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Post by thebeastofyuccaflats on May 5, 2014 15:01:00 GMT -5
Right now? WildC.A.T.s/Aliens, I s'pose. Might be willing to part with my copy. Interested? Mebbe. It the Zealot cover? |
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Post by MWGallaher on May 5, 2014 15:08:57 GMT -5
I haven't been on the chase long enough to consider it a "white whale", but I've lost several ebay attempts to acquire Dell's comic book adaptation of the 1966 John Wayne movie, El Dorado. It's only on my radar because it was ghost pencilled by Jim Aparo (for Sal Trapani), back in the infancy of Aparo's comic career. There's also an issue of World's Finest I want, because I'm convinced that Aparo also ghost pencilled that one. Editor Jack C. Harris denied it when I asked, but I trust my eyes to know that a swiping artist could not possibly have appropriated not just Aparo's superficial qualities but the very compositional foundations of his technique. Which issue of World's Finest? Cei-U! I summon the curiosity! Issue 268. A few of the pages appear not to have any Aparo in them, but most of them do. Credited artist Romeo Tanghal may have been working from rough layouts by Aparo, although the panels with Batman are strongly Aparoesque (maybe Jim was so familiar with Batman that even rough drawings ended up being detailed). But it's not just the Batman drawings--if it were, I'd be content with assuming Tanghal was referencing Aparo's work. It's the overall composition of the pages, the tilted horizons, the way the villain's beard and costume are drawn, the underwater scenes that are so much like Jim's Aquaman panels, the crab/human hybrid that looks so much like a panel that Aparo drew *later* than this...lots of things about the job make it seem to be way too deep in Aparo's technique to explain as a set of swipes. Added to that is the fact that I don't recall ever seeing anything else Tanghal pencilled ever look the least bit like Aparo. |
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Post by MWGallaher on May 5, 2014 15:13:06 GMT -5
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 5, 2014 15:17:53 GMT -5
There's no way Aparo isn't involved in that.
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Post by DubipR on May 5, 2014 15:47:54 GMT -5
Might be willing to part with my copy. Interested? Mebbe. It the Zealot cover? I'm pretty sure its the Sprouse cover. I'd have to look when I get home to the palatial estate. |
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Post by thebeastofyuccaflats on May 5, 2014 15:55:59 GMT -5
Mebbe. It the Zealot cover? I'm pretty sure its the Sprouse cover. I'd have to look when I get home to the palatial estate. Ah well; not a dealbreaker, really. |
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2014 16:02:53 GMT -5
Also, the first Angry Youth Comix series. I've only been able to find the last issue, but I saw that I missed out on the first issue for a ridiculously low price around 8 months back.
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Post by Cei-U! on May 5, 2014 16:03:34 GMT -5
There's no way Aparo isn't involved in that. That's my reaction, too. Maybe Harris denied it because Tanghal and Aparo never told him? Cei-U! I summon the suspicious similarities! |
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2014 16:09:33 GMT -5
Concur.
And if Slam, Cei-U! & I all agree on something, I'd say it's set in stone.
(And/or the end of the world is nigh.)
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Post by MWGallaher on May 5, 2014 20:50:23 GMT -5
Like I said, I was convinced, but it's reassuring to have three concurrences. My art-spotting skills are not what they used to be, but I think I can still tell when Jim Aparo put pencil to paper.
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Post by coke & comics on May 7, 2014 10:57:19 GMT -5
Some unreprinted Marvel stories that nobody will sell me for under $20:
Night Nurse #1,4
Marvel Comics Super Special featuring Kiss
The Tales of the Watcher backup in Silver Surfer #4
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Post by DubipR on May 7, 2014 11:02:28 GMT -5
Also, the first Angry Youth Comix series. I've only been able to find the last issue, but I saw that I missed out on the first issue for a ridiculously low price around 8 months back. Yeah, those early Fantagraphic issues of AYC are tough to find. I picked those up when they came out. The self-published ones by Johnny Ryan are even tougher to get. Some unreprinted Marvel stories that nobody will sell me for under $20: Night Nurse #1,4 Marvel Comics Super Special featuring Kiss The Tales of the Watcher backup in Silver Surfer #4 I'm looking for the Beatles one myself. Night Nurse I was lucky to pick up back in the 90s when the Silver & Bronze Age market was virtually dead and picked up all 4 issues for $50 in a VG condition. |
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Post by Phil Maurice on May 7, 2014 12:37:52 GMT -5
Exciting Comics #39. Almost never comes up for sale. There's a 9.0 that pops up every couple of years that goes for 4 or 5 grand, but I don't love it THAT much. Schomburg cover showing Nazis poisoning candy bars and giving them to children, a ludicrously elaborate plot given that they are all heavily armed.
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2014 13:07:29 GMT -5
For me, it's not a comic per se but a art book from a classic artist. IDW did an Art of Jim Starlin book that is now out of print. I saw a copy when it was in print, but didn't have the funds at the time. Now that it is out of print, it has tripled in price.
A comic white whale. one that I have resigned to never owning or reading, is the 1950's short run Phantom Stranger series that ran 6 issues. Never been collected, I've never seen a copy at a con or shop of any issues, and the only reason I know its real is having seen DCIndexer post pics of the 2 issues he got over on the old forum.
-M
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 7, 2014 13:12:08 GMT -5
There are definitely strip reprint books that I want that I can't afford. There are any number that have gone out of print before I could get them at my price and then gone way up in price.
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