Cool sketch! James' finished works are awesome, but I like his sketches and preliminary works almost as much

What a fine example of Hogarth's mastery.The swirling water, the body in motion and the camera pulling in,  out and then in again to a single face in the last panel. Really love this one 

Fun concept and great execution! Jeremy does it again

I love these drawings Michael did for Elric. Congrats on getting a nice example. 

A fine example of Vess' talent. The subject matter is perfect for his style

Great example of her prodigious talent 

Wow, this is a great one. 

So glad this played out just the way it should have! Great cover going into a great collection. Congratulations 

A great Ketcham! I have one from a few months later, but still in the first year that I love. Ketcham had such a disctinctive ink line, especially in his early work and it is shown off well here. 

Since I am a Scorpio, I picked up the preliminary for this piece several years ago. Still hope to get a nice finished Finlay though, especially a black and white piece tha shows off his line work and stippling technique. 

My own example is from just a few months later and I love it dearly, but honestly, Foster was pretty great every single year of the strip. As others have mentioned, the contrast of the humor in Aleta's ski accident and the hushed menace of the bear lurking in the thicket is really top notch and shows how it was not just the art, but also the writing and pacing that made this strip such a classic of the form. Hope I will have the chance to see it in person some day. 

nice drawing Robert-good choice

Love this George! Hilarious and beautifully drawn too!

Nice early example. Raboy was a great follow up on this strip and kept it at a high level his entire run. 

Love McCay. Nice little Sammy drawing including a sneeze! 

You're on a roll with this daily Micah! Two classic Raymond gals, moody shadows and great decisions on dark, light and mixed panels to keep the eye moving. 

Great example Micah! 1940 was a great year for Terry strips. Love the shadows in that 3rd panel and the way he uses the parachute and its shadow in the first panel frames the characters. 

I bought the other two of the three flying heads that Jeremy posted. This one is cool too! 

Not a bit surprised by how awesome this is. Tyler is definitely bringing the heat

I have a similar piece-I wonder how many preliminaries he did for the painted cover. I know he loved to do lots of drawings before getting to the final piece 

I love how Severin sets off the deep blue/purple tones on the outside of the image with the pop of red on the jacket 

Great example of Marie Severin's color work on a classic EC cover. 

Great image. Truman really captures the character well 

The framing was all Thom Trainor. He had a great eye for framing in particular. I bought this from him a few years before he passed. Man I miss that guy. 

Glad I jumped on this train myself. Simmonds really seems to be coming into his own right now. I spoke to him for quite a while at the show and his talent is undeniable as this and other things he did at the show or were in his portfolio show so well.

Great get-not as epic as the piece I got from you of course, but that was too high a bar!! 

I like this one a ton. The direct look at the characters seems organic rather than forced as happens often when artists want to show characters face forward but the action would imply otherwise. 

Yeah, love this to death Chuck! great piece  of a great singer 

I just got the alternate version of this that wasnt used. Its super interesting to see the differences in the final piece here. in the one I have, the panel with the cat is replaced by a panel with a man on his back with the lifted open hand that appears in final version in the second panel with the alley. That alley panel has no hand in the unused version. Tim  also changed the girl on the stairwell and made the girl in the lower panel a blonde rather than a brunette. The other panels really have only subtle differences in the inking rather than changing the compositions or characters

I framed it immediately(again, my parents paid for that) and though I have reframed it, otherwise it has hung everywhere I've lived for now close to 50 years. Definitely a keeper! 😜

cool pages! I snatched up a page from this story a few years back. Such an interesting pairing of artists. 

A fine example from a stellar run. 

half a century later, Bode's stuff is still awesome-what a tragedy he left us so early. 

I had Mike on a panel I did at Dragon con and in preparation I read 30 plus issues of Warlord-and I sure remember this cool cover!

Damn George, that is one exquisite piece of comic art and comic history wrapped in a very sweet bow indeed. 

Now that is one sweet remarque. 

Wow, great piece! Love his style and of course appreciate you putting me onto his work at Heroes! 

Wood was so good and so versatile. War, Science Fiction, Humor, Horror-he could do it all and do it as well as anyone who specialized in just one genre. Great example of his mastery of the form. 

This is a great image that shows off Adam's skill in both design and drawing beautiful women in action. Congratulations! 

I love this one to death! Had a notecard with this image that I framed when I was a teenager 

What a cool fight page. I have the splash for this story that leads straight into this fight. 

Love this one John! 

Another lovely addition to an excellent collection. Hard to go wrong with Jeremy. 

Wow, great early page! Love it 

A fine example! Of course the Dragon Lady is always interesting and that shadow of Slits behind her seals the deal! The down shot in the second panel also adds visual interest to the conversation panels that precede it. 

I didnt realize our pages matched up so well Jared. I have the three pages preceding this one and you have three of the next four. Lets get together and make an artist edition, eh? ;-) 

 Very cool Jared! I'm getting my first piece by him (on the secondary market) soon! 

I love these PS art pieces by Eisner. I had heard that most had been destroyed by the army, but have seen several come onto the market in the past two or three years, almost all from Europe. His double entendre's with sexy girls used for lessons about machine maintenance are an interesting time capsule

Another winner Ben. Great example of why Coll is considered at or near  the top of the heap in pen and ink illustration of this period

Glad it found a good home, even if the home wasnt mine! 

Eranga Devasurendra. I thought I had filled that in!