Frank'sCuratedComics

Blast Furnace Funnies

2011-10-15T08:36:00.000-07:00

NEWSFLASH: "Hey Copacetic Customers! - Frank Santoro here. If you are a fan of my work, you may have heard about the newspaper comic that I made for the 2011 Pittsburgh Biennial titled Blast Furnace Funnies. Commissioned by the Carnegie Museum of Art, this comic was available free to the public during the Biennial and unavailable anywhere else – until now! That's right: every Copacetic customer who buys a newsprint edition of Storeyville will receive a free copy of Blast Furnace Funnies. After Storeyville, this is probably the best comic I've ever done. I made my parents cry with this one, folks. A heartfelt postcard to my home town - this comic is something I've been trying to do for years - I know you'll love it. Get it FREE with every purchase of the newsprint edition of Storeyville. Over and out."

Storeyville discovery

2011-09-23T10:55:00.001-07:00

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I found a box at my dad's house labeled "Protected Storeyvilles" - I couldn't believe it! Here it is, the LAST BOX OF STOREYVILLE. All the others were destroyed in the fire at my mom's house. No joke. So I took this box to Bill Boichel's Copacetic Comics shoppe and opened it - on camera. Bill is selling these for me - a Pittsburgh exclusive. This is it - last call.

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Weird Suspense #2

2011-09-07T10:38:00.001-07:00

Larry Lieber cover. Pat Boyette interior that looks like this.

SOLD!

capneasyATgmailDOTcom

NUMBER ONES

2011-09-03T10:47:00.000-07:00

pack A - MANoSAURS

New Sale
New Project

I need money to buy time to work on my new comic. So I am selling drawings and selling my back issue collection. I decided to combine the two activities. Here are 15 drawings I did during my road trip from Pittsburgh to New Mexico. The theme was Number Ones from the Black and White Explosion era of the '80s. There's a few '90s ones.

I'm not giving these away. One drawing and one comic equals one "pack". Each pack is $25 postpaid. This is the new regime. It's more fundraiser for me to keep on drawing my new comic than it is a back issue sale. My plan is just to make a ton of these and keep putting them up here for sale. 25 bux is what I need to make it worth it for me to go through the motion of selling these right now. Five bux goes to shipping (mailed in a Priority Mail pack with solid cardboard) and a dollar goes to PayPal. So I'm getting 19 bux each for these when I sell them. That sounds fair to me. Fair to you? Good. Thanks.

Email me at capneasyATgmailDOTcom if you want to buy a pack. Again each pack is one drawing and one comic for 25 bux postpaid. Please list your first three choices. Don't PayPal me first. The one you want might be sold already. I will email you straight back about your choices. Forgive this lo-fi approach but it's easier for me. Thanks thanks thanks! Overseas orders ok just work with me - the shipping costs will be different.

Help Frank keep drawing! Great Xmas presents. Sell them on eBay for more money! Sure to be collectible in some parallel universe.

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pack B MANFROG

PACK C ALPHA TRACK / SOLD!

PACK D CROSSED SWORDS / SOLD!

PACK E JUDO JOE / SOLD!

pack F CORBO / SOLD!

pack G DIMENSION Z

pack H Q-UNIT

pack I COLT

pack J COMICS ARTISTS SHOWCASE

pack K ADVENTURES OF BOC / SOLD!

pack L ALICE AND THE ENGINE / SOLD!

pack M FOREVER NOW

pack N CLAUS

pack O CLINT THE CARROT

SALE

2011-08-05T15:45:00.000-07:00

EVERYTHING IS SOLD OUT!!
THANK YOU

SET #1 SOLD!

Strange Tales #6, 14, 15
Superman / Aliens (one shot)
Secret Origins #39
Doctor Strange #50
Cap'n Quick & a Foozle #2
The Adventures of BOC #1
Underwater #1
Yummy Fur #31

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I need your money for a project. The project is: help little Frankie (that's me) get his life back together.

I am traveling from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to New Mexico (3 days drive!) and I need help. I need 200 bux to get my car inspected and ready to roll. So I went through my comic book collection and made up some back issue sets to sell. I made ten sets of ten comics each. The wackier the combinations the better. Then I drew a sketch of one of the comics in each set. Then I made a big wingnutty hype-up list of what is in each set where I describe why I collected the comic in the first place. Click on the scans of the lists below to enlarge. The sketch and the list and the comics are what you get for the price of admission. The sketch is a one-of-a-kind marker drawing on an acid free backing board and IS INCLUDED IN THE PRICE. The wingnutty list is also on a backing board and this is how I packaged the sets themselves. Two separate boards.

For those of you who know what SPX is - well, I'm not gonna make it this year. And SPX is where I like to set up shop and sell old comic books. It's great but also a ton of money to drive down there - for me and for everyone else. So, it got me thinking about how I might be able to sell my collection online. If I can't lean across the longboxes and do my routine for you in person then this is the next best thing. I decided to do more of an art project than just have a fire sale. Please enjoy. I had fun making these.

20 bucks each. 5 bucks shipping. That's $25 a set. I'm practically giving them away. It's like you only had to spend five bucks on gas to go to SPX - and you got to spend twenty dollars at my table. I'm making super deals. I put a nice, weird set of stuff together for you. What? You have that issue of Yummy Fur? Well, give it to a friend.

It's first come first serve. Email me at capneasyATgmailDOTcom if you
want to buy a set. Please refer to the set's number. Also list two alternate choices in case your first choice and second are sold.

The sets are mailed in a Priority Mail envelope and will be mailed immediately after purchase. I'm accepting PayPal and checks.

Thanks.
Frankius

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SET #2 SOLD!

Yummy Fur #1
The New Defenders #134, 136, 137
Master of Kung Fu #47, 49
Slash Maraud #2
Star Reach #10
Phoenix #2
X-Factor #16

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SET #3 SOLD!

Daredevil #222
Alien Worlds #2
Vanguard Illustrated #1
X-Factor #16
Master of Kung Fu #35, 42
Seduction of the Innocent #4
Underwater #1
Cap'n Quick & a Foozle #2
ROM Spaceknight #61

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SET #4 SOLD!

Yummy Fur #11, 26, 27, 28, 29, 31, 32
Underwater #5
Scorpio Rose #2

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SET #5 SOLD!

Yummy Fur #26, 30
Scorpio Rose #1, 2
Heroes, Inc presents Cannon
Strange Tales #157
Marvel Two-in-One #51
The Jam #4
Sgt. Rock Special #2
Master of Kung Fu #121

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SET #6 SOLD!

Justice, Inc #1, 2 set
Or Else #1
Cap'n Quick & a Foozle #2
Seduction of the Innocent #4, 5
Grendel #14
Peep Show #1, 2, 3 set

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SET #7 SOLD!

Grendel #13
The Blood Sword #7
CodeName: Danger #3
Void Indigo #1-2 set
Maelstrom #2
Ironwolf #1
American Flagg! #1
Starstruck #1
Yang #4

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SET #8 SOLD!

Phoenix #1
Vanguard #3
Man-Stalker #2
Alien Worlds #2
Daffy Qaddafi (one shot)
Maelstrom #7
Optic Nerve #2
Crystar #3
Edge #1

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SET #9 SOLD!

Master of Kung Fu #18, 19, 20, 22, 25, 29, 30, 39
True Believers #1
Sam Slade Robo Hunter #2

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SET #10 SOLD!

Ronin #1, 2, 3
Underwater #1, 5
X-Factor #16
Daredevil #208
Master of Kung Fu #35
Starslayer #2, 3

Ditko's Thor

2010-06-08T16:19:00.000-07:00

I found this Thor origin story by Steve Ditko in a comic called The Saga of Thane of Bagarth issue number 24 from 1985 which was a reprint of an old Charlton comic from 1973. I've never seen or heard of it before.

This one's not for sale, sorry.

20 bux postpaid

2009-12-11T12:18:00.001-08:00

Here it is, just what you've always wanted:
The $20 Grab Bag o' Comics. Can't make it to a convention or store where I sell my comic book back issues? Well, here's your chance, True Believers! I'll mail you a stack of my, ahem, curated back issue comic books for 20 bux postpaid via Priority Mail. That's right you'll get 20 dollars worth of comics and I'll pay for the shipping.

What's in each of the big Grab Bag o' Comics you ask? Well, you'll get a random selection of comics from my Cheap Shit box. Every grab bag contains six, that's right, SIX comics from my personal collection of fantastic comic book gems from yesteryear.

SOLD OUT!

Kyle Baker JUSTICE set

2009-11-08T07:37:00.000-08:00

$8 THE HYPE-UP: SOLDOUT!
Two issue mini-series from 1989. Kyle Baker art. Blueline process. Baker colored it with what looks like pastels and colored pencils. Very chalky. Lots of flourishes and evidence of the master's hand. The line art was drawn on a separate layer. So it's an interesting and often beautiful combination of hard and soft lines. Almost all of the faces are drawn on the pastel layer. Meaning they look fuzzy and distant and, because it's Baker, comical and hilarious and serious all at once. I think it's one of the most inventive uses of the blueline process ever. A product of it's time, for sure. The story? Um, I think it has something to do with spies and war.

VANGUARD #1-3 BRENDAN McCARTHY

2009-06-30T16:29:00.000-07:00

$20.00 for three issue set
THE HYPE-UP: Godfather of the British Invasion. The man who taught Jamie "Tank Girl" Hewlett everything he knows. Psych-comics guru Brendan McCarthy's first published work in America. He did three installments of his Freakwave story (he's convinced the movie Waterworld ripped him off) for Vanguard published by Pacific Comics. Each issue has a 8 or 10 page mindblower of a McCarthy story inside (not to mention early Steve Rude as well). See how it all started. Great colors of course and that unique McCarthy framing style. Trippy!

SOLD OUT!

MAGE #15 by MATT WAGNER

2009-06-30T04:51:00.000-07:00

$5.00
THE HYPE-UP: Amazing 48 page color comic from 1986. Lots of airbrush and funky textures. It's a blueline process for all you color nerds. This is the last issue of the breakaway crossover indie hit of the mid 80's: Mage. Read it and weep. Everyone was sad to see the main character Kevin Matchstick and his magic bat hit the trail. His creator, Matt Wagner went on to mainstream success at DC - but it was this series that put him on the map. Don't worry about needing to read the first 14 issues for this issue to make sense cuz it's all ACTION! AND ROMANCE! LETS GO! LOOK AT THESE SPREADS:

SOLD OUT!

DETECTIVES INC. by MARSHALL ROGERS

2009-06-30T04:50:00.001-07:00

$12.00
THE HYPE-UP: Why pay big bucks for a re-issue of this Marshall Rogers 1980 classic when you can own the original for half the price? That's right, here is Marshall Rogers' first mature and realized work. Drawn in the Black and White magazine style that was so popular in 1980, this is an adult graphic novel for the then burgeoning Direct Market crowd. This is the first printing of the Eclipse edition, 48 pages of beautifully articulated narrative comics. Watch Rogers blend Neal Adams and Steranko and his own impeccable design sense into something new. Skip over the boring dialogue and marvel at Marshall's knack for composing a page and a two page spread. Stiltled? Stiff? I say thee nay, Marshall Rogers will teach you a thing or two before your life is through.

SOLD OUT!

THE PRICE by JIM STARLIN

2009-06-30T04:30:00.000-07:00

$10.00
THE HYPE-UP: Totally weird magazine size 48 page feat of comic book pretentiousness that somehow "works". Lots of photo-referencing and super stylized staging but so what? LOOK at those Steranko-like compositions and crazy transitions. More of a Steranko-head than even Marshall Rogers, Starlin was the king of "adult" comics back in the 70s. And then...? What happened? This happened. He over-reached and produced this mess of a book. But what a mess! A trainwreck masterpiece. This is it. Where the magic went to die in 1981. Worth it for the front and back covers alone.

SOLD OUT!