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oooh la la !

Drucker's all right with me! I love his war stuff and wish he did more!

up and 2 to the left is cooler.

Im speechless... and I just crapped my pants. and Im hysterical... and wet! and Im still hysterical!

Do you know if there is a NM copy of Superman #1 out there? as Yoda says, and we in comics must always remember, when it comes to HG GA keys, "there is another!" Theres a certain root canal specialist who has upgraded beyond the highest existing graded copies available over the years. Whether his Superman 1 is actually a 9.4 is uncertain, but the 7.5 was apparently not strong enought to knock the existing copy out of its place in the vault and went up for sale instead.

thats a sweet sweet Cap 1, and thats only a 7.5 Superman#1. Best copy vs (at best) 3rd best copy (if you consider the MH copy that had its restoration removed really a blue lable 8.0... I do)... BUT - - - Cap aint Superman! and Superman is "very scarce" in unrestored HG compared to other GA keys.. So put me down for the Superman, ratty and all in its lousy 7.5 slab.

ANYthing you do is 'art'. Not just painting. Its art if you say it is. and it becomes ART when you sell it.

not much! : ) at least, you admittedly dont know much about the big-time game of modern art, which is fine, They live in a house of cards of their own making with their own rules and kings and fools. but isnt it the same in OUR world of collectible comics? An novice might infer that a certain 70 year old comic is rare and hence valuable, but totally misunderstand how our market ticks. Why a kids comic about a duck family could ever be so valuable. back to Lichtenstein, he took comic panels but it could have just as easily been any printed imagery created out of lines and printers dots. But he chose comics, a failrly new popular phenomenon. Is it so hard to appreciate him for honoring our little low-cultural backwater??? Bringing it new attention from the highhat and blue blood crowd? Just as Hollywood is now doing for it with the masses?

I'll try. A large part of what makes 'ART' work is the concept. The rest is execution. Here, like Warhol, Lichtenstein has taken an image common in one context or genre, and by recreating it in another, forces the viewer to analize, react and consider it anew in its new context. another way to look at is that the comic book artists drew the panel as one of many, on a deadline, for a few bucks, in an effort to tell th estory and finish the piece and move on to th enext assignment. He tried to do a good job, sure, but within the constaraints of time and th edollar wage to be earned for it. Lichtenstien took the basic image and said, "wait - - look again, No really look at it large, by itself, in a more "serious" setting, and try to see OTHER meanings within it. Now, it being Modern art, there are all kinds of layers of bullsheet involved coloring the art of its creation. Lichtenstein too was just trying to earn a buck. So were the gallery owners and everyone else involved with these paintings. And explanations like mine (made up out of thin air) and just garbage talk for a process where artists create works for attention, sales, success and acclaim. anyway, I like his work. They are pleasing to the eye. Also keep in mind that Modern art has been about proving that "art" no longer need be realistic, or "wellpainted" or at least it includes many works that are deceptively hard to achieve. Pollack for example, or Mondrian. Finally, Lichtenstein does not get credit for comic book like paintings. He gets credit (fame and fortune) for retooling everyones minds on how to LOOK at comic book drawings outside of their original context. So its too easy to just say that he copied other peoples works. The artists had no idea how important their work could be, in the right hands.

cheez. whats the REST of your run look like?

thats a photoshop trick! everyone knows there are no 9.4s from that tough DC era! sweet book!

what grade did Metro give it?

Next time you try to give a little military history, make sure you know what you're talking about. hey, you got a problem with how I described it--- call Ken Burns. He wrote the show,. I just commented on it.

thats the one, and nearly all the stories have been horrible experiences. There was a forest on the German border that "had" to be taken. We lost thousands of troops inching their way towards entrenched German positions. The way it was described was a total cluster. There was no real military objective in the battle. The generals had no real plan and just sent wave after wave in there like, he said, sraw meat in to a meat grinder.... I grew up hearing how badly planned and fought the Vietnam War was. Today we see in Iraq further demonstration of bad leadership and planning in war. But we were all solidly under the impression that WWII was a different story: a tale of grandeur, heroism and organization. hooboy was that wrong! Seems we won by good old brute force: destroying everything and everyone in our way to Berlin and massivle scrimping and producing arms and machines of war to ship over there as fast as possible,.. Workers stateside literally worked around the clock, in three shifts making planes, ships, weapons and ammo. I wonder what it would take for that kind of sacrifice to happen today?

hey--- any of you also watching the PBS WAR series?? I gotta tell ya, Ive been reading war comics for years but only now watching the true films and stories of how horrific and deadly some of these guys had it slogging across Europe and the Pacific, these stories are a lot more than "stories" to me. Thyere still pop fiction and little pictures, sure, and made up stories fr the most part, BUT, created by guys who either went through that mess or had close friends who did. Either way, its sentertainment to us, but it was these guys youths!

wow. dats some a spicy meataball!! first Conan. gotta be the best copy around... now blow us away with the AllStory Tarzan!

Tar-zan is all about the racial supremacy of the white man. Burroughs definition of "Tar zan" was white skin. And as you know, at its heart, the story says if you drop a white man in the heart of Africa as an orphaned infant, and even raise him by apes, he will RISe to a position of leadership of his clan, and, become a Lord of the entire jungle, including the native humans. A thrilling story, but it would be pretty controversial if released today. Or just shunned as stupid social science.

was there ever an airplane that actually was built lik ethat? Looks more like atrain with wings. I wonder it it could ever get off the ground. and the blue emblem is cool, like an ancestor to the Fox logo, but, spotlights arent any one artists creation, just similar shapes. The Wyeth swipe is remakable in that Hollywood had already swiped it. I wonder if there was any compensation or consideration to Wyeth by the studio. I dont really know how famous NC was at that point, being "just" an illustrator. Maybe Wyeth actually signed off on the movie poster. And of course, it might be that Wyeth himself (being just an commercial illustrator himself) swiped the pose from somewhere too! Maybe an etching from the 1800s he found for reference. fascinating stuff.

well, the books have been paired up by $$ value, so what you take issue with here is built into the game. And so it the value placed on one comic compared to another directly related to its content, which controls demand, tempered by the available supply.

good point. WF is the DC ugly stepchild book. Well, one of them anyway... Its all Action 1 ans Tec 27 all the time.

well, the Bronze books we oldtimers still cant get into our heads as worth real money are just about 40 years old now. And they have a huge fanbase of collectors active today who love them as their own. AND, MANTY OF THE EARLY ONES ARE PROVING TO BE A LOT TOUGHER (NOT RARE OR SCARCE, BUT NOT SO PLENTIFUL) AS WE ALL BELieved (sorry caps lock). add it all up and we see the prices being paid today. Many GA books by comparison have languished in value, especially in grades like this. The HG copies are sought for top dollar and these lesser copies still arent cheap, but you dont get a beautiful book for your money, like a 9.4 hot BA key. Its about times they are a changin....

great comparison. I think the 76 now sells for too much. But the #1 doesnt really scream "great value" either. Its not a particularly scarce book, even in high grade. AND its not GLs first appearance. Just the first issue of a series that isnt widely collected anymore. So, to me, Id take the GL76 for $5000 or 6000, or pass on both. And if you had to sell one of them quickly, the 76 wins hands down.

yeah, out of 24 posts I think thats the 8th time its been posted so far.... nice white pages though, huh?

hey Scrooge - - is nt that Spirit story the one reprinted in Jules Feiffers book from the 60s? I always thought it was the first appearance like the other stories in the book.

me too!!! I wanna know what happens next! someone please! talking about Gary Concord!