Mcfarlane art. And x men 1 auction results

[suspense39]

http://comics.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=7063&lotNo=92030

http://comics.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=7063&lotNo=91418

Crazy records!

[clemso]

Love the ASM 328 cover, $657K for some 1990 original cover art is insane.

[suspense39]

Yeah, if I'm not mistaken, someone paid 1 million for AF 15 entire first Ditko Spiderman story and gave it to the Smithsonian, that I can understand.

[Operation:Mego]

That's an amazing cover! Hulk bursting through the title is bad-***.

[clemso]

That's not what i heard, the rumor is that a Marvel staffer had this in his/her possession since the early 1960s and donated it to the Library of Congress.

Yeah, if I'm not mistaken, someone paid 1 million for AF 15 entire first Ditko Spiderman story and gave it to the Smithsonian, that I can understand.

[suspense39]

Very possible

That's not what i heard, the rumor is that a Marvel staffer had this in his/her possession since the early 1960s and donated it to the Library of Congress.

I only heard that as second hand info .....theres probably info on the net.

[madmarva]

Love the ASM 328 cover, $657K for some 1990 original cover art is insane.

I tend to agree with you, but it's kind of an eye of the beholder thing. The art certainly isn't rare like silver-age and golden-age work. I would bet a large portion of McFarlane's comic book work is in various collections rather than destroyed, like some artists' work from earlier generations. But for it to go that high, there had to be more than one person willing to shell out that kind of money.

Did they disclose who bought it? Maybe it was McFarlane trying to juice the price of his original art, lol.

[Blue Meanie]

I said it before and I'll say it again...give me a page of McFarlane art when he was on Infinity Inc any day of the year over what he did on Spidey. The Spidey stuff looks soooooo cartoony by comparison. That price on that cover is just ridiculous.

[samurainoir]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/TODD-MCFARLANE-INFINITY-INC-30-DC-COMICS-ORIGINAL-ART-PAGE-W-GOLDEN-AGE-FLASH-/150761002236?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item231a0e54fc

[Blue Meanie]

I loved the way he used to "frame" his art when he was on Infinity Inc. Here's a great example of his framing with Earth 2 Robin and Supes:

[Figuremod73]

Its amazing when you compare Infinity inc. (or even his early Hulk stuff) to what he eventually did in Spawn. I wonder how much of this is borrowing from other artist assuming he did such a thing like Liefield.

I fell for it, I really liked that style on Amazing Spiderman at first. Now i look at it and go "ugh!".

Its a decent cover but it isnt worth half that.

[Blue Meanie]

I think it has a lot to do with the inker. Dezuniga's inks tend to be slightly heavy handed in that a lot of the penciler's art that he touches tend to start to look the same. If you look at pages that Dezuniga inked of McFarlane and then look at the follow up artist, Vince Argondezzi, on Infinity Inc...there really isn't much of a difference between the two. I went over to the GCD site and sure enough McFarlane Scripted, Penciled, and Inked EVERYTHING on Spidey. I think the inking on the Spidey is horrendous. Maybe that's what gave it that "Cartoony" look.

[Figuremod73]

I remember years ago reading a interview with Todd and he said that he did really rough breakdowns in pencil and everything eles in ink. Basically he was doodleing the whole pages in ink.

I think Mcfarlane had the potential to be an extremely good artist but went with those shortcuts because he realised he could get away with it. He was the hottest artist in comics by the time he started AS (roughly 1989 on issue 298) and gradually became more and more cartoony as he went along. I think he may have had one inker that entire stint. He artwork actually became horrendous when it went bi weekly during the summer issues. I think that may have been in part why he left that book and went to Spiderman (the one he wrote and drew for 12 issues).

I was much happier having Erik Larsen on Amazing Spiderman. Larsen had some fantastic inkers on that book like Randy Emberlin and Terry Austin. Spectacular Spiderman was even better with Sal Buscema on art.

[madmarva]

I also enjoyed the borders he used on Infinity Inc. I felt is really added to the design of the pages. Certainly, it could be argued that it took away from the storytelling, but I liked it. Yes, DeZungia was a heavy-handed inker, but I liked his style, and at the time McFarlane's style wasn't known well enough for fans to care.

I enjoyed McFarlane's Spider-Man at the time because of the webbing and he gave a spidery feel he gave to the character that I thought had been lost for a long time. It worked for me at the time. Looking back at it now, the fascination is lost. It just looks busy. McFarlane was a good cartoonist, but he owed much of his success to the overall popularity of Spider-Man, particularly abroad, the gigantic push Wizard gave his work and the speculative market of the time. Those three combined skyrocketed him to the top of the business. IMO.

[Figuremod73]

Oh yes, Wizard did have a hand in it. He did the cover to the first issue and I THINK was a good friend with the editors.