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Alex Ross Kingdom Come Cover - "Revelations"
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Was very fortunate to pick up this original cover art before Alex Ross gained too much notoriety.  It is the original cover art to the special edition fifth book of Kingdom Come, "Revelations".

As I don't have a lot of artwork, I'm not sure how to estimate the value.  Was curious if there were any estimates from those more familiar with original artwork.

Thanks, Seth.  

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Cool piece. I looked it up.
I knew I remembered seeing it somewhere, but when OP called it the 5th book, I got curious.

Been years since I flipped through the Revelations book on the LE slipcase. I owned the Deadman pencil drawing in it for a number of years. I want to say that came from 4 Color Gallery, in NY. Sold the Deadman drawing years ago, along with my Deadman KC pages (also from 4 Color).

"Even though I got no eyes!"

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12 hours ago, sclemons said:

Was very fortunate to pick up this original cover art before Alex Ross gained too much notoriety.  It is the original cover art to the special edition fifth book of Kingdom Come, "Revelations".

As I don't have a lot of artwork, I'm not sure how to estimate the value.  Was curious if there were any estimates from those more familiar with original artwork.

Thanks, Seth.  

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gorgeous! not sure of the size, but imagine it's normal Ross size (11x17). His DC work from that era tends to have strong appeal, and while I'm no expert, I'd say 15-$20k is the price range for this. Congrats on owning this wonderful piece

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4 minutes ago, sclemons said:

It is non-standard size and smaller.  My guess would be 6 x 8 in dimensions.

Hard to estimate with that small size but it’s a nice piece that would do well in auction. To me the floor on that would be $6k. To reach the five figure mark I think a bidder has to get over the psychological barrier of its size and that it’s a headshot of Supes—no torso, no “S” emblem. Otherwise it’s a really nice piece to own. Love it when these things pop up. 

Here’s a recent comp:

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Personally, I think it's great. I don't know that it would hit five figures, but $5K+ is a lock.

BTW, I have a standard answer to this question that might be of use. I put it in spoiler tags because it's long and many have seen it too often.

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You might want to explore the following resources

  • The website Comic Art Tracker can help you find art and look at current asking prices for similar pieces.
  • 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. [Of course, Comic Art Tracker is better.]
  • 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 the 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 that it is difficult. However, I think that there is a valid reason. Each piece is unique. Uniqueness make art sales generally and OA specifically non-linear.

 

Examples of how piece can differ in ways that impact pricing include:

  • Content: Consecutive pages could and do sell for radically different amounts based on their content. 
  • Page Layout: In general, you might say:
    • Covers > 1st Page Splash > Other Splash > 1/2 splash > panel page
    • However, that's not always true either. The right panel page can be much more compelling than a bland splash.
  • Penciler vs. character: 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 ...
  • Pencilers/inkers combinations - Kirby/Sinnott FF pages rank above Kirby and anyone else on FF, but a Kirby/InkerX 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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