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For Christmas I received a great gift from my wife. She purchased for me a page of original comic book art. The page is by Dan Jurgens and was from the miniseries "Fantastic Four: The World's Greatest Comics Magazine". This series was a 40th anniversary celebration of the FF, done in the style of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. The 12 issue series told a story that could have happened between issues 100 and 101 of the FF comic.

It's the only piece of original comic book art I own and its very inspirational to me.

That Totally rocks!!!

But lemme ask you this, what'd you get her?


Heh heh heh, hopefully something good in return. Me I bought stationary, and that's why I'm buying dinner for the next month or so.


There was only one Usagi gift this year, I picked up a Usagi Yojimbo calendar from Suncoast, that was a very odd place to find said thing! You know, it's the only place in Cedar Rapids that carries Usagi stuff!

Suncoast had the calendars? That's awesome!
I saw them at the Kinokuniya bookstore in San Francisco's Japantown. But I already have mine from last year's San D Con.

She was pretty happy with what I got her. Nothing you comic geeks would want to know about. Ha, ha. Hope you can take a joke.

I've also got a bunch of original pages, some given to me, some traded, some bought.

The jewel in my crown is a Steve Ditko Spider-Man page from (I think) Spidey #7, the first appearance of The Vulture. I still regret not buying a couple of other Ditko pages--a great fight scene with Spidey and the Scorpion, and a Hawk and Dove page.

Sounds like a great collection! Do you keep them in frames or portfolio?

Andy wrote:Sounds like a great collection! Do you keep them in frames or portfolio?

A few of the pages are framed--the Ditko piece (of course), a couple of Sergio drawings, a Vaughn Bode pencil page, a couple of Sugar & Spikes, a Ted McKeever, Bill Stout, and some newspaper strips like a Moores Gasoline Alley. Most of them are in my closet along with most of the Usagi pages.

The comicart art "grails" in my collection would be the kite flying commission (of course!) from you Stan and a Dave Gibbons page from the Watchmen, which I got by trading all my Mike Zeck art away to a fellow at the 2003 SDCC.

What? Albedo #2 cover doesn't count as a grail???

I've got some work in progress pages from TMNT #1 (1984) signed by Kevin Eastman. Really need to send scans along to Peter Laird (as he's still active) to ask him if they are genuine or not

But I got them from an auction house, so I would assume there would be some legitimacy at least... or checks done.

Todd Shogun wrote:What? Albedo #2 cover doesn't count as a grail???

Of course that is one of my favorites, but if I had to choose only piece from among Stan's artwork, it would be the kite flying commission.