Hey !!! A page of BWS original from Conan #1

[Senormac]

BWS original art is just astronomical !!! I can't afford it.....but maybe somebody here can......?

 

 

 

Conan 1 original art

[mtlevy]

Quite a few pages from Conan 1 have come up but certainly not inexpensive...you can get his art from other books for a lot less but still pricey!

[Senormac]

Yea, I'd much rather have a page from "RED NAILS".....or issue #24......or for that matter...anything from about issue 12 up.......than a page from #1

[mtlevy]

I agree...later issues are more my speed but Red Nails and #24 are complete in a private collection ...

[TupennyConan]

Only a 25 feedback seller. Anyone know who this guy is???

 

I'm going to link this thread over in the OA forums.

 

I love the page.

[dem1138]

At one point this entire book was complete + the cover. It sold in 2 separate lots (cover and complete book) in a Sotheby's Auction in the 1990s. However, I don't recall what they sold for.

[Bronty]

Yea, I'd much rather have a page from "RED NAILS".....or issue #24......or for that matter...anything from about issue 12 up.......than a page from #1

 

This is such a nice page though. Every panel is a winner

[lookwhoitis]

**drool**

[kimik]

Yea, I'd much rather have a page from "RED NAILS".....or issue #24......or for that matter...anything from about issue 12 up.......than a page from #1

 

Definitely. His artwork at the beginning of the run is still being refined, just like a lot of the pre-1969/1970 Neal Adams artwork. Barry did not hit his stride until the teens on Conan.

[Bronty]

for the most part I agree but not so much when it comes to this page. This is as good, or almost as good, as his later work IMO

[TupennyConan]

15 years on the internets & I still don't know what IMO means.

[djpinkpanther67]

15 years on the internets & I still don't know what IMO means.

In My Opinion

[kimik]

for the most part I agree but not so much when it comes to this page. This is as good, or almost as good, as his later work IMO

 

IMHO, his early Conan work is like his stint on the X-Men - the characters are still blocky and less detailed than his peak on the later Conan issues. Towards the end of the run he had finally refined the BWS look we all appreciate, but the early issues still had more of a Romita or Kirby blockiness to them.

 

Neal Adams was the same. His first cover on Detective Comics (#370 or #371) looks like a kid in junior high drew it.

 

 

 

 

[Bronty]

well sure, nobody's disputing that. but this is better than your average page from #1. I think it compares favorably to some of those lesser-than-average pages from the later issues.