#rob liefeld
Today marks the 30th anniversary of the April 16, 1992 release of Rob Liefeld’s Youngblood#1, which was the first Image Comics title to be published following the groundbreaking news that Marvel’s most popular artists had left the House of Ideas to form their own independent platform.
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Deadpool 2 is… (insert cliche film review comment about how great the action is, how funny it is, what a fun time, blah, blah, blah)…
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All these years later, and he still draws the best Cable…
The first and only CGC 10.0 copy of New Mutants #98 – the first appearance of Deadpool — written by Rob Liefeld and Fabian Nicieza and drawn by Liefeld, has just sold for $15,449.
This sale eclipses the controversial 2009 sale of a CGC 9.9 copy for $12,500. There have been over 3900 copies of this 1991 Marvel comic graded by CGC, with only this single copy evaluated at 10.0.
The first CGC 9.9 hit the census in 2005 when there were only 275 total graded copies. The $12,250 sale for that copy took place around December 2009 when there were 1244 total copies graded.
By March 2013, there were 9 copies in 9.9 on the census (including 1 signature series copy) out of a total 3082 copies graded. So, in the time since the $12k sale up to this time, 1838 submissions produced 8 additional cgc 9.9 copies on the census. So, everything else being equal, another 9.9 appeared for every 230 copies submitted during this “gold rush” period, with prices for these additional 9.9 copies ranging from $3500 to $6000.
None of which says anything much about this CGC 10.0, besides what we already knew about it being one out of 3900 submissions. However, let’s look at other highly-submitted books from roughly the same period:
- Amazing Spider-Man #300: 10 copies in 9.9, 0 copies in 10.0 out of 7700 copies graded.
- Wolverine (1988) #1: 12 copies in 9.9, 1 copy in 10.0 out of 5100 copies graded.
- Uncanny X-Men #266: 10 copies in 9.9, 0 copies in 10.0 out of 4200 graded.
Confining it to the year of New Mutants #98’s publication, there are 25,129 comics from 1991 on the CGC census, with only 130 CGC 9.9 graded and only 9 CGC 10.0 graded out of those.
Nothing in all of that prevents another CGC 10.0 from showing up on the census tomorrow, but it does go a ways towards explaining why an important comic from 1991 has just sold for $15,449 at public auction.
My take on Rob Liefeld’s gargantuan, bubbling and unexplainable work of the 1990s, now a t-shirt by TeePublic: https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/231962-life-field
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Day 479, Rob Liefeld-ifying Spidey
NEW THIS WEEK: THE OFFICIAL IMAGE TIMELINE
Concluding our celebration of the 30th anniversary of Rob Liefeld’s Youngblood#1 (1992) with a Malibu Comics promotional poster for the new line of comics.
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Today marks the 30th anniversary of the April 16, 1992 release of Rob Liefeld’s Youngblood#1, which was the first Image Comics title to be published following the groundbreaking news that Marvel’s most popular artists had left the House of Ideas to form their own independent platform.
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Celebrating the 30th anniversary of Youngblood #1 (1992) with Rob Liefeld’s cover of Wizard Magazine #10, which featured Cable from X-Force and Shaft from Youngblood. Scott Dutton did an amazing job digitally remastering the original Wizard cover, so check out his process at Catspaw Dynamics.
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30 years ago today, Comics Buyer’s Guide reported the seismic news that the artists behind Marvel’s best-selling comics were leaving the House of Ideas to start their own independent company with the formation of Image Comics. It’s interesting to note that Jim Lee was not named in the initial announcements for the formation of Image, but he ultimately joined the new imprint along with Whilce Portacio and many other great creators during the course of 1992.
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Comics Read Day: 06/01/2022
Nice House on the Lake #9
Deadpool Bad Blood #2
The Scorched #6
Total Comics Read: 516
Rob Liefeld for some reason credited as “Ron”, his full name is Robert
Hawk & Dove #3 (1988)
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happy Liefeld feet friday! have these from Captain America #6 ! published in 1997 he had been drawing comics professionally for 9 years!
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I couldn’t decide which pose needed to be done more badly so bonus Nightwing I guess
