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Brian Miller
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Posted: 18 May 2020 at 4:38pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply

I've got that Mid-Ohio Con cover on a post card.
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Dan Grenough
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Many thanks to Nathan for starting threads like this and to everyone for
sharing photos of cool items that I wouldn’t have otherwise known
existed!

I’m not sure if this is what Nathan had in mind, but I’m always pleased
to share what I feel is my most obscure JB item:
Box O’ Xeroxes

The links in that thread to the Pencil Scans no longer work, but can be
found at their new home:
PencilScans

Since anyone can print out any of the 939 pages I got and basically
have the same thing, they may not be too “obscure”; however, I’m still
ecstatic to own them and was glad to have the opportunity to share
them here (with Dan Marcoux’s help!).
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Nathan Greno
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Brian: What’s that from?!?


The FF post? I don’t know if Marvel sold those things (or just a promotional item), but I remember seeing them in comic shops when I was a kid. They are artwork printed on cloth. The only time I’ve seen that FF art is on that cloth “poster”... or whatever you’d call it! 

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Nathan Greno
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Nathan Greno
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Valmor J. Pedretti
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Nathan, you should auction that amazing JB item collection and use the money to fund a documentary on the man. I'll do the sound and music for free! ;-)
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Nathan Greno
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Doug Centers
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Hey, I got that Workshop book!

Not sure how "obscure" this one is but I don't see it around much;


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Paul Wills
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To this day, I still can't fully look at that exploding John Byrne drawing. He has succeeded in making me squeamish!
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Scott Sackett
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Same here.

When I was about 12 I was huge John Byrne fan and at a small convention came across The Art of John Byrne. I was pretty excited, but the cover cost was a stretch for my budget, so I flipped through it to see if I wanted it.

That was the first image I saw and it really freaked me out so much I didn't even flip through the rest of the book.

I didn't get a copy until about 8 years later when a professor at my art college sold me a copy.

I know I was a weird kid, but that really made an impression on me.
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Matt Hawes
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Nathan, that Spider-Man Comic Book Club of Ithaca
is a cropped version of a parody mock "Spidey's
Super Stories" cover JB did which also had the
Punisher blowing away the Easy Reader (Morgan
Freeman's character).

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Nathan Greno
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When I was a little kid, I saved up my allowance so I’d have money to blow when I visited my grandparents in California. I found a comic shop in the phone book, convinced my grandmother to drive me there, and found The Art of John Byrne sitting on the shelves! Oh glorious day!!! — then my grandmother flipped through the book, saw the nudity, and said I couldn’t buy it. That was total bullshit. 😭
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