John91C Posted March 28, 2013 Share Posted March 28, 2013 (edited) This was the 1st OA I ever bought...got me back into comics! Purchased this at a very local comic show near where I live: Jason Metcalf DD/Batman Here's the colored print that he sells: Edited March 28, 2013 by John91C Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bird Posted March 28, 2013 Share Posted March 28, 2013 My first page is not on my CAF for some reason, but here is my first sketch ever - Paul Ryan Reed Richards. Reed's arm goes onto the back of the comic board and re-appears on the front. I remember seeing the line and thinking "Paul Ryan is doing free sketches? Why wouldn't I get one?". Ah, the innocence of youth. It was like crack, those darn dealers give it away at first and then you get hooked. (Sorry if this was not the purpose of the thread.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John91C Posted March 28, 2013 Author Share Posted March 28, 2013 Has there been a thread about 1st OA ever purchased? If not then let this be it! I would love to hear the stories and why/how you got your 1st! If it's already been done then don't worry about posting in this one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sniderwj Posted March 28, 2013 Share Posted March 28, 2013 Here is mine. I got this in an e-Bay auction for a set of Spider-Man #1's signed by McFarlane. This was listed more as an after thought. It is page 2 from the 80's Marvel Try-Out Book that Mark Bagley won to become a Marvel Artist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeroDreamer Posted March 28, 2013 Share Posted March 28, 2013 Not the best pic but the first I cam across on Photobucket. This was a standout moment for me as Andrea is my favorite character in TWD. I cheered out loud when I flipped to this page. I came across Splash Page art and that was that. You can view a better pic in my CAF gallery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeroDreamer Posted March 28, 2013 Share Posted March 28, 2013 This was the 1st OA I ever bought...got me back into comics! Purchased this at a very local comic show near where I live: Jason Metcalf DD/Batman Outsanding Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alxjhnsn Posted March 28, 2013 Share Posted March 28, 2013 My first OA purchase was Superman by Curt Swan. My grandmother passed away when I was 11 (45 years ago) and left a trust fund for her five children. Over the years, two of the kids were bought out at their request and the other three decided to dissolve the trust and distribute it since the balance was small and the costs were high. My dad had passed away by then so his 1/3 passed to his four kids - so I got 1/12 of the trust. or $1500. Not much in the OA game, but for me it was a sizable, un-budgeted windfall. My wife and I decided that I could splurge with it. Somehow, I found the Heritage OA auction site and on it were two pieces of art that I really liked - a Sugar and Spike one-page story and my Superman. Not knowing much about pricing and auctions. I bid on both pieces. As I watched the auctions, it seemed to me that I'd have no real chance on the Swan, but I might have enough for the S&S. So, though I was really sad to do it, I gave up on the Superman and bet the wad on the S&S piece. Well, when the auction was over, I saw that I'd lost the S&S piece and was really bummed. I'd bid piddling amounts on a few others and as I scrolled down my lost list something weird happened. The Superman piece was green - HA said I'd won with $15 to spare. I really and truly couldn't believe it until they invoiced me a few days later. I was thrilled. Be sure to read the description to learn more of the piece's history. It's interesting. (Click on the picture.) BTW, years later, I got my one page S&Ss story and it has paper dolls, too! Be sure to read the description. I've learned a lot about the piece. (Click on the picture.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordZarak Posted March 28, 2013 Share Posted March 28, 2013 (edited) Transformers #75 Page 33 featuring Unicron! I bought this nearly 13 years ago. I went to a Transformers convention with the intention of spending all the cash I brought on toys, and was doing a pretty good job of that. During the show, one of the convention organizers got on the PA system and announced that they had some orignal comic artwork they were selling on behalf of Geoff Senior. I was a huge fan of the Marvel Transformers comics, so I headed straight for the table, not knowing what to expect. I was second in line, and ended up getting the page you see in that link. I would buy maybe five pages over the next five years, then in 2005, I became a full-blown collector of comic art. Oh, how I wish I had more money with me and bought up all that I could as it would take 11 years for just four of the many pages offered to resurface. Edited March 28, 2013 by LordZarak Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashrael Posted March 28, 2013 Share Posted March 28, 2013 This was too cool to pass on on eBay http://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=767695 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodey Posted March 28, 2013 Share Posted March 28, 2013 First for me! Dave Ross Fantastic Four issue purchased from Toronto Comicon! [/img] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zaddick Posted March 28, 2013 Share Posted March 28, 2013 I don't have it anymore but it was a color marker Hawkman by Ken Landgraf that I got for $3 from him at a con. I wanna say 1983. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John91C Posted March 28, 2013 Author Share Posted March 28, 2013 Wow those are some amazing pieces...love the Superman one with the wrecking ball! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dumur Posted March 28, 2013 Share Posted March 28, 2013 (edited) I don't own the first page I ever owned anymore. It was a Herb Trimpe half splash from Shogun Warriors. I paid $25 for it. I think I sold it for $200. I do however, still own the second page I ever bought. Purchased directly from Doug Hazlewood. From one of my favorite indivdual comic issues ever and was so happy to get it... even more so now as pages from that run are getting very hard to find. Edited March 29, 2013 by Dumur Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cimm Posted March 28, 2013 Share Posted March 28, 2013 The Badger... my favourite 80s character... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Doyle Posted March 28, 2013 Share Posted March 28, 2013 First OA I ever bought was Al Feldstein's complete 8-page story art for '7 Year Old Genius (EC's Weird Fantasy # 7), back in September 15,1982, from Russ Cochran's # 11 Comic Art Auction: Paid the (then) pricely sum of $484.00 for the art. I no longer own the story art (traded it to Mike Burkey years ago)! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mister_not_so_nice Posted March 28, 2013 Share Posted March 28, 2013 While checking the comics section of eBay circa 1996 I would occasionally see OA listed. One day I saw PREACHER 3 page 16 listed. I ended up sniping it on a Sunday evening, shortly after 9pm . At the time a "mint" copy of the book was running $30-$40. I knew I got a bargain when I got the page for $130. It will be one of the last pages to leave my collection Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RabidFerret Posted March 29, 2013 Share Posted March 29, 2013 I got my first piece in 1998 by mail after a few phone calls back and forth to The Spider's Web out in Puyallup, WA. This was the store mentioned in the back of an early issue of Spider-Man that was co-owned by Todd McFarlane and handled all his original art. There was no scan or photo available back then. You had to wait for the guy at the shop to get the pile of art in front of him and look through it! And since I didn't have these issues with me in college, I had to go to the mall where the comic shop luckily had a trade paperback. But keep in mind you didn't have cell phones, so I had to run back and forth between the comic shop and the pay phone to call the store for descriptions since all the page numbers were different. It's a lot easier today!! Anyways, here's my first. I didn't get another piece for almost 2 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alxjhnsn Posted March 29, 2013 Share Posted March 29, 2013 Wow those are some amazing pieces...love the Superman one with the wrecking ball! Me, too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garf Posted March 29, 2013 Share Posted March 29, 2013 The Badger... my favourite 80s character... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malvin Posted March 29, 2013 Share Posted March 29, 2013 What a fun topic. I still have my first purchased published page and first sketch by an artist for me. It was at the same show and it was by Tim Sale! I still have both pages: Superman For All Seasons Page Tim Sale Quickie Wolverine Sketch Malvin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
