Rarest Signatures in Comics 7 7

[comicginger1789]

Curious what some of the rarest signatures are. Which artists/creators just were not around or did not sign stuff ever?

I know Ditko signed very very VERY few comics....but I feel his signature is plentiful enough as people often have written replies from him with his signature. What about someone like Marston? Is there anything known to have been signed by him? What others have you never seen or only ever seen a handful of?

[ADAMANTIUM]

Frank frazetta

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Stanley Lieber

[RockMyAmadeus]

3 minutes ago, ADAMANTIUM said:

Frank frazetta

Not even close. There are 125-200 Frazetta SS alone, and he signed a lot of other stuff over the years, too.

You want a rare sig? Jim Aparo. Mike Parobeck. The aforementioned Ditko. Gil Kane. Cockrum's fairly rare. 

[comicginger1789]

5 minutes ago, ADAMANTIUM said:

Frank frazetta

Did he never attend cons or refuse to sign stuff? I am unfamiliar with him outside of being able to recognize his work on various books. 

[comicginger1789]

Just now, RockMyAmadeus said:

Not even close. There are 125-200 Frazetta SS alone, and he signed a lot of other stuff over the years, too.

You want a rare sig? Jim Aparo. Mike Parobeck. The aforementioned Ditko. Gil Kane. Cockrum's fairly rare. 

Is Gil Kane's rare? I have one....at least I am 99% it is him. I will share pics and my story when I am home. 

[Gotham Kid]

Bob Kane

[Gotham Kid]

followed by Stan Lee

Edited November 28, 2019 by Gotham Kid

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Moebhis typo

[RockMyAmadeus]

1 minute ago, comicginger1789 said:

Is Gil Kane's rare? I have one....at least I am 99% it is him. I will share pics and my story when I am home. 

It's not super, Ditko-level rare, but it's is pretty uncommon. And, of course, no Sig Series. There are creators who are generally rare, and then there are Sig Series rare. Dave Stevens, for example, is common, but he never did any Sig Series.

3 minutes ago, comicginger1789 said:

Did he never attend cons or refuse to sign stuff? I am unfamiliar with him outside of being able to recognize his work on various books. 

Frazetta signed stuff all the time. He didn't do cons (or, at least, didn't do them for the 10 or so years before he died in 2010), but he signed a lot of stuff over the years.

[Domo Arigato]

Bill Watterson

[ADAMANTIUM]

"Rare" may differ from person to person, availability etc person etc.

But that is a lot of qualifiers to make THAT happen, I'm by no means an expert

John Byrne "could be considered rare", now that he no longer cgc's 

It's a perception, but also the reason for the question and thread, who's rare?

Idk, there are more experienced people here

 

[RockMyAmadeus]

2 minutes ago, Domo Arigato said:

Bill Watterson

Very, very, famously rare. 

[comicginger1789]

a couple hundred only is somewhat rare to me. Less than 100 would be what I’m considering the rarest. And I don’t mean they have to be CGC verified. Obviously some creators signatures were done before CGC Signature Series existed. Or CGC at all existed.

Here is my Gil Kane sig. The story? Bought on eBay in 2004 or 2005. Guy said in his description that someone had written in the margins. I messaged to ask what and he said “some name, appears to read Gil Kane”.

I told myself “likely a kid wrote it copying the name from inside but what if it was real?”. Guy sent a pic and I saw it and was like “damn I think that’s real”. Was a new seller, said he came across the books belonging to a family member. I was 18 at the time and stoked I could potential own a copy of this book signed by an artist I loved. Plus the price was priced as though the signature didn’t exist so I bought it.

Oh and I since had it signed by Stan. 

[comicginger1789]

I would love to have Romita sign it too but I have no idea where he goes Con wise and if he or whoever represents him would sign something if I were to submit it. Would just be for personal joy and appreciation.

[RockMyAmadeus]

19 minutes ago, comicginger1789 said:

I would love to have Romita sign it too but I have no idea where he goes Con wise and if he or whoever represents him would sign something if I were to submit it. Would just be for personal joy and appreciation.

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[comicginger1789]

1 hour ago, RockMyAmadeus said:

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Do they have events or signings with Romita often?

[RockMyAmadeus]

6 minutes ago, comicginger1789 said:

Do they have events or signings with Romita often?

You'll have to ask him.

 

[AlexH]

2 hours ago, RockMyAmadeus said:

Not even close. There are 125-200 Frazetta SS alone, and he signed a lot of other stuff over the years, too.

You want a rare sig? Jim Aparo. Mike Parobeck. The aforementioned Ditko. Gil Kane. Cockrum's fairly rare. 

I believe there are only 5 SS books signed by Aparo

[AlexH]

Martin Nodell doesn't have too many SS.

The rarest one I have is Fred Kelly - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Kelly_(comics)

Pretty sure I have the only one done by him.