ROLE CALL for Adams' collectors....

[comicartfan]

Here's a good question, what would you say are the top 10 most expensive Adams books?

 

Assuming you mean CGC'd , my list is as follows :

 

1.) GL 76

2.) Det 400

3.) Avengers 93

4.) Batman 200

5.) Batman 251

6.) X MEN 58

7.) Avengers 94

8.) Batman 227

9.) Detect 369

10.) WF 198 (based on the recent sale)

[greggy]

Adams isn't involved with WF 198. He did do the cover for 199!

[shiverbones]

well i was referring to the grade of the one i was looking at, though it does read the other way........

[ecfanman]

Here's a good question, what would you say are the top 10 most expensive Adams books?

 

Assuming you mean CGC'd , my list is as follows :

 

1.) GL 76

2.) Det 400

3.) Avengers 93

4.) Batman 200

5.) Batman 251

6.) X MEN 58

7.) Avengers 94

8.) Batman 227

9.) Detect 369

10.) WF 198 (based on the recent sale)

 

I think you need to put Vampirella #1 on the list.

[Rickdogg]

well i was referring to the grade of the one i was looking at, though it does read the other way........

 

I was referring to you being a Marvel hater

[shiverbones]

[ecfanman]

What are the Top 10 hardest in grade Adams books?

 

In high grade or low grade, the hardest Adams books have to be the 3 DC regular romance covers (Heart Throbs 120, Secret Hearts 134, Young Romance 154). Dark Mansion of Forbidden Love #2 is Gothic Romance and isn't that hard to find.

 

The Young Romance 154 and Secret Hearts 134 were the last two Adams books that I found to complete my collection of Neal Adams comics.

 

By the way, Overstreet lists Secret Hearts 120 and Girls Romance 134 as having Adams covers. I don't think so. I have a copy of GR 134 and it isn't Adams and SH 120 is too early to be Adams. I believe these were mixups of titles and numbers that appeared in the 1974 Neal Adams Index and have existed to this day.

[tkg2627]

What are the Top 10 hardest in grade Adams books?

 

In high grade or low grade, the hardest Adams books have to be the 3 DC regular romance covers (Heart Throbs 120, Secret Hearts 134, Young Romance 154). Dark Mansion of Forbidden Love #2 is Gothic Romance and isn't that hard to find.

 

The Young Romance 154 and Secret Hearts 134 were the last two Adams books that I found to complete my collection of Neal Adams comics.

 

By the way, Overstreet lists Secret Hearts 120 and Girls Romance 134 as having Adams covers. I don't think so. I have a copy of GR 134 and it isn't Adams and SH 120 is too early to be Adams. I believe these were mixups of titles and numbers that appeared in the 1974 Neal Adams Index and have existed to this day.

You're bang-on. Those Adams Romance Covers are brutally tough in high grade. I've never seen a Secret Hearts # 134 above FN. Although they don't have widespread appeal, those Adams Romance issues are a must for the completist or those who enjoy the "thrill of the hunt".

 

SH # 120 does look Adams-ish in a way, but GR # 134 bears no resemblance to an Adams cover at all.

[minutekev@50]

Don't know for sure about SH 120 and GR 134, but they have them listed on Neal's own website as he doing them, which includes copies of the covers.

 

LINK

[Rip]

OK this is what I would say are the top 10 most expensive

Roughly in order.

 

1. GL 76

2. Vampirella 1

3. Det 400

4. DC Superspec 6

5. Batman 222

6. Batman 238

7. Marvel Spotlight 2

8. HOM 179

9. HOS 81

10. Batman 234

[garthgantu]

The Archies Joke Book which featured his first comic art.

 

He did not do the cover, in fact according to Overstreet he only did one page. But, it is still a nice book.

 

 

 

 

 

Lantern, thanks for the scan - do you have a scan of the page he did?

 

I just noticed that Adams did 3 pages in a kids' mag called "Bananas" back in 1978...I had a subscription to that mag around that time. Apparently it includes parodies of The Six Million Dollar Man, Starsky and Hutch, Man from Atlantis,

Grizzly Adams, and CPO Sharkey... I'd love to see those pages - anyone got that issue?

[Lantern]

Lantern, thanks for the scan - do you have a scan of the page he did?

 

According to his web site, this is the first comic book page work he ever did. This is also the only page that he did in this particular issue.

 

 

 

NOTE: No comics were harmed during the scanning process.

[garthgantu]

Don't know for sure about SH 120 and GR 134, but they have them listed on Neal's own website as he doing them, which includes copies of the covers.

 

LINK

 

Kev, Adams' site lists SH 134, along with GR 134, but not SH 120...? Here's a link to that page.... http://www.nealadams.com/DC/romancecomics.html

[minutekev@50]

Yeah, that's Adams alright...

[greggy]

Yeah, that's Adams alright...

Well...that site also claims that Neal DIDN'T draw the cover for Batman 238 which I find hard to believe!

[minutekev@50]

Don't know for sure about SH 120 and GR 134, but they have them listed on Neal's own website as he doing them, which includes copies of the covers.

 

LINK

 

Kev, Adams' site lists SH 134, along with GR 134, but not SH 120...? Here's a link to that page.... http://www.nealadams.com/DC/romancecomics.html

 

Yeah, I was wrong about that, but go to the main gallery page of his work and scroll down to the S section of the DC's. It has #120 in there as Neal Adams cover work only.

Try this

[Lantern]

Yeah, that's Adams alright...

 

Maybe this page from Archies Joke Book #44 (second pro. work) shows a little more than the other one.

 

Just imagine Batman's face where Archie's is and Robin's face where Jughead's is. The resemblance is uncanny....

 

 

[Rip]

Does anyone have a cover we could look at on SH 120?

[minutekev@50]

By George, now I see it!

[minutekev@50]

Not even Chuck has one...