Favorite Copper Age covers

[Defiant34]

Definately one of the best Hulk covers & one of the best McFarlane!

[Mephisto]

Heartened, here you go.

 

 

Issue 15 is nice also...

 

 

 

Who's site is the original art to 15 from?

[Bonds25]

[heartened]

The #15 is in a private collection. He won't sell. He doesn't have a website, as far as I know. The cover was on ebay a while back, which is where I think the present owner bought it for something like 14K.

[chrisco37]

Hari -

 

Did you read the Playboy article about Original Art. I thought maybe I'd see your name in it.

 

I can't recall the authors name, but the article mentions some of the big players including Will Gabri-El and Mike ____? D'oh! Stupid college years affecting short-term memory (again!)

 

It mentions that one of them bought the entire run of Crisis covers back in '97 for a whopping 6K! Can you verify this.

[Illiterati-migration]

Hari -

 

Did you read the Playboy article about Original Art. I thought maybe I'd see your name in it.

 

I can't recall the authors name, but the article mentions some of the big players including Will Gabri-El and Mike ____? D'oh! Stupid college years affecting short-term memory (again!)

 

It mentions that one of them bought the entire run of Crisis covers back in '97 for a whopping 6K! Can you verify this.

 

ONLY 6K?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

[chrisco37]

Hari -

 

Did you read the Playboy article about Original Art. I thought maybe I'd see your name in it.

 

I can't recall the authors name, but the article mentions some of the big players including Will Gabri-El and Mike ____? D'oh! Stupid college years affecting short-term memory (again!)

 

It mentions that one of them bought the entire run of Crisis covers back in '97 for a whopping 6K! Can you verify this.

 

ONLY 6K?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

 

I know! It's unreal isn't it?

 

The article estimates that the cover to #8 alone is in the 75K range now.

[heartened]

Hi,

 

Yeah, Jon Mankuta bought all 12 covers directly from Perez for 500 bucks each. That was a very low price even for back then, and everyone at the time was shocked. He held onto them until 2003, when he sold 8 of the 12 to my friend Will Gabri-El for something close to 130K. I got the best cover of that bunch, the #8. Jon still has the #7. Those are, of course, the two key covers of the run.

[heartened]

The article actually mentions the #7 cover, which Jon still has. Estimate was 75K, although I'm not sure where the number is coming from. Personally, I'd estimate it around 50K, similar to other "key covers" from the 70s and 80s. My #8 falls in that same ballpark, I suppose, although I think these numbers are really ludicrous for art from the 80s.

 

I can say that, since I'm not planning on ever selling the #8

[matewan1990]

I just recently traded the cover to 6 to Jim Woodall. It was a great cover, but the worst of the 12, I think.

[heartened]

Hi,

 

I owned the #6 too, but traded it to Mike Burkey a while ago. I assume you got it from Mike?

 

It's not the best cover in the run, but it's certainly the most affordable..... and all the rest are getting quite expensive. The #2 and the #11 are "available" at around 15K each.

 

What value did you have on the #6?

[Kevin Boyd]

[matewan1990]

Hi,

 

I owned the #6 too, but traded it to Mike Burkey a while ago. I assume you got it from Mike?

 

It's not the best cover in the run, but it's certainly the most affordable..... and all the rest are getting quite expensive. The #2 and the #11 are "available" at around 15K each.

 

What value did you have on the #6?

 

I got $10,000 in trade. I got some nice stuff for it.

But, I kind of wish I'd kept it. It was a nice cover. And yes, I got it from Mike Burkey.

[heartened]

With only 12 covers, and with the series being a landmark in the 80s, these covers are only going to go up in price. But, sounds like you got a bunch of great art for it in trade!

 

In the recent playboy article on collecting comic art, they have the #7 cover valued at 75K! Apparently he's gotten a few offers in that range. So, I'd say the #6 is certainly worth 10K at this point.

[blutobc]

How about a probably seldom seen George Perez cover from Americomics #1 - a short lived 80s color indy publisher. The lady kind of reminds me of Perez's "Sachs & Violens" series that came 10 years later.

 

 

[jbud73]

Wow, I'm a Perez cover collector and Ive never seen that cover thanks

[elove]

 

 

man, I loved this story when I was kid. This cover was also one of my favorites.

[Norrin_Radd]

[Fan4Fan]

The Flash had a BUNCH of great covers in the 80's (it was one of my favorite books in the 80's). Flash/Zoom covers were always great.

 

 

Looks like Flash was a little less than half right...

[keef-migration]

 

 

Ohhh yeah, seconded. I'm a huge McKeever fan and this series in particular.