1984 - Top 100 Comics Sales

Thanks to Ferran Delgado for the scan. Here's a list of the Top 34 of comics with April 1984 cover date. Direct market sales only. Published in Comics Feature #46 Nice to see that Alpha Flight was a top seller. I'm assuming that the "Phoenix" comic is the Phoenix: The Untold Story. Interesting that DC's best title is Wolfman and Perez's Titans's spin-off Tales of the Teen Titans.

1984 - New Mutants Original Art

From the collection of Ferran Delgado:

1983 - Simonson Thor is a Sell-Out!

Thanks to Ferran Delgado who posted this up at the Walt Simonson Appreciation Society Facebook page.

"The first Walt Simonson issue of Thor#337 demonstrated very 

clearly how much effect a new artist can have on sales."

" There's no doubt that it's the Simonson art. People who haven't read Thor in years 

were asking for this eon, and multiple-copy sales are very heavy."

 

1979 - Louise Jones Joins Marvel Comics

Thanks to Ferran Delgado for the scan.

1980 - Spider-Man's Origin Retold

Thanks to Ferran once again for this page from the Spider-Man and the Hulk Chicago Tribune Special Edition in 1980. Drawn by John Romita and inked by Sal Buscema. Original from Amazing Spider-Man #94.

1984 - Paul Smith's pencils for Uncanny X-Men #175

Found over at the Paul Smith Appreciation Page on Facebook:

 

Thanks to Ferran for the scan. The pencils were published in Mavel Age #10.

1985 - Storm by Art Adams

From the collection of Ferran Delgado

http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=221161&GSub=71441

1981 - Dazzler #1's unpublished splash page

Tip of the hat to Ferran Delgado and Go For It! for this post:

1984 - Longshot illustration pre-miniseries

Found over at Ferran Delgado's blog (http://ferrandelgado.blogspot.com/2010/08/ilustracion-antigua-de-longshot-obra-de.html?zx=68c78fe003ea9bfc)

Just a lovely piece and its colours are stunning.