Rekani

I spent a bit of time reading through this over my morning coffee today. Good points to know as a new(ish) collector of Art in regards to scams, but also a great push for me to sign up for a premium account. I'm glad there is a community of people to talk to about these situations, nice to know people are keeping an eye out for sketchy people and letting the group at large know about it. Happy you both got your money back eventually.

Wow those are great! Brings back a lot of childhood memories for me growing up in the Boston area. I met Ben during an in store when I was around 15, my mom drove me in a snowstorm to meet him I sold my SE 1 and 2 years ago, long story but annoying relationship of course, but I've been hunting in the wild for them for a while now. I should snap photos of my #8 without the front logo and my original omnibus signed by everyone....still kept those

ok, making sure I wasn't losing my mind on that one

I enjoyed the auction as well. No purchases this year but I was watching the action closely on this one. Congrats! Yep, really weird auction experience this year. This is only my 4th auction but it had a totally different feel than any of the previous I had attended. Even walking around the floor on Fri/Sat, the conversation about big ticket items was conspicuously absent. I hope the days of Hughes and Brooks putting up their pieces (that have been signature pieces of auctions past) are not gone. No Noto, No David Williams and not a lot of other big names in the auction (Wrightson, Neal Adams, etc. have been in multiple auctions) this year either. I was surprised at a few items that went high (the FN187 was crazy) but overall I thought the auction skewed more toward the prices going lower across the board than normal. The FF piece was insane as I doubt anyone saw it going for $7K and being the high water mark for the night (I didn’t stay so I am not sure this is true). We were sitting right next to the guy who won it and the buzz on the floor was that he was formerly from the Charlotte area and had moved to Hawaii so he had an emotional attachment to the piece (and add in that the bidding war was between him and the guy who bought the FN187 piece) – the guys hand was shaking every time he raised up his bidding paddle. The artist struck gold when he decided to do a piece with the Charlotte downtown buildings (I heard his piece went for 200 last year). I hope it isn’t the start of a trend as I would love to see AH and Brooks back (I also sat really close to the guy who paid $15K for the Brooks piece last year). I’d love to see Allison running the auction and the smoking jacket crew scurrying around. The room was missing a certain buzz this year – hoping they can start to recapture it going forward. The guy up front was buying a lot of stuff, great for the fundraising for the con but I was thankful he left before the last few things I was interested in were on the block. First auction and heroes for me, but I had a lot of fun. Most of the art wasn't my thing, but I definitely picked up a few deals. I can try to post a few photos sometime this weekend. Why did that Stormtrooper painting with the blood go that high? Did I miss something there? It's cool they raised that much money with it, but I didn't understand it going over $1k the way it did...

Good luck chip, I'm glad you got help! Hang in there, it will get better!

Picked up a copy last night, have to say it's really well done and it felt like I was reading one of the issues from the old Creepy and Eerie run. Nice touch with the letters section too The Frazetta cover is icing on the cake for sure

I have read through this thread quite a few times over the past few days. It's really a great discussion and celebration of Frazetta, thanks to everyone who has shared info and anecdotes...and to those folks who own the beautiful books posted in this thread

Haven't been on the board in a bit, but what a great thread to find for some Sunday morning perusing, Great stuff oakman!

Mark got back to me today and is sending it out. Quick resolution

Unfortunately, Mark has a history of delayed shipping but has always followed through that I know of. I don't know him personally or have any communication. I assume he gets his PMs via email but he may not. Try to send him an email to the PP email you used to pay him if you haven't already done that. Others here may have some other way to contact him. Good luck. Thanks! Yeah Mark has always been great, and I'm ok with waiting if I'm getting responses but when I've been ignored for a month I start to wonder. I'd feel bad if he has been having some hard times, we have all gone through stuff, but a quick "I have it and I'll get to it" message is fine for me. I'll drop him another note via email.

Ok, so I'm not exactly sure how to go about this one because I honestly have bought a ton of stuff from him in the past and I don't like publicly calling people out but it's at the annoying point now and my messages are going unread. I bought a FF #60 from Kramerica back in July. Paid July 16. There has been back and forth this summer about it, mostly when I asked if it had been sent and making sure it didn't go missing in the mail or something like that. October 21 I received a response that the book would be going out in a few days. Sent another message on 11/28 and another 12/5 and both are unread. I looked up the paypal transaction and he's now an unverified user which really kind of bums me out. If anyone yaps with him offline, can someone tell him to check his messages or something like that? Not trying to be a jerk at all, he's a great member with a billion posts, I'd just like my comic or a refund at this point.

I'll take it

I was thinking the same thing, that Player's Handbook I had that module with the green cover when I was 10, I wish I knew what happened to my stack of those. Really good memories, nice pickups!

This beauty arrived today, still shocked it popped up earlier this week (sorry for the so-so photo, long week!) Centered well and the colors are really bright. I'm super pleased with this one!

Thomas was the first guy to buy from me on the board and the transactions were fantastic! Thanks again Thomas!