Does this piece and the signature look right to you guys?

[comix4fun]

http://www.comicartfans.com/ForSaleDetails.asp?ArtId=512878

 

 

 

 

 

The hands, the face, the signature...does this look ok for John Romita Sr. to you guys?

[Terry Doyle]

Looks more like John Ramita . . .

[pinupcartoonguy]

I was going to say it looks more like John Romita JR.

[comix4fun]

I was going to say it looks more like John Romita JR.

 

 

Except for those hands, that's right on. The time frame fits that body type for Jr. Not so much the face or hands, but body for sure.

 

That thing's got big giant Kirby-esque ham-hands.

[pinupcartoonguy]

It's also the use of marker and the strokes that make it look JR-ish to me.

[Turtle]

The overall look strikes me as more Jr. than Sr., I can't speak for the nuances of the hands and such.

[chrisco37]

If the sig wasn't there, Romita Sr. wouldn't be my guess on the artist.

[Dick Pontoon]

http://www.comicartfans.com/ForSaleDetails.asp?ArtId=512878

 

 

The hands, the face, the signature...does this look ok for John Romita Sr. to you guys?

 

Good god, no.

[kav]

I don't see anything here that couldn't have been easily forged

[pemart1966]

Ask Mike Burkey - I'm sure that he can find out quickly enough...

[zhamlau]

Ive seen JRJR sign his name just "JR" before on sketches, maybe this was a time he wrote it out fully "John Romita".

 

 

[RockMyAmadeus]

I don't know that I've ever seen Jr. just sign anything "John Romita"...it's not *too* far off from Sr's sig.

 

 

 

[Solar]

I immediately thought JRJR when I first saw it, but that's obviously SR's sig (or an approximation of SR's sig). Weird. It's almost like a forger confused his Romitas.

[RockMyAmadeus]

I immediately thought JRJR when I first saw it, but that's obviously SR's sig (or an approximation of SR's sig). Weird. It's almost like a forger confused his Romitas.

 

Yes, there it is, I think, if it's a forgery.

 

If not, it could be a piece they both worked on, and only Sr. signed it?

 

Not convinced it's a fake, but not convinced it isn't.

 

"To Gerard" looks an awful lot like Sr.'s handwriting.

[comix4fun]

I immediately thought JRJR when I first saw it, but that's obviously SR's sig (or an approximation of SR's sig). Weird. It's almost like a forger confused his Romitas.

 

Yes, there it is, I think, if it's a forgery.

 

If not, it could be a piece they both worked on, and only Sr. signed it?

 

Not convinced it's a fake, but not convinced it isn't.

 

"To Gerard" looks an awful lot like Sr.'s handwriting.

 

 

I'd be surprised if it was both of them and not signed by both. Also that would most likely mean Sr inked as he prefers to do, and I can't imagine Sr's inks looking like this.

[kav]

In the world of OA collecting 'could be real' is the same as 'definitely a fake'.

[Terry Doyle]

In the world of OA collecting 'could be real' is the same as 'definitely a fake'.

 

How about, "Could be a fake"? Would that equate to, "Definitely real"??

[kav]

[MR SigS]

Wolverines facial expression kinda reminds me of Doc Ock from the cover for ASM 55.

[Ironmandrd]

I am no expert by far but one thing that jumped out to me is the "o" in Romita. In all the samples I've seen (and a few I've seen him do in person when I was standing there waiting for JRJR next to him), the "o" is always open to very open. This one is closed.