Unca Ben

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.

I put the shop stamp sticker on the Hulk poster that I bought as a souvenir as a reminder of the trip to the French Quarter. To be clear, the indicia on my poster and the non- "day-glo" one on Heritage are identical. The Day-Glo one on Heritage has the different indicia. Look at the text centering on each line and how the 3 lines of text line up to each other. But all have 1966 copyrights, so I'm guessing neither are the modern reprints. And I agree, heritage wouldn't knowingly sell reprints without listing as such. And yeah, I think the one is intended for backlight viewing, but it was photographed or scanned under regular light otherwise the white background would have a violet hue. So I believe that's how it looks under regular light. My backlight posters (back in the day) colors looked similar to the Hulk day-glo when viewed under normal lighting.

Some of those vintage Fillmore posters are worth some change. I have a bunch on my walls from the late 90's and early 2000's from shows I attended. A couple signed (just wait on the side of the venue toward the back when the performers come out to leave). I didn't live here in the 60s or 70s so I missed out on the great vintage ones.

Misery loves company. So sad to hear! But I bet you enjoyed the posters on your wall while you had 'em, rather than be squirreled away in a poster tube or flat file.

If the listing details and scans are correct, I believe I've seen 2 different large Hulk posters. Both appox 30"x42" Here's one on Heritage archives, listed as 30"x42" . If the color on the scan is fairly accurate, then this one seems to be a brighter green and darker purple, with much lighter half-tones under the arms. The indicia in the lower right is different than mine, too. maybe a day-glo version? https://comics.ha.com/itm/memorabilia/comic-related/incredible-hulk-silkscreen-poster-marvel-personality-poster-1966-/a/121824-13795.s# -Here's another Heritage archive, which I believe is the same version that I have. Colors more muted, half-tones on the body (but not the foot) are darker, and the indica (which is difficult to see in the scan so I adjusted the brightness) is like mine. Descriptions says size is 29" x 41.75" https://comics.ha.com/itm/memorabilia/superhero/incredible-hulk-giant-poster-marvel-1966-/a/7066-91472.s The indicia on mine:

I've noticed that the 3 ½ foot Hulk poster seems to have 2 printings; the bottom right indicia is different on some posters I've seen online vs the one I have.

I believe that if they were to re-issue the original 6 foot Ditko Spider-Man poster (not the Marvelmania one that followed that had details added to the face and body, but the pure Ditko image) it would sell pretty well. They could even charge more than $1.99

1965. I was attending the fourth grade at the newly-built Cape View Elementary School in Cape Canaveral, and that fall Spider-Man #32 came out. Not only did it continue the latest eagerly-awaited installment of the awesome Master Planner story, but the mystery of the mailing tube - which had been teased in prior Bullpen Pages - had finally been solved. A six foot poster of Spider-Man by Ditko! Wow! After haggling with my mom for a couple of weeks I procured the $1.99 (or whatever it was) and sent away for the poster. A couple months later I was the proud owner of a beautiful 6-foot Spidey pin-up! Eight week delivery (or more) back then was normal . I proudly displayed my prize at show-and-tell in class. It hung on my bedroom wall from 4th grade to after high school graduation. It was one of the many true highlights of my youth. It hung on the wall of my first bachelor pads, as well. The poster did get a bit beaten around the edges and a little torn throughout the years; suffering the occasional assault of a tossed army-man or some other indoor projectile. But eventually it found its way rolled up in the back of a closet, and move-after-move, it stayed with me. Yesterday I was digging thru the back of my closet, looking for boxes and binders of Marvel Trading Cards that I acquired in the early ‘90s (I wonder why?) and I came across this, on a top shelf behind some short boxes . Some years back I had a cat that had cancer and this must have been one of the hiding places that she retreated to in her illness. She made a nice nest, I suppose. So for those who may give a care, I thought I might share in my discovery. Some good news . I also found a 3 ½ foot Hulk poster, the original printing I believe. It’s a bit ragged around the edges but in much better shape than poor Spidey. I got it a year or so after the Spidey poster, from some shop in the French Quarter as a souvenir during a family trip to New Orleans. It also hung on my wall for years. I may see about salvaging it.