Sean Clarke :: Gene Colan

Amazing Adventures (third series) #5, page 1

Artists: Gene Colan (Penciller) , Bill Everett (Inker)

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Title:	Amazing Adventures (third series) #5, page 1
Artist:	Gene Colan (Penciller)
Artist:	Bill Everett (Inker)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Title Page
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	1,074
Likes on CAF:	10 11
Comments:	15
Added to Site:	12/31/2020
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So now, ladies and gentlemen, it is Grail Time. Are you ready for Grail Time?!

Some collectors might not stoop to pick up this page if it was blowing around a supermarket parking lot. But for me, finding it is literally a dream come true. I have had this page in my head, in various levels of consciousness, since second grade when Amazing Adventures #5 entered my life, and exerted its influence. I remain in its sway, perhaps more than ever.

Gene Colan and Bill Everett's "... And To All A Good Night" is my ultimate grail story and unruly passion of my collecting life. I am four pages away from completing this story in original art form. Finding the remaining pages is a quixotic quest that makes life worth clinging to, in these challenging times!

Looking at this art makes me inexpressibly happy. Each page in this story is like a dopamine smoothie with an oxytocin boost. Amazing Adventures #5 came out fifty years ago this month (cover dated March 1971). The result of a few days work by Colan and Everett, and perhaps swiftly forgotten as unremarkable craft-for-a-paycheck by these artistic heroes of mine, this art nonetheless forges a quantum tunnel from my childhood awe and curiosity to my present capacity for wonder and rapturous joy.

As a fellow collector, I expect that you'll relate to the feeling that the original art seems even more real now than the comic itself did, a lifetime ago. It's a gift that keeps giving, in saecula saeculorum!

That's enough metaphorical frogwash for one day. Four more pages is a lot of pages to find... but, hope springs eternal.

Major thanks to Ed... a stand-up guy, and a true titan in the fellowship of comic art collectors!

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Mark Levy
Member Since 2004

2 - Posted on 12/31/2020

An Angel got her wings - congrats!

Jeremy Radisich
Member Since 2004

1 - Posted on 1/1/2021

Wish I found this blowing around a supermarket parking lot! But it's rightful place is definitely with you. Congrats!

LB Jefferies
Member Since 2003

1 - Posted on 1/1/2021

HUGE congratulations to you!! I hope you get to pry the rest of them loose, wherever they are

Mark Howland
Member Since 2004

1 - Posted on 1/1/2021

Hope springs and frogs wash! Timely and cool page. Good luck with the remaining four.

Nick Katradis
Member Since 2005

1 - Posted on 1/1/2021

Sean, bravo and a big congrats on finding this personal grail splash. The rush a collector gets when finding a grail piece is beyond anything most people can describe, but you did it quite well. I felt the passion and excitement in your description as I have been there myself. Nice to see there are other real collectors left out there that share the true love of the hobby that you exhibit. A comic art page’s value becomes infinite, if it resides with its true owner, the one that values it the most as it relates to him, and not the marketplace.

J H
Member Since 2019

1 - Posted on 1/1/2021

It's quite a feat putting any story back together, no less a Colan/Everett page. And it tells a story in the interesting layout and angles you want to see from Colan, too. Nah, this is a cool page and nice find, man. Congrats!

Comics Superworld
Member Since 2007

1 - Posted on 1/1/2021

No superheroes, but a terrific splash nonetheless. It'll be 'amazing' once you put the entire story together!

Lee Benaka
Member Since 2004

1 - Posted on 1/1/2021

Great to see this page on CAF finally. I think once you have the splash, the rest of the pages come together pretty quickly when you are reassembling a book. Big congrats, and continued good luck with your quest!

steve staszower
Member Since 2005

1 - Posted on 1/1/2021

Congrats on finding a grail!!!!

glen gold
Member Since 2004

1 - Posted on 1/1/2021

Well, hey this is good news. I'm so happy for you! I never realized till now the story opens exactly as does the first pulp adventure of The Shadow, suicide off a bridge thwarted by a limo driver presenting the hero's calling card. This gives me courage to steal the same motif, so you getting this page is good news for me, too.

Sean Clarke
Member Since 2005

Posted on 1/1/2021

Sweet appropriation of Walter B. Gibson! Thanks, Glen. I'd never read the Shadow stories, and had no idea that this opening scene was a swipe by Rascally Roy. After fifty years as an idée fixe, it's amazing that there is more to discover about "...And To All A Good Night." I stand giddily humbled!

"Your life," said the stranger's voice slowly, "is no longer your own. It belongs to me now. But you are still free to destroy it. Shall we return to the bridge?"

Aaron N.
Member Since 2009

1 - Posted on 1/1/2021

Righteous!!!

artless artmore
Member Since 2013

1 - Posted on 1/2/2021

Congratulations, my friend! The instant I saw the postage-stamp size image of this page on my daily CAF search returns I thought of you, and I'm delighted to see that it is indeed safely in your stable. I enjoyed your commentary, as always. HNY!

Scott Gaulke
Member Since 2005

1 - Posted on 1/2/2021

Powerful, powerful page.

Peter Sullivan
Member Since 2006

1 - Posted on 1/2/2021

Congrats! Hope you get the other pages too.

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