On 1/30/2024 at 4:05 PM, szav said:

Pardon my ignorance but how do these work anyway?  I've never acquired one but some look pretty cool.  Do you sign up to get them at a convention or one of those artist events CGC is always spam emailing me about?  There seems to be a wide variance in the amount of time and effort put in on these.  Some look pretty nice like this one (although I'm totally ignorant of Artgerm's process, this almost looks like it was just printed on the cover.  Is this something that was more or less commissioned and would have taken him a while, or did he just whip this up in a couple minutes at a signing?)

Then you've got some like this where it looks like it took 30 seconds.  Maybe the appeal is not having to go the effort and expense of framing, and in the case of the very low artist effort drawings, the CGC slab acts as proof of authenticity (no expert here in Perez or other OA but I think you might be hard pressed to know he really did it unless you accepted the signature as authentic.)

 

Different ways to get these. Like you mentioned sometimes a rep will facilitate something through cgc where the artist will draw and or sign it with cgc being right next to them and they'll be mailed out after grading. In other cases the artist or their rep can mail it out to cgc if it was a commission and want it it graded as a sig series. Usually, though you'll go to a con and provide your own blank variant comic, and if you want it CGC'ed you get a CGC witness from their booth (If they're setup at that con) to go with you to pick the piece up from the artist so they know it isn't fake and drop it off at their booth for on-site grading. If they don't finish it by the time the con ends they'll mail it to you.  

On 1/28/2024 at 6:13 PM, Xatari said:

Could be they are also not quite as visible. I know in my collecting group there are 20+ of us. Several are very active in a public setting and others have decided to stay behind the scenes. I understand the reasoning for both. 

I need to start networking more. I talk to maybe 3 collectors on an on-and-off-again basis. 

On 11/17/2023 at 2:32 PM, batman_fan said:

The Kubert Weird Wars ended at what I thought was a healthy price.

Yeah great cover image. Skeletons always seem to add a premium to any horror cover verse any other creature. 

I recently read his Dr. Fate mini which was the runup to the series and greatly enjoyed it along with the unique art style done for it. Even made me go out and hunt down a page from it.

RIP

 

Success! The first deal was completed. Want to thank @Lee B. for helping put me in touch with the seller.

Giving this a bump. 

I might have a possible deal on the line but still interested if anyone else has any pages they'd be interested in sharing.

Thanks.

Some pieces I've had for a while now but haven't posted.

If you've been reading the new Moon Knight series, then you're probably familiar with the Italian artist, Alessandro Cappuccio who has done some incredible work on the title. When I saw the previews I knew I had to add an example of his work on the series to my collection. 

#9 pg.18


#23 pg.8


#23 pg.13

On 9/7/2023 at 8:46 AM, cloud cloddie said:

Flip protection. 

 

Saw a lot of MK pieces that almost all came from the same person which were pieces that had been at auction in recent years, some more than once. The MK #1 page I recall sold on Heritage originally for around $3,500 but had a reserve of over $29,600 here which it didn't hit. The cover was nice I thought and went for a nice price for the buyer compared to the first cover from that series that sold for I think double a few years back on Clink. Somewhat expected I guess since the artist isn't well known.

This will be a great auction for Green Arrow fans by the looks of it, some of those covers look especially cool. All you need is at least two interested people after all. I like The Demon cover myself. 

On 8/18/2023 at 9:46 PM, Unstoppablejayd said:

Pretty sure James is an active boardie 

I think he got banned/temp suspended on here a few years back hasn't been back since. 

On 8/17/2023 at 10:13 AM, BCoffee said:

Good luck on finding these! I just read the series recently prior to making my way through ongoing series that followed. Love to see your pages from the ongoing series if you have them posted. 

Thanks. It's a great read and think the dialogue makes even the talking head pages great pieces too.
These are the pieces I have at the moment from the regular series (would love to add more to anyone reading). 



This is an interesting piece and is the logo design to the series. It was used for the first 24 issues of the series which concluded the story from the mini. 

I really enjoyed the storyline from this four-issue mini and since I have some pages from the series after that continued the storyline I thought I should try to add something from it. Please let me know if you have something from it and would be interested in selling or hearing an offer for it, thanks.

Are we talking about earliest that has a picture that can be found or earliest that apparently is known to exist with being seeing it? If it's earliest that's known to exist but not have scans online wouldn't that be the ASM 1 cover with the story about how it and some other art was stolen by some apparent addicts from Marvel's offsite storage facility with them trying to sell it at a comic shop and then disappearing? 

On 7/30/2023 at 6:21 PM, Twanj said:

Segovia?

Looks pretty awesome!

Thanks and, yep. He's been doing some amazing covers for the series so far. 

On 7/29/2023 at 1:53 PM, Dr. Balls said:

The dialogue and movement is really nice on that, with so many different effects going on. How long have you had it?

Thanks, Comiclink says I got it in 2011 so just over 11 years now. I also happen to win it for just $11 dollars too. Who knew such a cheap piece would cost me so much in the long run.

Still have it. Despite my collection being mostly Marvel, it was this DC page that got me to pull the trigger since I just really liked the dialogue.  

On 7/28/2023 at 5:37 PM, ADAMANTIUM said:

It's definitely interesting and has a cool factor.

Was there an artist attached? Perhaps creator? Signed? Or other unique identifiers?

On 7/28/2023 at 7:31 PM, alxjhnsn said:

You might consider reaching out to Todd Klein to see if he knows the designer. Todd is active on Facebook

Thanks, for the comments and suggestions. Heritage has it credited to being done by Bill Cucinotta. 

On 7/17/2023 at 7:46 PM, MAR1979 said:

@KirbyCollector

Are you teetering on the ledge?  Another Comic Book Character to be killed never ever to be seen again or for 45 days whichever comes first.

Marvel Announces The Death of Moon Knight
https://www.cbr.com/death-of-moon-knight-marvel/
On July 17, Marvel Comics announced the upcoming death of a fan-favorite character in writer Jed MacKay and artist Allesandro Cappuccio's upcoming "The Last Days of Moon Knight" storyline.

 

He's died multiple times since part of his power is being brought back until his mind can't take being killed an brought back anymore. Though not unexpected. Probably are doing this because they want people to like the Hunter's Moon character they added and are incorporating the Scarlet Scarab character from the show into the comics. Using old IPs to push newer ones.  

On 7/7/2023 at 10:24 PM, BuscemasAvengers said:

Box 3 has begun - this is far and away one of the top 3 sets I've built.

You should see if you can get the Roman chariot set that was included with it as a limited time bonus if you bought the set when it first came out as a complimentary piece.

Last one for today. I think this one is the best compared to the other 2 but does have the issue of having pretty tanned pages, unfortunately. I think the spine could be pressed but worry about if the stables could cause a tear. As is I put this one at around a 7.5 to 8.0 if being conservative.