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Yes, I'm quoting myself! I just had a birthday last month, and my friend gave me the original pencils from a page in this book that he did! Forgive the amateurishness, but it is a published work!

I always loved these funny one-pagers (and often one-panelers) they put in the What If? comics. I got this one (1 page, 2 stories) direct from the artist (Steve Buccellato) recently.

After a fairly long and unintentional hiatus, I'm back! I mean, I'm still a newbie, so I probably wasn't missed much, but I certainly missed a lot!!! I have some catching up to do. How's everyone been? In the meantime, on-topic, I find myself twiddling with my CAF galleries, re-reading and editing page entries, and even changing titles more than I want to. Do you do that, too? Tonight, I added more pages (which is the fiddling we all do), but also changed a lot of my titles to add characters to what was previously just issue and page numbers. I figured adding characters would make it easier for people who search for things to find characters they like.

I mean, mayonnaise and licorice taste pretty nasty but both have their staunch fans. I'm too tired at the moment to rank them all but this one with the Lizard is my #1 from the bunch.

Do you think he'll honor that sell price for Detective Comics # 27 if I show him this ad? I'd give him positive ebay feedback! Also, if he REALLY wanted to settle this Spider-Man debacle, couldn't he just reach out to Luke or the Romitas and ask? *Edit: Guys, he's got a Detective Comics # 27 (1 page only) listed on ebay and...it's hilarious! He put pictures of some dialogue he had with someone who contacted him about errors in that listing. It's a good read. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Detective-Comics-27-1st-Origin-First-Appearance-Of-Batman-Worlds-M-Valuable/333804318056 I don't think either of these items will flip. Nor will the Heidi Doody doll that was once "next to actual Howdy Doody puppets."

Someone is going to cry after they open up their package up.

Yeah, like @romitaman said, it's now got a $69K starting bid! But no, no one has bid on it and I doubt anyone will. The description is even funnier now: "Spiderman Splash art for issue # 259 in “my opinion” I definitely attributed it to be done by Romita sr ! More ! Mike Burkey disagrees with my opinion and doesn’t think the splash is by Romita but I 100% disagree with that! If you are familiar with Classic Romita Spiderman art You can judge for your self! The Original cover Art for Spectular Spiderman #259 according to Marvel Data base was Romita! According to the internet Romita did the cover to this issue and possibly the splash ! Interesting enough this splash was supposedly originally planned to be the Spiderman 259 Cover ! In my opinion the splash is much better then final 259 Cover! just judge for your self ! Romita man sold and advertised sketch of a earlier issue for $200,000 this !I like this one better Shipped with USPS Priority Mail." To be fair, he doesn't appear to have any ill intentions. He just believes what he believes, and of course is selling this piece based on that belief. I wonder where he got this and how much he paid for it. Hopefully he wasn't swindled.

It's a nice piece! I'm sure the collectors are out there, and don't forget the last-minute bidders. Hopefully it will go higher in the end. The $45 it's at know is definitely undervalued, in my opinion.

I don't believe the industry, or shared big-budget entertainment, will die. It's hurting now, yes, but once the masses get their vaccine, they will be "dying" to get out and rejoin the world again. They'll want movies, and past normalcy. I don't know how long it will take to happen, but somebody will step in to fill the void. Theaters will open again, and movies will be made. I don't know if superhero stuff will stay popular, but big budget movies will come again...eventually. Or not, but I think they will.

I second Mandarake. They have the Big Web auctions that @NicoV mentioned , which you have to pay to participate in. But they have everyday auctions as well, and you can find good stuff in there, too. I found out about them when I was buying a lot of anime cels. They're dependable and fun to browse, and they sell a lot of cool stuff. They also have storefronts you can browse through. https://ekizo.mandarake.co.jp/auction/item/indexEn.html

Here are a couple of mine. The first is Lei-Lei (or Hsien-Ko) by Joe Vriens that I commissioned at A-Kon (an anime convention) a few years ago. Joe has worked with UDON Comics on the various Capcom properties, such as Darkstalkers (where Lei-Lei is from). The second is The Little Mermaid meets Godzilla (Hanna-Barbera version) by Philo Barnhart. Philo's parents were both animators who worked for Disney and other studios, and Philo followed suit. He's an animator who worked on lots of great productions, including Secret of Nimh, Dragon's Lair (the video game), Beauty and the Beast, An American Tail, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, The Little Mermaid, and Godzilla (the 1978 TV cartoon), and others. Fun fact: He created Ariel's shell bra's final design. I got this one commissioned at G-Fest XXVI (a Godzilla convention) last year.

Nice! I love June Brigman's work. Are those your kids? I know she often does that. She was hired to do Power Pack in the first place because she knew how to draw kids.

grapeape has been fortunate to meet a LOT of wonderful people in his life, hasn't he? Good stuff, my friend. And I agree, that's a great parody cover, @shadroch!

I know not everyone here is American, and I know Thanksgiving is one of those hot topics nowadays for some (as is Christmas and some other holidays), but here, any excuse to show off a collaborative user art gallery is a good reason to celebrate, right? So, what you got? Turkey artwork, pilgrims, Native Americans, food, or just something you're thankful for; show us your art! I don't have much from the comic scene, but here's an animation cel of Nanami from El Hazard delivering food. I know some of us will be having this done for us this year, thanks to COVID. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

I'm not a fan of tracing. I know multiple artists do it, but it's just one of those practices that drops respect points in my eyes. An artist that traces his own work? It's a step above tracing a photo, but not as valued to me as someone who does it all freehand.

Maybe your original post didn't come out like you wanted, but I think it's a good question. In my opinion, I would consider both the original "unpublished" piece AND the new mostly stat page as published. I "technically" have an unpublished/published page such as this. The artist wanted a panel moved to overlap 2 other panels a bit, but didn't want the original page cut up. So they made a stat copy and cut that, and the full stat was what was published. But the original art...is still the art. So it's published, right? It's just different because of panel placement, or in your case, because of alterations. But the underlying art was still art that was used for publication.

Maybe they found the original, since it's described as having "partial inks"?

I'm not the seller. Mr. Hembeck himself is! Every year, Comic Shop News releases a Christmas Special, and the 2020 issue just came out today. The cover (wraparound!) is a quintessential Hembeck piece, a funny and festive Watchmen scene. As I was reading it just now, I found a little notice "About the cover," which points to ebay, where Fred has put the original work up for auction! It looks like it will be up for the next 6 days. As of this typing, the one and only bid is at $199. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Fred-Hembeck-12-x9-color-illo-Comic-Shop-News-Holiday-2020-cover-original-art/164536988097 I figured some here might be interested. Good luck if you decide to bid!

I really hate seeing this type of stuff. And the sucker buyers bid with excitement when they should slow down, carefully read the description, and send the seller specific questions.

TDArt

It reminds me of Erica Henderson's style of art (non Luke-Cage autographed cover attached for reference), but the CFS thing just doesn't convert to her normal EH! auto any way I look at it. It's probably not her. Do you know where the piece was made? Was it at one convention or multiple? Maybe you can look up the artist attendees and narrow it down.

I believe the opposite is happening. Marvel and DC have been trying for years to appeal and bring the "new generation" of "young fans." That's why we get so many reboots, retcons, and new creative teams all the time in comics now. Tons of old comic fans complain constantly about many modern comics because they feel abandoned by the Big Two. But, Marvel & DC, despite their efforts, simply haven't brought the new generation into the comic fold. Ideally, they would try to do both. Retain the older, dedicated readers but also appeal to potential new ones. Many people believe that's impossible. Many of us don't like the previous generation's music, for example. But I believe that a lot of the big characters have staying power. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, for example, has been reinvented multiple times, and it's going strong. The Big Two have characters that can stand the test of time as well. I think this is the model DC is headed towards, as well, or are at least teasing and testing it. My nephew is a new comic book fan, and his favorite books to buy are bronze, silver, and golden age. He isn't even interested in the, what are we calling it, "steel" age. He is young, so he can't afford the golden and silver stuff as much, but he's been picking up a lot of bronze back issues for cheap at Half Price Books. And he's reading them. Regarding OA, I think that it will continue to rise in value regardless, the older stuff at least. I think that printed material, or hand-drawn in general will, as long as things keep going forward in the digital realm. But highs and lows will happen. There will be times when prices, on average, rise or fall, depending on factors such as the economy, big sellers releasing stuff, etc. But even if floppies go away, some digital media still has traditional artwork, so new stuff will come. And I think comics are big enough that we will still have indie creators who WANT to do floppies or prefer hand-drawn artwork. I don't think DC stuff would skyrocket in the short-term, but we'll see. Thought-provoking topic!

I've never bid at Heritage but I gather that late bidding extends the auction, or did I read that wrongly? I can also see this working if the end-of-auction time is inconvenient for a bidder. If they have a previous engagement to be at that goes up against their auction, they may not be able to continue fighting in a bidding war. Many of us will bid our "max" bids and let that be it, but if that's the case then you don't have to be there and watch the seconds count down on your auction, right? You can set it and forget it until later that day when you can simply look and see if you won or not. But for those of us that don't place our max bids up front, or for whose "max" can increase "just a little more," these end-of-auction snipe bid wars happen. There's a Japanese auction I sometimes participate in that often has inconvenient end times for me, so I often have to set my max bid and hope I win. But there have been times I've been able to watch the end, and have been caught up in just this type of war, even though the clock extends as last-minute bids come in. One time there were a number of signed scripts (TV show) that were up and I really wanted at least one, though of course I would've been happy with multiples. The bids were low until the end, at which point, I assumed, 1 other bidder tried to take them all. We kept fighting and upping all our bids, until finally I was getting close to my max limit. I basically did what @Sideshow Bob did, and stared up-bidding everything else in order to focus on winning 1 -script. I had up-bid one -script to the point I was winning, and then got outbid again (past my max this time), but it gave me a benchmark to know what the other bidder had likely placed as his max on the other scripts. So I bid all of them up to just below that benchmark except one, which was my target to win. Sure enough, I had bid under on all of them. Finally, I bid above the benchmark, but still below (or maybe at, I can't fully recall) my max on the one remaining -script, hoping that with the amount of $$$ the other bidder was now going to pay for all the others, they'd let me win the one. And thankfully, they did! But just imagine if I could have messaged the other bidder beforehand? We probably could have worked out a deal where they got all but 1, and I got my 1, for MUCH cheaper. But that's not how auctions work, unfortunately. Which is why shill bidding sucks so bad. Auctions are a different beast than direct sales, and they can go for or against buyers and sellers, or in a perfect world, be great for both. But that's part of the game. The seller was likely very happy with how this one turned out.

What was your first opinion, and what is your new opinion? What made you change your mind? It's too bad this inventory story never made it to print. Coincidentally, I just bought the original comic run of this story from Half Price Books this month. They had all 4 issues. Awesome non-Kirby-but-still-great page pickup!

I picked up a piece from Paul Pelletier that's from an unpublished Justice League story. Here's a copy/paste from my CAF gallery note: "I asked him for some background info about why it never saw print. He said it was a 2-issue inventory (or fill-in) Justice League story that was written by Tom DeFalco. He pencilled it over 3 years ago, and Sandra Hope was the inker. Unfortunately, Sandra had a lot of work on her plate inking other projects, so it took her 2 years to do this one. By that time, The New 52 and Rebirth had both passed, so this story was 'lost in limbo.' However, he said the story was recently lettered and colored, so he hopes it will eventually be published somewhere, even if it's a digital-only publication. He said it was a fun story to do, and from the pages of art I've seen, it does indeed look to be so."