Shur, R :: All-Star Squadron #1 (1981)

All-Star Squadron 1 p17 (1981) [Grail]

Artists: Rich Buckler (Penciller) , Jerry Ordway (Inker)

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Title:	All-Star Squadron 1 p17 (1981) [Grail]
Artist:	Rich Buckler (Penciller)
Artist:	Jerry Ordway (Inker)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Interior Page
For Sale Status:	Not For Sale or Trade
Views:	547
Likes on CAF:	2 3
Comments:	5
Added to Site:	10/22/2014
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All-Star Squadron #1 p17, cover dated September 1981, it was on sale 3 months prior [June 1981]. Wow, it seems like yesterday that in between games of Astro Invader at my local 7-Eleven, that I purchased the comic.

Not sure why, but the panel where the Atom shouts "Yea, Team" is something I still remember vividly from when I first read the issue as a child.

The full scoop on All-Star Squadron #1 original art from my research:

Some may wonder why the actual penciled and inked pages [not production stat'ed pages] to All-Star Squadron #1 are impossible to find. None were even on CAF until 2011 when I added page #9 to my gallery. In 2013 an additional page was added by another collector, and now this page which I am now adding.

As many here know I am a huge All-Star Squad fan. Over the years I have noted anything I have seen in print regarding All-Star Squad #1 interior artwork and have been in correspondence with Roy Thomas, Jerry Ordway and a very short conversation with Rich Buckler at a comic con.

We start with Alter Ego v2 #14 p28 April 2002 and a quote from Roy Thomas' interview with Jerry Ordway: [regarding All Star Squadron issue #1] "the first 14 or so pages were lost by FedEx, I [Jerry Ordway] was given poor photocopies to ink over which was done on vellum." It was later brought to light that it was actually 15 total All-Star Squadron #1 pages lost by FedEx, They were page #'s 1-8 and 10-16

In 2005 Roy Thomas confirmed via private email that at least 1/2 the book was lost. I spoke with Rich Buckler about this at NJ comic art show in 2011 but he had no recollection, not surprising given his work on those pages was already finished thus out of the loop by that point.

In Sept 2013 I corresponded with Jerry Ordway who stated:
"I still wonder to this day if the pencils for pages 1-16 or so of All Star Squadron will ever turn up somewhere."

Page 9 pencils as it turned out were not in the lost FedEx shipment and it was inked by Ordway later on with the last 9 pages. My research shows page 9 was probably originally given to Roy Thomas [who got art from most All-Star Squad issues], then given by Roy to his original Alter-Ego Fanzine co-founder, Jerry Bails. In Apr 2002's Alter Ego #14 p28 Jerry Bails was credited as supplying Alter-Ego with the copy of the page 9 original art. I purchased page 9 a few years back from Mike Burkey who had obtained that and other art from the Bails estate. Page 9 is the one where the Shining Night first appears in the series.

The only other penciled+inked art from the first 16 pages of the issue that exists is 1/3 [the middle tier] of page 16. From Jerry Ordway email Sept 2013:
"Roy must have asked Buckler to redraw the middle tier for some reason, and there wasn't time to get it to me to ink."

Due to the loss of the 15 pages of pencils, 14 2/3 if you include the p16 middle tier, only 10 1/3 penciled and inked artwork / "real original comic art" for us collectors exist.

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frank x townsondecker
Member Since 2006

1 - Posted on 10/22/2014

Neat page!

Lloyd White
Member Since 2007

1 - Posted on 10/22/2014

Beautiful, beautiful page---congratulations!

Marvel Two-in-One Guy
Member Since 2003

1 - Posted on 10/23/2014

Wow. Great research. And congratulations on landing your grail.

David K
Member Since 2008

1 - Posted on 10/23/2014

Wow! That's some fascinating history behind this book. Thanks for all the insight and huge congrats!!

michael dunne
Member Since 2004

1 - Posted on 10/23/2014

Congratulations of picking up one your personal grails.

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