Unca Ben

The first cover in your post was done about nine years after the original (bottom) cover, and the '74 dated cover was done by artist(s) who didn't work for Marvel in 1965. Looks like Ron Wilson or Buckler, et al. so it could not possibly be the original. I love the Kirby cover. Emphasis on the new character - remember, this was 1965 and the silver-age Marvel cast of characters was still very small so a new character could be a big deal. And it does look like Heck made some corrections on the floating heads like Cap's and perhaps Wanda's (Heck was known at the time for his beautiful women, arguably not Kirby's strong suit) and Hawkeye's, a character Heck co-created and designed. I do like the U.K. cover, too. The Kirby cover is a textbook example of a silver age Marvel cover and the U.K. reprint is a textbook example of a bronze age cover. Two distinct phases and looks. I'm guessing (apologies if I'm wrong) that your sweet spot - when you started reading comics and appreciating the artform, was during the bronze age or later and not the silver age like mine would be. That can play in to your preference for the one and mine for the other. Either way, great stuff!

"First Man discovered fire, then he began cave-painting and shortly thereafter came the light table." "Never draw anything you can copy, never copy anything you can trace, never trace anything you can cut out and paste up." -Wally Wood, I'm told.

@thesink, jump on in, the water's fine! And if you do get near long-time posters and the water gets warm, it ain't because they're angry.

With a lot of potential. When the artist gets as comfortable at drawing figures and drapery as they clearly are at drawing facial features and hair (the hat's really good,too) they'll turn out some pretty slick work. Behind this drawing, I envision lots and lots of sketch pages of mostly heads and faces with not a lot of emphasis on figure drawing or drapery. Which is a great start. -just my opinion, i could be wrong.

Oh, and Marvel Tales #9 has a Subby cover appearance in a reprint of a Human Torch story in Strange Tales.

I'd say amateur. Too much inconsistency in lineweights on the MJ figure. Too much evidence of back-and-forth and filling-in on the MJ outline, rather than the "single-stroke" that an experienced professional could accomplish.

There's a couple Not Brand Echh covers with the Sunk-Mariner if you wanna include parodies. There's a couple Fantasy Masterpieces covers if you wanna include s.a. reprints of the Golden Age Subby. And there's more than a couple Marvel Collectors Item Classics covers featuring Subby in s.a. FF reprints on the cover. I guess it depends on your parameters.

and it was the Lee/Colan team that did the first Marvel crossover story in TTA and TOS with Iron Man and Sub-Mariner. For the time, that was really cool.

Stan's work with John Romita on their Spidey run. That was pretty successful. Stan's work with Heck on Iron Man (created Hawkeye, Black Widow, Titanium Man). Stan's work with Romita and then Colan on Daredevil. Stan with Colan ( and later Everett) on Sub-Mariner in TTA. I recall anxiously awaiting the next monthly installment of "The Quest" serialization that began Subby's tenure in TTA. Classic. all this stuff was very popular at the time - and I believe that the Lee/Romita ASM run outsold Kirby/Lee's FF and anything that Ditko was doing at the time.

I need to take nicer pictures.

Looks to me like Colan penciled the page with the intent for the cover blurb to be on the vacant right hand side. When it became clear that "To Fight the Impossible Fight" needed to be at the bottom, Lee just had it corrected by moving stats around and adding art in production. You can see where the cover blurb at the bottom of the original art goes below the bottom horizontal crop mark. Without measuring, I can see that with the added lower blurb, the aspect ratio is too long. It's a great cover from a memorable storyline. It's still the original art that the production version was made from. Given the work done to dress it up, does that give hint to provenance?

Boy, so many great pieces! If I were a rich man, Ya ha deedle deedle, bubba bubba deedle deedle dum. All day long I'd biddy biddy bum. And I'd buy that cover. And that Steranko. Speaking of the cover, ever notice how many times Kirby's FF covers had an oversized Doom looming over the FF? I love 'em all (and partial to #16 and Annual 2). ('course he used that device a lot with other villains on other covers, too)

I think this collection shows that bagging and boxing comics may offer pretty good protection. Odors, and moisture damage aside. Let's hear it for those brave boxes and bags that gave their all to protect these books.

IBTL

Yep. Kinda like the way that Geisel of his own volition changed one of his books when he was still alive.

Yep. Thing is, things change. Stuff comes and goes. My "good old days" were someone else's "awful modern times, with all these terrible changes nowadays". Wash, rinse, repeat.

I'm just waiting for common sense to kick so we can restore the original title and setting of Agatha Christies' most famous novel, And Then There were None. I mean, just look at what was lost in our culture by making those changes just because some folks thought it was offensive. America has never recovered from the damage.

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Avengers 28 page 12 TWICE UP Large Art - Don Heck on pencils and Frank Giacoia on inks. Silver Age Page from 1966, image size 18½" X 12½", featuring Captain America, Hawkeye and the Scarlet Witch battling the Beetle. It's a nice, clean SILVER AGE TWICE - UP Battle Page. Panel one is a doozy! Nice. large 4 panel action page. Very clean, white page; some minor whiteout affecting the art and word balloons. Panel 4 has the most whiteout on the Beetle's shoulders. See picture. The pic gives a good representation of page whiteness. $5350 SHIPPED (Continental US) FedEx Priority w/ sig. req. CONUS. Buyer will pay for full insurance if desired. Art will ship sandwiched between 2 pieces of masonite or in a sturdy FedEx poster/artwork box. Outside Continental USA, contact me via PM first, as there will be additional shipping fees and Paypal fees for international transactions. Personal check, Cashier's check or MO are welcome and preferred. PayPal is great, no friends & family to circumvent fees. Buy it, make an offer via PM, or seals the deal and trumps ongoing PM's. Payment due within 7 days unless other arrangements have been made. Thanks for looking!

Tales of Suspense #90 pg. 7 - the great Gil Kane on pencils and the great Joe Sinnott on inks. Twice-up, large silver age art from 1967, image size 18½" X 12¾", featuring Captain America and his arch-nemesis the Red Skull! NOTE* The ground and building in panel one is a production stat of the original art underneath. It appears that the building was enlarged a bit and re-positioned upwards so the Red Skull's energy bubble could be better shown lifting the building off the ground. Panels 2, 3 and 4 are gorgeous, with slick Sinnott inks over Kane's distinctive pencils. Page is slightly toned. The page has a crease along the width of the page about 5 inches from the top, with other minor creases (see pictures). There is whiteout for corrections in panel 1, and slight whiteout text corrections in panels 3 and 4. There is tape along the bottom right to hold down the "Continued After Next Page" blurb. Pencil and production notes in the margins. Joe Sinnott signature on the back of the page. See scans. Additional photos or scans upon request. A nice, twice-up silver age Tales of Suspense page from 1964 featuring Captain America and the Red Skull. SOLD! $2450.00 shipped USPS Priority w/ sig. req. CONUS. Buyer will pay for full insurance if desired. Art will ship sandwiched between 2 pieces of masonite. Outside Continental USA, contact me via PM first, as there will be additional shipping fees and art will ship FedEx International. Personal check, Cashier's check or MO are welcome and preferred. PayPal is great, no friends & family to circumvent fees. Buy it, make an offer via PM, or seals the deal and trumps ongoing PM's. Payment due within 7 days unless other arrangements have been made. Thanks for looking!

SOLD! Marvel Super-Heroes # 1 Spring Special 1990 Speedball story page with Steve Ditko pencils and Chris Ivy inks. Image size 10" by 15". Nice page with Speedball in action with pencils by the legendary Steve Ditko. The page is toned, except for outside margins. It looks like (possibly) red ink was used for "speedball" effects in all panels and it has faded. See photo. There are just a few dabs of whiteout in the lettering and word balloons. Signed in the upper margin and in overall very good condition. SOLD! shipped (Continental US) USPS Priority w/ sig. req. CONUS. Buyer will pay for full insurance if desired. Art will ship sandwiched between 2 pieces of masonite. Outside Continental USA, contact me via PM first, as there will be additional shipping fees.

Avengers 32 page 11 Large Art - Don Heck on pencils and inks. Silver Age SEMI - SPLASH Page from 1966, page size 21" X 13¾ image size 18½" X 12½", featuring Goliath, the Sons of the Serpent, and Bill Foster. It's a nice, clean semi- splash SILVER AGE TWICE - UP page depicting an angry Goliath finding an injured Bill Foster. From the great Sons of the Serpent story line. Pure Don Heck. With a great big image of Goliath. Very clean, white page; little whiteout affecting the art except for a small amount on Goliath's under-arm and chin and a small amount in background branches in panels 1 and 2. Small whiteout in 2 dialogue balloon outlines and 1 panel border. Does not affect lettering or art. See scan and pic. Any yellowing in the scan is an artifact of the scan. The pic gives a good representation of page whiteness. $9075 SHIPPED (Continental US) FedEx Priority w/ sig. req. CONUS. Buyer will pay for full insurance if desired. Art will ship sandwiched between 2 pieces of masonite or in a sturdy FedEx poster/artwork box. Outside Continental USA, contact me via PM first, as there will be additional shipping fees and Paypal fees for international transactions. Personal check, Cashier's check or MO are welcome and preferred. PayPal is great, no friends & family to circumvent fees. Buy it, make an offer via PM, or seals the deal and trumps ongoing PM's. Payment due within 7 days unless other arrangements have been made. Thanks for looking!

Hi all, Hope everyone is well. Usual rules. Unless otherwise specified, price will include Continental US shipping - FedEX w/ sig. req. Buyer will pay for full insurance if desired. Art will ship sandwiched between 2 pieces of masonite and/or or in a sturdy FedEx poster/artwork box.Outside Continental USA, contact me via PM first, as there will be additional shipping and PayPal fees. PayPal is great, no friends & family to circumvent fees. Personal check, Cashier's check, MO, or Bank Wire are welcome and preferred. Buy it, make an offer via PM, or the seals the deal and trumps ongoing PM's. Payment due within 7 days unless other arrangements have been made. Thanks for looking!

That is beautiful.