{"id":2152,"date":"2011-01-09T04:21:05","date_gmt":"2011-01-09T09:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=2152"},"modified":"2011-03-10T19:50:45","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T00:50:45","slug":"the-first-original-comics-art-i-ever-owned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/09\/the-first-original-comics-art-i-ever-owned\/","title":{"rendered":"The first original comics art I ever owned"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night, Irene and I got to talking about our history with original comic book art. The subject came up because she and her sister are about to sell a few more pieces through Heritage, some of which are amazing. (How does a 1968 Neal Adams Deadman splash page<\/a> sound? I can’t recall when I last saw one of those<\/i> go up for sale!) I’ll tell you more about them later as the auction dates approach, but it got me thinking about, not the best, but the first<\/i> pieces of art I ever bought.<\/p>\n

It was 1970. I was 15, attending my first comic convention—one of Phil Seuling’s July 4th weekend cons, of course. And while wandering the dealers room, I came across the following pages being sold for next to nothing. <\/p>\n

First, a Gil Kane page from All-Star Western<\/i> #104<\/a> (December-January 1958-1959), part of the Johnny Thunder story “The Gauntlet of Thunder.” <\/p>\n

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You can see it larger here<\/a> if you’d like.<\/p>\n

And the second purchase that long-ago weekend was this Joe Kubert page from G.I. Combat<\/i> #64 <\/a>(September 1958), part of the story “The Silent Jet.”<\/p>\n

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You can check out a larger version of that page here<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n

So what do I mean when I say I bought these two pages for next to nothing? Well, I picked up one for $1.00 and the other for $2.00, though I no longer remember which was the more (comparatively) expensive piece. (Please don’t hate me.)<\/p>\n

So what was the best thing you bought at your<\/i> first con?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last night, Irene and I got to talking about our history with original comic book art. The subject came up because she and her sister are about to sell a few more pieces through Heritage, some of which are amazing. (How does a 1968 Neal Adams Deadman splash page sound? I can’t recall when I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,46,47,48],"class_list":["post-2152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-comics","tag-dc-comics","tag-gil-kane","tag-joe-kubert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}