*paull*

Hahaha... Don't know why Jim denied it, he's happy to claim credit for his work. Milt used a Jim Steranko illustration for the cover of his book!

STERANKO NOIR, published in 2002, is still the most comprehensive book on Steranko to date. There are no books with Jim's participation on the horizon. As his fans know, he wants to design his own work, and nothing has been mentioned. We aren't doing to see anything like this anytime soon. The book was a limited edition of 3,000 copies. A subset of those were signed by Steranko. This copy is signed. In VFNM condition with original slipcase. This book includes a ton of images including some published for the first time: AT THE EDGE OF ETERNITY from Superman 400 in glorious B&W, the entire CHANDLER: RED TIDE in black & white, portion of Dante's Inferno (story intended for Marvel following his AT THE STROKE OF MIDNIGHT, but never published), his DRACULA concept paintings, and portions of his Outland adaption in black & white. This book is beyond awesome. From the publisher: The massive book incorporates eleven detailed chapters of behind-the-scenes stories, historic documentation, personal anecdotes, and analytical insights about the controversial artist-writer-performer, and is annotated by J. David Spurlock and Angel de la Calle, with additional essays scribed especially for the book by a host of internationally-renowned authors, critics, and pop-culture writers, including Michael Chabon, the Pulitzer-Prize winning novelist of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. STERANKO: ARTE NOIR is the largest and most comprehensive collection of the controversial creator's work ever published, packed with classic, new, and rare art, including hundreds of color and black & white images spanning the full range of his career-from comics to book covers, trading cards to limited-edition prints, film production illustrations to movie posters-many never before compiled in book form. The hefty 8" x 10" volume features 200 pages of Steranko visual magic in a high-quality, perfect-bound deluxe format, printed on 80-pound coated matte stock with a heavy, full-color, laminated card stock cover with flaps, and housed in a hard-surfaced leatherette, crimson-foil embossed slipcase. Each copy has been personally autographed by Steranko. In July, 2001, Steranko was Guest of Honor at Spain's gala Semana Negra festival of the arts, a multi-cultural event, which ran for ten days and showcased the largest exhibition of his work ever shown in Europe, with well over 1,000,000 in attendance. In addition to functioning as a career retrospective, STERANKO: ARTE NOIR, sponsored by the Gijon Museum of Modern Art, also served as the show's exhibition catalog and was produced with bilingual text throughout. All text in both English and Spanish. $200 shipped to US address SOLD!

In 1970, Jim served as the model for a lurid magazine titled TRUE MYSTERY DETECTIVE. Staying somewhat within character here, Jim sports a .38 in one hand and a lady in the other. Very scarce magazine. This copy has a spine separation and a price in ink on the cover, but otherwise in VG condition. $75 shipped to US address NOW $65 shipped in the US

I have a few scarce Steranko items to list. Please let me know if you have any questions! takes it. No probies, listers or hobos __________________ UNSEEN SHADOWS - Jim Steranko (Supergraphics, 1978) This scarce book details Steranko's multi-year odyssey to illustrate the 27 different painted covers that he created for the Shadow paperback series between 1975 and 1978. Completely written, designed, illustrated and published by Steranko in 1978. This is a seldom seen gem. Unseen Shadows contains 50 pages of pencilled prelims for each cover, some paintings have multiple prelims. Not reprinted in any other volume! A beautiful book for a fan of Steranko's amazing Shadow paintings. Full color covers with b&w interiors. Includes text by Jim about the Shadow paperback paintings... didn't include photos of the text pages here. Cardstock cover with tanning on inside of cover (typical of this book due to paper quality). Pages are in excellent condition and are not tanned at all. Only the slightest edge wear. Cover colors are beautiful. VFNM condition. Killer book! $125 shipped to US address SOLD! \

This copy is greener than most or all that I've seen, mine included. Very nice!

I LOVE this! Great splash page! I wish Marvel would reprint all of these stories inked by Fox. Or if I could find a bunch of dirty, coverless copies that I could make into a bound volume!

Same here, I would never part with mine, even with it being in very low grade. It's a must have classic cover PCH book. One of the first that really grabbed my attention.

This is a really tough book... it took me quite a while to find my low grade copy about twenty years ago. Even when printed small in the CBG auctions of the 90s or in Gerber, it was very striking. It's been a highly-desirable classic cover for a long time.

Anyone know where it is today? How much did Mr. Turnbull pay for it originally from Golden?

Anyone have a Pat Boyette-signed book?

Finally someone posted my favorite final issue cover! Love this one.

Super work. I need to look up other covers he colored himself.

That Battle Action #15 is a great looking copy, but I'm really impressed by the coloring of this cover. It's next-level quality in a world of mostly mediocre color work at the time.

This is great news.... I just wrote Twomorrows to get the contact info of the author to see if he is interested in including additional material. If anyone has anything unusual that they would like to share, please let me know.

Hideous and shameful.

The art that Jim Steranko did for Nick Fury: Agent of Shield in both Strange Tales and the solo series electrified me when I first saw it in my teens. And it still has the same power over me. I can't say that about all comic book artists or art, but each time I flip through one of these books, I marvel at the skill, precision, storytelling and rule breaking. It's some of the best work ever done in comics.

Super! I wish we could have a reprint volume of all these Lieber/Fox. Too small an audience, I'm sure. Low grade copies of the books will still be too costly for me to get them all.

Printed cover looks good, but the original painting is sublime.

Wow... what a fantastic book. Super!

Does anyone own a book signed by Harry Chesler?

A few more... any books signed by the following? Jack Cole Di*k Briefer Bernard Baily William Gaines Jerry Iger Harry Chesler

The color in this Alex Schomburg painting is just awesome. I've seen pulp/digest covers by him that were nice, but this is really exceptional.

I tried to come up with some really tough ones. I think that if these signatures existed, they might have been artist to a friend or artist to a family member. Good point about Hollingsworth. He was a terrific artist, and very innovative. He did some very unusual page compositions.

This is an uncommon signature. I met Jay Disbrow around 20 years ago at a NY show. Very nice man. I asked him to sign the splash page to his story using the name he used at the time, Jay, instead of Jayson which he used for the rest of his career. I bought a colored sketch from him as well.

And a real rarity... a huge oversized magazine (LIFE Magazine sized) published by Hillman Periodicals in 1939 to bring awareness of the crisis in Europe. Brutal imagery... I can't believe this was on a newsstand.