Hi, Everybody!
Dave's Weekly Update:
(Updates tomorrow. It's been a day...)
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Cerebus in Hell?:
So this means The League Of Extraordinary Corona and Swords Of Cerebus In Hell? Volume 8 will be getting the final order cut-off soon.
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Get that sweet, sweet Gerhard art, Greg Hyland's Monster Atlas Volume 2 part 3. (Greg hit the four grand, so Gerhard is in the book. (Ends in 26 days.))
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Heritage, is gonna be auctioning off the original art to the Cerebus #2 covers (5 of them,) and the NEW Cerebus #1 (just 1 of them.)
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And your friend and mine, Sean Michael Robinson has made an album
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Up to 35% off site-wide:
September 24 – 27
Tell your fans! Remind them that everything will be up to 35% off -- that means $13 tees, $20 phone cases, $30 hoodies, and way more!
6 comments:
Hey! I have that comic!
But it's not boarded; it's almost certainly a direct market version; it's definitely not a Canadian variant; and worst of all, it wasn't drawn by Gene Colan, who was doing brilliant work for DC at the time, including an incredible run on Detective Comics. God, I love Gene Colan.
At the time, the US cover price was 75 cents.
A CGC 9.6 Canadian edition sold on eBay on July 30th for something less than $799.95; it was a "Best Offer" listing, and eBay doesn't reveal what the Offer was.
Given that Dave is trading 100 issues of some CIH? titles (and who knows how long it would take to sell them at $4 each, or whatever Sulipa is asking for them) for one book with some current popularity (no guarantee of future returns, but one can always hope), if nothing else this serves to *ping* Dave's vestigial fanboy collector heart.
And as I'd mentioned previously, it's an interesting shift to see an increased valuation now with Canadian editions; some decades ago Gold and Silver Age Canadian editions of American comics were noticeably less valuable than their comparable (and much more common) American issues.
Steve
Of course I didn't watch the video, but I have that issue. Bought it new off the stands in Victoria, BC, where I was living at the time. I don't think I've read it in decades. I love Gene Colan's art, but John Byrne's criticism in TCJ was spot on (one of the few times I've agreed with that doofus): Colan got lazy in his old age, with Batman's knees coming out of his chest and stuff. Well, nobody bats .400 forever! Can anyone remember the name of that serial that was published in Eclipse from Colan's pencils? Interesting look at the raw stuff.
-- Damian
Of course anybody can ask for anything and that doesn't mean they'll get it, but there's one of these - Direct Market edition, not Newstand, and almost certainly not Cadadian, listed on eBay as a no-auction direct sale for $2,495.
I remember when this came out thinking a) this was the coolest new villain Batman had had in years, maybe decades, b) the way they introduced him was weird - initially offputting, but I reread it and saw what they were trying to do. They basically introduced him AS IF he was a longtime villain like Two-Face or The Riddler that was getting an origin retelling or updating, encapsulated in a way comics were getting away from at the time, but it almost made him seem like he had always been around. Don't know if any new readers were fooled (I doubt it) but in a way I think it may have helped make him immediately one of the Big Bad Guys.
And he is nowadays one of the Big Bad Guys, as his multimedia appearances attest, so even though it's only 35 years old (in a franchise that's over 80 years old, that's like a puppy) this really IS a big deal comic.
I hope this does pay off down the line. At least I know where to get copies of the CIH? One shots like Baby Yoda Cerebus that I missed ;)
The Birds of Prey movie came and went I think just before the coronavirus panic at the start of 2020, but hopefully down the line Black Mask will be popular enough to warrant interesting in this. DC reprinted this book as a Dollar Comic some time in the last year or so, as I picked up a copy, but obviously the Canadian variant will be the draw for Dave’s copy.
Damian, I think you’re thinking of Ragamuffins. I think some of his Detectives Inc and Nathaniel Dusk was printed from pencils as well.
Thank you, Travis P.! I'm sure it was "Ragamuffins". I was thinking "Urchins", but that wasn't quite it.
As I recall, that was written by Don McGregor. I liked his "Killraven" when it was published. And (Comics Megaphonics!) McGregor was parodied in an early issue of Howard the Duck, which had an influence on Dave Sim. P. Craig Russell did the art for Killraven, and later had a story in Epic Illustrated that was printed from his pencils -- "The Symbolist in Search of the Swan" or something like that.
I guess I like seeing pencilled comics stories. And, of course, I like Gene Colan. I'm sure I have Nathaniel Dusk in a box. That was an early Baxter book, correct? The colourists hadn't got the hang of higher-quality colouring yet, and a lot of books from that era looked really garish. Colan's pencils are sometimes hard to make out under the colours.
And to bring it around to relevance to this blog: I much prefer Dave's inked work to seeing his pencils raw. Perhaps it's because he was pencilling to ink his own work; the pencils are very workmanlike, structural -- like looking at the framing of a house before the walls are put on. But put a Hunt 102 in his paws, and Dave's cartooning came to life.
-- Damian
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