I have loved this page from the moment I laid eyes on it years ago, when it lived in my friend Henry Baba's collection. I learned he planned on selling it around fall of 2006. Alas, I was tapped out at the time. But as luck had it, Henry put it up for sale at S.D. 2007. And that's when it moved to Milanoville. Ironically, Henry used to own my other Fine Black Condor page. Guess they were meant to be together. I love how the skull totem breaks across the panel boundries and Fine's brush work on this page is as outstanding an example of his mastery of the Japanese brush as you'll find. Thanks, Henry!

If after scoring a Ditko ASM page, a McCay Gertie panel, a Raymond X-9 daily, and so much more at S.D. 2004 someone had told me things could get better, I'd have thought they were nuts. But get better they did when Alan Bahr at Heroes offered me this Lou Fine Black Condor page. Fine was famous for his mastery of the Japanese brush, whose firm hairs enabled him to achieve incredible crosshatching effects, as evidenced throught this page and especially in the lower left panel. Thanks, Mr. B.!