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JLA / Avengers #1 page 47

Artist: George Perez (All)

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Title:	JLA / Avengers #1 page 47
Artist:	George Perez (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Splash Page
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	848
Likes on CAF:	0 1
Comments:	8
Added to Site:	10/10/2010
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...I did manage to track down the guy who original bought this one, and managed to persaude him out of it with a little $$$. I asked him why he sold it, and he said he was buying a house. I think I helped him with that! This is actually not the page I ever paid the most money for. It is probably not the page that I own that is worth the most (yet...I'm guessing that would be my Watchmen page). It is not even necessarily my favorite pages or a grail page. But it is what I challange to be, THE BEST DAMN PAGE OF ORIGINAL COMIC ART EVER!!! The featured splash page, by George Perez, features Superman, the world greatest and most iconic superhero from the DC universe, getting smacked in the puss by Thor's hammer from the Marvel Universe. This was one of the few splash pages from the JLA / Avengers 2003-2004 crossover, and event that was over two decades in the making. This page all fell under the spell of "collectors fever". I don't know if I have used this quote recently, but "Comic books, even rare ones, exists in multiple copies. But there's only one of each page of original artwork. If comic books are like cocaine, artwork is like crack."
Mike Gold - Playboy (December 2004). Get out the pipe, boys...

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	Jim Arnold
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Fred Bronaugh
Member Since 2005

Posted on 10/10/2010

Jim, I definately lilke the art and love the cocaine/crack quote but as good as this page is, it's not the best.

Mike W
Member Since 2007

Posted on 10/10/2010

GREAT page!!!!!! Congratulations, Jim!!!

Jim Arnold
Member Since 2005

Posted on 10/10/2010

To Quote Abraham Lincoln..."OH YEAH!". Actually, it's not my most favorite page that I own, but I still throw the challange out there. Never claimed it was the most expensive, historical, original, rarest, greatest subject matter, artistically fine, nor by the greatest artist (ok this is George Perez, so I may claim that), but I want someone else to show me "The Greatest"...now make Muhammad Ali sounds...

Timothy Finney
Member Since 2006

Posted on 10/11/2010

I will avoid the "greatest" controversy and simply state this series was, artistically, probably the crowning glory in Pérez's storied career. It was a love letter to American comic book superheroes in general and the Bronze Age in particular. And this page, no pun intended, definitely carried a very high impact, because, let's face it, this is what those of us around at the time waited 20 years for; this is what we paid to see.

aric shapiro
Member Since 2006

Posted on 10/11/2010

The crowing achievement for any collection. The power coming off the page is amazing. Perez, at the top of hsi game, drawing the biggest book of his career.

PERCY'S COLLECTION
Member Since 2003

Posted on 10/11/2010

Congrats. Awesome page. Perez always goes all out.

Damon Owens
Member Since 2005

Posted on 12/8/2010

Superman had it coming! One of the best pages from the greatest crossover in comics history.

P A
Member Since 2013

Posted on 9/4/2014

Unbelievably cool splash! Congrats!

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