Great splash page!

Such a great piece by Byrne!

Yeah, it's definitely a personal favorite issue of mine!  Weezie on the bottom left is supposed to be based on Louise Simonson, but I'm not sure who else from the Marvel Bullpen appears on this spread.

Such an amazing piece!  I really loved this set of prints and it's great to see the original art.  Congrats!

Yeah, PMS pieces are few and far between, so I felt I had to reach for it in the Heritage auction.

Paul Smith's X-Men were my X-Men as Uncanny X-Men #167 was one of the first issues I bought off the spinner rack

Yes, I definitely feel luck to have won the auction for this piece.  Now I'm trying to track down a copy of The Comic Reader #167, which is somewhat hard to find because apparently it's the first appearance of The Black Cat.

LOL!  What a school where they allow students to smoke pipes...

I've always loved this piece, so I couldn't let it pass me by when it came up for auction!

Thanks!  It's definitely an amazing piece with great history.

Beautiful piece! I can't believe I missed this one in the ComicLink auction.  Congrats!

Amazing cover!  Paul Smith's work is so iconic on Uncany X-Men!

Truly iconic piece!  Congrats!

Byrne really did a great job of capturing the personalities of the characters in this piece and the facial expressions along with the interplay between some of the charters is really fun.

For what it's worth, I've probably spent way too much time staring at the page in search of Ant-Man and still haven't found him or any other hidden characters.    

Such a great cover!  Uncanny X-Men #167 was my first exposure to the New Mutants and I hunted down these early issues with great enthusiasm.  It's hard to believe that this Fall will mark the 40th anniversary of the title.  Definitely feeling old...

On a separate note, it's interesting to read that Scoop article and think about how much has changed in the original art world over the past 7 years. 

This piece and Michael Golden's 1982 "Read Marvel Comics And Stand Out In A Crowd" defnitely have similar vibes and both pieces are such great representations of the Marvel Universe during such an amazing period. 

Thanks, Steve!  This piece is definitely a dream come true for me.

I think he had touched almost every one of Marvel's major titles and characters at this point and I really came to associate Byrne's version of any character as the version of that character.  What a treat it was to be a fan in the early 80s!

Yes, the original art is remarkably detailed compared to the original published version and even the re-colored version that was published in the John Byrne Omnibus.  I'm definitely thinking about having a new color version done. 

Love this piece! Byrne's sketches from the late 70s-and early 80s are pure magic!

I've been catching up on some long-overdue scanning, so stay tuned for some additional John Byrne pieces.

The detail that John Byrne brought to his 20" x 30" pieces was really remarkable!  I recall that he joked that he should have charged by the window pane for the Fantastic Four Baxter Building commission. 

The Sentinels are my favorite opponents of the X-Men and I think that many of the X-Men's best storylines have revolved around those conflicts.  My inspiration from this piece was Mike Zeck's wraparound cover for X-Men Classics #1 (1983) and John Byrne really knocked it out of the park with his work on it!

Yeah, this piece if definitely one of my favorites. So much going on!

Stunning!

Thanks!  Salvador is amazing!

Thanks!  Love this piece!

Wow!  Absolutely gorgeous work by MC!

Such a fun piece!  I see something new every time I look at it.

We arranged the commission by email in advance of NYCC and she did it during the show.

Thanks, Jonathan. It's such a privilage to have this piece in my collection.  I'm a huge fan of Kitty Pryde, John Byrne and the X-Men overall, so I'd like to think that it's gone to a good home. All the best, James

Wow, what an experience to have bought Giant-Size X-Men #1 off the shevels when it first came out!  Were you already a serious collector at age 13 or did you just have a sense that the comic was going to be huge?

Thanks for all the kind words!  For those who are curious, I won this piece in an eBay auction a few years ago and just recently figured out how to join two scans together in Photoshop.

This was the first time that I've seen Laura at a convention, but it's also the first time I ever looked...  In any case, she lives in Italy, so I don't imagine that she does too many in the U.S.

Wow, what a treasure!  New Mutants #2 was my introduction to the series, but this piece is truly a great win!