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A little re-organization; no new information.
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There are three publicly available Price History sites: Heritage's archive, eBay's completed listings, and Comic Art Tracker's "Sold art." So, I've grouped the three at the top of the write-up under "Price History" to make them stand out a little. Can't believe it took me so long to notice CAT's "Sold art."
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Did you post this in the right thread or are you trying to make the newbies feel bad? Great page congratulations!
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Original Comic Art Insurance/ Protection
alxjhnsn replied to Nate Hartz's topic in Original Comic Art
All of the auction houses will give you appraisals. You can read more in the hidden text of the first post of the Pricing Comic Art - 2023 Edition thread. Search for appraisals, you will find links advertising that service from Heriage, Hake's, and ComicConnect. It also has a link to the auction sites monitored by @NicoV's wonderful ComicArtTracker website. It's the best list of such sites on the web. -
Similar to the Skull the Slayer piece, I collected this sequence. The "Legion of Super-Heroes" series was three issues long and reprinted stories from Adventure. It was a trial balloon at new Legion stories. I'd love to be able to add a scan of the inks if anyone has one. Curt's cover wasn't bad, but Carmine's is much more dynamic. The funny thing about the cover is the fleeing figure of Phantom Girl - who SB couldn't hurt. Swan's original cover Infantino's layout Cardy's pencils Published cover
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I don't own any of this art, but it's cool to see the progression from Marie's prelim to the published cover. All of the art work came up for sale or was in the CAF at the same time. Marie's Prelim Jack's pencils Frank's ink on Jack's pencils Published cover
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Fred Hembeck Artwork (published comic book art)
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I have nothing published by Fred, but I do have a pretty elaborate commission that is worthy of publication. Does that count? Probably not, but enjoy it anyway. Click image for a better picture. -
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I've updated it again with a little more information. Enjoy.
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@grapeape, I've updated my post with the final pencils. I still have two questions outstanding - "Did Mike ink and color the pencils?" Yeah, I'm nosy.
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Mike Grell was at a small con with great guests in Baytown, TX - Eastern Rim Comic Con. He had this piece and the print made from it. On the CAF in the gallery of Georg Schell there are two more versions. Georg was the original commissioner. He bought a finished and colored commission that Mike turned into a print. As part of the process, Mike sent him a scan of the pencils which he then inked and colored. James inked a scan of the pencils. So, here is the full progression. Click the image to go to the correct CAF page. My Prelim by Mike Grell Georg Schell's pencils Georg Schell's inked Print Inks on pencil scan by Mike Grell & colored by Grell by James Pascoe
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Decorating the Morlock Tunnels: Art under $500
alxjhnsn replied to RBerman's topic in Original Comic Art
Four pages from 1989 by a famous editor/writer/artist for less than $500 including taxes and shipping! My latest purchase came off eBay thanks to my friend Rob Stolzerr. Rob alerted me to four pages of Scribbly art drawn by Sheldon Mayer. The full story is on the link, but the gist is: Scribbly is my favorite of Sheldon Mayer's creations I've seen one such page in almost 20 years of collecting I'd bid on these pages once before thinking they were the original pages from 1939's All-American Comics #6. It turned out that they were actually recreations for DC's book "The Greatest Golden Age Stories Ever Told." The auction house refunded the money to the auction winner, the family kept the art, I figured I'd never see them again. For once, I was happy to be wrong. Moreover, I won it for a lot less than they sold for in the Original Auction! Yeah, I squandered more of my daughters' inheritance, but not very much. https://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=2000059 -
My latest purchase came off eBay thanks to my friend Rob Stolzerr. Rob alerted me to four pages of Scribbly art drawn by Sheldon Mayer. The full story is on the link, but the gist is: Scribbly is my favorite of Sheldon Mayer's creations I've seen one such page in almost 20 years of collecting I'd bid on these pages once before thinking they were the original pages from 1939's All-American Comics #6. It turned out that they were actually recreations for DC's book "The Greatest Golden Age Stories Ever Told." The auction house refunded the money to the auction winner, the family kept the art, I figured I'd never see them again. For once, I was happy to be wrong. Moreover, I won it for a lot less than they sold for in the Original Auction! Yeah, I squandered more of my daughters' inheritance, but not very much. https://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=2000059
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As many (most?) of you may have noticed, I'm a fan of Sheldon Mayer's work. Though not all that well known today, Sheldon is the man who pulled Superman from a stack of submittals and got him placed in Action #1. He went on to be involved in the creation and editing of much of the All-American Comics (later DC) line-up including Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, and The Flash. When he stepped down as an editor, he continued as a writer and artist on a variety of DC humor books including Sugar and Spike. He worked on S&S until his eyesight failed ending with issue 98. Later, he received cataract surgery and with restored vision resumed working. He produced new S&S stories for the overseas market. Many of those stories have never been reprinted in the US. He also contributed to mainline DC line by creating The Black Orchid. I suspect that this piece may have been used on one of the non-US S&S stories, but, if so, it's unknown to me. It's fun though. Click the image to learn more.
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Here's another. Late in life, Sprang started doing commissions - all were good a few were flat out great. This is a preliminary for one of those great commissions. Click the image for more details including a few of those other commissions. BTW, if you ever see a copy of The Art of Richard W. Sprang by Bob Koppany, buy it. You will be glad that you did. The link is to discussion of the book and picture from my copy.