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**ADVICE** Justice league task force issue 5 page 12

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alxjhnsn

alxjhnsn

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Standard answer (or teach a man to fish) follows

 

AJ

 

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You might want to explore the following resources:

  • The OA auction archive at Heritage Auctions - This archive presents the results from all of their OA auctions.. Once you sign-up and get an id, you can search for pieces by your artist and see what they have sold for.
  • The CAF Market Data - More auction results (more than 1,000,000) are available if you join the Comic Art Fans site, pay for Market Data access, and access eBay and other auction sites as well as Heritage.
  • The Comic Art Database. It contains transaction records entered by the owners of Comic OA.
  • Dealer sites. Dealers, generally, post their art with fixed prices though there are exceptions. There is a list of dealers on CGC OA board and the Dragonberry site has a list as well. The CAF site will search the inventories of several dealers for you.
  • Blouin Art Info which tracks sales at major art auctions. It can turn up some Comic OA as well. Look for the “Art Prices” item on the top right of the screen
  • Jerry Weist's Comic Art Price Guide - Heritage published a third edition of it. In my opinion, it's a good history book and might be useful for comparison work, but it was out of date a year before it was printed.
  • A topic on these CGC OA boards, A-level panel page valuations by artist/run - thoughts/additions/changes?, holds a discussion that relates to your question. It provides some "generally agreed upon" ranges for popular runs by popular artists on popular characters.
  • The Biggest OA Prices thread tracked some of the largest sales in the OA space. While that particular thread has stopped; it's probably worth reading for the discussions. Meanwhile , the information is still being updated - just with a different mechanism.

New buyers and sellers often find that OA is too hard to price. I agree. However, I think that there is a valid reason. Each piece is unique. Uniqueness make art sales generally and OA specifically non-linear.

 

For example,

  • Consecutive pages could and do sell for radically different amounts.
  • Take page layout - In general, you might say:
    Covers > 1st Page Splash > Other Splash > 1/2 splash > panel pages
    However, that's not always true either. The right panel page can be much more compelling than a bland splash.
  • Take pencillers- There are "A-list" artists, but not all of their books/characters have the same value. Kirby FF pages generally go for more than JIM/Thor pages which go for more than Cap pages (2nd run) which go for more than ...
  • Take combinations of pencilers/inkers - Kirby/Sinnott FF pages rank above Kirby and anyone else on FF, but a Kirby/X FF page might be more or less than a Kirby/Stone Thor page. Hard to tell.

 

Finally, you should join the comic book OA community. The three main points of Internet contact are:

 

The main points of physical contact are probably:

 

One last comment, if you are looking to buy or sell, spend the time to learn the market. That might take 6 months, but it's worth the time.

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*matterus023*

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Hi

 

Thank you very much for that very full answer. I know it can be annoying when people like myself say here you go tell me what it is worth and do my homework for me but I just don't know where to start or have the time atm with moving house, running a business, family and the usual everyday. I know that sounds weak but don't want to overload my plate if I don't need to atm

 

When I feel I have some 'real' free time I am going to research, research and research some more. I will take on board evrything you have said and you have given me a good starting point

 

Is this a piece you yourself would be interetsed in?

 

Thanks for your time Alex

 

Matt

 

 

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alxjhnsn

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Matt,

 

I have no issue with your asking for pricing advice; in your spot, I'd do the same.

 

However, since I can't help you there - like you I don't know the answer and I don't have time to search for it - all I can do is can try to help by pointing you and others in the right direction.

 

Good luck.

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I don't know the market, and I didn't do the standard research (What Alex recommended) but as a gut feel I would be surprised if you can get $50 out of the page.

 

no major characters, not a star artist. I can't think of too many factors that would increase the value of this page (if it was the main Justice League Title that would be a plus, but I don't think Justice League Task Force is)

 

Good Luck

 

Malvin

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Dumur

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Yeah, I agree with Malvin. I think there is a dealer or two that would put it up for $75, but think you would be lucky to get $50 at open auction (ebay) and would likely get more in the $25-$30 range.

 

There is just so much out there, that you would really need hit someone specific (it happens to be a page from the first comic book someone ever got or something) in the nostalgia sweet spot to get top dollar for a page of this "caliber".

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desertdogg2006

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I agree with pretty much agree with what everyone else said. its not a major title. no major heroes or villians. and not that old. on a good day you would be very lucky to get $ 25 to 35 bucks on average. I would just put it away for a few more years and try your hand then. iam sure you will do a lil better. ;]

 

larry.

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kav

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Yeah C list artists don't go for much

Some stuff is just not worth much. You can get original Archie pages for $10 all day long.

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