Valiant Market - Magnus Robot Fighter #19 cover Original Art

Heritage recently auctioned a nice Barry Windsor-Smith Wizard Magazine X-O Manowar cover and now we have the final price for another Heritage Auction. This time the cover to Magnus Robot Fighter #19 by Ralph Reese. Sold for a very surprising $2,151!

Interesting to note that the piece was sold as part of the Shamus Modern Masterworks Collection....as in Gareb Shamus, founder of Wizard Magazine.

Valiant Market - Wizard the Comics Magazine #7 original art

Time for another Valiant Market post! This time we have the Heritage Auction for Barry Windsor-Smith's X-O Manowar cover to Wizard the Comics Magazine #7. A good looking piece of art, one of the first X-O Manowar pieces ever created and a well known cover. Sold for a very surprising $3,585!

Interesting to note that the piece was sold as part of the Shamus Modern Masterworks Collection....as in Gareb Shamus, founder of Wizard Magazine.

Mags - Entertainment Retailing #9

Cover to Entertainment Retailing #9 with a cover featuring characters and events from Chaos Effect. Published by Wizard Magazine.

Mags - Comic Shop News #223

Cover to Comic Shop News #223 featuring the cover to Harbinger #1 by David Lapham.

Mags - Comic Shop News #248

Cover to Comic Shop News #248 featuring the cover to Archer & Armstrong #0 by Barry Windsor-Smith.

Original Art - Rai #6 cover

I'm trying to put together a complete collection of black and white ink art posts of every pre-UNITY Valiant comic. So far I've got X-O Manowar #1, X-O Manowar #2, X-O Manowar #4 and Harbinger #6. Here is another post (sort of) in that series. This time it's the cover art for a UNITY book - Rai #6 by Frank Miller. Now what's interesting about the UNITY covers is they were all done by only 3 different artists (Barry Windsor-Smith, Frank Miller and Walt Simonson) and none of them were ever sold until now. This cover is the first (that I know of) to reach the collector market and therefore the first to be scanned in all its black and white glory.

Behold.