Snowcats, Russians, Wild Bill and Frostbite!
2010 has been a great year thus far, and yesterday I landed my second and third pieces of G.I. Joe related original art (see my first!) this year, to keep the streak going! While the my G.I. Joe mythos was created in the regular Marvel run, some of my favorite individual stories ever occurred in the Special Missions title (something Chuck Dixon seemed to agree with when I interviewed him in ‘08). Some may know that I’ve started (which I will be resuming once our redesign is finished) a reread of both Marvel runs (3 from the central title, then 1 Special Mission issue and so on) and in my post about the first Special Mission (which was an extra in Issue#50 of the regular run, before spinning to its own title) I gave an overview of my thoughts on the title as a whole, along with thoughts on the actual story.
G.I. JOE – First Marvel Original Art!
This month’s Comiclink focused auction ended (a busy month for comic auctions in general with Heritage, Comics Connect, and Quality Comix also in play this November) a couple of days ago and while the field probably wasn’t as top heavy as some of their previous auctions, I found that it was particularly strong in offerings from some of my own collecting focuses. I have to admit that I ended up striking out on all of my hopefuls, but I still loved just seeing the headlining (for me) item–the original art for the first page of the first issue of Marvel Comics’ G.I. Joe run.
