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Happy New Year, Shipmates! I just posted prices for my 2019 New Year's Sale: https://www.comicartfans.com/galleryroom.asp?gsub=195027 Featuring artwork by: Bob Brown/Dave Cockrum: unused Uncanny X-men splash from Cockrum's historic first run (1975-1977) Jack Kirby: golden age art and Darkseid page Gene Colan (pencils) and Bill Everett (inks): large art 1966 Tales To Astonish page with Subby and the Hulk Bernie Wrightson: Swamp Thing artwork Frank Thorne: Sally Forth cover with nude Sally Jeffrey Catherine Jones: large, stunning fantasy oil Bill Sienkiewicz: Moon Knight action page from Bill's first long-form MK job in Marvel Preview #21 Adam Hughes: two action pages with sexy villainess Paul Gulacy: cheeky double page spread with Barb Wire's first appearance John Buscema/Ernie Chan: Conan splash Colan/Sinnott 1969 Captain America #118 page from the first Falcon/Red Skull/Cosmic Cube storyline Enjoy the unique artwork, take some home... let it cleanse you... THRILL YOU!! Heed me! Pax, Sean

I faced this same situation, except with a cover that had a central figure statted up, rather than down. I asked Robert Dennis to affix the statted figure to a hinged mylar overlay. So now I can enjoy the art both ways.

Bernie's art from Swamp Thing Deja VU is still available... I'm considering offers!

Sold!

SOLD!

Kevin did not hose the people who bought his art, he was/is one of us. I am left with the feeling that there is some salient information left out of your post... what two pieces of art did you buy? I probably admired them many times, if they were hanging at Words and Pictures. I think that the gargoyles are still on the Northampton, MA building that used to be W&P... I'll have to look next time I'm on that side of the bridge.

Thanks for the clarifying information, Mitch! So, the provenance of this little heap of art is Bernie Wrightson-> Kevin Eastman-> myself. I was a regular at Kevin's wonderful Words and Pictures Museum in nearby Northampton, MA while it was there. When circumstances lead to it closing, I ran into one of the museum staff... a local guy I knew named Phil Straub... and asked him if Kevin was keeping his impressive art holdings after closing W&P. Phil said "He's selling a bunch of it," which was staggering news. I called Kevin's assistant Fiona who let me know that some of the EC art I was interested in had gone to you a few days earlier. I called you and discovered that Williamson/Frazetta/Krenkel's "Mad Journey" had sold the previous day. I could have retired from the hobby had I been in time to secure that story! James Halperin has it now. You still had Woody's "You Rocket" and "A Baby" and most of "Hungnam", and some Jack Davis and other stuff. "You Rocket" is still here safe and sound, but I obviously should have done whatever it took to acquire "A Baby" (which, thankfully is still intact with another collector). Thanks!

Thanks, Catwoman_Fan! I purchased this story about twenty years ago from a famous artist/collector... I'm not sure if he purchased it from Bernie and Liz, though, or via another collector. The plot for the second and third issues (never drawn, as far as I know) involved Swampy resuming his time traveling to make right the unintended negative effects of his time traveling adventures in Book One. My guess is that no full -script exists, otherwise Bernie wouldn't have included the extensive margin notes in Book One clarifying each sequence and suggesting dialogue.

Thanks, Will! Much obliged!

Thanks, NoMan! Here's some additional information graciously offered by a fellow collector recently: "Here are the two things I remember reading in interviews, but I don't recall off the top of my head the magazines that I read the statements in. 1). A Wrightson interview in which he says that "Deja Vu" was turning out to be the best Swamp Thing story he ever did, and he took full responsibility for not finishing it and he even apologized to Len Wein in that interview for dropping the ball on the project. 2). A Jim Starlin interview in which he talked about his collaborations with Wrightson (Punisher, Batman: The Cult, Hulk/Thing GN, Weird mini). He mentioned that they both lived outside of New York and were in fact neighbors. Starlin was able to visit Wrightson on regular basis and always provided encouragement every time he saw Wrightson making progress on one of their projects. At the time, Wrightson was also supposed to have been working on "Deja Vu", but the projects didn't have a deadline and DC editorial took a hands off approach and didn't press Wrightson for new pages. After a while, Wrightson got so involved on the other projects that did have deadlines (Starlin's hands on management worked) that he just didn't have time to work on Swamp Thing. Regretfully as a result, "Deja Vu" never materialized."

Hello friends, For the first time, I've uploaded all 45 pages of Bernie Wrightson's pencil art for "Swamp Thing: Deja Vu" for your enjoyment and purchase consideration: http://www.comicartfans.com/galleryroom.asp?gsub=16017 Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson reunited in the mid-1980s for a return engagement on Swamp Thing. "Deja Vu" was to be a three issue, fully painted prestige format comic. Combining elements of their original conception and Alan Moore's revamp, Len Wein said that Deja Vu was one of the best things he'd ever written. Bernie completed the initial pencils, and was working on refining some tight pencil pages (see page five here) in advance of the painting process, when he had an existential crisis and decided that you can never go home again... shelving the project. Deja Vu is an amazing story, and it's all here, readable in Bernie's art and margin notes. The first half of the story has fun, even joyous adventure elements. The second half revisits Swamp Thing's origin from 1972 from a new perspective, and the plot takes a poignant and emotional turn, as horror and violence elements follow the pathos arising in the middle of the book. Truly great stuff, and worth reading in its entirety, even if you're not interested in following my twenty year caretaker position by adding the story to your collection, and being its caretaker for the next twenty years. As this story has been kept together for thirty years, my goal is to keep Deja Vu intact and sell it together as one book. I paid $250 per page for this art in the 1990s. I'm taking offers starting at $555 a page in 2018 (IE $25K for the whole book). That's pretty good for Wrightson Swampy art, and an opportunity to add a piece of history to your collection! Time payments are an option. Pax, Sean

Hello friends, For the first time, I've uploaded all 45 pages of Bernie Wrightson's pencil art for "Swamp Thing: Deja Vu" for your enjoyment and purchase consideration: http://www.comicartfans.com/galleryroom.asp?gsub=16017 Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson reunited in the mid-1980s for a return engagement on Swamp Thing. "Deja Vu" was to be a three issue, fully painted prestige format comic. Combining elements of their original conception and Alan Moore's revamp, Len Wein said that Deja Vu was one of the best things he'd ever written. Bernie completed the initial pencils, and was working on refining some tight pencil pages (see page five here) in advance of the painting process, when he had an existential crisis and decided that you can never go home again... shelving the project. Deja Vu is an amazing story, and it's all here, readable in Bernie's art and margin notes. The first half of the story has fun, even joyous adventure elements. The second half revisits Swamp Thing's origin from 1972 from a new perspective, and the plot takes a poignant and emotional turn, as horror and violence elements follow the pathos arising in the middle of the book. Truly great stuff, and worth reading in its entirety, even if you're not interested in following my twenty year caretaker position by adding the story to your collection, and being its caretaker for the next twenty years. As this story has been kept together for thirty years, my goal is to keep Deja Vu intact and sell it together as one book. I paid $250 per page for this art in the 1990s. I'm taking offers starting at $555 a page in 2018 (IE $25K for the whole book). That's pretty good for Wrightson Swampy art, and an opportunity to add a piece of history to your collection! Time payments are an option. Pax, Sean

Some tempting and tasty pages... they should be gone soon!

Hello friends, Here's more art by Jack Kirby: It's an all-Darkseid page 15 from "On the Road to Armagetto" from New Gods #12, with inks by Mike Royer. Needless to say, Jack's pencils are on the page, it's not lightboxed. Here's the page in color, as printed: The art is in the coolest frame I've seen in our hobby! It's in a floating frame with a facsimile of Jack's signature cut into the outer matte: It's a long story that you might already know, but On the Road to Armagetto was not published as Jack planned (with a final page blurb reading "Next: The Hunger Dogs"), but repurposed by DC into the Hunger Dogs graphic novel. This Kirby/Royer page was included as drawn here, without modifications by additional inkers D. Bruce Berry and Greg Theakston. Price is $6500 or best offer. Drop me a line... SO YOU MAY LIVE WITH THE MAJESTY THAT IS THE POWER OF DARKSEID!