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So you picked it up after all. Congrats! If you don't mind me asking, what price did you guys settle on?

Well, that's the thing. It's not REALLY the original art to the cover; it was a piece that was used to give the published cover its red tones. The real, inked B&W cover, along with the rest of the interiors, did sell for 250K years ago so you're right about the what the true price would be. This piece is very cool and historic and played an important role in the creation of the iconic cover. But it's not the real deal cover art....or else I'da been all over it! If you wouldn't mind, could you please elaborate on the process? In what way was it used to give it its red tones? If it was part of the process at all, wouldn't it still be (in a sense) original published art?

It is a great piece. Unfortunately its been bouncing around between dealers lately, each of whom continue to increase asking price. I'm kind of confused on this one. As described: This is Kevin Eastman's original painting for the red color plate of the cover of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1984 Magazine) #1 If this is the original art actually used on the cover, shouldn't the price be like five digits long?

I would love to have that copy! I like little markings and such from the original store. Am I the only one who misses the '80's?

That is epic!

I commissioned this through Kirk Dilbeck on CAF. The artist is Bing Cansino. This is a preliminary scan and for some reason he left his signature block blank when he scanned it. Now I just need to wait for it to arrive.

Ha! I love it! Congrats.

I like those! Elegant and colorful wall hangers Are they display pieces?

I wish I lived close to your store The store near me does that as well, and the owner isn't even a comic guy. Of course, he also over stuffs his racks to the point that the whole stack starts buckling.

Those are fantastic, jonjesper!

Boy does that all look familiar.

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9.8? When you walk in and drop a bomb like that you need to say a bit more than, "I'm in." Where did you find it?

You should subscribe to GPA which tracks actual sell prices for CGC graded comics. Here's all the data they have for that one. Mar-25-2012 $154 Cert# 1062041008 Mar-11-2012 $346 Cert# 1062041012 Here's the one that sold for $346 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&_trksid=p4340.l2557&hash=item1e6bcf1f2d&item=130657754925&nma=true&pt=US_Comic_Books&rt=nc&si=u9VizD8495%252Fpo1ZQxUO%252FQB8wJhk%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc $154 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&_trksid=p4340.l2557&hash=item3373495e16&item=220977520150&nma=true&pt=US_Comic_Books&rt=nc&si=u9VizD8495%252Fpo1ZQxUO%252FQB8wJhk%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc One just sold for $212 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&_trksid=p4340.l2557&hash=item1e6cf26e60&item=130676846176&nma=true&pt=US_Comic_Books&rt=nc&si=u9VizD8495%252Fpo1ZQxUO%252FQB8wJhk%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc I think $210 is a fair price, and I think it will pretty much remain flat for the foreseeable future. But that's just my opinion.

Those Garry Shipman covers are epic! Not in hand yet but one of my favorite artists, Stephen Segovia.

Just framed today

Absolutely! If you're not an anti-pressing premadonna that's a very good candidate. There's a board member 'joeypost' who does pressing and submitting, and he's tops. A+ quality work, great prices and fast turnaround. I've never heard a single bad expperience with him.

I guess that trumps my needing a reader copy. All I offered to do was pay for shipping.

I predict just under 6k for this piece. I think it will go higher.

HOLY @#$% if this is the real deal! http://www.ebay.com/itm/Tony-Moore-Original-Art-Walking-Dead-Issue-1-Page2-/251033291126?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3a72c00976 Looks OK if not for the zero feedback seller.

I'll take it as a reader. Check your PMs. (thumbs u Sorry about getting got, but it could have been much worse than $250 bucks. This one is very hard to find low grade, so if you find one scrutinize everything before you buy.

From the cover I would say that's a legit 1st print. I don't know why people keep missing the most significant post in the entire thread but here it is. http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=5504932#Post5504932 In the second print there's a little dot above the middle building. But if you're the one who submitted it, you should know if it's a first print since you were able to open it.

He used to have a dojo right by where I lived in the '80's. I don't remember what he taught, but I'm thinking either Karate or Tae Kwon Do.

Sooo, what you're saying is that you haven't read the comics or watched the show in over a year. But you know that everything WD related is currently boring. The show was only mediocre. I saw a recent episode by chance and it was even worse than the first season. The production values seemed much worse than I remembered. The first 40 something issues of the comic were a decent read. It got really old after that and I kept going into the 80s hoping it would get better but it did not. It just got more tired. Maybe after a few more trades come out I'll check it out at the library and give it another chance, but probably not. I'm sure I'm not the only one that isn't jizzing in their jeans over the book. I do wish I had some to sell to some of the crazy mo fos buying them on eBay though. Of course there are others. Literally every piece of literature known to man has some people who don't care for it. There are always people who have a minority opinion. "anyone who just wants to read can do so without paying out the nose." Nobody pays through the nose for a comic because they want to read it.

Congrats! And great job once again, Joey.