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Hughes, Sam

Hi all, Sam here! I began collecting in 1982 and have seen a lot of wonderful things come, go, or get passed over. I was totally hooked from the first time I saw a piece of original art. It was a Micronauts interior page and nothing special, but it was a game changing paradigm shift for me. I had always bought comics primarily for the artwork, but this was something completely different! You could actually see blue lines, unerased pencils and shades of ink in the brush strokes. From then on it was a rabid chase through TBG, CGB, auctions like Wooley's, Russ Cochran's and Phillip Weiss. As I lived in South Florida at the time, I was segregated from the glitzy places like San Diego, Big Apple and Chicago. A friend and I got to Atlanta where Kelly Freas had some little sketches for 5 bucks apiece. He was so nice! There was also a huge stack of Ditko pages which I poured over for a long, long time and finally picked two. This was my first big mind blowing score! Once I got a taste of the good stuff it was your typical pub crawl from show to show in search of a new fix.

Powder

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The Killing Joke (Preliminary), Comic Art

The Killing Joke (Preliminary) Brian Bolland (All)

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Frankenstein Plate Berni Wrightson (All)

2,605

Silver Surfer #2 Cover (1982), Comic Art

Silver Surfer #2 Cover (1982) Gil Giraud (All)
Moebius (All)

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Hup 2 Ronert Crumb (All)

1,400

TMNT Ad for Issue #3 in Comics Buyers' Guide, Comic Art

TMNT Ad for Issue #3 in Comics Buyers' Guide Kevin Eastman (All)

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Star Spangled War Stories 151 Splash, Comic Art

Star Spangled War Stories 151 Splash Joe Kubert (All)

3,005

Daredevil 165 2pg Spread Frank Miller (Penciller)

1,980

Judge Dredd (Judge Child A) Brian Bolland (All)

2,887

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Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe C-D #3, Comic Art

Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe C-D #3 Ed Hannigan (Penciller)
Joe Rubenstein (Inker)

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Mike Ploog - splash Mike Ploog (Penciller)

344

Eightball #7 - Pogeybait Dan Clowes (All)

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