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13 minutes ago, tth2 said:

Yikes!

I redid the number adjusting for BP and Seller's fee, the loss was 54%! 

4 hours ago, aokartman said:

I wondered if you were going for those pages.  It looks like the owner paid a little bit for the 

privilege of gazing at that nice art for a few years. 

I've got comic art that will never recover, let alone be considered an investment, but 

I still enjoy it.

With the hot art, and the downside art, still I enjoy the overall experience!

Best, David S. Albright

Re: if you were going for those pages

Nope, too rich for my blood. I play in the kiddie's pool.

Re: looks like the owner paid a little bit for the privilege of gazing at that nice art for a few years

Not even that; the Nate Sanders auction was only 6 months ago!

As you can see, I adjusted for the BP and Seller's fee and his loss is about 54%!

My tastes differ from most. The lots that I found interesting were the four complete or nearly complete issues of Sugar and Spike.

All of them were sold sometime ago at a Nate Sanders auction and came from the garage of Sheldon Mayer's son.

Whoever bought them at that auction sold them on Heritage and took a hit - 54%!



Hope springs eternal! 

phrase from “An Essay on Man,” by Alexander Pope.

Picked mine up. How many pages did you contribute, @thethedew?

Olivier does an truly excellent Thor!

This page from my first comic (yep, really, it's JLA 29) has a note about how to color the rays from Ultraman's eyes.
 

On 10/29/2020 at 6:57 AM, Rick2you2 said:

ICheck the prices on rare antique furniture compared to more modern classics from the Art Deco period or Mid-century modern. Guess what isn't selling well?

"Brown furniture" is not selling. "Brown furniture" is what the kids call it.

On 10/27/2020 at 4:28 PM, Bronty said:

I think Jim earned that influence.    I dislike his artwork but anybody that can stay on top of all his responsibilities and have 8 kids has my respect.   I attribute his success to him being great at all the stuff outside of drawing more than the drawing itself.    You never hear anyone say a bad word about the guy.    If you put out consistent work and earn the love and respect of your fans and colleagues for decades, the artwork itself becomes secondary.    The dependability and reliability and love you put out there overcomes.   And in fairness I think he's gotten better as a draftsman over the years which even non-fans like myself have to appreciate and respect because rare is the artist that improves with age.

I agree. I, too, am not a big fan of Jim's work.

That said, I've a ton of his comics and I'm more than impressed by the guy. He's friendly and hardworking. He's great with his fans, has accomplished a ton in his career, and seems to be a loving dad and husband. I fully appreciate his artistic skill (and Scott's inking), but it just doesn't ring my bell on a consistent basis.

That's not to say that I wouldn't take a page gratefully if someone gave me one, it's just that I don't have him (or most (all?) of his contemporaries at Image) on my radar.

When Elaine Lee and Michael Wm. Kaluta decided to add to the Starstruck story with the prequel, Old Proldiers Never Die, they offered my favorite Kickstarter perk - commissions from artists who don't often do them. Later, when they realized that they needed more money, they offered people the option of contributing some funds for "some background." I threw in $200 on top of the original pledge ($300).

Mike does't do preliminaries. He draws roughly on the page and then adds to it. In this case, he'd already started on my original request (The Shadow and Margo), but he abandoned it because there was no way to add a decent background. So, he turned the page over and started again. 

Yes, I definitely got "some background!" 

2 and on the back we find the original pose 

The first pose would have made me quite happy, the final piece blew me away and still does.

Mike told me that when people would come over and ask what he was working on that this is what he would show them.

Here's one for you. Sheldon Moldoff would draw an image, light box ink it, and then paint it. He'd repeat the process for as many copies as he wanted for a show. There's a discussion in the CAF Description (click the image). On the back are nots from Sheldon and his wife.

 and on the back we have these notes

Does anyone know who Jim might be? I'd like to give credit. 

Joe Kubert - WWI or WWII Action

Rush Heath - WWII Action

Maybe an air battle with the Enemy Ace by Kubert

Maybe a tank battle by Heath

3 hours ago, batman_fan said:

This piece seems like it might but right up a boardies alley.

Cool Splash

Seems like a grail for the right guy. If only there were such a guy - @Rick2you2

I do have the write-up as an MS Word file if anyone wants a copy. Just PM me with your email address.

1 hour ago, Rick2you2 said:

Thank you. I wish I knew what happened to the second half of the story in the next Swamp Thing issue.

These showed up, those probably will, too.

2 hours ago, RBerman said:

Mon-El must be a favorite for him. I tried to get a commission from him last year at Dragon Con. He was reluctant and ended up not doing it, but when I asked him which Legionnaire he'd prefer to do and then named a few, he immediately said, "Mon-El."

He does at home commissions on occasion. Contact Spencer Beck at spencerbck@aol.com / The Artist's Choice.

There are two:

• My Swan Superman
• My JLA 29 page

I've told these stories a thousand times and you can get the details in the CAF Description by clicking on the images, but here's the summary.

My paternal grandmother setup a small trust fund for her adopted children upon her death in 1967 (I was 10). After about 38 years, the trust had done its job and the balance was to be distributed among her three natural children. By that time, my dad had passed so his share was split among his four children. For the first time in more than 30 years, I had some free cash. Kathy and I decided I could spend it as I wished. I'd discovered Heritage and there this was along with a Sheldon Mayer Sugar and Spike one-page story. I bid something on both, but decided that the Swan was going to go out of reach so I bid the balance on the Mayer. I lost, but the Superman was mine on my highest bid! Thanks, Grandmother.

At the Comic Art Show in 2010, Kathy and I made an appearance and found 5(!) pages from my very first comic - Justice League of America (1st Series) 29 featuring the JLA and it's 2nd JSA crossover. This is the comic that imprinted me. This story is long, but it involves a Mexican vacation, minimal cash for gas to get back to Texas, a comic book vending machine at a HoJo, and $0.15. What really makes it special is that Kathy bought it for me. She has not always been a fan of my hobby as you can read here, but she knew it meant a lot to me. I have a wonderful wife!

Thanks to Will Gabri-El for a quick and fair deal. What I'd like to know is the location of the splash. If six pages have surfaced, that indicates that more may be out there. That splash means a lot to since my brother and I stared at it for a long time trying to figure out who these people were before we read the comic. I value it higher than the cover.  I suspect it's mostly stat, but I wouldn't care.

2 hours ago, Rick2you2 said:

I should have posted this a few weeks ago when I got it, but, better late than never. 

Fast forward to a recent Heritage Auction, and what shows up? The half story. It is not the best of his PS work, he did an issue of PS's own book with pages I love a lot more, but the first page splash and the unavailability of anything else, and more income, sold me on it. So, for $3,700 or so, with tax and shipping, here are a three pages from it. 

 

Congrats! That's quite the haul!

51 minutes ago, RBerman said:

That second one is actually better than the usual for late 80s Giffen LSH.  I was amazed how much the results from the same Giffen/Mahlstedt combo changed, from this fine, clean detail:

Yeah, I just grabbed two examples of team shots. It was a shock when I picked the first 5YL book, but I really grew to enjoy it and the cover to LSH #4 is an all-time favorite.

Keith's Original                        Jim Lee's Tribute                     Keith's recreation for me

A more or less complete list of those not represented:

• Shuster Superman
• Kirby Thor or New Gods page
• Marshall Rogers Detective (Batman) page from his wonderful run with Steve Englehart and Terry Austin
• Sprang Batman
• Ditko Creeper
• Everett Sub-Mariner page

Plus two that are, but not in this specific combination:

• Swan/Klein Superman or LSH page
• Mayer Scribbly page (if there are any)

- $$$$ are the main reasons.

45 minutes ago, Ron C. said:

Detective 1027 Mike Mayhew Variant Cover Painted Preliminary

Did you see Bill Cox's Comic Art Fans interview with Mike? If not, you might enjoy it.