I'm so happy for you Eric! Congratulations on adding this wonderful companion to your PCR collection!!!

Wow, that's a great one!!!

Love this hyper detailed style from Ramos. Great cover! Congrats, thanks for sharing!

Hi Timothy, thanks for the comment. The piece arrived, and as you can see I've removed it from the frame, and you can now see more of it! Enjoy!

Excellent!!! This pops! Classic book!

Lovely piece, had the pleasure of having it on my wall for a bit. Congrats, and thanks for shairing!

Love this one! Congrats, and thanks for sharing!

Holy Crap!!! That's awesome, I am overjoyed for you! So did it just show up on your door step one day, or did they email notifiy you that they had found it? Either way, congrats on the happy ending!

Stellar! My first event! Cut my teeth on these books. Great to see this! Thanks for sharing!

ASM #277 was my first ASM book, and this is a wonderful homage to that memorable story from Vess! Love it! Congrats, thanks for sharing!

REally!?! White on white... that's an imppressive painting! Congrats, and thanks for sharing!

Oh!!!! So excellent! Congrats, and thanks for sharing!

I was so excited about it I posted prior to receiving it. I just received it yesterday, and had to come back and update the size from 22inches to 24inches. It is exquisite, and anyone who tells you size doesn't matter simple hasn't seen a larger piece. I love this piece! Frame is on order!

I see you're correct. Oddly enough on the series page they only have six covers total, 3 variants for #1, and the 2-4, that's where I was looking. https://www.comics.org/series/206340/covers/  regardless, it's a published variant, no matter GCD's information. 

Totally agree with your Andrews comment. Loving the 90’s vibe, and the size was definitely a factor!

Actually, they only list 3 variants for this issue. The other covers they have listed are issues 2-4... they're missing half a dozen variants for issue #1!!!

This is at Heritage currently... curious what the difference will be?

Jack O'Lantern, not Hobgoblin; but it looks great!

Killer rendition, you're super fast in jumping on these great reditions by Andrews', kinda jealous!

Love this! Congrats, thanks for sharing!

"The Romitas" Nuff said!

I hate you... I'm mean congratulations... grumble, grumble. 

Outstanding! Congrats, and thanks for sharing!

He squeezed a lot of greatness into that smaller than usual cover! Congrats, and thanks for sharing!

That's exquisite! Congratulations, and thanks for sharing!

Thick Wolvie, is best Wolvie! Congrats, and thanks for sharing!

Sweet, love his teeth!

Really intriguing piece! Congratulations and thanks for sharing!

That's exquisite! Congratulations and thanks for sharing!

Hmmm, I'll have to think about that. Thanks for sharing the option. 

Underbidder here, congrats!

That last panel is forever ingrained in Spidey's psyche, and mine!!! Congrats on adding this set of monumental pages to your collection, and thanks for sharing! 

Wow! Epic aquisition! Just a wonderful piece! Congrats, and thanks for sharing!

From my first issue of ASM... love Vess' Spidey! Congrats, and thanks for sharing!

I found a link to the pencils to the other recreation, can't find an inked version, didn't save anything from the other auction. You can see he rotated the sword in King Arthur's hand in the one I saw. I should of noticed yours was different, or in actuality was more like the original in that regard. I see a 3 in the top right of yours, so perhaps this is the 3rd recreation, or 3rd overall Alan as done. I don't know; but it is oh so pretty! Congrats again.

http://marvel1980s.blogspot.com/2016/11/1988-excalibur-poster-by-alan-davis-and.html

The other from Ebay was a recreation/reinterpreation as well. RGL had it done in the early 2000's before he aquired the Original Sword is Drawn Poster Art which he still owns. So you had this done and acquired it directly from Alan recently, cool! It's gorgeous!

So I have some cursory history with this piece, and it is in large part responsible for my 3 consecutive Excalibur Davis pages from the Excalibur Special #1. I spotted this on Ebay in the Spring of 2021 for an unreachable (for me) buy it now amount, it went unsold, and I reached out the seller, to see if we could come to a deal at a lower price. We weren't able to; but it sent me down the rabbit whole of looking all over CAF/Heritage etc. for Davis Excalibur art to justify a lower price, and or just ogle his beautiful work. In doing so I realized that RGL was selling his collection of Davis's Excalibur Special #1 pages, and while this amazing recreation/reinterpreation was far outside my means, I was able to manage some pages from the Special with RGL's willingness to accept time payments. Even ended up with 3 consecutive eventually, after securing one via Auction the following year. And so, seeing and failing to add this magnificent Davis, led me to my beautiful Davis Excalibur examples I now have. Small world. Congrats, and enjoy this stellar piece from Davis!

It's a pleasure to see this after having heard of it when we were recently able to have lunch together. Love Jonathan's work, and this is another great example from him. I dig the cat... pretty sure he's a cat owner, and that's no doubt his. Either way, great piece. Congrats, and thanks for sharing Eric!

Stellar example from an epic, and influential book. Definitely my favorite X-Men story. Check out my gallery for a rather finished color prelim to the cover. Congrats, and thanks for sharing!

So nice! Loved Lightle's Classic X-Men works! Congrats, and thanks for sharing!

"... Wolverine goes through extremes to get a good tan." Hilarious! lol Great page from a classic run/issue! Congrats, and thanks for sharing!

I truly expected this to dwarf the recent record price that the first Spider-Man symbiote costume appearance set. It seemed on track to do just that; but I was really surprised when it finally went live and there were barely any additional bids, and while it's kinda hard to call the end price on this a "deal", I honestly feel like it was, all things considered. So congrats on a relative "deal" on an amazingly historic piece from what I consider the greatest Batman story ever told.

Jim and Scotts run on X-Men is legendary; but this issue was particularly special. Very Memoral page with Wolvie kicking that Nazi through the car window. Lovely addition, congrats, and thanks for sharing!

Lovely, congrats, and thanks for sharing!

INsaNeLY gOOd!!! Wow, what an epic undertaking! So, so nice... congrats, and thanks for sharing!

Stubby claws are best claws... lovely rendition, thanks for sharing.

Fun cover! Congrats, and thanks for sharing!

Congrats to you Gil! Thanks for sharing!

FASTBALL SPECIAL for the win!!! Congrats Oli! Thanks for sharing!

Size matters... exquisite! Congrats, and thanks for sharing!