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| Bendis drew a cartoon on the back of this page. As near as I can tell, this was never published. |
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| This page features the character that Bendis based on himself. |
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More of the AKA Goldfish storyline. Miramax optioned Jinx as a potential
major motion picture. Unfortunately, that didn't happen. Bendis turned the whole experience into
a graphic novel, so for details and lots more Jinx info, head to
WWW.JINXWORLD.COM. |
| BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS |
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| Why Lauren hates bounty hunters. |
| PAT BRODERICK |
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| I love the way Broderick's art on Captain Marvel seems like a cross between Starlin and Wrightson. |
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| The first page of original art I ever owned. |
| PAUL CHADWICK |
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| I fell in love with this character way back when he debuted in Dark Hose Presents #1. Since then, Paul Chadwick has won numerous well-deserved awards for this series, which proves that heroes don't need capes and long underwear. When I met Paul several years ago, I purchased this, my first piece of original art, a cover to one of my favorite Concrete stories, "A Sky of Heads". |
| PAUL CHADWICK |
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| When I owned a comic shop, my "no smoking" signs were simple little things I picked up at the local office supply store. Somehow, I never got the Concrete "no smoking" sign that Diamond Comics Distributors put out. Luckily, I was able to purchase the art for that sign. |
| FRANK CHO |
| I got turned on to Frank Cho's work back when he put out the University Squared tpb. This strip is the precursor to Liberty Meadows, and introduces Dean and Brandy and many of the usual Liberty Meadows regulars. Yes, this is Frank Cho original art with Brandy prominently featured. Feast your eyes and turn green with envy, Monkey Boy. Frank's Liberty Meadows is an absolutely hysterical strip, which is collected regularly into the Liberty Meadows comic book. If you aren't familiar with it, do yourself a favor and pick up the comic, and see today's strip at www.LibertyMeadows.com. |
| SAM CITRON |
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| A page from one of the books cited by the Mad Dr. Wertham in Seduction of the Innocent. |
| SAM CITRON |
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| Another page from one of the books cited by the Mad Dr. Wertham in Seduction of the Innocent. |
| RW COLT |
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| A gory scene with soldiers and soldiers' corpses tied to a wall, as the advancing army perpares to fire on them. Okay, so Wertham was wrong about a lot of things, but not everything. |
| HOWARD CRUSE |
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| Yeah, I know Robert Crumb is the greatest underground comic book artist in the universe. I feel like I'm the only guy on the planet who just doesn't get it. I've tried, but Crumb's stuff leaves me flat. I don't dislike it, but I just haven't been able to comprehend its appeal. Howard Cruse, however, I think is spectacular. I loved his "Barefootz Funnies". If you haven't read his "Stuck Rubber Baby", do yourself a favor and do so. |
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| I have no idea whether this one was published, but it made me laugh out loud. |
| BILL DRAUT |
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Anti-drug propaganda book used in Wertham's Seduction of the Innocent. I was unbelievably disappointed
when I bought this art from Heritage Auctions. The art came damaged, with lots of paste-ups loose
in the package. Heritage claimed it was fine when they shipped it, but the fact that several word balloons were also
completely missing from the package made that claim rather tough to swallow. They offered to take the art back, but I decided to keep it since
Seduction of the Innocent-related original art rarely shows up on the market. To add insult to disappointment, Heritage then added me to their junk mail list and started sending me junk mail about their coin auctions. They were less than apologetic when I asked them to stop sending me junk mail. |
| MIKE ESPOSITO |
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| Mike Esposito, the original inker for Amazing Spider-man #39, did this re-creation of one of the most memorable events in Marvel history: final page of Amazing Spider-man #39, where the Green Goblin reveals his identity to Peter Parker. |
| GLENN FABRY |
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| One of the greatest artists of the 90's, Glenn Fabry. Sure, I'd love to own a Preacher cover. But since those are all in a single collector's hands, that won't be happening. But Fabry's interior work is outstanding as well. |
| GLENN FABRY |
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| This sketch was a filler that I bought to hold a place in my collection until a a Hellblazer cover comes onto the market that I can afford. |
| DAVE GIBBONS |
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| From the greatest American comic book series of all time. Period. |
| JACKSON GUICE |
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| President Reagan appears in this issue of The Flash from the 80's. |
| TIM HAMILTON |
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| This series features anti-hero Lester Girls, who keeps getting sucked into numerous adventures even though all he wants to do is sit at home and read The Red Pony. Funny stuff! |
| TIM HAMILTON |
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| Back cover featuring Apache Dick and two gorgeous women. |
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| Lester gets a haircut. |
| STEVE HOWARD |
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| Artist Steve Howard did this amazing recreation of a Frank Frazetta Famous Funnies cover. I missed out on the Silver Surfer #4 recreation he did, which was equally amazing (if not more so. He did a great Loki constellation behind Thor & Silver Surfer). |
| MICHAEL Wm. KALUTA |
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| I asked Mr. Kaluta for a signature, and he was nice enough to add this Shadow head to my sketch book as well. It turns out the definitive artist on The Shadow happens to also be a very nice guy. |
| J KIM |
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| Gorgeous, large oil painting of Spider-man. Not by Alex Ross, but with similar eye appeal. |
| DAVID LAPHAM |
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| Back when I was reading Harbinger, in the early pre-Unity days of Valiant Comics, Jim Shooter used to rave about this great artist named David Lapham. Whatever it was Shooter saw in him, Lapham made no impression on me at the time. As it turns out, David Lapham is a phenomenal artist and storyteller... it just took me a lot longer to figure it out than some people. His work on Stray Bullets is definitely worth checking out. |
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| Turns out David Lapham is not only a talented writer/artist, he's also a heck of a nice guy. When I bought some art from him, he did this sketch for me, gratis. |
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| Yow! |
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| Great stuff from the early days of that Valiant magic! |
| DAVID LAPHAM |
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| Great stuff from the early days of that Valiant magic! |
| DAVID LAPHAM |
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| Great stuff from the early days of that Valiant magic! |
| DAVID LAPHAM |
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| Great stuff from the early days of that Valiant magic! |
| DAVID LAPHAM |
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| Great stuff from the early days of that Valiant magic! |
| DAVID LAPHAM |
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| Great stuff from the early days of that Valiant magic! |
| DAVID LAPHAM |
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| Great stuff from the early days of that Valiant magic! |
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| Great stuff from the early days of that Valiant magic! David says, "This is an un-inked page from the issue. I'm honestly not sure why they weren't inked over, perhaps because of deadline the image was faxed to John Dixon who light-boxed them, Or perhaps I light-boxed them and redrew them for some reason. I was such a newbie then. Still they are the same as the printed page and I have them, so...there you go. " |
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| Great stuff from the early days of that Valiant magic! David says, "This is an un-inked page from the issue. I'm honestly not sure why they weren't inked over, perhaps because of deadline the image was faxed to John Dixon who light-boxed them, Or perhaps I light-boxed them and redrew them for some reason. I was such a newbie then. Still they are the same as the printed page and I have them, so...there you go. " |
| DAVID LAPHAM |
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| Great stuff from the early days of that Valiant magic! |
| DAVID LAPHAM |
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| Great stuff from the early days of that Valiant magic! |
| DAVID LAPHAM |
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| Great stuff from the early days of that Valiant magic! |
| DAVID LAPHAM |
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| Great stuff from the early days of that Valiant magic! |
| DAVID LAPHAM |
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| Great stuff from the early days of that Valiant magic! |
| DAVID LAPHAM |
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| Great stuff from the early days of that Valiant magic! |
| DAVID LAPHAM |
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| Great stuff from the early days of that Valiant magic! |
| DAVID LAPHAM |
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| Great stuff from the early days of that Valiant magic! |
| DAVID LAPHAM |
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| Great stuff from the early days of that Valiant magic! |
| DAVID LAPHAM |
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| Great stuff from the early days of that Valiant magic! |
| DAVID LAPHAM |
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| Great stuff from the early days of that Valiant magic! |
| DAVID LAPHAM |
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| Great stuff from the early days of that Valiant magic! |
| DAVID LAPHAM |
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| Great stuff from the early days of that Valiant magic! |
| DAVID LAPHAM |
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| Great stuff from the early days of that Valiant magic! |
| DAVID LAPHAM |
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| Great stuff from the early days of that Valiant magic! |
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| Great stuff from the early days of that Valiant magic! |
| A. LONG |
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| Sandman character The Corinthian, sculpted by St. Louis artist A. Long. Okay, so it's not what one typically thinks of as original art. But it's an original, one-of-a-kind sculpture of a Sandman character, so it technically IS original art. |
| GONZALO MAYO |
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| Valiant published a lot of great comics in their early days, and none was better than Solar #1-10. Valiant showed just how successful a comic company could be if it focused on quality stories. Then they booted Shooter and it all hit the skids. |
| SCOTT MCCLOUD |
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| Scott explains the definition of "art". This book is must reading for all serious collectors. The night the book came out, I read it start to finish. I was so impressed that the next day, I drove to Amherst, Massachusetts where Scott lived (45 minutes from my home) to mail him a request for original art. The page I most wanted had already sold, but I was fortunate that my second choice, this three-page sequence in which Scott defines what art is, was still available. |
| JIM MOONEY |
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| The first ever appearance of Mystique. She appears here disguised as Nick Fury. |
| TERRY MOORE |
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This series has it all: witty dialogue, great art, characters you love,
characters you hate, plot twists... and I could go on and on. Terry really makes you
care about his characters.
Be sure to check out the Strangers in Paradise website.
On this page, Katchoo finds out that David is... wait! I don't want to give it away if you haven't read Strangers in Paradise v2 #1-8. When I read this page, I got chills up my spine. I can't recall any time as an adult that that ever happened to me with any medium. |
| TERRY MOORE |
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| When I saw Terry Moore at the San Diego con in 1998, I had to have him do my favorite SIP character. It's amazing how he can take a few very simple lines and convey so much. |
| JAMES O'BARR |
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| Two penciled barbarian pieces, plus a 2-page hadwritten submission letter and the original envelope postmarked February 9, 1974. O'Barr, who brought us the masterpiece "The Crow", sent these pieces to California Comics back in 1974, hoping to sell it to their "Barbarian Comics". I'm still looking for one page from The Crow by O'Barr. |
| MICHAEL AVON OEMING |
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| Page from the opening issue of an outstanding series, by the artist who brings you Powers. If you haven't read it, do yourself a favor and pick it up. It was only six issues, and MAN were they a GOOD six issues! |
| DOUG POTTER |
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| When I read this story in Dark Horse Presents #20, it just blew me away. Nearly 20 years later, when I was reminded of this story that had made a HUGE impression on me, I contacted Harvey Award nominee Doug Potter, via his website to see if he knew the wereabouts of the art for this story. As luck would have it, he still had the story and was willing to sell it to me! It's an art collector's dream: finding all of the artwork for one of your favorite stories ever. |
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| Want to read the rest of the story? Find a copy of Dark Horse Presents #20 or The Best of Dark Horse Presents! It'll be worth your effort. |
| JOHN ROMITA |
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| Spidey's first true love, rendered by one of his best artist ever. |
| DON ROSA |
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This will probably be considered sacrilege among duck collectors, but... Don Rosa is, in my humble opinion, the best duck artist in the history of the planet. Yes, I prefer Rosa to Barks. Both are great artists who really know how to tell an amazingly compelling story. But Don Rosa's crisp clean lines on Uncle Scrooge and the gang make for my favorite rendition of these characters by far. |
| DON ROSA |
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| Okay, so this isn't original art. But I had to have somewhere to show off this Don Rosa print. In case you don't recognize this, it's a parody of Superman's 1938 debut on the cover of Action Comics #1, with Donald in the role of Superman and his nephews playing the parts of the frightened bystanders. |
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| Again, this isn't original art but a print by Don Rosa. It's Rosa's take on the classic Carl Barks story, "A Christmas for Shacktown". |
| ALEX ROSS |
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| Phil develops photos of Doctor Doom and Power Man. This is the best superhero series I've ever read. Of course, Watchmen is great. Dark Knight, too. But this series transported me back to the time I read every Marvel comic I could get my hands on in the mid-70's. At the same time, it puts the reader in a world where superheroes really do exist, which is not quite the utopia we'd like to think it would be. |
| ALEX ROSS |
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From the best miniseries since The Dark Knight Returns, the pencils for an unused cover.
Here, the Fantastic Four and the Silver Surfer battle Galactus high atop the Baxter Building, and
the action is reflected in Phil Sheldon's camera lens.
This could be the unused cover to Marvels #3, which retells the story of Fantastic Four #48-50, Marvel's first really great epic storyline. Or it could have been the proposed cover to the Marvels TPB, because below the image it reads "this image could be of any particular superhero battle." After seeing very sketchy pencil roughs by Alex Ross sell for gazillions (give or take) I sure was pleasantly surprised to find this piece at an affordable price, thanks to the kind folks at artworkworld.com. |
| DAVE SIM |
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| Dave was the first to sign my convention book/sketch book. Here is page 1. He was doing these sketches for people who made contributions to the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. Have you made your contribution? If not, please do so now. If you wait until the Thought Police have closed down all the comic book stores, it will be far too late. |
| DAVE SIM |
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| Original Sketch by Dave, on an original color guide (colored by Steve Oliff) from Spawn. |
| HOWARD SIMPSON |
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| Original Sketch by by Valiant artist Howard Simpson. |
| BARRY (WINDSOR-) SMITH |
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| Okay, so technically this is not really original art. It is the stat used for the splash of Conan #12. It's one-of-a-kind production art, and the signature appears to be authentic, but that appears to be the only part of this art that's original. |
| BARRY (WINDSOR-) SMITH |
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| Okay, so technically this is not really original art. It is the stat used for the splash of Conan #16. That issue is a reprtint of a Barry Smith story that appeared in Savage Sword, so this gorgeous splash page is all photostat. |
| BARRY (WINDSOR-) SMITH |
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| Okay, so technically this is not really original art. It is the stat used for Conan #22, which is a reprint of #1. But it is a great looking, one-of-a-kind production piece. The original for this page would sell for many thousands of dollars, which is thousands more than I'd be willing to pay. But this one-of-a-kind piece cost me a fraction of that and looks great! I am amazed that there are limited edition "prints" that sell for far more than some of these great-looking, unique production pieces. |
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| ART SPIEGELMAN |
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| Maus is one of the greatest graphic novels of all time, and the winner of a Pulitzer Prize. I'll never be able to find original Maus art, so this is the next best thing. |
| JIM STERANKO |
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| Sure, I'd love a Steranko Nick Fury page. But since I haven't got a few grand lying around that I want to part with, I decided to feed my Steranko appetite with this 1970's sketch on Fantagraphics letterhead. I met Steranko at a con in 2007, and he told me that this character was his answer to a challenge: make a superhero character out of something extremely silly... like a Terrier. |
| JIM STERANKO |
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| This huge recreation of the cover of Nick Fury #3 on canvas is beautiful. It's not actually Steranko, but the real thing would certainly go for more than ten grand. I'm really happy with this one, which cost substantially less than that. |
| DAVE STEVENS |
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| Dave Stevens was retro long before anybody tried to use that term in its current incarnation. He created a style that was heavily influenced by the comic book artists of the golden age, while looking completely modern and breathtakingly beautiful. Without Dave's illustrations of Cliff Secord's girlfriend, Betty, there undoubtedly would have been no groundswell of interest in pin-up queen Bettie Page in the 80's and 90's. |
| TY TEMPLETON |
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One of only six splash pages that were created for this series that lasted just seven issues. The series came to an end with
the until the untimely death of co-crator Klaus Schoenfeld. This is one of those laugh-out-loud series that cracks me up every time I read it. In case you haven't read the series, it's about a guy who wakes up to find, much to his dismay, that he is dead. Not only that, he's in hell. Not only that, but he's on the big guy's throne. The rest you'll have to read for yourself. |
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| CHAS TRUOG |
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| The start of one of my favorite storylines ever. |
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| BILL WARD |
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| This one page gag features a typically buxom Ward beauty, her husband and an acquaintance. I can't verify that this was published. On the back a stamp indicates the artist was paid by "Humorama, Inc.". Markings in red pencil seem to indicate that it appeared in Romp in 9/65. Do you know where I could find a copy of that issue to verify this? |
| AL WILLIAMSON |
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If there is ever an all-star team for comic book illustrators, the vast majority
of the EC staff will be on it. Every artist EC had was outstanding in the
field. For my money, the team of Williamson and Frazetta nonetheless
stood head and shoulders above the rest. I'd love to some day own a page
they did for one of EC's crime or sci-fi books. In the meantime, I have
this beautiful page from John Wayne Comics. Frazetta is of course known for, among other things, the gorgeous women he has created. This page has practically a character study of this gorgeous ranch owner, showing her from every angle. |
| MICHAEL ZULLI |
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| The best artist ever to work on Sandman, doing the best character the series introduced. |
| COWGIRL ROMANCES |
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| Great 1940's good girl art. |
| DESTROYER |
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| The original President Bush (the one who had at least half a brain) appears in this Marvel comic. |
| INCREDIBLE HULK |
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| The real thing would tens of thousands. This cost me a lot less, and looks really effing cool. |
| INDIANS |
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| The politically correct thing to call this would be a page from an early series about Native Americans. The politically incorrect thing to call this would be a hot page of girl-on-girl action. |
| JOURNEY INTO FEAR |
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| I've collected SOTI-referenced books for years, and I was fortunate enough to locate this original art to one of the stories cited by Dr. Wertham as particularly corrupting to young minds. |
| JOURNEY INTO FEAR |
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| I've collected SOTI-referenced books for years, and I was fortunate enough to locate this original art to one of the stories cited by Dr. Wertham as particularly corrupting to young minds. |
| JOURNEY INTO FEAR |
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| I've collected SOTI-referenced books for years, and I was fortunate enough to locate this original art to one of the stories cited by Dr. Wertham as particularly corrupting to young minds. |
| RANGERS COMICS |
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| Gory scene of a Japanese soldier being burned alive by a flame thrower, published by one of the best publishers of the 40's. |
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