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The OFFICIAL "This week in your ORIGINAL ART collection?"
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MagnusX

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Got a new piece…I've always wanted a Sienkiewicz piece and stumbled into a great one IMO. Hope you enjoy!

 

Sienkiewicz

 

[font:Book Antiqua]1 ) Congratulations, Amazing piece of art.

2 ) I am surprised people still don't know how to use photobucket.

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Sideshow Bob

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Very active week, both this week and next week:

 

Tim Sale - Long Halloween Catwoman splash

 

http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=1184956&GSub=162724

 

Tim Sale - LoDK splash with huge villain montage

 

http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=1184957&GSub=162724

 

4-page scene from Rachel Rising #29, with an emotional punch. This is the second time I've bought consecutive pages from Terry Moore...the pacing and writing are outstanding.

 

http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=1184963&GSub=154017

 

Nicolas Delort - Charlie Brown Christmas scratchboard

 

http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=1184966&GSub=162725

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Very active week, both this week and next week:

 

Tim Sale - Long Halloween Catwoman splash

 

http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=1184956&GSub=162724

 

Tim Sale - LoDK splash with huge villain montage

 

http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=1184957&GSub=162724

 

4-page scene from Rachel Rising #29, with an emotional punch. This is the second time I've bought consecutive pages from Terry Moore...the pacing and writing are outstanding.

 

http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=1184963&GSub=154017

 

Nicolas Delort - Charlie Brown Christmas scratchboard

 

http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=1184966&GSub=162725

Tim Sale's Catwoman :cloud9:
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I've added a few new pages to the collection recently:

 

Three pages from What if Jane Foster Found the Hammer of Thor? (What If #10) by Rick Hoberg. A board member here actually let me know he still had pages, and over the course of a year I worked out buying these. Took a while to ship because he moved during that time and the pages had to be found again. (and of course, the pages I got feature Loki very heavily)

 

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I got this page from Young Avengers #14 by Christian Ward. The vast majority of YA Vol. 2 was done digitally(because McKelvie and most of the guest artists only did digital), so this is one of the few existing pieces of OA from it. It's also one of the only published OA pages yet that feature America Chavez, as most of the pages with her were done digitally too.

 

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A page from Loki: Agent of Asgard #6 (guest artist Jorge Coelho)

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A page from The Mighty Thor #384 by Ron Frenz

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It's been a really good year for art in my case. If a bit wallet draining. Might still be able to squeeze in a couple more before 2015.

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I got this page from Young Avengers #14 by Christian Ward. The vast majority of YA Vol. 2 was done digitally(because McKelvie and most of the guest artists only did digital), so this is one of the few existing pieces of OA from it. It's also one of the only published OA pages yet that feature America Chavez, as most of the pages with her were done digitally too.

 

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Nice, that's a pretty interesting page.

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vodou

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Those Hoberg What If? pages...don't know what you paid, but I'm thinking they were budget collector friendly (under $500/ea). I could be wrong, but if not, they prove there is still quality vintage out there for the lower end collector.Even if I'm wrong on these, there are plenty of other examples if you turn some rocks. And that's a great thing. This stuff is much more exciting to me than what Gene or Ron S. (no slight intended fellas!) picked up at the last Heritage. Wrong artist, wrong title, wrong character, non-continuity = big value for small price! A great formula for skinning the cat without a six or seven figure annual income :)

 

And while a lot of maturity is already priced into the big dogs, if things continue forward as they have for the last fifteen years, these originals should double to triple in nominal value in five to seven years too. And you love 'em. Sweeeeeet.

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Those Hoberg What If? pages...don't know what you paid, but I'm thinking they were budget collector friendly (under $500/ea). I could be wrong, but if not, they prove there is still quality vintage out there for the lower end collector.Even if I'm wrong on these, there are plenty of other examples if you turn some rocks. And that's a great thing. This stuff is much more exciting to me than what Gene or Ron S. (no slight intended fellas!) picked up at the last Heritage. Wrong artist, wrong title, wrong character, non-continuity = big value for small price! A great formula for skinning the cat without a six or seven figure annual income :)

 

And while a lot of maturity is already priced into the big dogs, if things continue forward as they have for the last fifteen years, these originals should double to triple in nominal value in five to seven years too. And you love 'em. Sweeeeeet.

 

They didn't cost much relatively speaking. I paid less than a grand for all three.

 

I've learned that even with pages from thirty or forty years ago, it pays to just ask if the artist or inker still has the page. Because I've been lucky more than a few times at this point using that method. Some artists have scattered everything to the wind, but some still have held onto a few.

 

It helps that I focus on a villain. So when I am digging for a Thor page, the title character is not necessarily even on the page at all. And that keeps my purchase costs down at times. (Though Loki has gotten astronomically more popular since the movies)

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I paid less than a grand for all three.

Excellent! What I expected and what the unhyped market will bear. Things can get weird at auction and on dealer sites if one doesn't know that "ask" isn't always "final" price. You did great here as a collector and may end up doing very well as an accidental speculator.

 

I was buying like this in the 90s through mid 00s. Took down everything that "made sense", content for price and was reasonably or moreso visually interesting. Most of it mainstream superhero. It was all transactions just like yours, by the many, over many years. Never chased the hottest artists and runs up, but ultimately ended up with a lot (my woman says "A LOT!") of money "in", a mountain of art, and at this point a very conservative 15-25x return. Unless our art market just poofs (which can happen, anything can). Of course I ended up with some dogs too (financially), but they're still great art and that sort of sticks around even if the prices didn't keep up.

 

Deals like yours are not as common as they were back then, but if I'd seen these at a show or backwater dealer site, x3 for under $1000...would have been mine instantly. I'm not even any particular What If?, Thor or Loki fan (but it's all good). Even better that you are! Just so uncommon to see good vintage at fair instead of overpriced these days. I've mostly stopped looking. And of course don't need any more art anyway, heh heh.

 

Too cool, thanks for sharing!! Your buy and share really brought me back to a fun part of my life.

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Fantastic Four watercolor painting by Steve Rude. Just arrived on Friday.

 

This delightful 20 by 30 inch watercolor cover recreation truly captures the raw energy and spirit of Jack Kirby's classic silver age cover to Fantastic Four #49.

 

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Please do feel free to post thoughts on CAF. It's great reading them!

 

http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryP...945&GSub=20801

 

 

 

 

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The Madness

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Fantastic Four watercolor painting by Steve Rude. Just arrived on Friday.

 

This delightful 20 by 30 inch watercolor cover recreation truly captures the raw energy and spirit of Jack Kirby's classic silver age cover to Fantastic Four #49.

 

261f3ep.jpg

 

 

Please do feel free to post thoughts on CAF. It's great reading them!

 

http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryP...945&GSub=20801

 

 

 

 

Wow! That looks absolutely fantastic!

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