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!

http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryRoom.asp?GSub=19591

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

I don't even collect pages that don't have lettering on them and this pencils on one page and inks on the other are making it even worse. There's so many good pages out there that are pencilled/inked/lettered that I couldn't be bothered with any of the new pages that are missing all of these elements. The tough thing with this is getting art by new guys. I'd love to have an Humberto Ramos page but I don't think I've seen any that are pencilled/inked and lettered so I'll never have a page. Same thing with Chris Bachalo although he has some older stuff that hopefully will have lettering on the page other than Shade and Steampunk (I hope). -Tom

I just paid for this and don't have it in hand yet but it's my 2nd Cosmic Odyssey page and I'm very happy to get it. Anyone else have any they would like to sell me?

Oh my god! That is just beautiful! Nice pickups for sure.

Hey cool, I'm glad you got it. I love the layout of that first panel.

I got these today. I've been waiting for them for awhile as John's rep Jim Warden was getting the pages signed for me from John Byrne and I got one of the pages personalized too. Both pages are pencilled/inked/lettered by John. As a fan of New Gods stuff and The Demon, I was very happy to get these. Jim Warden is the best art rep I've dealt with time and again. and

Nice pickup! I love Mignola's work.

I really like the use of the white silhouette in panel 3 and then the tones in the last panel. Nice page!

Ok now that I'm home I get the X here but can see the CAF page. Man that's a sweet page!

I see a red X here and at the CAF link.

One day I'll get a decent Secret Wars page of my own. sigh Very nice addition to your collection Ares. Did you get the overlay too?