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clearly I haven't been paying attention!!!!!!! Granted, the 2nd volume came out in the last 2 months, but the 1st was from 2013. Now that I look at the cover, it is vaguely familiar. i"m just embarrassed that I forgot, considering I'm a (formerly active) mod on the Collected Editions message board.

Ka-zar may be the biggest block of Bronze that Marvel has not seen fit to reprint in any format, even a cheap B&W Essential. I guess Sgt Fury is even bigger, but that started in the SA.

talked to Felix- he's very busy & he's got scheduling conflicts that will prevent him from making it to H-town this year. So that may delay the intended Comicpalooza podcast. But there's always always next year!

I thought Felix was heading to Comicpalooza in H-town in a couple weeks, and was going to meet up with him and some other Texas collectors, but I have not heard any details since I spoke to him several weeks back.... Hey @Nexus!

I can attest to the fact that, having seen the originals when the were framed, and the scanned prints after the fact- that no one would know the difference. I think for certain types of art, like markers or watercolors that it makes perfect sense.

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Amen brother! I like Bill's art on many other things, but the 80's were a train wreck across the board. It was like watching Desperately Seeking Susan on the spinner racks each month!

I hated New Mutants then, and I don't know that I particularly like it now- I think part of it is a function of my complete and utter disdain for 80's style and fashion, which very much influenced Bill's work. It also infected JRjr's run on X-Men and between the two, I stopped collecting both titles for a time. Any character created or expanded on during that era very much suffered from 80's fashion, and it took years to grow out of it. I think Rachel Summers/Phoenix was a lousy character and it had a lot to do with her look. Rogue almost suffered the same fate, but Lee reinvented her "look." Dazzler faded to nothing for the same reason, she went from flashy Disco look to a bad Jazzercise Work-out Video Star.

the irony here, is that Felix barely knows how to use FB.....

ahhhh, yes, like so.

yup. I think Byrne was more adept at translating Claremont's -script into a layout that was compelling and knew how to play the beats (when to pause for dramatic effect, and when to convey action) That was Miller's strength on DD and Wolverine mini-series as well. Miller too is not that great a draftsman IMHO, but a great story-teller. Byrne as a pure artist: for 40 years everyone looks like Reed Richards, and if he had been inking himself instead of Austin on X-Men, we might be digging out his X-Men run from the dollar bins instead of the FF and Alpha Flight. Cockrum, I always felt was a better, more polished and detailed Infantino. The only criticism would be his characters are a little stiff. That's my 2cents.

Cockrum is a better artist, Byrne is a better storyteller. Byrne was good at leveraging his layouts and got a boost from Austin's inks so the bulk of the popularity and nostalgia lies with his run over Cockrum's 2 runs. Would the popularity of different issues be the same or different if who's drew what has been reversed? If Cockrum had drawn Days of Future Past would it be the classic that it is? IF Byrne had drawn the Brood Saga would it be bigger? Would X-Men #162 be THE Wolverine X-Men issue?

where C = Character, A = Artist, N = Nostalgia, P = Popularity and V =Value; For Value, value is impacted by Pub= Published, Nun = Non Published and ART TYPE. Art type needs to be weighted somehow ( panel page is x1, splash is x5, Cover is x10 etc.) as does Published (perhaps multiplied by 1 for published and .5 or .3 for non published. ) {(Character x Artist) + (Nostalgia x Popularity) x Art Type)} xPublished = Value Jim Lee Batman Hush panel page A = Jim Lee (9.5 out of 10) C = Batman (10 out of 10 - is there a more popular character in comics?) N = key story collected by a lot of folks and still a big hit in trade (8 out of 10) P = 9 Jim Lee Batman Hush panel page [[(9.5x10) +(8x9)] x1)] / 1= 167 (same as above) Jim Lee marker sketch of wolverine [[(9.5 x 8) + 7x9)] x .25(sketch) ]] x .3 = 1.04 Jim Lee Hush Splash [[(9.5x10) +(8x9)] x5)] x 1 = 835 Jim Lee commissioned charity piece of a full page portrait of Ernest Borgnine in Airwolf TV show from the 80's. [[(9.5 x .5) + (2 x 0.5)] x 5] x .3 = 72.75 OK, this is more of an index than a value, it's all relative, but if Ernest Borgnine Splash by Lee is greater than Wolvie Marker sketch, then maybe now we have jumped the shark....

an admirable effort to quantify, but yes, you're math is off for the Santa Samurai and Mr. NsN has pointed out. (1.01) but I think you are missing one important element to the equation: you aren't accounting for what kinds of art it is: (Published- panel page, slash page, spread, cover) or non-published (commission, sketch, napkin doodle) You need to factor the type of art in. where C = Character, A = Artist, N = Nostalgia, P = Popularity and V =Value; For Value, value is impacted by Pub= Published, Nun = Non Published and ART TYPE. Art type needs to be weighted somehow ( panel page is x1, splash is x5, Cover is x10 etc.) as does Published (perhaps multiplied by 1 for published and .5 or .3 for non published. ) {(Character x Artist) + (Nostalgia x Popularity) x Art Type)} x Published = Value

it will scan in RGB, don't worry, which is what you need to post online- if you don't chose color it wills scan it greyscale. I find it easier to use the app than the Scan feature form the Printer settings, but that's just me. See my comments in the other thread on editing the settings.

I've had the same issue, but you can get around it- in the preset, set it to Photo's, set Type to Picture, and then the resolution option will allow you to choose a higher resolution (75,100,300,600,1200)

I"ll second that- I've re-scanned almost 2 hundred pieces of art and updated my CAF. Still some more to go, but once you get started, it's hard to stop- because you want them to be of a consistent size and quality. this HP is stupid simple to use. I made the mistake of not reading @delekkerste's advice about not using the easy set-up, so I have the Fisher-Price version of the controls installed, but HP's support site barfed when I tried to go back and download the full version so I got lazy and gave up. My wife has also gotten use our of the wireless printing- and she's happy not to have a printer tethered to her computer in her office anymore. We got rid of 2 Epson multi-function printers with crappy 8.5x11 scanners so over all, even though this is a beast, it's still less space and hassle than 2 USB devices and the ink for those was over-priced, and getting harder to find. If you get it for under $200 this is a no-brainer. You can even scan a twice up GA or SA page in 2 halves and fit them on the scan bed pretty easily to keep them straight. Great scanner for the money (paid $150 at Staples).

OMG is that Lighthouse towering over everyone?

The Brave and the Bold #14, Viking Prince by Kubert, one of the earliest pages I've seen on CAF. Brunner Shanna Pin-up, Morrow Black Cat, a Firestorm Splash I've had for awhile and just realized I never scanned or posted, a Deadly Hands of Kung Fu page with Jack of Hearts from the 70's, and other stuff- Link to a bunch of recent stuff!

Plastic surgery should be for your eyes only. But hey, you only live twice...

haven't posted any art since last year, but it was worth the wait for this: Captain America #116 pg.16 The Avengers & the Red Skull??? (Gene Colan/Joe Sinnott) from Aug. 1969, 2 months after Colan's 3 issue stint on Avengers, (#63-#65) where he introduced Clint Barton (aka Hawkeye) as the new Goliath. I loved how Gene drew the Avengers, particularly Yellow Jacket and The Vision. That's what drew me to this page. The only thing that could possibly be better would be a page from Avengers #64, the first SA Avengers comic I ever bought as a back issue.

do you think social media has had an impact? People selling on FB? For old timers that's probably not the case, but the old timers are passing on ever so quickly, like the story above, and they don't even have the old school avenues for selling stuff- such as putting an ad in the classifieds, that's a bygone era. Even aging boomers can't go to the old newsgroup method, that's dead too. How do people over 65 advertise they have stuff to sell or clear out if they don't have a younger person helping them ,and presumably using more modern means such as FB? is Craigslist even a thing anymore?

I read Glen's story as "Flippers Regret" and he had to wait 20 years to tell it so the parties involved weren't inclined to break his legs.

You probably aren’t the first, just the first willing to publicly admit it. congrats- shouldn’t be too hard to get that Showcase.