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I currently own just 6 pieces, and most are blank or just have that proprietary company copyright disclaimer stamp. One of my Batgirls has some very rough pencil sketches, though. It's not much, just the artist trying to figure out the poses he was going to use on the front.

Liefield is one of my "dirty secret" appreciations. His stuff has a lot of problems that can be pointed out, but I still like it.

Lots of talent in this thread. Good stuff! Regarding Soldier, the Blu-ray release of The Outer Limits S2 originally had an unfortunate audio problem on that very episode. Thankfully, Kino Lorber offered replacement discs through the mail. Sharing just because it's tangentially related.

Me, too. Arcades were tons of fun back then. A few still exist, but they are few and far between, unfortunately. A project I've been slowly working on is tapping original GPK artists, as well as some non-GPK artists, to create custom cards for me. My goal is to eventually have my own set of 40 cards or so, but it's been a slow-going project.

I don't know, but classic Garfield from the 70s and 80s are the golden years for me, so these '84 prelims caught my eye, anyway.

I know this thread is a little old, but you mentioned it in a thread I made so I followed your link and read your story, and looked at the art. Honestly, as terrible as that experience was, I think, in the end, you have an AWESOME story and great collector's set of original artwork. Seriously, this entire thing was an adventure, and even though the Dan Green part was bad, the entirety of said adventure resulted in an epic story to share, alongside the unfinished story you purchased. Will you ever make your money back in full if you sell off your 3 Micronauts issues? Maybe not, but your adventure is honestly priceless. Great memories, and great pieces to have in a collection. Congratulations. P.S. Thank you for taking the literal high road and forgiving Mr. Green. Losing his wife had to be a terrible ordeal. You gave him money, faith, and forgiveness. Money comes and goes. Those are things are as priceless if not moreso (can you be more priceless than priceless???) than even your adventure. Good job.

I like the Jim Davis Garfield prelims they've got. I'll watch them and see how high they go.

Nice! Vega is my favorite Street Fighter character! Here's a 3.5" x 2.5" commissioned trading card in the vein of a Garbage Pail Kids card, by Brent Engstrom.

Are there any artists whose art you didn't like when you first came across it, but eventually grew to love for whatever reason? I have 2 personal examples that actually translate to pieces I currently own: Damion Scott and Jim Calafiore. Scott's art is not something I'm normally attracted to as far as comic books are concerned. I like detailed, sexy, and/or powerful-looking art from the likes of Jim Lee or Ed Benes. But Scott did a lot of work on my favorite DC character, including her first appearance, origin, and a chunk of her own book: Cassandra Cain - Batgirl. In the beginning, I just didn't like his stuff at all honestly, but I LOVED the books. Of course a lot of that was the writing, but in comics, the art is part of the story. Cass grew as a character in her stories, and Scott also grew as an artist, becoming more and more fluid with his artwork, which became even more stylized and graffiti-like. So I started to really appreciate and enjoy that art. It became part of Batgirl for me, and I enjoyed seeing it in other books like Robin as well. The first 2 pieces of comic book art I bought were pieces from Batgirl, drawn by Damion Scott, and I absolutely love them. Calafiore, to me, seemed very boxy and flat. I found him when I was reading Exiles from Marvel. That book started with Mike McKone, and Clayton Henry came a little later. I liked both of their work. But Calafiore, I simply didn't. However, just as with Scott's Batgirl, I grew to appreciate Calafiore's work on Exiles. It didn't really change, but I guess I became familiar with it, for lack of a better explanation. I was comfortable seeing his art. Heck, later he did the Batgirl limited series (which was not great storywise, but that's off-topic), and I thought it was cool seeing one of "my" artists work on another of "my" characters, like a crossover event! Now I own a Calafiore piece from Exiles, and I can really see and appreciate the detail he uses, especially for texture. He has a lot of boxy lines, yes, but it's a definitive style that lends to nice detail. And that's another thing about both of these artists: they have their own individual and recognizable styles. That's more that can be said for a lot of other artists. How about you? What artists did you not like at first but find later that you wanted original artwork from?

I'm a new collector, so I've just started with simple, affordable things that I enjoy: my favorite characters, books, and artists. But now I'm starting to save up for some available pieces that are more "grail"-esque. I don't think I could call any one piece my "Grail," (uppercase) because I love a lot of things! But I definitely have many "grails" (lowercase) that I would love to own. But even the cheaper, not-very-exiting-to-most-people pieces of my favorite characters are awesome to me, and I'm proud to own those I have.

Thanks, everyone, for chiming in and sharing some of the unpublished art you have!

How do you feel about unpublished art? I don't mean sketches, but actual fully drawn and sometimes fully inked interiors or even covers that end up not making it into a comic. Personally, I think they're pretty cool and would love to know the stories behind those I've come across. I'm a new collector and don't currently have any unpublished pages, but I've seen some online. Do you have any? Do you know the story behind yours, whether it was redone, simply cut, completed for a book that never ended up getting published, given to a different artist, etc.? And do you enjoy collecting that kind of thing or only the stuff that went into a published work?

Does anyone have any original Power Pack comic art from June Brigman they're looking to sell? I'm a relative newbie in the comic art collecting club, but I'm currently reading the original run of Power Pack and would love to own a piece or two from this awesome series. And June Brigman's art is wonderful. Thank you!