What is your favorite "inexpensive" page you own and why? 2 2

[batman_fan]

It is snowing in Colorado right now.  Yesterday was in the upper 60s and today it is 22 with about 4 inches so just hanging around the house.  

What is your favorite "inexpensive" page you own and why?

This is mine, I can't remember exactly what I paid but it was hundreds.  I love it because I think it really captures Spiderman.

[alxjhnsn]

Hard to say, but, off the top of my head, this one. Why? It’s the cover to the first cover that I ever bought my daughters.

 

The full story is here: https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1235000

It was less than $200.

 

Edited April 12, 2020 by alxjhnsn

[grapeape]

Paid a few hundred for this twenty years ago. FF 200 a double sized issue and the climatic end of a classic 197-200 storyline featuring the fearsome Dr. Doom.

 

Edited April 12, 2020 by grapeape

[batman_fan]

3 minutes ago, grapeape said:

Paid a few hundred for this twenty years ago. FF 200 a double sized issue and the climatic end of a classic 197-200 storyline featuring the fearsome Dr. Doom.

 

I remember buying that one off the stands and I still have it.  

[exitmusicblue]

 

This page of mine reminds me of the good ol' days.  Cable 1 was one of those books kids had to scoop up.

Got it for around $300.

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[grapeape]

42 minutes ago, batman_fan said:

I remember buying that one off the stands and I still have it.  

I have my copy too! I was ten haha

I bought the page because FF 200 is one of my favorite stories ever and so cool to own original art from a childhood memory.

Edited April 12, 2020 by grapeape

[Rick2you2]

Let me suggest an edit to this topic: purchased within the last 5 or so years, up to $300 more or less, and published. Otherwise, people can trot out things they bought ages ago which would no longer qualify as inexpensive. Sketches don’t really belong in the same category. 
 

[batman_fan]

1 hour ago, grapeape said:

I have my copy too! I was ten haha

I was a bit older 

[Brian Peck]

Here is the original art for Daves II Comics & Collectibles by Glenn Barr. Growing up in Ann Arbor Michigan I would goto The Eye of Agamotto on State Street (which later closed down in the 80s). About that time Dave's Comics started up, I had moved to California by then but whenever I visited Ann Arbor I would check out Daves II Comics & Collectibles, William & State street (upstairs). Great to own the art from a comic shop I used to frequent.

 

 

 

 

 

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[grapeape]

1 hour ago, Rick2you2 said:

Let me suggest an edit to this topic: purchased within the last 5 or so years, up to $300 more or less, and published. Otherwise, people can trot out things they bought ages ago which would no longer qualify as inexpensive. Sketches don’t really belong in the same categoryAgreed

 

1 minute ago, Brian Peck said:

Here is the original art for Daves II Comics & Collectibles by Glenn Barr. Growing up in Ann Arbor Michigan I would goto The Eye of Agamotto on State Street (which later closed down in the 80s). About that time Dave's Comics started up, I had moved to California by then but whenever I visited Ann Arbor I would check out Daves II Comics & Collectibles, William & State street (upstairs). Great to own the art from a comic shop I used to frequent.

 

 

 

 

 

Jack Nicholson is bending my comic books😂

[grapeape]

1 hour ago, Rick2you2 said:

Let me suggest an edit to this topic: purchased within the last 5 or so years, up to $300 more or less, and published. Otherwise, people can trot out things they bought ages ago which would no longer qualify as inexpensive. Sketches don’t really belong in the same category. 
 

I thought about all the things you brought up too. You raised some good points. Something to think about before art gets posted but I’ll defer to the wide berth B Man left us with.

[Bird]

Just now, grapeape said:

I thought about all the things you brought up too. You raised some good points. Something to think about before art gets posted but I’ll defer to the wide berth B Man left us with.

well, it doesn't say "inexpensive when you bought it" so I also assume we are looking at pieces inexpensive right now were they for sale

[p41981]

My fav inexpensive page cost me $50 in 2016 at a comicon...... bought it from Valentine deLandro himself . It’s a splash page of M infected by the legacy virus.

 

 

[glendgold]

When I started collecting, Kirby pages were $25-35, so trotting those guys out wouldn't mean much.

This is my favorite page that I bought cheap and which remains cheap.  I love Jason's work (if you haven't read him, he's right here: https://www.fantagraphics.com/artists/jason/).  I'd meant to buy some art that actually had, y'know, things on it, but when I saw this stuffed into the portfolio, it cracked me up.   I believe the published version has dialogue in a dark room on it (maybe?) but I like this better. I am told it's actually signed upside down.

 

 

[batman_fan]

I purposely left it vague as everyone has their own definition of cheap.

[aokartman]

My own personal Krazy Kat!  David

Believed to be by Jay Disbrow, from a coloring book circa 1950s?

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[NC101]

I like this cover by Ian Churchill for Comic Box magazine, I've posted it elsewhere here but it was $320.00 and worth every penny

[PhilipB2k17]

Almost all of my pages qualify as “inexpensive” in hobbyist terms. Most are only a few hundred dollars. 

And all but 1 were purchased in the past 5 years. But, if I had to choose....

 

Edited April 12, 2020 by PhilipB2k17

[batman_fan]

1 minute ago, PhilipB2k17 said:

Almost all of my pages qualify as “inexpensive” in hobbyist terms. Most are only a few hundred dollars. 

Post your favorite one !

[Bird]

Paid $15 around 1990 or so, probably not worth much more now. Samuel de la Rosa inked it and sold it to me...this issue had many inkers on it, most of whom were Hispanic, and was credited to "Manuel Labor" or some such as an editor's joke. de la Rosa did not find it funny!

 

\Ih, this was my first page I ever purchased. I had a few sketches but this was the first published page IIRC. I didn't know you could buy them until I saw these for sale at Sam's table.

Edited April 12, 2020 by Bird