Baltmore Comic Con 2024 Part 3: Keith Williams, Alex Saviuk, and Bob Wiacek

Baltimore Comic Con 2024 remained in full swing, and standing in line after line was the name of the game. Moving on from last week's post, I made my way to the tables of Alex Saviuk, Keith Williams, and Bob Wiacek.

I've run into Mr. Williams at multiple shows, and each time I bring a bevy of random books for him to sign. Last time, I focused on a signature on a symbiote story, his only contribution to the arc. The time before that, was a couple more random books.

This time around, I picked some books that held a bit more sentimental value to me. I honed in on the first Web of Spider-Man books, in fact the first Spider-Man books, I had as a kid. The ones that officially introduced me to the character. As I was regaling this tale to him and his wife, my buddy called to tell me the artist he was in line for had just shown up.

Oops...I missed a signature from
Al Milgrom on this...oh, well...

To accomplish the signing of these books, I also needed to get a couple signatures from Alex Saviuk, who was a few tables down.

These three books either came with the Sears catalog ordered Offical Marvel Comics Collector's Kit, a Christmas gift I received, or very early in my comic book "collecting" childhood. Regardless of their origin, these stand out very vividly as my first exposure to Spider-Man in comic form.

There were two things that bothered me for the longest time from last year's Baltimore Comic Con. The first was forgetting to get my cover for the AudioGraphic version of Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars signed by Bob Wiacek. The second, was forgetting to pay him for the three books he did sign.

Upon rectifying the first at this year's convention, I fessed up to the oversight from last year. I handed Mr. Wiacek $100.00, and said, this is for today's signature, the oversight from last time, and what we'll call interest. He was taken aback by my honesty, and said that if he could physically see to draw, he would gift me a Man Thing drawing for it. He said that if he ever got his vision back that he would still do that.

The moral of the story, I was glad to get it off my guilty conscience, and make Mr. Wiacek whole because it was the right thing to do. I do pray his vision returns one day, not for the potential gift he offered that would come from it. Just because I wish him the best.

For those of you tracking pricing, Keith Williams remains at his very generous $5.00 per signature, while Alex Saviuk remained at his pricing of $10.00. I believe Bob Wiacek was $20.00 per signature, but I honestly didn't pay attention since I had my mission to make him whole to complete.

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Baltimore Comic Con 2023: Part IV - Bob Hall, Bob Wiacek, and Bob McLeod

The exhaustion, hunger and sore feet weren't stopping me as I continued the rounds through Baltimore Comic Con 2023.

Bob Hall

I had a couple books for Bob Hall. Every time I glanced over to his table from another line, there was usually nobody there, which made it easy to stop by when reaching a moment in time of needing to go somewhere for signatures, but not necessarily wanting to pull out my map.

Marvel Team-Up 74 featuring the Not
Ready for Prime-Time Players, AKA
Saturday Night Live
Also signed by Chris Claremont at Galaxy Con 2023,
and Jim Shooter at Big Lick NOVA 2023

Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man 65
There is nothing special about this book

Much like my visit to Keith William's table, apparently I didn't get a photo of Bob Wiacek. Perhaps it was because I was tired. Perhaps it was because I was delivering a message for Alex Saviuk. I don't know. At this point in the day I didn't remember much. In fact, I can't even say with all honesty that I remember even paying the man for his autographs. I think I did, but in all honesty, I don't know.

Also signed by Jim Shooter at Big Lick 2022

Also signed by Jim Shooter at Big Lick 2023

If you recall from my post about Mr. Saviuk, he was very excited to hear that Mr. Wiacek was at the show, and asked me kindly if I would to let him know that he wanted to catch up with him. When I relayed this message, I learned from Bob that while he would very much so like to catch up with Alex that severe vision loss prevented him from going anywhere. He asked if I would relay to Alex to please come see him, so I did. I got my books signed, and went back to relay the message. Alex then let me do something I desperately needed to do. I used part of his table to get myself reorganized.

When preparing for Baltimore Comic Con 2023, I was actually surprised to find out just how many Spider-Man books Bob McLeod had contributed to. Far too many for me to get signed, that's for sure. I tried to edit myself, but even in doing so, he signed a lot for me.

Heck yeah I was going to get my whole run of the classic Kravin's Last Hunt story arc signed. Bob inked all six issues, which is rare that a single talent would work across multiple titles.

Also signed by Jim Shooter at Big Lick 2023

Also signed by Jim Shooter at Big Lick 2023

Also signed by Jim Shooter at Big Lick 2023

Also signed by Jim Shooter at Big Lick 2023

Also signed by Jim Shooter at Big Lick 2023

Also signed by Jim Shooter at Big Lick 2023

He also returned in 1992 to provide inks on the sequel one-shot, The Amazing Spider-Man: Soul of the Hunter.

Bob was also privy to provide the inks on The Amazing Spider-Man 298 and 299, which were the first two books in the series drawn by Todd McFarlane. Now that I type that, maybe I have it the wrong way. Perhaps it was McFarlane who was the privliged one to have a veteran inker work on his books.

I'll probably never get the opportunity to have McFarlane sign these.

Mr. McLeod also provided the inks on Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars issue 9...

Also signed by Jim Shooter at Big Lick 2023

...and the seminal issue to G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero. This book is one that surprises me how I keep digging it out to get more and more autographs on. I thought Larry Hama would be the only one, and was darn ecstatic just to have that.

Also signed by Larry Hama at Big Lick 2022,
and Jim Shooter at Big Lick 2023

I'm kicking myself for forgetting to have Bob Wiacek sign my Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars audio CD. I didn't even think of it while I was at his table, but at the same time, he was struggling so much to sign comics with his vision problems, that this one may have been too much for him with how small it is compared to a comic. His helper was literally putting two piece of cardboard spread apart to show him where to sign within, and putting his pen down for him in his hand. I genuinely felt bad for the guy, and even worse if did indeed not pay him.

Also signed by Jim Shooter at Big Lick 2023

And, on that sad note, that wraps up the autographs from these creators. Once again, for those of you searching Google for artist prices, each of these folks was charging $10.00 per item.

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