John doing his favorite character at the peak of his career inking his own work. You're not going to get better than that. Congrats!

Conan the Barbarian #128.

A really great page!

That's a great page! You've earned my envy.

That's a great page! Those issues that Buscema worked on with Romita/Mooney were an amazing time in that book's history. Congrats on the page!

That's a great page! Very evocative of Luke's world.

A really, really nice page from late in John's career. Can't get better pencils and inks than that.

Great prelim - it's from Savage Sword of Conan #235.

Wow!

What a beautiful page, one I've always wanted. I feel your pain. I sold a couple of Buscema/Alcala pages I wish I'd just kept.

Romita drawn and Romita inked. You can't go much better than that. Romita was definitely one of the better artists at Marvel - he had a lot of realism in his work, and enough of the comic book to make it perfect for the medium. John could draw Black people very well, with the look of some of the characters from the Black action films of the time. Second best at drawing attractive women behind John Buscema. And a hell of an art director as well.

A page like this is why we collect.

Great page. That middle panel alone is worth it.

That's a great page from the end of one of my favorite Galactus sagas. I'm sure it's a prize in your collection.

Love the bit of backstory on that. Love Hooks, McGinnis, that whole style of art.

Wow and wow again. The start of my favorite Captain America arc, and a great all around cover.

This is great, Bob! One of 2 Conan covers by John I remember you inking.

That's a terrific page! Very 'Maroto'-ish. Great acquisition!

Those indeed were the good old (sane) days. But, there's always that thing about art being essentially worthless beyond the value placed on it. Still, I wouldn't have minded snagging a cover or two back then. I fondly remember the X-Men page I bought from John Byrne for $50.

Cannot tell you how much I love this page.

That is sick! What a great pickup!

I still love this page!

Beautiful page.

Absolutely stunning.

Wow. Not much more needs to be said. Gil very much loved the character and, well, just wow.

Wow. Very nice.

Interesting, many years ago the creator of this title was trying to raise funding to make this into a film. This was some time during the 80's.

I'm supposed to say something eloquent, I know. I'm a writer. So, here goes; wow!

These are great! Sutton was actually a great choice as an inker for Kane on this. That whole sequence is amazing.

Love your (accurate) description! And that's a great page. John stepped in last minute when the previous artist was falling behind schedule on the book and knocked it out of the park. That was a terrific storyline - how to really do an epic Avengers tale - and sported some of the best artistic work of all involved, from Sal at the beginning up to his brother at the end. If comics looked and read as good now I'd probably still be reading them. And how could anyone go wrong under Tom Palmer's inks?

That is great! Terrific story. Glad you got a page from your first comic. There is something special to getting pages from either your first or favorite comic. Happy you were able to achieve that goal!