Old 1970s art-for-sale ads posted on CAF

[Lee B.]

Good morning! Over the past several years I have tried to assemble an archive of old art-for-sale ads. I do this to torture myself, but also because it is good to know what art still exists and has been made available in the past. My collection of art-for-sale ad scans has grown due to the kindness of other collectors such as Glen Gold and Jeff Sharpe.

 

I just posted some of the oldest ads in the archive, which were sent to me by Glen and Jeff, to my CAF gallery:

 

http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryRoom.asp?GSub=70452

 

If any of you have old catalogs or ads that you would like to contribute to the archive, please let me know. And enjoy (if you can) the scans I just posted. Best regards, Lee

[buttock]

Holy cow...

[DJRome]

I'm fascinated with those old ads. Please, keep them coming!

[alxjhnsn]

Lee,

 

You are a tougher man than I. These things make me cry for my stupidity. I was single and employed and all this art was "out there. "

 

Oh, well, I like what I do have.

[Weird Paper]

I bought some of those $15 George Perez pages from that ad (wayyyyy back then). They are all gone now.

[thethedew]

I think Lee just likes to hear the sounds of our lamentation.

...but, to his defense, there is a page or two I'm grateful that his research has confirmed still exist... somewhere.

AcA

[FlyingDonut]

You should post mine from 1981 where I sold the double page splash to X-Men Annual 3 for the princely sum of $200. I believe board member aardvark88 bought it and still has it.

 

Also in that ad was a whole bunch of Adams Deadman pages.

[Bronty]

that aardvark88 has always got some little tidbit up his sleeve...!

[Lee B.]

You should post mine from 1981 where I sold the double page splash to X-Men Annual 3 for the princely sum of $200. I believe board member aardvark88 bought it and still has it.

 

Also in that ad was a whole bunch of Adams Deadman pages.

 

 

Hi FlyingDonut! I don't think I have your ad. If you still have a copy of it, send it my way. I'd love to post it. And if aardvark88 is out there, I would pay at least $400 for the X-Men Annual 3 double-page splash. That is truly a thing of beauty. Best, Lee

[glendgold]

I'm so glad you finally posted the Ron Graham ad. Ever since I first stumbled across that thing, I wanted to share it with the world. I still can't tell if he was entirely serious or if he was just trying to drive people insane.

[Terry Doyle]

I currently own the Adkins Tales to Astonish # 98 cover, though it was substantially dearer than the ad's $100 asking price!

[aardvark88]

1981 where I sold the double page splash to X-Men Annual 3 for the princely sum of $200. I believe board member aardvark88 bought it.

Donut,

I was so poor back then working at Dairy Queen on the weekends, I could only afford to trade you a crate of nm Perez NTT, Miller DD, and assorted "hot" comics of the day for that G Perez/Austin dbl page splash from X-men Ann # 3. Sold it 3 years later to a USA collector.

Any interest in this OA? You will not be able to sleep tonight:

 

[FlyingDonut]

1981 where I sold the double page splash to X-Men Annual 3 for the princely sum of $200. I believe board member aardvark88 bought it.

Donut,

I was so poor back then working at Dairy Queen on the weekends, I could only afford to trade you a crate of nm Perez NTT, Miller DD, and assorted "hot" comics of the day for that G Perez/Austin dbl page splash from X-men Ann # 3. Sold it 3 years later to a USA collector.

Any interest in this OA? You will not be able to sleep tonight:

 

 

I remember that ad. What do you think the price for it would be now, $200K?

 

 

[aardvark88]

Guess-timate $300k, as the Gil Kane/Cockrum combo on a key new X-men cover is "equivalent" to a Todd McFarlane OA cover ? but no Wolverine on cover so, Donut, you may be correct at $200k.

 

[batman_fan]

The thing I like about these old ads is it lets you see what survived at least to the point where the ad came out (and is still hopefully still around).