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On 6/13/2023 at 5:47 PM, Rick2you2 said:

Thankfully, no must haves this time. Too much spent this year already.

Still early days.

On 6/8/2023 at 6:29 PM, Rick2you2 said:

I’m not sure what follows was such a good strategy, but sometimes I used to put in a relatively high bid early-on to discourage potential bidders from joining in the fray. But, the effect may have just been to raise the price at the end, so I stopped.

I don't think it discourages many. It just tells them to raise the valuation.

While I can't prove it empirically, it feels like lately, more and more bidders are waiting for the end to put in their bids in the live auction. Especially for pieces people expect to go high.  Would love to know what others have noticed with respect to bidding trends?  

Who really wants comics to be like Shakespeare?  The Zeck run maybe among the best, but this one is amongst the most unexpected.

On 6/10/2023 at 7:19 PM, Xatari said:

I transitioned from Baseball Cards to Comics to OA.  I feel like I have been conditioned to hunt the "rookie card" since the 80s.  

That makes sense. The thing is a rookie card is one piece of cardboard. A comic has a cover and many pages. But they are attached by the staple making them like one card. If one were to rip a card apart into different pieces,  I guess the corner (border) of the card is not as important as the players eyeball, or maybe the symbol on the uniform.. but you see how silly it is to try and rip apart a single card and then calculate value based on parts. Maybe it's a terrible analogy. Just trying to see if I can  think like a card collector 😅 Feel free to correct me or make a better analogy. Please and thanks!

And there  is this spoof comic with a great costume by Dave Johnson .

Punish-Her #1

Fantastic film. Solid art. The covers can be thought of as movie props if this was live action. Congrats to the savvy collectors and to Sanford who's been hard working for a long time.

So every collector will decide for themselves..but a 22 page comics that takes 10 minutes to read... One page to the next shouldn't matter. All the pages within the book should be (IMO) be treated the same from a first appearance pov as long as that character appears on the page. The distinguishing factor will be the content/quality of the page. Splash/action scene/#of panels and story content of the page.  My 2¢

On 11/26/2022 at 8:24 PM, Monkeyman said:

John B. West (1905-1960) was an African American medical doctor who achieved the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army Medical Corps. during WWII.  For some reason he also wrote tough guy P.I. novels about Rocky Steele, a very white New York City private eye.  More info can be found here - https://thrillingdetective.com/2022/04/02/rocky-steele/.

Signet published the six Rocky Steele novels in paperback from 1959-1961 (the last five posthumously) and hired well-known artist Barye Philips to produce the covers.  I've managed to acquire two of the six covers.

 

Crazy about this one!  The stark lighting makes this one pop!

On 11/28/2022 at 2:33 PM, Brian Peck said:

Bloody fantastic!!!!!

 

I have been looking for a Gory, very hard to find. Congrats!!!

There are several Gorey 's in upcoming Swann galleries auction.  But it's coming up fast.. so  check it out before it ends.Illustration auction link

On 12/2/2022 at 6:34 PM, Rick2you2 said:

Can we block key words, like acetate?

My block list has to be over 50 words at least.  Some words in other languages even.  And acetate is on that list.😁

Thanks!

Hey Nico,

Is there a way to get email follow up on completed auctions we tracked?  So that we can basically be updated after auctions end or items sell.. perhaps as part of the daily key word email you send out?

Thanks Jay. 2 days left before someone takes this home.  Good luck to everyone looking at any and all things at clink tomorrow.  

Classic 1 of only 14 1993 Spiderman Maximum Carnage covers. Up for grabs at clink this Tuesday August 31st.  Great condition with original publisher logos and lettering.

carnage is about to heat up theatres in Venom 2.  Why wait for the opportunity to pass. Get the art before the movie makes early Carnage art jump.

Link to Bid

See movie trailer.in theatres September

Thanks for looking

On 8/14/2021 at 9:10 PM, G.A.tor said:

Mylar and Mattboards 

@Great Escape is to credit 

Thanks for the reply.  Can you say the size of the mylars

https://panelpageart.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=1371. 

Now 18.5k

12k in June 2021 on HA. 1.5 months.

On 8/13/2021 at 7:43 AM, G.A.tor said:

I have a mantle I rotate diff pieces every week 

Is it just mylars? Or is there another product . Looks great. Love the concept.

Campbell covers sell 8-25k used right now. The last comic link had several sell in this range.  A classic older cover may be harder to grab and may cost more to pry from another collector.  

Some covers also sold on comicartfans.com recently around 18k or so.  

Buy what you can afford.

As a European.. you can still sell in Us auction houses like heritage and comiclink.

Dont buy for investment.  Because art can still go own in value.  You can lose money in this hobby especially on modern art where the artist is still creating more art. 

Sounds like you are a fan.  So if you can afford to own the art long term it s the best way to go. New art appears all the time.  So wait for a piece you really like.  

Go to www.comicartfans.com and see what Campbell art is in collections to get a sense of what is already in private hands. Make friends in the hobby.

Hope this was more helpful than the general answers this far

Good luck!

On 6/13/2021 at 10:18 AM, GreatEscape said:

With HA’s anime auction coming up, I wanted to share my Shogun Warriors #5 cover (1979) by Herb Trimpe and Al Milgrom.  Shogun Warriors was a line of Japanese robot toys licensed by Mattel during the late 1970s based on then-popular anime shows.  Only the 2nd cover on CAF from the title.

Link

A truly epic piece!

Usually Thursday stuff is platinum so more expensive. Saturday stuff will generally be way less. So if you can afford the Thursday item.. you have a great chance at affording the Saturday item. (All under assumption you are talking about heritage)

But putting the bid in advance and letting it ride isn't a good move. You need to be present at the end to bid if you want a better chance to win.

So tonight as I was browsing some art online I came across a nice recreation by an artist I like of a cover I like.  That was what got me thinking about this topic - 

so here is the question - and it's totally your personal opinion - 

if you had a choice to have (at equal cost)

1.a recreation by an artist of a cover they themselves originally drew - that you loved

or

2.a brand new commission - of the same level of quality as the recreation by the same artist as above.

Which would you prefer to have and which do you think would be a better financial investment? (given that both are unpublished pieces)

Hope the question makes sense. Looking forward to your thoughts.