Hey everybody this is this is plate with marvel.com and I have a very very

special guest with us today mr. John Crocker I thought I was hoping you knew my name. I'm not aware of anything you've done,

never seen you before. A blank slate interview. Who are you dude and how do you wander into the Thorroom?

You've been showing me this awesome art from your collection,

like Captain America, some big Kirby fan?

Oh yes, yes. I started loving Marvel during the silver age of Marvel, which was when they

created Fantastic Four and Thor and I'm explaining this to you like you don't know but

but it was you know it was my

the era I was growing up and when I got engaged in the comic books and I did not know that if you if you

looked around a little bit you could find the original art for sale and that

for years the original art was priced less than the comics which was amazing to me

that when I first started collecting it was you know it was remarkably less and and now it's

gone stratospherically expensive but but I just collect Jack Kirby

original art because that was the stuff I really connected with when I was a kid.

And so I have all these great old pieces of Thor art and Fantastic Four Art and you know I have a Thor cover where he's you know

pushing a part of building you know and it's all collapsing around him and it's

oh it's fantastic and you know and it just makes me happy to see it every day.

So what would you say is your favorite piece?

My favorite piece is probably, I have a fantastic for splash page which is you know the big image

page one from I think Fantastic Four 43 which is this big hulking picture of the thing in the foreground with these

villains behind him and it's interesting because at the time in the actual printed book they cut out the thing image and made him smaller in the foreground.

So they had to actually reconstruct the original image as Jack Kirby drew it.

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