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Nathan Greno
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Blair, I still can't believe it!
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Sebastien Roy
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Dan Marcoux - what a piece and what a price! wow...
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F. Ron Miller
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The first piece of comic art I purchased was a strip -- a Terry and the Pirates from the time when Milton Caniff and Noel Sickles shared a studio. There's no end to the debate as to whether Sickles ghosted on any Terry strips but if he did, I like to think the one I picked up --dated April 21, 1936-- is one of them.
The first, and only, comic book page I purchased is a Darwyn Cooke from New Frontiers:
Pardon the crappy photo. The page is as white as the day it was drawn. Any strange surface-y stuff are reflections off the glass.
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Brian Morris
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My first original comic book page was a Don Heck Giant Size Avengers 4 pg.3 As it turned out I was in a comic store, this page was hanging in plastic on the wall, with a price of $15. I picked it up in the late 70s.  ---- Edited to fix formatting - JB
Edited by JohnByrne2 on 14 January 2011 at 1:13pm
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John Byrne
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I met JB and bought my first piece of original art in the same day! </P>1998: Jim Warden introduced me to John at a Orlando comic con. Before I could lift my jaw off the floor, John opened the satchel he was holding and said, "Oh! I have something for you..." and pulled out the original art from this cover... 
...one of my favorite memories EVER! A collector once offered me 4 thousand dollars for the art. No way. I am NEVER parting with that piece! •• Pretty good offer for a piece of art from a series everybody hated and nobody read.
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Sebastien Roy
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The prices some of you guys paid years ago for original art is insane (in a good way).
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Brian Morris
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Mr. Byrne----If I may ask, of all the artwork you own from fellow professionals/idols, what original piece still gives you that fanboy feel(for lack of a better phrase)? Thanks, Brian Morris
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John Byrne
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Mr. Byrne----If I may ask, of all the artwork you own from fellow professionals/idols, what original piece still gives you that fanboy feel(for lack of a better phrase)? •• Pretty much all of them -- tho it's turned up a few notches for some. My 2 pages from FF 5, for instance. Or my page from BRAVE & BOLD 34. Then there are the truly special cases -- like the recreation Dick Sprang did for me of the first page of the first Batman story I ever read. And, of course, the Joe Kubert Captain America piece Jim Warden commissioned for my birthday last year.
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John Byrne
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The prices some of you guys paid years ago for original art is insane (in a good way).•• I look at my Kirby Korner, and think about the $6000 I paid for my last Kirby purchase (before he died), and when that starts to hurt a bit, I think of the $15 I paid for my first Kirby purchase!* Cost is one of the reasons I have lately stuck a toe into the waters of trading. When no money changes hands, it doesn't seem as painful! –– *Which I no longer have, but traded for a PEANUTS daily that has vastly increased in value!
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Brian Morris
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Mr. Byrne---Thanks for your response. It was because of my buying that above Heck Avengers page, that I started to really go into artist alley at the New York shows. My first convention original art purchases came from meeting Mr. Staton for the first time. He had a stack of his All Star Comic JSA artwork, I purchased a number of pages including the page where the Huntress revealed she was the daughter of the Earth 2 Batman to Wildcat. Mr. Staton introduced me to Al Milgrom, who was seated next to him and that is how I wound up buying the original cover to All Star Comic 70(the Huntress's first JSA cover appearance).
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Lars Johansson
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Removed comment since after rereading the thread, and although I enjoy the fantastic art mentioned and displayed, I think more space should be given to those whose passion is to collect original art.
Edited by Lars Johansson on 14 January 2011 at 2:49pm
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Dave Aikins
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remove all the others? Wha?so confused.
Anyway, my first page was from Keith Pollard's Thor run. Got it from him in 1984, when I was 11. It was $6, and I still have it! Keith was at a local comic store doing a signing for Vigilante. He was the first comic artist that I ever met. Very cool. Soon after I got my first convention sketch, and after that I was hooked for life. geez, over 25 years of buying comic art. Wish I had more money back then...
Although, my Dad was a designer for Ford. So I guess I've been "collecting" the drawings he did for me since I was a wee lad.
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