Steven Payne
Member Since March 2005
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John Buscema - Conan the Barbarian #91 Cover, Comic Art
John Buscema - Conan the Barbarian #91 Cover
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commented posted on 3/26/2025

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!

Gil Kane Cover Prelim - Conan..., Comic Art
Gil Kane Cover Prelim - Conan...
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commented posted on 8/4/2024

Conan the Barbarian #128.

Savage Sword of Conan issue #33 page 22, Comic Art
Savage Sword of Conan issue #33 page 22
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commented posted on 6/9/2024

A really great page!

Savage Sword of Conan (Marvel, 1978) #33, Comic Art
Savage Sword of Conan (Marvel, 1978) #33
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commented posted on 6/9/2024

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

John Buscema : Amazing Spider-Man #78 pg 4, Comic Art
John Buscema : Amazing Spider-Man #78 pg 4
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commented posted on 5/10/2024

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!

GEORGE TUSKA, BILLY GRAHAM, HERO FOR HIRE # 8, page 12, Comic Art
GEORGE TUSKA, BILLY GRAHAM, HERO FOR HIRE # 8, page 12
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commented posted on 9/3/2023

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

JOHN BUSCEMA Savage Sword of Conan issue 235 page 11, Comic Art
JOHN BUSCEMA Savage Sword of Conan issue 235 page 11
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commented posted on 6/8/2023

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

Conan prelim by John Buscema, Comic Art
Conan prelim by John Buscema
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commented posted on 4/19/2023

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

Vampirella 14- Opening Splash, Comic Art
Vampirella 14- Opening Splash
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commented posted on 4/17/2023

Wow!

Alfredo Alcala CONAN splash page!, Comic Art
Alfredo Alcala CONAN splash page!
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commented posted on 4/17/2022

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 Sr. Captain America 143 p12 1971, Comic Art
Romita Sr. Captain America 143 p12 1971
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commented posted on 1/17/2022

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.

Amazing Spiderman #96 - LAST PAGE SPLASH, Comic Art
Amazing Spiderman #96 - LAST PAGE SPLASH
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commented posted on 11/15/2021

A page like this is why we collect.

Savage Sword of Conan #12 p.21 Buscema Alcala 1976, Comic Art
Savage Sword of Conan #12 p.21 Buscema Alcala 1976
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commented posted on 5/28/2021

Great page. That middle panel alone is worth it.

John Buscema  - Fantastic Four # 123, Comic Art
John Buscema - Fantastic Four # 123
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commented posted on 4/14/2021

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.

ART LOVERS by Mitchell Hooks, Comic Art
ART LOVERS by Mitchell Hooks
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commented posted on 3/22/2021

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

Conan the Barbarian #108 Recreation, Comic Art
Conan the Barbarian #108 Recreation
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commented posted on 1/5/2021

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

CREEPY issue 80, page 3, Comic Art
CREEPY issue 80, page 3
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commented posted on 12/23/2020

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

Fantastic Four #121 page 6, Comic Art
Fantastic Four #121 page 6
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commented posted on 6/3/2020

Cannot tell you how much I love this page.

Savage Sword of Conan #5 page #51 John Buscema and Tony Dezuniga, Comic Art
Savage Sword of Conan #5 page #51 John Buscema and Tony Dezuniga
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commented posted on 5/17/2020

That is sick! What a great pickup!

Buscema - Savage Sword of Conan 31 prelim, Comic Art
Buscema - Savage Sword of Conan 31 prelim
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commented posted on 5/12/2020

I still love this page!

CONAN  -  Gil KANE, Comic Art
CONAN - Gil KANE
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commented posted on 10/11/2019

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

Tomb of DRACULA #47-Birthrite:DEATH- title splash page, Comic Art
Tomb of DRACULA #47-Birthrite:DEATH- title splash page
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commented posted on 2/27/2019

Wow. Very nice.

Blackman #1 (Leader Comics, 1981) by Eric O'Kelley & Danny Loggins, Comic Art
Blackman #1 (Leader Comics, 1981) by Eric O'Kelley & Danny Loggins
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commented posted on 11/21/2018

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.

Barry Windsor-Smith 1978 “Psyche”-SOLD, Comic Art
Barry Windsor-Smith 1978 “Psyche”-SOLD
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commented posted on 5/17/2018

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

Giant-Size Conan the Barbarian #2 page 23 by Gil Kane and Tom Sutton, Comic Art
Giant-Size Conan the Barbarian #2 page 23 by Gil Kane and Tom Sutton
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commented posted on 3/21/2018

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

Avengers 94 page 1 by John Buscema and Tom Palmer (1971), Comic Art
Avengers 94 page 1 by John Buscema and Tom Palmer (1971)
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commented posted on 3/13/2018

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?

Amazing Spider-Man #99, Page 20, Comic Art
Amazing Spider-Man #99, Page 20
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commented posted on 3/11/2018

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!

Stranger in Hell-Eerie Magazine, Comic Art
Stranger in Hell-Eerie Magazine
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commented posted on 1/5/2018

That's a terrific page. Very much what made Maroto so respected. If you could only have one Maroto page I don't think you could do better than that.

Alpha Flight #5, Comic Art
Alpha Flight #5
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commented posted on 11/7/2017
comicinkking. com said:
What a coincidence. That’s where my guy was from.

Hmmmmm. Wouldn't doubt it was the same guy. Like I said, he hit a few more people before he fled from eBay. You run into it once and awhile - luckily people like that are very rare. Still, it will sting a bit here and there. Was it eBay you encountered him through?

Alpha Flight #5, Comic Art
Alpha Flight #5
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commented posted on 11/7/2017
comicinkking. com said:
Where was he based?

California, if I remember correctly. Don't remember the exact city, but it was outside of LA.

Alpha Flight #5, Comic Art
Alpha Flight #5
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commented posted on 11/5/2017
comicinkking. com said:
I used to own a bunch of pages from this book - and got them all from the same source (not your guy). In fact, I passed on a few of them (foolishly). This page was never among the bunch though - I’ve never seen it before. I’m assuming he posted a scan of the b&w art in the auction?

He did post a B&W scan of the original art. He'd sold several pages over the years on eBay, but his last few deals he seems to have conned everyone before finally voluntarily getting off the site.

GENE COLAN 1974 TOMB OF DRACULA #16 ORIGINAL ART PAGE 31 - ICONIC DRACULA IMAGE, Comic Art
GENE COLAN 1974 TOMB OF DRACULA #16 ORIGINAL ART PAGE 31 - ICONIC DRACULA IMAGE
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commented posted on 1/4/2017

Amazing page. I think we're all jealous of you.

Tomb of Dracula #3 page 5, Comic Art
Tomb of Dracula #3 page 5
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commented posted on 1/4/2017

Yeah, the atmosphere. Just amazing how Gene really gave this series the feel of an old 40's movie adaptation of Dracula. Just amazing work.

GENE COLAN 1974 TOMB OF DRACULA #16 ORIGINAL ART PAGE 31 - ICONIC DRACULA IMAGE, Comic Art
GENE COLAN 1974 TOMB OF DRACULA #16 ORIGINAL ART PAGE 31 - ICONIC DRACULA IMAGE
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commented posted on 1/4/2017

Amazing page. I think we're all jealous of you.

Vampirella #32 p62, Comic Art
Vampirella #32 p62
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commented posted on 12/20/2016

Such a terrific page.

Buscema, John/Chan, Ernie -- Conan #75, Comic Art
Buscema, John/Chan, Ernie -- Conan #75
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commented posted on 12/11/2016

I owned the page many years ago and can attest to the quality of detailed work provided by Chan's beautiful inking, and John's wonderful layout. Conan belonged to John, plain and simple.

Silver Surfer 7, pg 31, Comic Art
Silver Surfer 7, pg 31
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commented posted on 2/29/2016

Almost bit my tongue looking at this. You don't need any other Silver Surfer pages. That's as representative a page as you could ever need.

Grailpages cover, Comic Art
Grailpages cover
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commented posted on 2/13/2016
Dietmar Krueger said:
Still a fantastic book!

Thank you so much! It's still a fantastic hobby!

Daredevil 92, page 5, Comic Art
Daredevil 92, page 5
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commented posted on 11/5/2015

I'm so jealous, Lee! I'm going to stop banging my head against the wall now. Great page!

Marvel Super Heroes #15 1968 - , Comic Art
Marvel Super Heroes #15 1968 -
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commented posted on 9/11/2015

Oh, that's a really nice page. I saw the page at a convention years ago for sale. Wish I'd gotten it. Great capture!

Tomb of Dracula #5, page 12, Comic Art
Tomb of Dracula #5, page 12
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commented posted on 9/1/2015

What a terrific page by Gene (are there any that aren't?). Congrats, Erik.

Creepy nº 51 pag 40 Deja Vu pag 6, Comic Art
Creepy nº 51 pag 40 Deja Vu pag 6
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commented posted on 9/1/2015

Terrific!

Silver Surfer Splash - framed, Comic Art
Silver Surfer Splash - framed
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commented posted on 2/25/2015

Wow. Great.

Daredevil 94, page 6, Comic Art
Daredevil 94, page 6
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commented posted on 2/24/2015

Very nice, Lee. This is the DD that I love, and the only Widow that I know. Terrific art by 2 artists at their collaborative best.

Gene Colan Medusa Marvel Super-Heroes # 15, Comic Art
Gene Colan Medusa Marvel Super-Heroes # 15
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commented posted on 2/7/2015

A wonderful page. I saw it up close a couple of years ago - I believe Albert Moy had it - and like a dummy I didn't buy it. Great page!

Creepy#51
Creepy#51 "Deja Vu" pg5
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commented posted on 12/20/2014

Very nice page. Maroto was so good at drawing women - he rivaled Gonzalez. Terrific page. I'm jealous.

THE AVENGERS #93 PG 13 BY NEAL ADAMS & TOM PALMER, Comic Art
THE AVENGERS #93 PG 13 BY NEAL ADAMS & TOM PALMER
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commented posted on 12/4/2014

I'm not going to even try and say anything clever. This is just a great page. Neal did some of his best work on the Avengers. That sequence is one I so remember and love. Terrific piece for your collection.

Jose Gonzales Vampirella, Comic Art
Jose Gonzales Vampirella
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commented posted on 9/16/2014

Beautiful. Gonzalez really deserves so much more attention than he gets. I saw this page up close when I was buying the Gonzalez I have, and really admired the detail he put into the work. That's a great pickup.