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Outstanding page featuring two incredible characters falling just short of a huge reveal! Very cool page.
Love the hint of Joe Kubert in this Romeo Tanghal piece. Very appropriate, given Kubert did several covers featuring the war comic character of Gravedigger
What a great set of Gravedigger pages! Congratulations on putting them all together.
Initially the abstract loosely lined figures threw me off the painting. But the more I looked at it, the more the undefined linework drew me into the pictures. And the colors too.
That background emphasizes the intensity of the moment. Perhaps the explosive coloring could be taken as a play on the phrases "he has a bazooka for an arm" or "he really blasted that one".
I may end up giving this one to my son. He's moving to Baltimore soon, is getting into the idea of following baseball, and attended his first MLB game a few days ago (though not in Baltimore.) He said he was going to buy some things to put on his new walls. This can get him started.
Every panel is a beaut. From Iron Man's palm of power, to the depiction of heavy rain, to the scene-setting shadowed building exterior. And finally to Kingpin holding court in a sauna.
A fine get for any collection! Congrats
Thaks for the comment. I've been a fan of Bruce Patterson's inks since he migrated to DC early in his career. His inks enhanced every artist he worked with, from Jurgens to Novick. I'm thankful nice to have him represented in my collection.
Thanks.
A couple of other pages popped up for auction lately, and while I was interested, I was not able to snag either. It would have been nice to add one or two of them to ths one.
Superb Byrne commission. Four great characters in a dramatic action-packed scene, with oodles of details and a money-shot of each character.
Great pick-up!
Bullseye splashes always hit just the right spot!
Indeed! It's nice to get ahold of these sort of recap pages that put the characters in perspective. Glad this was from the era before digital lettering.
Sweet picture. The color, shading and texture. The expression. The HAIR!!!!
This is really awesome.
Magnficent page!
Amalgam was one of the best comic book ideas of all time. Having any artwork associate with Amalgam is a big coup! Congratulations
Bright impressed me with every title he drew. It's one of my art-collecting regrets that I did not add more Bright pages to my collection way back when.
Gotta get some Milestone stuff, some Iron Man and definitely some Quantum & Woody!
That outlining is a nice touch of artistic presentation of ring-provided protection.
At a later convention, Guidry was handing out business cards that used the covers from this series. They are in color and came out very well. He was out of stock of the color business card version of this cover, but I got another and it's awesome.
Now it's my mission in life to get the color version of this one! And like Liam Neeson in Taken, I will not stop until I bring it home. Hopefully, Gavin still has some.
Thanks. I agree this painting perfectly captures what riding the wind could look like. Ororo is in full control
From looking at the dozen or so pages (dailies and Sundays) I have, I've become a big fan of McWilliams. He's definitely deserving of greater recognition. It's too bad he didn't do more work in high-profile comic books.
Gaydos bleeds blacks like a mechanic bleeds brake lines. This is a phenomenal portrait of Luke and Jessica. Moody, tender, setting a sense of expectation and wonder at what may come next.
Great commission!
Would that afford I could
I would
But I can't
So I shant
(great page, though. For sure!)
A masterful sketch on Bats. I loved Perez's take on Batman. In a sense, his version reminded me of Aparo's and Marshall's. Their individual arttistic techniques may have been different, but they each gave him a long and (sort of) lean (but not skinny) appearance.
Perez's JLA issues were great to give readers a setting for the master to get a chance to draw many characters he might not have otherwise had a chance to draw.
Fantastic commission. The color takes this commission to another level.
Congratulations on the acquisition!
Hot first-issue felon fun in the factory!
This page is the sort that makes this hobby so great. Congrats on the acquisition.
That's an awesome cover. The expressions tell so much about the characters. The coloring is sublime. And Galactus looming in the background raises the stakes and makes the reader want to dive into the story.
Nice add!
That's a great cover. All that a cover should be, and more! Flash's pose and positioning makes him the centerpiece, but the column of villains demands equal attention. Then the letters down the center of the page make a fun line of demarcation between hero and villains.
Congrats!
This is incredible work. Drawing in colored pencils add a very vivid element to the original art.
Great shots of Wild Dog on this terrific two-panel page. Great Pasarin page, with a little humor inserted into his great grasp of anatomy and skill for detailed pencils. Put the two together and this is really cool. Not to mention you got it from Wade. Really really cool.
I'm sort of a Pasarin phreak, so I may take a little extra delight in seeing others share of his original art pages. Congrats on the pickup.
Falk paced this story well. Each Sunday has just enough to get us into it, and ends in ways to make up eager to read the next segment.
I don't recall Mandrake running in my local papers way back when, but reading this strip reminded me of the joy of reading The Phantom and Star Wars strips. The long serialized stories had to be well-crafted to keep the reader engaged for months at a time.
Across the seven pages I have, a few words are cut out. Another instance of "Hot ___" was cut out, then replaced with a glued in replacement. The new word in that case was "shot". Presumably over time the glue on this page wore out and the replacement word fell off the page.
It would be interesting to see which word the editor (or sydicate decision maker) felt needed to be replaced.
The anguished and the audatious! Beautiful mesmerizing page of flipped philosophical perspectives. Hester always does a great job with layout design, and he kills it here. The way he plays with blacks adds depth to pull us into the page.
Very nice get.
Thanks for the moral support. Sometimes I think I get a too esoteric about choosing why to acquire a page, and cross the line from interesting hobby to slightly deranged.
Nice to see you have a writer that sometimes guides your art collecting. Nice to have a co-conspirator with me in this line of thinking.
Stunning! Can't go wrong with a Wrightson splash page to be our introduction to your collection.
I love this great, quiet, unlined-panels page. That second panel is masterfully laid out, putting us right there on the block.
Wow! What an incredible page from the legendary Sam Kieth. That layout design makes the scene seem all the more surreal. Very nice page(s) indeed!
That's an incredible cover! JG Jones came up with a great scene, with the squares getting smaller and smaller behind Terrific, while the T-Spheres loom larger than life in the foreground. It's a great juxtaposition. The the perfect anatomy is quintessential JGJ.
Wowza! What a great cover-like page of Mr Terrific. The red "breaking out" background allows his white and black costome to really stand out. There's something about having six symetrical spheres that makes this set-up all the more logical
As the saying goes, "Play stupid games, win stupid prizes."
The conniving carnival cretins tried to run a game on Lothar, but he ruined the outcome for them.
What a great sequence to have put together. Six dailies from a classic series NINETY YEARS AGO!
The historical significance aside, this is a fun scene to read, with a ton of eye-pleasing panels. Caniff really captured the characters here, and if there was any ghosting going on, the art maintains a singular look.
Congratulations!
I remember this auction. I, too, was drawn to the incredible art and shading. Glad to see it went to a happy diehard GL home!
Aparo page with Bats, Hal and the Guardians? And a page with four large panels? Oh yeah, this is some fine collecting here. Totally awesome!
As a fellow "GL is my favorite hero" collector, who was weaned on being a comic book collector with Justice League as my favorite comic, I am both wildly excited for you and totally jealous of you for acquiring this page.
All the reasons you listed are truly reasons why this page is such an incredible get. Especially for GL buffs like us.
Congratulations! And may you hold and enjoy this page forever.
Great use of shadows, blacks and whites in these action-packed pages. There's a lot of suspense, despite the lack of words.
I think this was a 13-part story. I stumbled across a group of 7 of the pages. There is a "#1" written on the bottom left of this page. The final page of the story is labeled #13.
From what I can see in my 7 pages, Mandrake appears only on the first page, and the 13th page where he is in bed when Lothar enters the hotel room after his carnival adventure.
I'll post more pages from this story soon
The next chapter you ask? Ask and ye shall receive.
This comic strip thing is a nice side of original art collecting. Though the stories are serialized, it seems more often than in comic books, a single page tells a more complete part of the story. Or even a small story within the larger story, to give the reader a feeling of experiencing an episode instead of a single page that is so obviously incomplete.
Not a knock on original comic book pages. Just appreciating the differences between the two types of original art. And thankful the good collectors at CAF led me to widening my original art enjoyment.
Outstanding cover! This is going to be a great piece of someone's collection.
Great cover with a classic dual pose. Ethan's linework almost jumps off the page.
What a beauty of a page. Larger than normal and filled with inky blacks and white space. Congratulations on this one!!
