It sounds like you are not commenting on the FF #55 page in Heritage, but rather the SS Graphic Novel cover posted above. Both are Kirby/ Sinnott, but the two pieces were done decades apart.
Valiant, the Heritage piece is, I believe, the 4th Surfer appearance and truly iconic. Possibly the best Kirby Surfer example ever offered publicly. Is this the piece you are commenting on?
Valiant, I think you need to go to Heritage and look at the piece in question (which is from 1966). I posted my Kirby piece (from 1978) in celebration of Kirby's Surfer, nothing more. This is an art forum, after all.
But feel free to bag it out as *spoon*. I don't think too many people will join in.
#5656303 - 05/06/1206:11 AMRe: Looks like another weak OA auction at Heritage in May!
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It sounds like you are not commenting on the FF #55 page in Heritage, but rather the SS Graphic Novel cover posted above. Both are Kirby/ Sinnott, but the two pieces were done decades apart.
Yes, apologies for the misunderstanding. I am pretty surprised to hear it’s Sinnott inking on the (rejected?) cover for The SS Graphic Novel. From the style, I guessed it was some piece of the 1980s (1978, not so far), where unfortunately, Jack’s drawing perspective already got extremely skewed due to the eye problems. @LB Jefferies: I wasn’t saying it was a *spoon*, well maybe a *fork* ;), just that it belongs to the late period, where the distortion became an element which wasn’t possible to hide thanks to the inker’s help. But it could also be seen even as a more valuable item than the great #55 page, since it document’s Jack suffering (and worries about his family) and as such it must be treasured. I wouldn’t ever despise anything done by Jack, even if it was an awful scribble in the face of adversity…
@Sardo: I agree, I don’t even have to look back at it, it’s really a great page.
My personal piece is a page from FF #62, it probably features the closest portrait of Blastaar, as he meets the Sandman.
Philippe Queveau, which is registered here but doesn’t post often, has nicely explained me the story of the small amount of original art which was gotten back by Kirby and Sinnott, and I learned my piece was, albeit indirectly, bought from Jack himself, and I was delighted to know. I guess it would be hard to part with it! Also, Philippe owns *the* Silver Surfer page, which is this one:
#5656306 - 05/06/1206:15 AMRe: Looks like another weak OA auction at Heritage in May!
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To explain better, my page is the one from which this panel is taken:
The only missing character is the Invisible Woman, but there are the "Fantastic Three", the Sandman, Triton and Blastaar. I guess I should be very happy. Blastaar is definitely a very-kirbysh character of the raw/brute kind, very funny in some way, since it’s not the bloodthirsty type which Jack wouldn’t have conceived (he was pretty critical about the kind of violent reaction to crime testified by the success of characters like the Punisher, I made him a question about this topic when I interviewed him in 1991).
The inks on the unpublished GN cover are actually Royer, although I think he was channeling his inner-Sinnott seeing as he knew Sinnott was responsible for the interiors.
#5656425 - 05/06/1208:44 AMRe: Looks like another weak OA auction at Heritage in May!
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Re: The only missing character is the Invisible Woman She's there in all her Kirby glory. You just can't see her because ... well you know, she's invisible.
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Re: The only missing character is the Invisible Woman She's there in all her Kirby glory. You just can't see her because ... well you know, she's invisible.
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#5656876 - 05/06/1201:51 PMRe: Looks like another weak OA auction at Heritage in May!
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I am more geeked up for this auction than almost any auction I can remember. Sure it's about some of the large pieces in the auction but it's also about several smaller pieces that really push my collector buttons.
I think the FF 55 and 62 pages represent kirby ( or the kirby/sinnott combo ) at the height of his powers and sadly the SS Graphic Novel cover the nadir.
