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Three criteria govern my art purchases: really good art; historically significant; significant to me, personally.
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I own very few pieces of original art, but I have managed to purchase a few over the years. My main concern is significant to me, personally, which largely means a sketch or original art from an artist from I book from my childhood.
Among my pieces: a group shot of the cast of Groo by Sergio Aragones; Captain America by Ron Wilson; Iron Man by Bob Layton; and The Shadow by Kyle Baker.
My favorite: a cover recreation by Al Milgrom of Marvel Team-Up # 61 (the first Marvel I remember buying off the rack, when I was 6, and JB's Spider-Man blew me away).
My white whale: a pre-Superman Marvel page by JB or a Superman page or sketch by JB. I remember going to Mid-Ohio Con at the Mansfield Fairgrounds and elsewhere for years and meeting JB and others.* JB would sometimes do sketches and auction them off (in addition to serving as the Con auctioneer for charity), and as a kid with no money I always watched thinking one day . . . and now, as an adult with actual disposable income, prices on those pages are so, so high . . . and JB no longer does commissions.
JB's post got me thinking, and I looked at some of my oldest books on the shelf. To think I started following JB around 50 years ago. Dear God!!! The years have flown by. Thanks for the entertainment, great memories, and fun, JB.
*My poor dad would take me to the shows and sit near the front of the building at folding tables near a coffee stand. After making my way around the con for a while, I went up to visit him and he was just saying goodbye to a guy whom he had been talking with over coffee. My dad asks if I ever read any of his work -- tells me the guy "writes Batman comic books." Yep, it was Frank Miller. Signed my copy of Daredevil # 167. My dad would sit there the entire day, except for when JB did the auction, which he would watch because he knew JB was my favorite artist and he found him entertaining as an auctioneer/public speaker.
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