Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
Fantastic Four #236, Marvel Comics, November 1981. Artist: John Byrne, Marie Severin. I love this 20th Anniversary celebration cover to Fantastic Four #236 by John Byrne and Marie Severin. Yikes, I consider this a modern book and its 38 years…
Avengers #187, Marvel Comics, September 1979. Artist: John Byrne. I lined up a bunch of great covers including House of Mystery #186 and Amazing Spider-Man #186 but none were as visually impactful as John Byrne’s great cover to Avengers #187. Superman…
X-Men #137, Marvel Comics, September 1980 – Artist: John Byrne. X-Men #137 is our first offering from Mr. Byrne I believe, it’s such a striking cover and my favorite from the Dark Phoenix Saga run. The only cover that should…
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last few days: Bolle, Byrne, Kesel, Williamson, Buscema, Elias, Colan, Janson.
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last few days: Green, Faucher, Ramos, Rubinstein, Byrne, Romita Jr., Cockrum.
IDW has published a new series of oversized Marvel signed and numbered artist collections in hardcover. Don’t ask me what IDW is doing publishing these but since they are now publishing a kid-friendly line for Marvel, maybe we shouldn’t be…
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last few days: Buscema, Kida, Bolland, Bolton, Byrne, Giordano, Bradstreet.
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last few days: Biggs, Bachalo, Bolle, Byrne, Brereton.
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last few days: Gulacy, Brereton, Byrne, Capp, Cardy.
John Byrne’s run on the X-Men began with issue #108 and lasted until #143. The team of Claremont, Byrne, and Austin made the X-Men (which was already a hit series under Dave Cockrum) soar to the top of the charts…
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last few days: Adams, Cardy, Byrne, Wiacek, Buscema, Davis.
Well, it has arrived! Now I am a regular collector of the Artist/Artifact Editions and without a doubt, this is a treasure. It’s hard to not rush through it the first time through, because there is page after page of…
There was a thread on byrnerobotics.com over the last few weeks that generated a ton of excitement in followers of John Byrne. The question came up asking if you could you go back to Marvel and pencil for somebody else to…
X-Men #108, Marvel Comics, December 1977. Earlier today I read Dennis DePues’ post on the great John Byrne coming to this year’s Fan Expo in Toronto. It got me thinking of a few Byrne I have on my potential future…
Having grown up during the Silver Age of comics, many of my favorite artists have unfortunately passed away. So the announcements over the last few years for Fan Expo in Toronto, haven’t gotten that rush of adrenaline happening for me.…
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last few days: Byrne, Garcia-Lopez, Ditko, Cooke, Colan, Ayers.
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last few days: Cardy, Byrne, Austin, Colan, Shores, Cooke.
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last few days: Cardy, Buscema, Alcala, Byrne, Wiacek, Milgrom, Adams, Simon.
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last few days: Franquin, Moebius, Chaykin, Cheung, Dell, Mayo, Byrne.
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last few days: Outcault, Miller, Janson, Oliff, Adams, Fine, Byrne.