Post your favorite owned OA and a pic of your "Holy Grail" 4 4

[MagnusX]

The favorite piece in my collection is a Batman vs. Predator Cover by Paul Gulacy,
and the one I would love to own is the Batman #423 McFarlane Cover...

 

[alxjhnsn]

My favorite piece is clearly my Curt Swan Superman (click to embiggen).

I'm not sure that I have a grail beyond this, but I think the pages that I would want the most are probably:

The splash to the first comic I ever read. My brother and I poured over this trying figure out who everyone was and what they did. I do have a page from that comic. You can see it here. Yes, I'd like this more than the cover.

There are four others that I would be especially happy to own.  The original to the 2nd Legion Index is in David Mandel's CAF. Sigh...  

I might be a Legion of Super-Heroes fan as well as a Curt Swan fan.

Edited July 4, 2018 by alxjhnsn

[Svendog]

Well, I didn’t know it was a grail until I saw it but this bad boy thanks to none other than Kwan the man ??

My ‘want’ list is any Seven To eternity original art. 

Im obsessed 

[Sooners151]

Owned - Love McFarlane, love Wolvie

 

 

Grail of grails - can I borrow a half mil??  (have no idea if that's what it would go for)

Sandman #1 art box / cover

 

 

Edited July 5, 2018 by Sooners151

[Blastaar]

12 minutes ago, Sooners151 said:

Owned - Love McFarlane, love Wolvie

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anyone else read this panel in their head using the voice of Clint Eastwood in Unforgivin?

 

 

[Kwan Chang]

1 hour ago, Sooners151 said:

Grail of grails - can I borrow a half mil??  (have no idea if that's what it would go for)

Sandman #1 art box / cover

 

 

Trust me. if you had a half mil.  the current owner would sell it to you !

[Sooners151]

2 minutes ago, Kwan Chang said:

Trust me. if you had a half mil.  the current owner would sell it to you !

Ha...then let me change that to half a mil KRW!

[Kwan Chang]

21 minutes ago, Sooners151 said:

Ha...then let me change that to half a mil KRW!

KRW   ?? 

that wouldnt even cover shipping !!

[thethedew]

I've never been shy about posting in this forum about what I'm looking for; so at the risk of trying the patience of fellow readers, I'll play too:

Personal favorite in my collection:
Gonna fudge a little.  I don't really have a #1 favorite piece, my favorite would be the complete issue of MICRONAUTS #11 altogether.  I'll post these two together to represent the issue:

 

...and my 'Grail' is a tie. 
So, I'm fudging again.  Two Baron Karza splashes by Pat Broderick, (Micronauts 26 pg 15 :: Micronauts 25 pg 31); I have been beating the bushes for them for years, confident I'll run them down eventually:

[Brian Peck]

For me picking one piece of art is also tough. I also fall into picking something that is comprised of many parts, "How To Draw Comics The Marvel Way" this is a book that I vividly remember first  reading at my local library when I was 11. I really effected me, ya the 11 year old thought "WOW I can draw my heroes and become a comic book artist. Then realitu set in and found I didnt have the patience or the skill. But it still helped me appreciate the artists and led me to collect comic art.

 

 

Edited July 6, 2018 by Brian Peck

[Brian Peck]

For the other part, never really liked the term grail. But two pieces I would love to own would be the splash to Silver Surfer #1 by Buscema and Sinnot or unpublished cover to Conan #100 by John Buscema and Ernie Chan. Love the published over but the unpublished I like better shows great anguish on Conan for Bélit.

 

 

[The Voord]

Tough call as I own a number of originals that would qualify as favourites in my collection.  An example favourite that I own would be George Wilson's cover painting to LOST IN SPACE # 25, while a personal grail that I'd love to own would be Ditko's cover art to AMAZING SPIDER-MAN # 18 (the image I'm posting here is a recreation I had Bruce McCorkindale do for me several years ago - and makes for a good approximation of what I'd expect Ditko's original to look like . . . should it still exist).

Edited July 6, 2018 by The Voord

[143ksk]

This C&H strip is the grail that I own. And I would love to have the OA to the Betty and Veronica 40 cover!

 

[GreatEscape]

Advice given to me when I came into this hobby: "If you find your favorite image of your favorite character drawn by your favorite artist, buy it!"  So, my owned grail is probably Wolverine Limited #3 p31, a "TRIFECTA" piece— my favorite image of Wolverine by Frank Miller.  

 

My holy grail has be the incredible Byrne X-Men #137 Title DPS, still takes my breath away:

 

[ESeffinga]

1 hour ago, 143ksk said:

 

LOVE this!!!!!

[DeadpoolJr.]

I'm in the works of getting what I consider to be a grail piece for me. I don't want to say what it is though and risk jinxing it. Why are collectors so superstitious when it comes to this type of stuff anyway?

[Stefanomjr]

Loved the spiral staircase in this Batman White Knight issue.Always drawn to OA you can get lost in and this does it for me,  was very excited to claim it as my own. 

 

 

 

As far as grail pieces,  this will never come my way but would be Alex Toth Torpedo. 

[cstojano]

I am a simple man with simple tastes. This piece got me interested in comic OA,and if paired with the splash and I'd pretty much be content (and a Williamson Blade Runner and Star Wars page).

 

Edited July 10, 2018 by cstojano

[Yurgo]

love all the pictures 

[detective35]

 My Holy Grail without question, is certainly the original Shadow Pulp oil painting of “The Creeping Death” (Circa. - Jan. 15, 1933), by George Rozen.

21” x 30” oil on canvas!

 

 

2)  Second of my holy grails is from another Shadow pulp “The Third Skull’ (circa. 1935)

      21” x 30” - oil on canvas!

 

 

The Third and Fourth of my grails are a couple of the very few Shadow pulp interior illustrations known to exist:

 

The first one displays great brushwork used by the great artist:  Edd Cartier (circa. 1937).

11” x 16”

 

 

The second was by the famous artist/painter Tom Lovell (circa. 1936, from the Partners of Peril, significant as it was the story that was used/swiped for the Batman story in Detective 27).

12” x 17”

Edited July 13, 2018 by detective35DF