Blank Cover variants-do you get commissions done on them?

[MRP]

Many modern comics publishers do blank variants for first issues and other books. I rarely buy variants, but I like these because I usually get artists at shows to do sketches/commissions on them so that I have unique pieces for my collections and displays. I was wondering if anyone else does these and if so, what do you have?

I got three done this past weekend at the Ohio Toy & Comics show by a local artist who has done some industry worked named Justin Wasson...

A Ming the Merciless on the cove rof a fairly recent Flash Gordon #1 published by Dynamite...



a Space Ghost done on a Future Quest #1 blank variant from DC...



and for my wife's upcoming birthday gift-she is a fan of the classic Bronze Age Neal Adams Green Arrow look, a Green Arrow on theWe Can Be Heroes BEnefit variant of Green Arrow form a couple of years back...



I have a few older ones too, I need to dig out pics for, so another post will follow soon.

If you have had any of these done, I'd love to see what you got.

-M

[Blue Meanie]

My one pet peeves about the blank cover books is that they mention the artists/writers in the book on the "Blank" cover and they put their logos or call letters right in the blank area where the art would go. I have a friend that can't stand bar codes on the books because it disrupts the art. I agree with him on that and think that bar codes should be on the back of a comic or in the case of the blank covers...the cover that the blank is on top of should have all the pertinent information about the book. Here's a thread I started about a FANTASTIC Jerry Ordway original art blank cover that was on ebay a month ago:

http://megomuseum.com/community/show...ut-of-the-park

[MRP]

A Wonder Woman sketch on another We Can Be Heroes blank variant done by local artist Brian Lattimer...



A Thanos sketch done on a Thanos Rising blank variant by Rick Deschesne I had done at Origins Game Fair a couple of years back...



and a Sabrina the Teen Age Witch as the Scarlet Witch done on an Uncanny Avengers #1 blank variant by Archie artist Dan Parent at Gem City COmic COn a couple of years back...



I have other con sketches and such, but these are the 6 blank cover commissions I have had done so far. I have other blank variant covers waiting for the right opportunity to be done.

-M

[Riffster]

I have a bunch of Archie ones and a couple Hero ones, I love them
Bill Galvan Eternity Kiss.jpg
Bill Galvan Princess Leia.jpg
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Gisele Legace Vampironica final.jpg
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I have alot more Archies

[MRP]

Very cool Riffster.

-M

[MRP]

Just got a new one today at a local show-had local creator Adam Fields do a Dr. Strange cover for me...



while I was at the show I also picked up this print form Archie artist extraordinaire Craig Boldman...



Juggie as the Joker with a certain brunette as Harley and a Hot Dog Bat-Hound!

-M