thethedew Posted March 29, 2013 Share Posted March 29, 2013 Not entirely certain but I think it was this... I recall flying back from a Mid-Ohio Con, worried that the page would get creased; as, not planning on buying anything over the size of a trading card, I had no way to protect it (yet...) Obviously, worked out OK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GotSuperPowers? Posted March 30, 2013 Share Posted March 30, 2013 I believe this is my first page - a Bolton Wolverine page with a SNIKT panel. Hard to beat that! http://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=40350 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kpaqu1 Posted March 30, 2013 Share Posted March 30, 2013 http://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=249808 Howard Chaykin American Flagg! #48 cover. Had to work overtime for a month to pay for it in 2002. But it did come already very nicely framed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hey Kids, Comics! Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 Mine is nowhere near as cool as the rest to anyone but me and purely for sentimental reasons. I bought this Dinosaur For Hire #6 pg 14 from by Chuck Wojtkiewicz at HeroesCon in the early 90s. I also bought a Jason Pearson LOSH page at the same show (which I no longer have). They were $10 each. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malvin Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 Mine is nowhere near as cool as the rest to anyone but me and purely for sentimental reasons. I bought this Dinosaur For Hire #6 pg 14 from by Chuck Wojtkiewicz at HeroesCon in the early 90s. I also bought a Jason Pearson LOSH page at the same show (which I no longer have). They were $10 each. I loved Dinosaurs for Hire! Especially the first few issues. Congrats on having that as your first OA! Malvin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thehumantorch Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 Mine is nowhere near as cool as the rest to anyone but me and purely for sentimental reasons. I bought this Dinosaur For Hire #6 pg 14 from by Chuck Wojtkiewicz at HeroesCon in the early 90s. I also bought a Jason Pearson LOSH page at the same show (which I no longer have). They were $10 each. I loved Dinosaurs for Hire! Especially the first few issues. Congrats on having that as your first OA! Malvin Hey Malvin. Agreed, the art is quite good and it's a fun series. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evanc Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 Purchased my first page from eBay a few months after getting back into comic books my summer break before college. I was browsing the auctions looking for Valiant Turok comics to buy, and this page showed up from my search. I bought it for only $20. Doubt it's worth any more than that now--it's a page from the unpublished Turok/Shaman's Tears crossover, issue 2! I love the composition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oakman29 Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 Thought I was getting hosed paying $50 back in the mid 80s Is that Kirby Pencils? 50 bucks? Dave you da man! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin.J Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 Its probably not my first but I always wanted a Steve Ditko example. I know it would be nice to have a Spidey page, but any port and all that, had to make do with the still expensive, Haunted #28 pages 6 & 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shemp Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 First piece of art I ever bought. Bought from Jim Warden @ SDCC in 1999. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thehumantorch Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 (edited) Thought I was getting hosed paying $50 back in the mid 80s Is that Kirby Pencils? 50 bucks? Dave you da man! Kirby all day. My LCS had at least 50 kirby 70s pages. I'm the man alright, bought 1 page Edited April 1, 2013 by thehumantorch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thehumantorch Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 First piece of art I ever bought. Bought from Jim Warden @ SDCC in 1999. Nice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malvin Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 First piece of art I ever bought. Bought from Jim Warden @ SDCC in 1999. Heh, why am I not surprised that your first piece is a Grell Malvin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shemp Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 Heh, why am I not surprised that your first piece is a Grell Malvin He and Green Arrow are the reason I collect art. Loved that series. I was lucky enough to finally have the money to buy that cover. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Marino Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 Cool replies so far, I can't believe some of the awesome art people got as their 1st purchases. Sandman, Bolland Covers, Sale Superman for all Seasons, McFarlane Hulk... just jealous! Well the very 1st peice of OA I purchased was when I was looking for groomsman gifts for my wedding. I got the best man at my wedding a splash from The Hedge Knight, The prequel to A game of thrones. For myself, while I was saving up for said wedding I had to get something cheap to get my 1st hit for myself =) so this is the 1st thing i got for myself, but I feel like some days it doesn't count... It was cheesy and cheap, and looked cool! And I never even read the story.. So, I consider this 3rd page my 1st real purchase. It was the 1st one that I bought that I did my research on and really loved (it's now in a new home, inside a black hole) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BookofStrange Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 Don't know how to to get image directly so here is the link to my CAF. By Alfredo Alcala, I saw it at a local comic show and borrowed money to get the $40 I needed for it. Doctor Strange 19 page 30 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldGuy Posted April 2, 2013 Share Posted April 2, 2013 Gene Colan and Al Williamson Marvel Comics Presents #108 page 1. It's an old scan but the page was signed by Gene in the lower margin a few years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trev Posted April 3, 2013 Share Posted April 3, 2013 This is the first piece of OA I obtained and got me started. From JSA Classified by Pat Oliffe and Drew Geraci. I got the piece at Wizard World Texas in 2006 or 2007. I got back into collecting around late 2004 and that Wizard World show was my first ever Con that wasn't a simple hotel show. I bought a sketch book there and thought I would get started. I got a Batman sketch by Steve Epting and then finally settled to spend the rest of my art money on a commission by Drew. I told him what I wanted and left my sketch book with him. Checked back the next morning and he hadn't gotten to it yet. Finally, about an hour before the con ended he gave me back my book with nothing added and an apology. I was really disappointed because I had passed the opportunity to get other sketches because he was holding my book and now had nothing and I told him so. Seeing that I was disappointed he offered my any page of OA he had for free and I chose this page because of how much I had enjoyed the arc. So, not the first page I ever bought, but my first page. After that, I think this was the first page I ever bought. Off of ebay for $45. Another Oliffe piece, but this time a page from Booster Gold. I spent most of the next few years on commissions and sketches and didn't really get into OA until a friend helped orient me a bit at SDCC in 2009. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Peck Posted April 3, 2013 Share Posted April 3, 2013 First piece of art I bought was a Brent Anderson Uncanny X-Men #160 page 6 at the first Wonder Con in the 80s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gal Schwartz Posted April 3, 2013 Share Posted April 3, 2013 I posted this a couple of years ago in another thread on this topic, but there has been a development, so here is again (with an update); My first OA purchase was actually one of my smartest buys: http://qurls.com?i=49105 Batman Shadow Of The Bat #1, page 15 - the 1st appearance of Mr. Zsasz ! by the super talented Norm Breyfogle. It's origins: Back at 2005 (or late 2004), I'd finally figured out that I could actually interact with some of the heroes/artists of my youth via the magic of the interenet. Landing on Norm Breyfogle's website and message board and was really excited "meeting" him and chatting with him for the first time. While browsing the galleries in his website I was surprised to have found out that many of the pages posted online were actually offered for sale and for some VERY reasonable prices. Then I made the plunge and decided to pick one out of hundreds (?) of amazing pages by one of my all-time favorite artists. I decided to settle on a page from the first SHADOW OF THE BAT arc. Obviously, all the main splashes were already gone by then, but one of the available "quieter" pages had something very special about it - the very first very first "appearance" and mention of a major Bat-villain ! The thing is - he appeared caged in a box, with only a small window, from which you could only see his mouth... a great mystery buildup... but not much of an "appearance". Zsasz finally made his full appearance in the next issue, where he revealed his scarred body in a shocking scene which in my mind remains a "game changer" when it comes to Batman comics. (when I read it in the '90s it was this moment that transferred this tale and villain from a "standard" Batman story into the VERTIGO realms... You also couldn't get a more "full" appearance than this - with only a very well placed word balloon keeping this page code approved. I CRAVED for that other page with Zsasz's full appearance (and nagged Norm about it), but that other page was long gone. Finally,I decided to just be happy with having the actual, listed, 1st appearance, thinking I'd probably never see the "other" page outside it's published form (and recognizing the opportunity still at hand). Some years and many pieces later, I thought I'd somehow completed the circle when I'd bought the Batman: Shadow Of The Bat poster artwork (which was originally published when the first issue saw light): http://qurls.com?i=50980 A good companion to my Shadow Of The Bat #1 page and a fitting compensation and replacement for losing that other Zsasz page "forever"... I was satisfied. And suddenly, just a few short months later, the actual page I was wanting ever since I started collecting original art, popped up on EBay (!!!!). A real OMG moment for me. To me, this page wasn't just a "big one", but THE "big one". Sorry guys, but there couldn't have been a real competition, I had to have it. Now it resided in my gallery, alongside the other parts of the 'Shadow Of The Bat' trinity: http://qurls.com?i=51031 The page had really brought me to a full circle and for a while I even entertained the notion of quitting the never ending chase after more pieces, being please with what I already have had. As to be expected, I caved in as the bug was stronger than me... Thank you for sharing your "origin" stories, I really enjoyed them (as I have enjoyed the art. As always, I really enjoy your comments and thoughts (though I can only read your comments, not your thoughts...). Best, Gal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
