Comicconnect November 2017 auction 0

[Mephisto]

On 10/6/2017 at 10:19 PM, delekkerste said:

I only took 5 photos...4 pieces that I plan to bid on and 1 piece that a friend plans to bid on.  So, for obvious reasons, they're going to stay on my phone!

I should have paid more attention to what you were taking pictures of!

[eewwnuk]

how do you find the art auction just by going to their website

[BCarter27]

3 hours ago, eewwnuk said:

how do you find the art auction just by going to their website

http://comicarttracker.com/en/comicconnect-auctions/2017-12-04

http://comicarttracker.com/en/comicconnect-auctions/2017-12-05

[vodou]

4 hours ago, eewwnuk said:

how do you find the art auction just by going to their website

 

13 minutes ago, BCarter27 said:

http://comicarttracker.com/en/comicconnect-auctions/2017-12-04

http://comicarttracker.com/en/comicconnect-auctions/2017-12-05

LOL. Ya. You just gotta go to another web site first

CC should definitely pass a piece of the action over to NicoV if number of bidders and bids this time considerably increases on non-WD offerings.

[NicoV]

11 hours ago, vodou said:

CC should definitely pass a piece of the action over to NicoV if number of bidders and bids this time considerably increases on non-WD offerings.

Sounds definitely like a GREAT idea 

[vodou]

2 hours ago, NicoV said:

Sounds definitely like a GREAT idea 

or at least a public* note of appreciation for sending traffic their way that otherwise wouldn't be able to find a single piece of OA without the same luck that produces a winning scratchie whose value exceeds what one spent on losing scratchies the same week!

 

*Here and on their site too (hopefully driving some traffic back to NicoV in return), appreciations for doing in your spare time foc what they can't seem to find the time and budget for to invest in their own profitably growing enterprise. I wonder, when consignors are being courted, if the question ever comes up: if I can't seem to find my own lots, how will anybody else?! That would be my first question, prior to even 'and the consignment fee is?'

[eewwnuk]

they have some great pieces up for auction this go round...but you have to figure out which auction they are in and then scroll past 100 toys to get to the art?  the walking dead stuff is on page 21 of their listings and not in the front?    the splash for wolverine 75 is hidden in the middle of muck?   they really make you work to find anything on this website.  

[GreatEscape]

4 hours ago, eewwnuk said:

they have some great pieces up for auction this go round...but you have to figure out which auction they are in and then scroll past 100 toys to get to the art?  the walking dead stuff is on page 21 of their listings and not in the front?    the splash for wolverine 75 is hidden in the middle of muck?   they really make you work to find anything on this website.  

Part of the reason is ComicConnect has a single "Event" level auction covering everything from Ditko Spidey pages to Hasbro action figures.....other auction platforms utilize tiered structures to differentiate by quality:  ComicLink (Featured + Focused) and Heritage (Signature + Sunday).   Heritage now has "Platinum Night" to further distinguish Featured Signature auction items.   All three allow you to sort auctions by "highest Price" but during preview periods, I like searching Heritage for "Most Views" or "Most tracked" to highlight key pieces prior to the auction starting. 

 

 

[Filter81]

On 11/14/2017 at 11:54 AM, eewwnuk said:

they have some great pieces up for auction this go round...but you have to figure out which auction they are in and then scroll past 100 toys to get to the art?  the walking dead stuff is on page 21 of their listings and not in the front?    the splash for wolverine 75 is hidden in the middle of muck?   they really make you work to find anything on this website.  

Even buried, The wolv 75 splash is already at roughly double the price it sold for in CL a few years ago and still has days to go!  Looks like it is going to blow past what I thought it would sell for.  Not sure if it's because the description kind of makes it seem like this is the actual issue Wolverine gets his skeleton ripped out, if it's because the Adam Kubert OA market has gotten that hot in the last few years, or 90s collectors like myself are just desperate for a good page from this storyline.  (Or if it's because CC often nets very strong auction results for consignors in general)  Or some combination of all of the above..  

I'm a little curious now.  I can't think of too many other examples of 1990s interior pages (not done by someone named Jim Lee, Todd McFarlane or Barry Windsor-Smith) cracking 5 figures.  Does that put this piece in pretty rarefied air?  Or are there other 90s pages that would sell for 5 figures and I'm just not thinking of them at the moment?   

 

 

 

 

[vodou]

34 minutes ago, Filter81 said:

I'm a little curious now.  I can't think of too many other examples of 1990s interior pages (not done by someone named Jim Lee, Todd McFarlane or Barry Windsor-Smith) cracking 5 figures.  Does that put this piece in pretty rarefied air?  Or are there other 90s pages that would sell for 5 figures and I'm just not thinking of them at the moment?

You left out Miller and Mignola on their signature DH books. I'm walked away from comics in the middle of the Spider-Man Clone Saga, so I just don't know, but are there any key interiors from that sprawl that could get to five figures?

[Solar]

On 12/2/2017 at 7:22 PM, vodou said:

You left out Miller and Mignola on their signature DH books. I'm walked away from comics in the middle of the Spider-Man Clone Saga, so I just don't know, but are there any key interiors from that sprawl that could get to five figures?

Some splash / key Vertigo interiors from the 90s-00s could crack 5 figures.

[stinkininkin]

On 12/2/2017 at 4:22 PM, vodou said:

You left out Miller and Mignola on their signature DH books. I'm walked away from comics in the middle of the Spider-Man Clone Saga, so I just don't know, but are there any key interiors from that sprawl that could get to five figures?

A fair number of Travis Charest Xmen/Wildcats interiors would crack the 5 figure range.  If you've ever seen one in person, you'd understand why.

Scott

[comix4fun]

32 minutes ago, Solar said:

Some splash / key Vertigo interiors from the 90s-00s could crack 5 figures.

And even some non-splash, non-key, but really cool looking ones too. 

[PhilipB2k17]

On ‎10‎/‎8‎/‎2017 at 7:59 PM, Bill C said:

Actually there are some cases where this is noteworthy.

On Flash in the silver age, Infantino would do the cover first and work that pretty specific scene into the story. Those pages have "cover scene" written on the art, at the cover scene panel  (likely by Julius Schwartz). Those pages would get a bump in general I would imagine.

I have an interior page, where the half splash on it was later turned into the San Diego Comic Con variant cover for that comic. It's posted on my CAF page. http://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1402822

[PhilipB2k17]

On ‎10‎/‎3‎/‎2017 at 8:15 PM, vodou said:

No, you didn't. Everybody else misuses the term mightily as a marketing tool. You have The Splash Page, there is only per issue, it's the first page of the issue and can have more than one panel. The other one up for auction is a single-panel page. Everybody else -under the age of 45-50 will now disagree, along with some of the older folks too. But they are wrong. Such is the creep of terminology in everyday use away the actual publishing nomenclature and toward whatever can justify an additional mark-up. The ironic part of it is that this one up for auction doesn't need any juice to sell well!

Meh. I refer to page 1 as the "Title Splash," which isn't as pertinent to modern comics any longer, because sometimes they put it a couple pages in. I regard a "splash" as a single panel page. A half splash as encompassing a single image in half the page, etc.

[vodou]

2 hours ago, PhilipB2k17 said:

Meh. I refer to page 1 as the "Title Splash," which isn't as pertinent to modern comics any longer, because sometimes they put it a couple pages in. I regard a "splash" as a single panel page. A half splash as encompassing a single image in half the page, etc.

You can "meh" all you wish but that doesn't change the historical fact of how the publishing world (of all periodicals, not comics per se) created the term for and traditionally identified the first page (of editorial content, not advertising). The point was, wherever the readers eye next falls on "content", it had better "splash" in some way to draw the reader in further, after the initial draw of the cover. Otherwise that mag goes back on the rack, sale lost. That's the tradition. I'm not dismissing that, even if I'm not the only that still cares. I wonder if publishing, the industry, has moved away from the traditional terminology or not. The emphasis currently isn't maybe so much on the casual newsstand perusal as it used to be.

[comix4fun]

54 minutes ago, vodou said:

You can "meh" all you wish but that doesn't change the historical fact of how the publishing world (of all periodicals, not comics per se) created the term for and traditionally identified the first page (of editorial content, not advertising). The point was, wherever the readers eye next falls on "content", it had better "splash" in some way to draw the reader in further, after the initial draw of the cover. Otherwise that mag goes back on the rack, sale lost. That's the tradition. I'm not dismissing that, even if I'm not the only that still cares. I wonder if publishing, the industry, has moved away from the traditional terminology or not. The emphasis currently isn't maybe so much on the casual newsstand perusal as it used to be.

Viagra began it's R&D life as a treatment for cardiovascular ailments.....

Sometimes the side-effect becomes the institution.  

[vodou]

1 hour ago, comix4fun said:

Viagra began it's R&D life as a treatment for cardiovascular ailments.....

Sometimes the side-effect becomes the institution.  

Yes but at least the marketing usage of Viagra has actual efficacy. Dead things wake up! (Not a Walking Dead reference!! ) The marketing of half/quarter/splashy offers the end-user no actual improvement on any previous condition. Before and after the bastardization of terminology, the art is the art.

[SquareChaos]

25 minutes ago, vodou said:

Yes but at least the marketing usage of Viagra has actual efficacy. Dead things wake up! (Not a Walking Dead reference!! ) The marketing of half/quarter/splashy offers the end-user no actual improvement on any previous condition. Before and after the bastardization of terminology, the art is the art.

Maybe it offers the buyer a higher realized cost 

[Pete Marino]

4 minutes ago, Bill C said:

I always see page 1 as the (true) splash 'cause that's the way uncle Stan taught it (and who would know better?) in How to draw comics the Marvel way. But I know nowadays the term is used by many (most?) differently.

Even in the 80's and 90's the title splash was not always page 1.  So, it's not just a new thing.  Maybe it's just the age I read comics, but I looked at page 1 as the indica page, and the title splash as where the credits / title were.