi is a record for his DC splashes. At least stuff that's moved in public. LMK if I'm wrong. Very nice piece.

I have no skin in the game here, but this is the page that fascinates me the most in the current auction.  https://comics.ha.com/itm/original-comic-art/panel-pages/wally-wood-frontline-combat-3-story-page-6-original-art-ec-publ-1951-/a/7234-94090.s?ic2=mybidspage-lotlinks-12202013&tab=MyBids-101116

Incredibly powerful, the composition and, uh, execution are of course a-plus, and...hard to say if I'd want it on my wall or not. But really glad it exists: https://comics.ha.com/itm/original-comic-art/panel-pages/wally-wood-frontline-combat-3-story-page-6-original-art-ec-publ-1951-/a/7234-94090.s?ic2=mybidspage-lotlinks-12202013&tab=MyBids-101116

The type of thing that should be in a museum one day.

20 minutes ago, ShallowDan said:

Thanks for sharing the story behind this strip, Glen!  Mutts is probably tied with Pearls Before Swine as my favorite modern-day strip. 

But the part of your post about the city having an injunction against spaying/neutering strays has me scratching my head.  Was that a budget-driven decision, or some sort of LA-being-LA type thing? 

This is OT now, but for those who care -- This is going to sound insane --  but the urban birdwatching groups put it into effect.  Here's their press release about it: https://abcbirds.org/article/conservation-groups-win-injunction-to-halt-feral-cat-program-in-los-angeles/

Their reasoning was that if the city stopped fixing cats, the cats would die and the birds would be safe. This didn't take into account a) people keep dumping their cats in the street, tens of thousands of them a year, b) people keep feeding community cats (what you and I would call feral cats), so they keep making kittens and c) the quiet part of their plan is that they were hiring trapping companies that exterminated the cats.  What ended up happening instead of what was intended is that the cat population, when about 750,000, went over 3 million. No one wanted that. The injunction was reconsidered and was supposed to be lifted in spring, but things got screwy due to, well, the obvious. If there's any money for it, the city is supposed to start it back up again,

1 hour ago, delekkerste said:

Yeah, everyone seems to be blown away by the splashiness of the page, but, the misshapen Hulk and Thor hiding his face are  to me.  That said, this isn't in my wheelhouse and fans of this era of Kirby may disagree. 

If you're the high bidder or planning to be the high bidder eventually, thumbs up to you and all, but on a personal level I think Jack (you guys know I kinda like Jack's work, right?) forgot how to draw the Hulk the moment he drew the last page of FF 12.  Can't really think of another character whose model he so clearly forgot after that.  Also: faceless Thor.  But hey, that's just me -- if you love it, yay!

14 minutes ago, Chaykin Stevens said:

The bottom image is page 4 of Warlock #4 by Kane.

Dude, that is a spooky high level eye you have. 

32 minutes ago, Will_K said:

The bottom piece (pencil and blue ink) looks to be by Gil Kane.

To my eye the bottom one looks like Kane as well -- possibly a layout for a 1970s Marvel monster reprint book.

The color piece of two guys punching each other looks like Skip Williamson, maybe?

I don't think the blue pencil piece is by BWS - Val Mayerik, maybe?

Trina Robbins would know every single thing about the San Francisco pieces, I bet.

1 hour ago, grapeape said:

Authentic guaranteed as is wristwatch in the manner of Rolex.

"studio of Swatch."

"Many believe" = "Many people are saying." 

49 minutes ago, Will_K said:

ebay has added an "authenticity guarantee".  As of now, it only applies to wristwatches.

https://pages.ebay.com/authenticity-guarantee/

 

They must be making money on this but I don't see the link explaining how. 

Two of my favorite inkers tend to vanish into the work they're doing: Leialoha and (believe it or not) Royer.  I always think of Mike as being incredibly bold, but that's because I'm mostly familiar with his Kirby inking.  I was at a party with him when someone was paging through a Barry Smith Conan comic.  Mike pointed at a page in the issue and said "I inked that."  We all thought he had to be pulling our legs, because it looked like Barry Smith inking.  He explained that Barry was late and Marvel gave him the chance to finish it.  But that single page took him TWELVE HOURS so he gave the rest of the book back.  No, I don't remember the issue, but it was later in the run.  I hope someone else has heard that story because it almost feels like I dreamed it.

In the Kirby world, I see the JIM 112 2-panel page and the Thor cover are at roughly the same price.  I'd bet one entire dollar in highly-leveraged American currency that the 112 page finishes higher.