Wow! Great grab!

I remember being a kiddo and hanging out at my local comic shop asking about the latest massive Marvel crossover event. The owners guided me to the rack where Marvel and DC were located then kept moving down the line. "Listen, Kid, if you want to eat bubble gum all day, by all means, stick to your Marvel, but if you want real story telling, let me show you Valiant Comics."

While I never wavered for my love of Marvel, that moment turned me on to a whole new world of comic story-telling. I this era of Valiant, and this is one of the most memorable covers from that time.

Congrats on a great pickup, and happy birthday! Hope you have a great day of celebration ahead!

There's that 90s nostalgia I remember oh so well!

Congratulations on this one!  I love issue 12!  It's the climax of the series with an incredible array of DPS work by this team.  Yours is just stunning! Truly amazing!

Excellent addition to your collection!

Congratulations! Ploog is such a king on this issue. 

I need to track down this shirt. I remember this well!

Awesome! If you ever want to swap pages, you know where to find me. ;)

Wow! There are only like four pages with Sable from this issue! Great grab. 

It is so fitting that you own this.  It is one of my all-time favorite issues, and this is definitely one of the best pages from it.  

It is crazy to me that this page exists. Congratulations on an amazing addition to your already legendary collection!

The hits keep coming!  I love the storytelling here. 

Another banger!

It is crazy to me how many different techniques he used on that piece.  What a page!

This era of Jim Cheung DPS is so amazing!  Great piece.  

Catching up from the week.  Awesome addition!

Banger!

So nice!

Such an important milestone issue!

Very jealous of this one!

Sweet!

The steal of the auction!

Does it get any better?!?! Freaking amazing!

How did I miss this in your gallery? Congrats man. This is so memorable. 

That last panel is a stunner!

Thanks Ian!

This is so incredible!  Awesome collection, and this one really stands out!

Congratulations!  This page was meant to be yours!  Such a great example of some of Tradd's originality.  I love this sequence and it reads like anime.  Incredible!

Congrats on another fun Pokemon Commission!

I posted on your CGC thread as well.  

It would be worth tracking down when Wizard #12 was published.  An August 30, 1992 published image was sold last year on Heritage.  It was a newspaper promotional ad with Harley as well. I could be wrong, but that's the earliest I have found.

https://comics.ha.com/itm/original-comic-art/miscellaneous/batman-the-animated-series-joker-harley-quinn-and-batman-publicity-cel-with-key-master-background-warner-brothers-/a/7270-91002.s

Here is a video discussing the Wizard #12 issue for reference.  Your Batman image comes up at the 1:11:20 mark.

https://www.google.com/search?q=wizard+%2312+published+augugst+1992&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS953US958&sxsrf=APwXEdchGmQ2ny-ehD7gZuz7LrxzFhu6aQ%3A1685900636658&ei=XM18ZM_ZJ6_QkPIP6faF2AE&ved=0ahUKEwjP98uklar_AhUvKEQIHWl7ARsQ4dUDCBA&uact=5&oq=wizard+%2312+published+augugst+1992&gs_lcp=Cgxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAQAzIFCAAQogQyBQgAEKIEOgsIABCKBRCGAxCwA0oECEEYAVCpBFipBGCdCmgBcAB4AIABeIgBeJIBAzAuMZgBAKABAcABAcgBAg&sclient=gws-wiz-serp#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:c539861c,vid:aagNkeKZ4VY

It looks like your Batman head from Wizard magazine may predate this Batman ad by a week or two if you can figure out the release date, so yours could be first animated Batman, but the cel ad would be first Harley Quinn since she was not in the Wizard ad.

This is so cool and awesome timing! #acrossthespiderverse 

Per our conversation, please keep me in mind when you sell this one. 

Absolutely amazing. Congratulations!

Thanks so much! More to come but I only upload now when we do a show with Bill on YouTube. Slowly but surely. 

I love this piece!  Such a great collection!

Thank you!

I read this first thing in the morning and it made me laugh out loud. Couldn't get the song out of my head after. 

I think those were the alarms that were set off when someone mentioned "birth page" in the chat.  😂 

Emerald City Comic Con 2023 for the win!

Agreed. In general the community has been hard on Vince. This work on Thor was excellent. 

Thank you. Updated appropriately. 

Epic page!

One of my all-time favorite Galactus/Surfer images. 

Incredible transformation page!  That top left panel is the money shot, and the bottom right shows that killer costume we love.  

One of my all-time favorite covers!  If you ever decide to part with it, please keep me in mind.  :)

The stuff of nightmares!  What a crazy piece!  I love the insane amount of mangled teeth.  

Perlin captures some of the early Ploog-esque feel of Johnny Blaze.  I love it!

What a fun page!  Congratulations!

Wolverine is just savage in this one. I also love the exaggeration from this era. Cable's gun is epic. 

Very true. Ploog is an absolute legend.  Hope you're well!