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Sideshow Bob

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  1. On 1/23/2024 at 8:57 PM, g-man said:

    Impressive New Gods splash by Kirby coming up in the next Link auction. 

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    Going to sound petty, but it should be "IF WE MUST DIE, LET NEW GENESIS LIVE!" That poorly placed first exclamation mark is torture for my grammarian OCD. I don't think I could handle looking at that every day. It is spectacular in every other way. Well, except for the incorrect use of "- -" which should just be a comma; unless there is another double dash -- which there isn't -- you don't put in just one. Uggh. 

  2. On 1/2/2024 at 11:09 AM, DougC said:

    My only OA goal is the same as every year a page from Adventure Comics #346; though I might have a better shot this year since I saved up some funds (naively not near enough) that I intended to use on the Death post card art that ends in a couple days. So I will have a shot over the summer at a page that I know someone has.

    Was wondering why you used the words "post card art", so I went and looked on ebay and found the actual postcards. I had thought it was just a t-shirt and poster, but the postcards were a big component of this. The dimensions on HA are 6.25" x 10" so the image itself is a bit less in size than a regular sheet of US letter paper, but at least it's bigger than a Bolland sheet of tracing paper prelim... displayable, but smaller than a regular image on 11x17. But bigger than a postcard!

     

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  3. After waiting and waiting for this little page to pop up, I'll try and ask. Its page 8 from issue #6 of Batman: The Long Halloween (the St. Patrick's Day issue), with Jim Gordon and Harvey Dent talking about targeting the GPD investigation into Salvatore Maroni and Bruce Wayne. More specifically, Gordon reminisces about seeing the annual dyeing of the Chicago River green for St Pat's...a favorite memory of mine growing up in Chicago in a family full of Irish plumbers (who are responsible for dropping in green dye every year) and Irish cops. Sort of the perfect page for me...

    If you know where this page is, or have a handle on where it might be, please reach out. I'd be comfortable going well beyond current prices to be the next caretaker of this page. 

    Bob

    https://www.comicartfans.com/my/SketchbookPieceDetail.asp?Loc=G&Piece=1983558 for the CAF WTB listing...

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  4. In 2023, I knocked off eight items (wow!) from my hitlist, a Powerpoint file I compiled in 2020 with screenshots and sales/tracking info containing all the OA I would ever want. It's essentially a working model for how I research and rank art from a targeted book, artist or character, in the hopes of building out a curated collection after years of flailing about rudderless. The selling process over the last three years has brought my collection down to only a couple portfolios and frames.

    Finding the whereabouts of anything from that list is an accomplishment in and of itself; securing it from there is even harder (and typically expensive). But the benefits of a sharpshooter approach means my spending is no longer scattered. In 2024, the goal will be to continue to network within the community, track down some of these elusive hitlist pieces and continue a disciplined acquisition strategy.  Fingers crossed!

    Bob

  5. On 12/13/2023 at 6:33 PM, comix4fun said:

    Well, art collectors collect by artist and not by title or character for the most part and especially as the value level climbs. I mean, it only makes sense to alpha order their artwork. Clink does it too. But I like the idea of maybe starting at "L" and working back around every once in a while. lol 

    It didn't help keep the Adlard WD interior page at Heritage Weekly from getting run up tonight...

  6. On 12/2/2023 at 9:13 PM, Kryptic1 said:

    The few times I’ve gone well above my normal price range I’ve found that my enjoyment of the art doesn’t increase in proportion to the cost.  It would be tough for me to find a piece I would enjoy more than five smaller pieces for the same price.

    Living in a Manhattan apartment, display space is at a premium. So for something to make it up on the wall, it has to be pretty damn good. Unfortunately, my idea of "pretty damn good" is widely shared, so I've had to go to that 5x well a couple times to get display-worthy pieces. But since I get to see those pieces every day, rather than the pieces that are stuck in a portfolio on a shelf, I get infinitely more enjoyment from the pieces that I had to pay up for and which represented a new price point plateau for me. The pieces in my portfolios are pretty much in a holding pattern of getting framed with a paired piece (a related splash/cover/interior to be found someday...) or destined for the auction block or private sale.  I'm more likely to buy a 5x piece of high quality once a year than 5 cheaper pieces throughout the course of the year.

    Bob

  7. On 11/29/2023 at 9:37 AM, Matches_Malone said:

     

    Some nice ones for sure. Particularly the Kelley Jones page from the Season of the Mist story arc.  Sill...nothing like that beauty in the current ComicLink auction featuring Death and Morpheus from Issue 8. :luhv::cloud9:

    The crib death page? More like a gut punch than a dreamy emoticon...

  8. The Bingham Detective cover was very well bought. I sat out of bidding on that lot, otherwise it would have gone much higher. Sure, its rats, but its a full-figured Batman on a memorable cover. And those Bingham inks are exquisite in person. I thought anything under $20k was a good deal. 

    The Batwing toy box art was bought by me. Looking forward to putting it with a Batman prop I just got.

  9. On 8/10/2023 at 12:47 PM, jjonahjameson11 said:

    :roflmao::roflmao::roflmao:

    If you believe that, then I have a nice bridge for sale in Brooklyn!

    JJJ,

    I regularly buy from ComicLink and read their explanation of the hacking event. What part of that should I not believe and why is what they said false? Trying to differentiate if you're just trolling CL or if there is something you can share that would help us all better understand their comment... 

    -Bob

  10. On 8/9/2023 at 9:08 PM, cstojano said:
    Posted on their FB page.
     
    Now that the issues that happened last week on the web site are resolved, I want to provide an update on what transpired and to communicate that the protocols that we now have in place have made us stronger and more resistant to attacks than the vast majority of firms. The fact of the matter is that no web site is immune to this. Many Fortune 500 companies, banks, credit reporting agencies, hospitals, and governmental agencies have experienced attacks. The only thing any of us can do is learn, adjust, and prepare.
    Here’s the deal. Though we had previously been lucky enough to have avoided it when other auction companies within the collectibles field were hit with attacks, most notably in 2019 and 2020, last week, ComicLink was a target of a url XSS redirection attack which forced browsers accessing certain parts of the web site to be redirected to untrusted external sites. This was often, and fortunately, accompanied by warnings in the user’s browser or anti-malware software which cautioned against proceeding further. If you do not have up to date malware detection on your computer or mobile device, I strongly suggest it. Due to precautions that we had taken previously, sensitive customer data such as credit cards (maintained by a third party provider) or passwords (encrypted) were never compromised by this and there is no data loss.
    Attacks were staggered and defended against last week and during this time I worked with my IT team day and night to determine how to best defend against recurring attacks, intentionally bringing the entire web site down while we made purposeful changes. We implemented a major security upgrade in partnership with Cloudflare, whose clients include or have included the likes of IBM, LendingTree, Shopify, Garmin and many others. Early Friday morning we brought the site back up safely behind Cloudflare’s firewall.
    The web site appeared back up to some users before others. This had to do with one of two things, either name server migration propagating to some Internet Service Providers before others, or caching issues related to the disparate ways that browsers cache web sites. By late Friday morning, the web site was back up for most Internet Service Providers, and by early afternoon, we could see that name server propagation was complete in 99.9% of the world. The likelihood is that any viewing issues subsequently were related to caching or false positives related to security protocols.
    In the unlikely event that you are still having trouble viewing the site, the recommendation is that you clear your cache and reload your browser and/or restart your computer or mobile device. E-mail or phone us if you cannot resolve it or if you believe you are being unintentionally blocked from accessing the web site.
    Subsequent to bringing the site back up and implementing prevention procedures, some non-critical error messages were found on the web site. We have spent the last few days addressing those and they have all been corrected. That said, please let us know if you experience any errors or believe that you were blocked in error from a safe connection point.
    Thank you for trusting us to be your partner in buying and selling collectibles. We will remain diligent about security going forward.

    Thanks! This is the response I was looking for.

  11. On 8/7/2023 at 9:28 AM, gumbydarnit said:

    Andy Robbins was a guest on a Felix Comic Art Podcast, at 40 mins in he begins to talk about how he decides what pieces to sell. I think you'll find his thought process interesting and might be a bit helpful to you. If you haven't listened to Felix Lu podcast, then you are in for a treat, it's great!

    Felix Comic Art :: The Felix Comic Art Podcast (Episode 7): Andy Robbins / ECCC Roundtable

    Andy's discussion was transformative to my collecting. Understanding what is in your collection and where you rank it is forces you to make some serious evaluations of not only your inventory but also where you succeed and fail in acquiring new pieces.

    To elaborate a little bit: Evolving as a collector takes a lot of learning, and unfortunately a lot of times that is from making mistakes. I found Andy's approach of ranking your collection (using Marie Kondo's approach of "does it bring me joy", not by fair market value) forced me to confront my mistakes and ask myself some probing questions:

    1) Why did I buy this piece I suddenly find in the bottom half of my rankings? Was it an impulse decision? Was it strategic (trade bait, part of a bundle)? Was it a poorly executed commission? Was it to check a box in some ethereal checklist that I had poorly thought out?

    2) How can I make better decisions to keep the impulsive "squirrel" purchases to a minimum? If I'm working on a checklist, why isn't it written down with some thought put behind it? Realistically, where do I want my collection to be and what do I need to do get it there? Do these pieces in the bottom half help me to get to that "future state"?

    3) Now that I've identified the bottom half, what do I need to do next? Look for trade? Sell at the next auction and get what you get? Realize that no other collector would want this, so just hold onto it in a "for sale/trade" folder so you don't get pennies on the dollar?

  12. Has anyone received some kind of official communication from CL about a data breach, and that it accessed personal information including credit cards? If there was a data breach, I would have expected something official, but haven't received anything. 

    Or is that speculation due to a hack that resulted in the redirect of the main page?

  13. On 7/27/2023 at 11:24 AM, Dirtcheap31 said:

    Hey Team,

    Decided to let his this Splash of the first appearance of Jesus go. These types of WD pages are tough to find but I essentially displaying it and I felt it needs to go somewhere to get some love I also added some high value pages and you know how that goes.

    https://comics.ha.com/itm/original-comic-art/splash-pages/charlie-adlard-the-walking-dead-92-splash-page-22-original-art-image-2011-this/a/322331-46005.s?ic16=ViewItem-BrowseTabs-Auction-Open-MyConsignment-112816

    Good luck!

    I thought the first appearance of Jesus was the final splash page in #91. But I looked at the auction listing, and Heritage makes the point that its the first "full appearance". You can see his mouth and chin here. Interesting characterization by the auction house.

     

  14. On 6/27/2023 at 2:01 PM, Dirtcheap31 said:

    Yeah it’s an expensive page early tank girl 

     

    On 7/19/2023 at 12:21 PM, malvin said:

    Yay, glad to hear my advice helped.

    Malvin

    I'm dealing with the same on a 1980's Peanuts Sunday. The entire back is tacky with a universally applied adhesive from the former frame. My framer is working with a paper specialist to figure out next steps. I'll update here as I go through the process.

    Bob