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Add me to the Tradd Moore SSB pile. I’m not sure if that’ll ever happen for me, but hope springs eternal, so I’ll pretend it’ll happen someday. And why not? Because :GesturesTowardsGiantPile:... Art Adams FF work, especially the alternate FF group he drew. I mean, how can you go wrong with a Ghost Rider, Spidey, Wolverine and the Hulk super-group? You can’t. The stars just haven’t yet aligned for me on that front. Gil Kane. I was late to the game in appreciating his work, so now I have to sort through what becomes available. This one will happen, I think. Ditko. Ideally, a Spidey page, but I want a flying car, too. Let’s call that aspirational. McFarlane. Also Spidey. Also aspirational.

Gotta support the Halloween threads! Here are a few hellish themed pages. The first is Hellboy in Hell, with a few monsters...and his sister (Dialogue is written in the margins. Now THAT is horror)... It’s not exactly “horror,” per se, but I feel we have to include everyone’s favorite Marvel demon, Mephisto. Here a few pages where he’s tormenting heroes, as he does. And one last page that I posted in the other Halloween thread, but EC belongs here in the horror thread, so excuse the re-post. Jack Davis Vault of Horror. These zombies have some feelings they have to work out.

This is some good taste right here! And at the True Lies conversation.

Halloween is the best. I have one horror page to share, featuring some zombie revenge action. Vault of Horror by Jack Davis.

I’ll say quality over quantity, but then I see something shiny with a Marvel logo, and out comes the CC. I collect comics and toys, too, so It would be tough to choose one collecting path or the other, and actually stick to my guns. Cheap, rare toys are my jam. Full disclosure, I’m currently balancing my collection and getting rid of lots of lower-end and middle-range stuff to have a more quality and svelte collection (do these Go-bots make me look fat?), and because I’m much more focused on OA these days.

Huh, that looks nice. Thanks for finding and posting the pics. It looks like I’m not the only crazed collector who has mulled the idea. Duh, of course it’s archival. My brain fails me sometimes.

Ah, thanks for the description. I can see where wax paper would be preferable, since the mylar would yellow over time.

Heh. I have the exact same type of cover for issue 5. The interiors are white, but someone decided to nix the cover. Great idea, past collector!

That is really nice work. Your art? Did you do the restoration?

Do they come attached, or just nestled together? I’ve never seen a page where anyone has lifted the dialogue balloons before, even though I’ve read it mentioned. Even though I’ve been talked into putting down the knives, I should say I’m not overly concerned with value. I bought it cheaply 10-20 years ago, and love the page, so the chances of deciding to sell it are low. I really just wanted to see the entirety of the art unblocked.

They are all still there, I just peered under a few that are raised at the edges. I’m listening, and you all have made solid points. It’s sequential art, and should be left as intended to tell the story. That’s a great point. I will leave the page as-is. I was probably going to leave it alone, and I’m not planning on selling—replacing Austin inks would be tough— so I will not cut the nuts off that bull. 😁 Also, on further thought, writers are artists, too (that should have occurred to me), so I will respect their work here. Thanks for the thoughts, all!

This isn’t thread worthy, but I have a question. What is the general consensus of having word balloons taken off (and put on an overlay or something like that)? I have a Lim/Austin What If page with Mephisto and Surfer, and I made the mistake of looking behind a couple loose balloons, and found the art continues. Now I’m conflicted, because it’s a lot of great dialogue between them, but the images would be even better without, especially panels 3/4. Opinions? I never “fix” or muck with art, and I always appreciate the art/dialogue as a whole on older art. If I’m a horribly evil lunatic for even asking, I humbly apologize, and will quietly scourge myself off to the side.

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The last three posts are really interesting. They mirror a conversation I had about Nick Bradshaw’s process in my FF #15 cover’s comments. I’ve seen the process you three are discussing mentioned a number of times now. Here’s the cover to show the discussion: FF #16 cover So, Bradshaw will sketch a couple prelim covers to decide on the image and layout he wants. I copied a prelim image from °Ledge’s CAF account of the Spiderman 850 cover, since he was openly part of the conversation, and happy to illuminate (also, it’s a really sweet prelim): Once Bradshaw chooses the direction he wants to go (occasionally by vote on his Instagram account, which is very cool), then he scans in the image, and prints out a very faint red-line copy (I’m not sure if that’s the term, but it’s red and not blue, so I’m guessing there). You can see the faint red here: Then, as you all pointed out for other new artists, he uses pencils for final lines, then inks the piece. It doesn’t show on the scans, but I do see pencil here and there. It seems to me that this process creates nicely detailed and really clean final images. Thanks to everyone for their input in the thread. It’s been really cool to read!

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It’s so easy to do this. We are collectors, so we get excited about stuff (and then we buy it...sometimes a lot of it). Making your want lists is loads of fun, as is the search for pages, but we all have to be patient. What you want will come available for purchase...eventually. We all have to sell to get that next page we want, so stuff you want inevitability comes loose. I waited for nearly 5 years for a Buscema Galactus the Devourer page to show back up that I’d sold and instantly regretted. It completely disappeared on me, with no trace of where it went. I looked all the time and, finally, it showed up one day in an auction. Now it’s mine again. Personally, I have a text thread to myself where I dump page links to keep an eye on. I just went through it a few minutes ago to prune out sold pages. I’m paying off a huge piece I bought, so no new purchases for me for a while, but looking around and making lists scratches the itch a bit. I get how hard it is to wait, though. 😁

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And that’s a great point about the snouted vs unsnouted Beast iterations. I wonder who drew him, but I lean away from it being the same artist as the other two Storm commissions. I like a good mystery. I can’t imagine any of our fellow fans mind seeing more art, but I’m a total newb here, so I couldn’t say for sure if it’s a breach of etiquette. I’d be surprised, though.

I certainly am not sure myself, but it just looks a lot like the way Cassaday draws him, imo. I’m also noticing some differences in the drawings, like how the joints and hands are shaded/lined, but the Beast’s hair could be throwing me off on that front. The beast artist looks like they might do the multiple lines next to each other sort of shading like Romita did, while the Storm looks like a different style of contour shading. I could just be looking too hard for differences, tho.

Are all three Spears’ work? That Beast looks a bit like John Cassaday art to me.

I have the opposite with one page of mine. Heh. Seems like that’s going around. Rick2you2’s idea upthread is a good one, if someone could pull it off. It would be nice to have an idea of when there are inks and pencils, and have a shot at getting both.

I found this online. Yes to the Xs. This one doesn’t have too many, but I’d imagine the pencils to your page would have quite a few more with all the non-character background with foliage. You got the superior page, imo. And it’s an awesome one. Will modern blueline work gain in value, and increase in popularity? That’s a tough question. I can see how it would, as digital work increases, and it gets harder to buy new pencil and ink pages.

That is puzzling. My guess would be lightbox, unless you see whiteout in panel two. Otherwise, what happened to the blackened gap between the teeth as the smile was changed? That could explain how all three were made. Cool pages, too.

It’s got Rolex guts.