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[Chillax23]

Trying to figure out if it is feasible to buy a Jim Lee page from X-Men #4, 5 or 6 from the 1991 series - and by feasible I mean I am trying to figure out what a Jim Lee page from this run would cost?

obviously not looking for an exact amount - but more a range ie., $1,000-2,000 or $2,000-3,000 etc. 

Thanks for any help and feel free to PM. 

[Blastaar]

If featuring any X-Men on the page probably closer to 3k +. 

[Madman1138]

I have a few pages from his X-men run, and have been buying them over the past 5 years or so and as recent as last year. Anything from that run that has an X-men team member will be $3-5k at least. If it has Wolverine, add a couple grand, and if it has him in costume with popped claws, add another couple grand. In my experience, a panel page can run anywhere from $3-9k, depending on who it has on it, and the Wolverine pages tend to be over $10k and up. Splashes are even higher, obviously. You won't find anything out there under $3k at this point.

Good luck!

[alxjhnsn]

FWIW, here's my standard answer on how to price OA. It's not an algorithm, but a guide to finding the information that you need. In spoilers because it's long and lots of people have seen it more than once before.

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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.
  • The price information moved to The OA Elite blog. Click on the categories on the top of the page to see the updated list.
  • The discussion moved to Biggest OA Prices: The Blog.

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:

•  Yahoo's comicart-l mailing list
• The Comic Art Fans website
• The CGC OA Board 

The main points of physical contact are probably:

• San Diego Comic Con
• New York City Comic Con
• Heroes Comic Con - Not a lot of comic art dealers, but a huge number of artists who generally will draw and have portfolios to sell
• Comic Art Con - A twice yearly show in northern NJ within relatively easy reach of both NYC and Newark Airport
• NYC Comic Art Expo - only one so far, but more are promised; not thing but art people (dealers, individual sellers, and buyers) and a few local artists.

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.

 

[Chillax23]

Thanks everyone - I figured it would likely run $3K minimum for a piece from his X-Men run and it seems like my suspicions were correct.  I do not need a splash, just looking for a simple panel page - so I wills tart hunting