Thomas

Patience is a virue Thomas. You may get that piece on day.

The cover from G.I.Joe #27 by Mike Golden is the one piece I wish I could own and/or wish I knew where it was. It was the first comic I can remember reading as a kid in school and what got me hooked on reading comics. I'd also consider any interior page from G.I.Joe #27 by Frank Springer but there's one page with Storm Shadow on top of the train that I really like. Another would be the G.I. Joe Yearbook #1 cover, again by Golden. The covers to Web of Spider-Man #1 (Vess) or #4 (Byrne). Any Cosmic Odyssey art. That stuff is few and far between. I only know of two pages for sale, one is way overpriced and the other has an awful (coffee?) stain on it. Alternatively I've been trying pretty unsuccessfully to acquire an Aragones Groo page. You'd think this wouldn't be too hard but I haven't seen too many come up for sale.

Wow, that's awesome!

It's by Paul Smith and my guess is that it's a commission. A very nice commission.

That's an awesome first piece. I hemmed and hawed at it for a long time while it was for sale. Early origins of 2 of DC's greatest heroes can't be beat and the DPS helps as well! Great start for sure.

wow thats nice ! congrats Thank you! I've got to find some time to go and get it framed now.

I have been looking forward to getting this page and it finally came in the mail today. My first painted page and I love it. It's on thick illustration board and signed by Matt Busch, Anthony Daniels and Kenny Baker.

You already know that I think it's a great page!

Just came in today from Jim Warden, a great page from Generations!

http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryRoom.asp?GSub=19591 sweet! I don't know why, but I really like the Byrne's Darkseid stuff. Obviously so do I. We have good taste!

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Hey nice! I was watching them and was going to try for them but in the end figured I already had enough Byrne Darkseid pages. They're great pages for sure!

Well I wanted a McFarlane page for a long time but can't afford the prices his Spidey stuff fetches so when I saw this Infinity inc. page I thought it would be a good opportunity to get a page of his art. I think a lot of his early style definitely shows through on this page and it's large art at 13"x19" so I am very happy with adding it to my collection.

Personally for me, neither. If I had to pick, I'd want the piece used in the published book hands down. Otherwise it's relatively easy to acquire non published art and have duplicates of it. By that I mean blue line pencils are fairly easy to acquire online http://www.artofjohnbyrne.com/pencilscans.html (as an example) and then commission an inker to ink those blue line pages and you can have that page in your collection but so does someone else. Then you're back to a commodity which is relatively widespread and more common than a one of a kind piece which is part of the allure to collecting OA to me. I want the hand of the penciller on the page I purchase. I want to know it was on his board and he worked on it. I really wanted a Kirby page from Super Powers until I found out they're all lightboxed and I'm not too terribly interested in owning a pencils only page so that's another page I'll never own. -Tom

My brother actually ended up buying some Spidey pages by Glapioninks on ebay and the auctions were very vague about whether they were inks only lightboxed pages. My brother found out and went back to Glapion and asked about it and he tried to pawn it off since the auction never stated there were any original pencils in there and pretty much said too bad. I think he let his daughter colour one of the pages actually. hehe -Tom