Very nice!!!  I always love JB's Batman.

However, and I'm not sure if it's because the commissioner of this piece requested it in the costume or not, but there is a VERY heavy Jim Aparo feel and look to it.  Not just the costume, but the entire piece itself.

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An interesting thought. As many of you know, I prowl the local antique and consignment stores, and I am frequently struck by the kinds of artwork to be found there. Drawings, painting, etchings, all of which presumably had some special significance to someone, in decades gone by. An almost all of which now languish in a corner, gathering dust, waiting for the right person to see them and want them. Kinda sad and a little poignant.

I've wondered if my own work will end up like that, some day. The market for original comic art is an odd creature, governed by forces that have only distant relation to those we find out in the real world. When I started trying to get work in comics, I picked up several Jack Kirby pages for, literally, one tenth of one percent of what they'd sell for today. Kirby was out of fashion, you see, so the things that would have affected the price of the pieces if he was, say, Picasso -- historical significance, for instant -- did not attach.