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On 4/2/2024 at 6:39 PM, sfcityduck said:

 

In the meantime, you can read this:

 

I'm still reading, but I really enjoy it.

On 4/2/2024 at 8:58 AM, tth2 said:

II don't even try to stay up and bid during the floor auctions, I just put in my best shot during online bidding and then go to sleep

I generally know what I'm willing to pay and I'll bid that ahead of time. If I win, good. If not, there's always the next auction.

I'll read your book when it's done!

Yep.

I doubt that this will help, but it's what we did to our 60+ year old house. You can see more pictures here and here.

We have renovated every room in the house and lived here the entire time. We put some furniture in storage, but for framed are, we wrapped it in bubble wrap and stored it in one of the rooms not being worked (yes, we had to move it twice). The portfolios were stored in the same room.

The entry way, living room, dining room, kitchen, utility room, and den were taken to the studs and the screeds (the 2x4s that hold the wood floors off the slab).

The house maintained climate control in the rooms not being worked.

I haven't printed 13x19, but I have printed 11x17 on my Epson WF-7710. I did that to make the template for a Walt Simonson sketch at Baltimore. Took a couple of passes, but I had fun.

Re: Tom
That's the O&G business. You go where the oil and gas are.

Amazon has the Epson Workforce Pro WF-7820 on sale for $180. That’s a good deal.

39 hours to go and they made it! I'm really looking forward to this book. (Click image to go to KS page)

On 3/23/2024 at 10:03 AM, comix4fun said:

Clearly the only solution is to slice the piece in half ( I prefer vertically) and sell half now at the lower seller's fee and then sell the other half in the summer signature auction. 

It's called "Solomon's Dollar Cost Averaging"


 

I've heard better advice. What do you do for a living?

Yep, there's a fair community of OA collectors. @MrBedrock hosts a gathering at his shop on Westheimer every few months. 

On 3/18/2024 at 7:31 AM, PhilipB2k17 said:

There's also a recent auction results history over at ComicLink. 

It doesn't last very long for general access though. Each of us has to place a tracking bid to build our own list. They don't allow CAT to scrape their site either.

A little re-organization; no new information.

There are three publicly available Price History sites: Heritage's archive, eBay's completed listings, and Comic Art Tracker's "Sold art." So, I've grouped the three at the top of the write-up under "Price History" to make them stand out a little. Can't believe it took me so long to notice CAT's "Sold art." 

On 3/16/2024 at 10:23 AM, GreatEscape said:

Link

Dave Cockrum UNCANNY X-MEN #95 page with entire team and death of Thunderbird, a very memorable scene.

 

Did you post this in the right thread or are you trying to make the newbies feel bad? Great page congratulations!

On 3/15/2024 at 12:14 PM, Nate Hartz said:

I know that Heritage does an appraisal service. Anyone else?

All of the auction houses will give you appraisals. You can read more in the hidden text of the first post of the Pricing Comic Art - 2023 Edition thread. Search for appraisals, you will find links advertising that service from Heriage, Hake's, and ComicConnect. It also has a link to the auction sites monitored by @NicoV's wonderful ComicArtTracker website. It's the best list of such sites on the web.

Similar to the Skull the Slayer piece, I collected this sequence. The "Legion of Super-Heroes" series was three issues long and reprinted stories from Adventure. It was a trial balloon at new Legion stories.

I'd love to be able to add a scan of the inks if anyone has one.

Curt's cover wasn't bad, but Carmine's is much more dynamic. The funny thing about the cover is the fleeing figure of Phantom Girl - who SB couldn't hurt.

Swan's original cover          Infantino's layout                        Cardy's pencils                  Published cover

I don't own any of this art, but it's cool to see the progression from Marie's prelim to the published cover. All of the art work came up for sale or was in the CAF at the same time.

Marie's Prelim                       Jack's pencils                       Frank's ink on Jack's pencils Published cover

I have nothing published by Fred, but I do have a pretty elaborate commission that is worthy of publication. Does that count?

Probably not, but enjoy it anyway. Click image for a better picture.

On 3/11/2024 at 8:08 AM, alxjhnsn said:

@grapeape, I've updated my post with the final pencils. I still have two questions outstanding - "Did Mike ink and color the pencils?" Yeah, I'm nosy.

I've updated it again with a little more information. Enjoy.

@grapeape, I've updated my post with the final pencils. I still have two questions outstanding - "Did Mike ink and color the pencils?" Yeah, I'm nosy.

Mike Grell was at a small con with great guests in Baytown, TX - Eastern Rim Comic Con. He had this piece and the print made from it. On the CAF in the gallery of Georg Schell there are two more versions.

Georg was the original commissioner. He bought a finished and colored commission that Mike turned into a print. As part of the process, Mike sent him a scan of the pencils which he then inked and colored. James inked a scan of the pencils. So, here is the full progression. Click the image to go to the correct CAF page.

My Prelim by Mike Grell                Georg Schell's pencils         Georg Schell's inked             Print                                      Inks on pencil scan
                                                      by Mike Grell                       & colored by Grell                                                                by James Pascoe

Four pages from 1989 by a famous editor/writer/artist for less than $500 including taxes and shipping!

My latest purchase came off eBay thanks to my friend Rob Stolzerr. Rob alerted me to four pages of Scribbly art drawn by Sheldon Mayer.

The full story is on the link, but the gist is:

• Scribbly is my favorite of Sheldon Mayer's creations
• I've seen one such page in almost 20 years of collecting
• I'd bid on these pages once before thinking they were the original pages from 1939's All-American Comics #6.

It turned out that they were actually recreations for DC's book "The Greatest Golden Age Stories Ever Told." The auction house refunded the money to the auction winner, the family kept the art, I figured I'd never see them again.

For once, I was happy to be wrong. Moreover, I won it for a lot less than they sold for in the Original Auction!

Yeah, I squandered more of my daughters' inheritance, but not very much. 

https://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=2000059