Week 40: Seeing Both Sides
I’m back at mining the eBay pile in my office for this week’s post. I leafed through the first two books and quickly saw a chance to feature a week full of double-page splash pages, I did a post like…
Comic Book Daily
Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
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Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
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Covered 365: Day 169
Doctor Strange #169, Marvel Comics, June 1968, Artist: Dan Adkins . Nice to have Dan Adkins chime in again with this terrific cover. I know it’s a static cover like most of the Spring 1968 Marvel relaunch covers but Adkins does…
Covered 365: Day 166
Strange Tales #166, Marvel Comics, March 1968. Artist: Dan Adkins. I had it down to one of the 3 pictures I’ve included. I decided Strange Tales #166 was the strongest of the three, have a look and see if you agree.…
Review | Wally Wood T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents Artist’s Edition Portfolio
Wally Wood is recognized as one of the finest talents to ever grace the comics medium. In the 1950s, he was one of the brightest stars in the legendary EC stable of artists, including being one of the key artists…
Web Arted #345
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last few days: Manning, Mandrake, Heck, Adkins, Windsor-Smith, Ayers, Cardy.
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Doctor Strange #169-183
This week we feature one of my favourite runs of Doctor Strange, his first series in his own title, following a lengthy split run in Strange Tales (#110-168). I have always liked this run of fifteen books even though it…
Web Arted Aug 26th
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last few days: Cassaday, Ditko, Colan, Palmer, Adkins, Frank.
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Sub-Mariner #1-15 “Diamond Head”
In this week’s Arcs & Runs we will follow up our Human Torch piece from last post with another of the most popular and highly sought after characters in the Marvel stable of super-heroes – Prince Namor the Sub-Mariner. This…
Of Inks and Jesters
When Gene Colan took over from John Romita in issue 20 of Daredevil he defined the look and style of Daredevil for the next two decades. Over that period of time he had a few different inkers, but early on it…
What Happened To Your Head?
I recently picked up the 18 issue run of the great Silver Age Silver Surfer series! Now, I was ten years old when this book came out and that was right after I really discovered the comic collecting bug and how can you not…
Web Arted Jan 1
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last few days: Wood, McWilliams, Windsor-Smith, Wiacek, Heck, Adkins, Anderson.
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ComicLink October 2015 Focused Auction Original Art
ComicLink recently wrapped up their October 2015 Focused Auction. This is the lower end auction that complements their larger Featured Auctions. Original Art in the Focused Auction is a grab bag of items ComicLink feels are worth less than $500…
Web Arted September 11th
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last few days: Kane, Wood, Adkins, Kirby, Whitney, Bolton, Windsor-Smith, Wiacek.
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ComicConnect Event Auction XXVI Original Art
The original art portion of ComicConnect’s Event Auction XXXVI closed Monday March 23rd. The art offered is a mixture of high and low end material: anything could end up in the mix. This time around several pieces didn’t meet their…
Arcs & Runs #16 | Tales to Astonish and its Offspring
We will bookend our first year of Arcs & Runs by highlighting the final days of the title Tales to Astonish. We started the year with TTA’s sister title Tales of Suspense. Both of these titles began production in 1959.…
Web Arted Aug 8th
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly at the Heritage Signature Auction #7097.
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Web Arted May 23rd
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly from Heritage’s 2014 May 15 – 17 Comics & Comic Art Signature Auction.
Web Arted Apr 18th
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly at ComicLink's April 2014 Focused Auction, Original Art.
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Web Arted Feb 14th
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last few days.
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Joe Sinnott and his amazing contributions to the Silver Age
Joe is, without a doubt, most recognized for his amazing contribution to the Fantastic Four run with Jack Kirby. Joe inked issue #5 featuring Doctor Doom and was scheduled to stay on the book inking Kirby. He left after inking a few pages of #6 not to return until #44 which was the introduction to the Inhumans saga followed by the Galactus Trilogy and what I call the best 50 issue run in the history of comics.
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