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  1. jesus, you're buying over 100 pieces a year?? Are these partly complete stories or all unique pieces? I only bought like 8 pieces but they added up
  2. Conrad was a long time friend and someone I always loved to talk to at the conventions. As his parkinson's worsened we often spoke about it and the treatments, as he wanted my opinion as a doc as well. I always appreciated that even though he felt like spoon at the shows, if friends like me come then he would crawl out from under the table where he was often laying in rest to talk to us. I really appreciated that and because of it we always spoke for a while. He was a fountain of information that he shared willingly with friends, and was so passionate about kirby and pre-hero art in particular. He was very tough to do business with for his "cream of the crop" and back in 2004 or so we literally spent a whole day upstate at his place to do a massive cash and trade deal. Gave up some key pieces but in return I got the FF 5 chapter splash with Doom and all the FF on it and also the first Swamp Thing opening splash from Swamp Thing 1. He got great stuff too rest assured. He was quite savvy. Anyway, very fond memories all around and I'm sorry we lost touch the last 5 years or so, which I assume was due to his declining health. RIP my friend. Youwill forever be remembered as part of the most memorable period in my collecting journey.
  3. Yeah agreed, but these things have long tails of collectability based on previous followers and hype. I'm more saying 10 years from now. Characters need to be sustained and maintain visibility and popularity. Look at the spread between Marvel keys and DC keys over time. It's growing. I do agree the scarcity is an issue, but lots of books back in the day were listed as "rare" and "scarce" in overstreet but even they fell away once people forgot the characters or the reason they were read to begin with. Maybe it won't fall, but it won't grow as much as more popular, sustained characters. Time will tell I suppose.
  4. Is cerebus going to hold up? The run ended, and the character is important historically but will be forgotten IMO. Usagi Yojimbo and TMNT on the other hand continue to hold strong. Thoughts? Even Grendel has more legs over time than Cerebus, and Mignola's Hellboy issues are probably going to be increasingly important. I realize Cerebus is perhaps the hardest of all of these to find in high grade. But I'm just curious what people think on this topic.
  5. Right LOL. The reprint, sure, but the original 1982 GN, that's a HA or private sale piece only.
  6. That's the second printing/reprint. Not the classic DOCM cover.
  7. There's also that many collectors are ADHD. That's the most likely explanation for many people. There's always a new shiny object to chase.
  8. All the Starlin cosmic work in the 1970s is still tremendously undervalued IMO. Captain Marvel run with Thanos saga, Death of Captain Marvel, Iron Man 55 appearance and origin, and the Strange Tales 178-182 Adam Warlock. They've always been coveted, but have remained somewhat niche, especially the Warlock stuff. The Thanos spike hit IG more than the 70s stuff, but the latter will catch up I think. And Adam Warlock will be in GotG 3 it seems. Starlin deserves a ton of credit for stringing together some amazing stories and characters.
  9. This is probably true. Steranko stands out as more surreal and only duplicated recently to some extent by Tradd Moore. And I do agree that the house style is fun and more classic, and so Buscema gets some love. But, the three main marvel style artists IMO with that style have always been Romita, J. Buscema and M Severin. They did classic Marvel the best and it's no wonder they have so many of the best/classic covers.
  10. When I got really busy with work and life, I took down most of it and then only left a few pieces up as a place holder on the site. Haven't posted in years. Mostly because I'm too busy these days, not for any other reason. Posting more means I'll have to respond to people or check back every so often, and currently I only check in once or twice a year. Still active and watch/buy at the auctions, but just less (or non) active in the hobby part (except with my personal friends in the hobby - I'm still active with them ).
  11. Personally, 1 through 4 were very memorable and were part of the early run that was hard to find and almost made them famous, so those are the key historic covers and issues IMO. They were also, if I recall, the ones that were oversized somewhat compared to the rest. I think for those reasons they "should" command the highest prices. But of course this is all subjective, and I too remember the 5 and 8 quite fondly. I think this 8 cover was a very good deal, and someone is a very happy fan!
  12. First cover to be available. Probably no one knew where to bid. I think it's a pretty strong price, but I wouldn't have been surprised at 100. In a few years, this will seem VERY cheap and a missed opportunity for some.
  13. In reality, there aren't many great first run cockrum covers that are deep-seated in our memory. This was one of them. I believe it's more the cache of the large images of the sentinels that was so cool on this one, despite the smaller figures. Wolverine is there as an after thought since he wasn't a very important or developed character back then, but it's nice to have him on this one regardless!