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In my opinion, no. You should be able to acquire a decent example for around half that. Again, in my opinion. Here's a fine example from ROM, SPACEKNIGHT 2, auctioned on Heritage earlier this year. $1560 You may have to be a little patient, though. Pick your shot. Erik Essington has this one open for offers, too, though I don't know how much he has in mind.

Got my major start on the title by clearing out inkers Akin & Garvey of all the ROM pages they had left at the time. That's why my ROM collection skews so strongly to that era of the book (as well as it being my favorite time of the book, as well) Since then it's just been the occasional potshot acquisition.

Then just keep your eyes open. Ya never know.

I have a gallery of all ROM Spaceknight pages which are available for TRADE, but I'd probably want vintage MICRONAUTS (or stuff from ROM Annual 2) in exchange. Just something to consider.

I've heard whispered from at least one source (which I can't recall now, tsk.) that if your consignment is big enough, notable enough, that HA might even be willing to give you points against their Buyer's Premium. Can anyone confirm that detail?

Easy.

...and I don't think that this stance is even particularly unusual. Should such a valuation disaster happen, I would presume I wouldn't be alone in the loss, and further interpret it as a harbinger of opportunities to be welcomed. I would presume that there are many in the Hobby that, given the choice between: 1) losing half the value of their collection while gaining otherwise unforeseen opportunities to make new purchases, or 2) retaining their current high values, yet enduring limited opportunities to expand collections, I'd guess a solid majority would cheerfully take the loss and go hog-wild. (Not to hijack the OP's thread too much, sorry)

All else being equal, if the value of my OA collection dropped by 50% overnight, and I could still afford to keep my collection, I would not care about the paper loss one jot.

I like comics.

I'm hoping for a 'Building War Chest' year. We'll see if the fates allow.

You like the Phantom Stranger? Has that been mentioned before?

...from my writeup on CAF: I've owned this page for a few years now. It's the right-hand page to a long-separated Double Page Spread from MICRONAUTS 57 (1983) by Butch Guice and Kelley Jones. Missing pages from DPS's occur from time to time, and, in my mildly OCD-addled collector's mind, are pretty maddening. Fortunately, the MICRONAUTS are not present on this DPS, so the priority has always been low. The DPS likely was distributed intact to Guice, judging by the remnants of tape on the reverse, as well as the pricing note (twice the price of a similar 'single' page from the issue, written in the same handwriting. Kelley Jones has not sold any of his MICRONAUTS originals, to my knowledge, so it must have been Butch). How or why this page got separated from its mate I don't know, but it seems likely they were sold intact. Looking at the content of the page, unless you're familiar with the issue, it might not be immediately obvious it's part of a DPS. Only one panel (on the top) is really affected. Bottom line: I'm not married to this page, despite it being part of a vintage storyline. While I would certainly entertain the notion of buying Page 4 should it be made available, I'm just as happy to GIVE AWAY this page FOR FREE to the collector who owns its mate. So, yes. PAGE FIVE, FOR FREE, but only to the proven owner of of PAGE FOUR. I'll even pay shipping to get it to them.

A page from #26 up today.

This vendor has cleaned foxing for me in the past. Did a great job, will post results on CAF eventually. https://www.paperlovesconservation.com/

In addition, IIRC he supposedly did THREE versions of each painting produced for TV: 1) Prelim done in advance of taping; so of COURSE the art was not as spontaneous as the show made it seem 2) The piece done on-air 3) Tight version done after the show aired; why he would bother is beyond me (though this whole process might not have been in place for his first show) I imagine the created-on-air version would be the desirable one to own, but who knows?

I hope he's found peace.

My advice would be related to the timing of selling - I'd suggest NOT selling anything until you've identified pieces that you like better and apply your new funds to those, so you're upgrading. If you can swing it financially, don't sell just to sell. Be strategic.

Mine was a color guide, which distressingly arrived... rolled in a tube. It was only many years later that I was able to unite it with its Original Art page.

I wonder if it's worthwhile to go to San Diego, skip trying to get into the con, but attend this dinner? Something to ponder...

...and, not to be a rabble-rouser, but Heritage must be made aware the fact that more and more members of this hobby have been alerted to the problem, and are... dismayed. Would be a shame if they were perceived to be indifferent to our concerns, and the reputation risk that would follow. Heritage needs to hop on the back of the Dallas Police Case Worker and the USPS to make certain this is addressed.

You would think that if it was OUT FOR DELIVERY the USPS should know EXACTLY whose truck it was on when it vanished. BUT... I think most USPS warehouses have the trucks pre-loaded the night before, and the packages all get changed to 'OUT FOR DELIVERY' all at once, when the truck leaves in the morning. The packages could have been lifted by someone on the night shift (I presume there is such a thing in the USPS, especially in a hub like Dallas) off the truck after it was loaded. The driver would leave for his route first thing in the morning, and the package status would be changed to OFD even though the package itself was long gone off the truck. Would also expect there to be security cameras in the warehouse, though.

I'm no expert, but this would be my guess as well.

I've just heard that non-Heritage catalogs are actually being sold on eBay, as they don't have as easy a reference function online.