Marvel Silver-Age Sketchagraph Gallery #2
Modern-day artists 
Last Updated: June 17, 2008 ...
This Gallery is DEDICATED to the late Tom Carter !!
I believe that Tom Carter, who passed away in early 2007, was the biggest collector of Marvel sketchagraph and sketch cards, in the world. He was also my best friend in this hobby. We first made contact in 2000 when we did our first trade ... and of course, it was MSA. Over the next year, I realized that he was REAL SERIOUS about collecting the MSA sketches, and I would defer to him, since I knew I could not compete with his collection. I was satisfied being at best, #2. 
In late 2001, when a certain collector offered to sell his entire MSA collection, I was surprised that Tom "couldn't afford it". He really wanted a lot of the sketches, and since I wanted him to have the best MSA collection, I financed the venture. I then let him have about 100 of the best sketches from that collection, for a nominal price each. He paid me for them over the next two years. This seemed to "cement" our sketch card friendship !!
Also, for both of us, our favorite comic book was the Fantastic Four ... so we had something else in common. In 2006, he started to sell his MSA Ribeiro FF storyline sketches to me, so that I could merge them with mine. I was never quite sure why he did that !!
So when Tom passed away, and his MSA collection was put in the hands of K&J Non-sports Cards, I am grateful that they sold me Tom's entire collection. I really want to keep as much of it intact as I can !! I have merged into my own collection, the nearly 100 sketches that I mentioned above; some others that I had acquired for him over the subsequent years; some that I had reluctantly traded to him (including the first one I mentioned above ); and several "beauties" that I didn't ever realize he had !! The result of this merger can be seen in this Gallery, as well as in MSA Gallery #2.
I have and will continue to miss Tom 
I would like to think that Tom would be HAPPY knowing that I have his collection now ?
Many of you who know me well, knows that my main passion within the Marvel Comics Universe comes from the fact that I grew-up in the Silver-Age (SA). So over the last few years, I have seriously decided to go after these sketchagraphs from true legends of the Comic Book Industry.
For this web site, I have found it better to scan the entire 9-pocket (a.k.a. page), rather than to put each sketch up as an individual scan. Besides for those of you who know me, I am very obsessive about how my pages are arranged Currently I have 31 "full" pages of sketchagraphs in this Gallery. Below, I give a brief summary of what is in each page, just to the right of the thumbnail for that page. Click the thumbnail to open a new window to see a larger-size view of the page.
Table 2: The 5 Modern-day artists who drew MSA Sketchagraph cards
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