Superyor Komiks Magasin # ? (1969-70), Tales From The Bible, page 3 by Nestor Redondo

It is true. You do not need to be able to read it. All you need is to understand the language of art and your whole gallery shows your appreciation of art. You have a good eye.

Thank you my friend.  I'd like to think I've learned a thing or two from the 40 plus years that I've been doing this.  Otherwise, it's been a huge waste of time and money.  Ha!

Congratulations on a beautifully rendered page; every panel is terrific, but that third panel is a real show-stopper; thank you for highlighting it!

I agree with everything you wrote about Nestor Redondo in your description and he is another one of those artists that many comic artists I know respect highly.  One example that is burned in my memory is how happy Mike Zeck was with the Nestor Redondo inks over his pencils on the comic Solarman # 1.  Mike very rarely kept any of his own artwork, but he did keep a Solarman page soley because of Nestor's lush finishes over Mike's layouts.  If you've not seen it, you can check out the spalsh page from that issue in my CAF; that is currently the only example of Nestor Redondo artwork in my collection, but I am certainly looking to add something that he penciled and inked. 

Congratulations again on a wonderful page!  

Sweet Redondo example! The images say all that is needed!

Fourpanel perfection from the pen of Redondo! Each panel feels like its own splash even though they are 1/4 the size. Price to art quality ratio can't be debated on examples like this and with the way superhero art prices have been lately I think I'd be inclined to do exactly the same (and I just may!) in looking for an example (I've bid and lost by a mile on his Swamp Thing stuff). Amazing illustrating on full display, congrats!

And that's the question, right?  What do you want and what are you paying for?  If you want a nice Redondo example, are you paying for Redondo art or are you paying for Swamp Thing?  Anyway, thanks for the nice comment buddy.

Great lines in this piece!  

These are more rare as there are plenty with condition issues from humidity.  Well preserved means this piece meant something more to Redondo.

Wow, I never even considered that aspect of it.  Granted that even with American comic art, these things were never originally thought of as collectibles or investments.  Just production material, and certainly nothing that needed to be preserved.  And I imagine that was even more so the case with anything produced in the Philippines.  And it’s not just the storage and preservation issue, but how many of these artists who began working in American publications relocated here and what (if anything) they brought with them.  Or did all this material stay in country only to be shipped stateside much later, after the fact.  When the secondary market for original comic art began to take shape.  As far as what these stories meant to him.  Superyor Komiks Magasin was produced by Nestor and his brothers for Nestor Redondo Publications, so yes, I would imagine they might have meant more to him personally. 

True. And the paper quality itself was very variable for Filipino art. Some of it looks to have all manner of weird fibres in it, and some looks like wallpaper. This paper looks decent quality - another sign perhaps of what the work meant to Redondo.

Another great point.  Wow, you and Marcus are making some very interesting observations.  After reading your comment, I had to pull the page out again and study the paper.  Definitely not bristol.  It's thinner and has sort of a slight sheen to it.  But it is in really good shape.  In contrast (and to your point) my Redondo splash page, which is only about a year older than this page, is in pretty bad shape.  I should point out again that these bible stories were produced by Redondo's own publishing company.  So that probably comes into play as well.

No question that Redondo was up there with the greats. The faces and folds of clothing here are wonderful.

Great Redondo page with all the folds and curls you'd expect from him

Beautiful artwork indeed. A great addition to the collection.