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John E.

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  1. Hi Lee, Story page 19 (final page) is not included in the lot?
  2. Brick-a-Brack Funny how bricks only appear in the upper right hand corner in 3 of the 4 pages.
  3. I emailed Eclipse Paper on 10/31/21 asking for an estimate and I never received a response from them.
  4. I’m interpreting what I have in bold as New Mutants OA doesn’t need a movie to boost its value because fans of the original series continue to push the value to the atmosphere, or that prices are already so high they can’t grow at a faster rate. It’s hard to find a deal on any of the first 100 issues of the original series. If asked, I’d say Sienkiewicz and Platt Moon Knight art was doing just fine on its own without Hollywood. I wish I could prove that movies and television don’t affect art prices—but rather the storyline, character, artist, and nostalgia/the Rule of 25 are the real influence—but I cannot. Tom Cruise sells Ray Bans. James Bond sells Aston Martins. Marvel Studios sells toys and T-shirts. To me, the Marvel movies and series are just half hour to 3-hour ads that remind every collector that they need a Vosburg or Byrne She-Hulk in their collection, just like a Mentos commercial reminds me to carry mints in my car. So up goes the good She-Hulk art. I don’t give two chits about Cosmic Marvel but I enjoy the h e l l out of the movies. I still didn’t run out and read the comics nor did I buy Thanos art, but I do buy the Marvel Legends figures of my favorite screen version of the characters (No Thanos though). I will admit that it was the GOTG film(s) that introduced me to all those lovable characters but I have no desire to own any of them on paper. Except for Rocket Raccoon, but it would have to a page from the Mignola series. So maybe the movies have an influence on me to buy a RR page (I haven’t), but era and artist are the real driving factor in my choice(s) of art purchases…er, preferences…since prices are a factor.
  5. Congratulations. That’s a nice surprise. This one must be going on the wall then.
  6. This cover always reminded me of James Bond. I can’t remember which movie had Roger Moore skiing and fighting bad guys. Sure enough, Joe Jusko wrote somewhere Bond indeed inspired this one. How do you store or display this large art, cbailey? And here’s Jusko sketching the Punisher while wearing a Punisher skull T-Shirt💀🤘
  7. I’m having a hard time finding that card in my usual resources. It may be the reason why you don’t recall where it was published—maybe it wasn’t? Off hand, the image didn’t look familiar. If it is a published card, it could be that it was used as a promo card by a snack company or a magazine maybe? Those are rarer and less likely to pop up on the Internet. How about showing the Thunderbird art? If I find that then maybe I can find the set.
  8. Another check-less box on the checklist I believe Marvel & Archie Comics kept this project a secret until its publication day. Their marketing strategy was to sucker-punch us like the simps we were.
  9. Steve Morger, lawyer and art rep to the likes of Frank Cho and Travis Charest (formerly) under Big Wow! Art, established the Lake Como convention. Morger and another comic-con promoter Steve Wyatt ran Big Wow! Comic Fest in San Jose, California for years. Big Wow! was like a Lake Como in that it had a very impressive Artist Alley, but it also had the typical stuff you’d find at cons, like panels, which is where I first learned about the hobby and became a collector at that show the following years. Around 2017 the two Steves sold Big Wow! to Steve Wozniak. The Woz then changed the name to Silicon Valley Comic Con and turned the show from comics to All-Pop Culture inclusive show with a lot of science. Morger and Wyatt had signed a multi-year non-compete clause and so they had to sit on their hands for a while before they could bring anything else resembling Big Wow! A few years after I asked Morger at a show if he was going to bring another show like Big Wow the Bay Area and he said he can’t yet, but he was going to bring a show to Lake Como. Why he chose that location? I don’t know or don’t remember. Maybe it was just a nice place he visited or maybe it was far away enough not to be sued by Woz for competing. This is all relatively public information and since Morger is also a collector and important member of the community I’m sure there are Boardies here can correct my information. Otherwise there are two other All-Comic Art shows on both coasts. The one that Bechara runs twice a year in L.A. and S.F. and the one in New Jersey or whatever. They just don’t have the artist alley aspect to it.
  10. I believe the Jusko Spider-Man 2099 box you’re referring to is the 1993 set. I have the premiere ‘92 series that looks like this: I lifted that image from eBay since it’s too much of a hassle to pull mine out of the closet. For a minute I thought this was my only card art. It took me for 8-9 years to actually add card art to my collection. This is from the Skybox Saga of the Dark Knight set. Sorry, not Marvel. Then I remembered that I bought some card art from Ariel Olivetti earlier this year. This is considered a prelim since Olivetti digitally painted the published image. I paid $150 for it—same price as the rest—so I’ll eat my words there. For an additional $600 Olivetti offered to do a 1/1 painting of any of the cards in the set. See: recreation. You can find the recreation on eBay and CAF. This is from Upper Deck’s 2016 Marvel Exquisite set. My plan was to keep this out of sight but screw it—CGC Boards exclusive, right?
  11. I’ve never had a reason to go on Twitch until now and holy sith—did someone just thaw me from a block of ice? Where am I? I was like the Prophet John trying to describe to the world what I saw in the Book of Revelations No, no, I was Danny Torrance getting sucker-punched by my shine. Whatever this is it got to the Italians, and I’m sure all of Europe will soon fall. This paisa is Twitchin’ and eatin’ his lunch in front of the whole world and now I’m 😵 Return me to my glacier at once. Fogey out.
  12. Yup. EDIT: Yes, it’s always been ink over blue lines.
  13. I clicked on the link and I was so boggled by what I was looking at that I went ahead and financed a plot of dirt and a tombstone because I’m that much closer to dying of old age.
  14. I wanted to tag you, Scott, for your opinion on the matter but that was before the Moderator Mike stepped in. I appreciate this perspective nonetheless. A Portacio/Williams Punisher piece has eluded me.* When I flip through my copy of Essential Punisher vol 2, I can see the progress you make as an inker. I think that must’ve been a fun book to work on then. *I also have my Bought-off-the-rack copy of Batman: Black and White from ‘96 signed by every living creator who worked on the book except for you One day maybe.
  15. Remember: Anything under $500 doesn’t count
  16. Thee angels! They heard me! Congratulations!
  17. 👼🏼 👼🏼👼🏼👼🏼👼🏼 😩 🙏 praying to the angels
  18. Are you telling me I shouldn’t have vacuumed all this Captain Marvel art??? Seriously, we were trying to decide as a family what movie to watch last Friday night so played the trailer for the new Shazam movie and it couldn’t even hold anyone’s attention for 10 seconds. And it’s the trailer! There always seems to be interest in Batman art but there’s so much. Wonder Woman art seemed to have survived that horrible sequel, but it has to be the sexy stuff. I really wish it impacted the Deodato run so I could afford some. Vigilante art seems to be enjoying a resurgence. But yeah, movie or not, anything DC after Knightfall doesn’t capture my attention.
  19. What is in bold is an idea I hadn’t considered. I’ve learned to not put too much stock in Hollywood coming soons as they too will cancel productions that seem like a sure thing. Think HBO’s Batgirl. I try my best to buy what I love too, in theory. I also buy when a good opportunity presents itself. My worry with value is that I also trade up a lot and if I had to trade up two Punisher pieces to get a great one, I’d certainly feel the pain if I took a hit of more than 10% on them
  20. I’m a fan of the Punisher, at least The Punisher of the time of yore. I have a few of my pieces posted on my CAF—the ones I want to share. Yes, I am concerned about having too many Punisher eggs in one basket. Before or after, Punisher has never been valued higher than say Spider-Man or Wolverine pages but they also don’t have much trouble selling either. And as before and after, there have always been collectors who don’t give two chets about the character period. I think on principle there will always be a demand for classic Punisher as there would be for any significant Marvel character. What I have always liked about the character is how he represents raw, unencumbered justice that returns a victims’ sense of control and agency. He isn’t the first or last intellectual property to symbolize that (from Paul Kersey to Eric Draven) . No different than Bruce Banner summoning a repressed power when he gets pushed too far. Those two symbols will always have an appeal. Anyway, maybe I do wish prices would come down but the Romita Jr PWJ comp that I posted shows otherwise.
  21. Didn’t influence the price on this JRJR Punisher-in-only-one-panel page from the original War Zone run that sold in CheeeaapLink the same week as retirement
  22. It’s always a bit of a shock to see something from the 90s hit that 30K range without comps. The art for the cover before it—“1st” Azrael since Sword—sold twice in the 11k-14k range prior to the pandemic. Anyway, 489 has lots of room for growth. I wonder how much Graham Nolan’s flood of primo Vengeance of Bane pages may have an effect on the price?
  23. Did you win the Batman #489 cover? Or do you who did? I’d die happy if I had…and just use the life insurance money to pay it off.