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On 6/25/2020 at 5:05 PM, cloud cloddie said:
I don’t disagree, but I find Facebook a little predatory in their estimates. Whenever I see somebody inquire about pricing, it’s usually tons of lowballs followed by ‘pm sent’.
I do provide a warning about this path - "prepare for odd/funny answers, unsolicited offers, and the usual social media snark."
I'm open to a better warning.
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New Art Day - Superman Annual 10 pg 27 by Curt Swan (p) and Murphy Anderson (i)Note: New Art Day is also known as Squander my Daughters' Inheritance Day.
Sure, it's not a Sienkiewicz or a multiply pubished Gorilla page, but I like it.
George Klein and Murphy Anderson were Curt's top inkers and I'd love a page by each. However, GK pages are way more expensive and SwAnderson pages are plentiful as Heritage auctions off Murphy's collection.I bid in the 2020 May 17-18 weekly auction where the "minor" pieces are usually found. There were two that I quite liked, but they were the last two pieces in the auction. I wouldn't have enough time to lose the first one and bid on the 2nd (HA live bidding by computer is too fast for me). I decided to go for the latter piece and won it for less than I expected!Click the image to see a bigger image, the other piece, and a write-up describing why I liked this page. The reason may surprise you.
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On 6/21/2020 at 1:22 PM, stinkininkin said:
So I guess this sold for over $800. Buyer got completely ripped off. That said, I will never understand purchases like this. Even if it WAS real (and it's not) it looks like total garbage. Why would anyone spend $800 on garbage?
To have a piece from a specific artist for an amount they could afford, i.e., it's not always about the image.
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I have no cares or fears at all about my art becoming worthless. I spend only money that I would spend on any other hobby. [I have tried to break the rule twice, but failed both times.]
Other hobbies, e.g., golf, season tickets for sporting events, or flying, have no return at all. That's my benchmark.
It's a good thing that resale isn't really an issue for me because I buy a lot of commissions and they aren't worth much after I get them. I mean seriously, how many people would buy a collection of faux Sugar and Spike #100 covers? Not many since the books haven't been in print for 50+ years with the exception of a DC Archive and one special edition.I do worry a bit about fire and flood and such. Insurance would help, but the loss would be awful.
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About the artwork in the Nate Sanders auction, it turns out that it was not from All-American #6. The story was indeed told there first, but the art being sold was recreated by Sheldon Mayer in The Greatest Golden Age Stories Ever Told published in 1990. The image below explains the art's origin. It seems that this was the art placed in auction.
I don't care, I still love it, but not $30K worth.
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32 minutes ago, OdinsSecrets said:
Important thing to keep in mind for HA is the additional fees on top of your bid. My last winning bid on HA was for around $180, and including buyer's premiums, credit card fees, sales tax, and shipping the total came to almost 40% higher than the bid. If you don't keep that in mind you can end up paying a lot more than you bargained for.
That is excellent advice. 20% BP, 8.25% Texas Sales Tax, plus $20 S/H can really add up. I pay with an echeck so no CC fees. (Do they still take CCs?)
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On 4/30/2020 at 9:12 AM, Eltanin said:
Does anyone know where the cover to Usagi Yojimbo #139 is?
I'd be interested in purchasing it.
Did you ask Stan if he sold it?
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My advice?
Determine your maximum. Enter it in the live bidding. Go away and have a nice dinner.- F For Fake and Twanj
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New Art Day - A new faux Sugar and Spike #100 cover commission! This one is by Dave Aikins and features S&S meeting Superman!
I think it's spectacular. Dave went over and above. It's a photorealistic representation of a "real" S&S #100 cover. It's full of little Easter Eggs in the details.
Utterly delightful and a great addition to this sub-theme! Thanks, Dave!
Click the image and read more about it.
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New Art Day - A new faux Sugar and Spike #100 cover commission! This one is by Dave Aikins and features S&S meeting Superman!
I think it's spectacular. Dave went over and above. It's a photorealistic representation of a "real" S&S #100 cover. It's full of little Easter Eggs in the details.
Utterly delightful and a great addition to this sub-theme! Thanks, Dave!
Click the image and read more about it.
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Those are all fun, but Michael Dooney's is really clever, @Doc McCoy.
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You landed a great catch, @fishbone.
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I enjoy the list. Thanks for doing it.
These may or may not help (yes, I'm a Legion fan. :) )
Q:
Quislet from the Legion of Super-Heroes
Querl Dox = Brainiac 5 from the LSH
Queen Projectra from the LSH (she was crowned their queen and moved up from Princess)
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Val Armoor - Karate Kid from the LSHValidus of the Fatal Five from the Legion books
Vandal Savage who has tangled with the LSH
Valor a version of Mon-El from the Zero Hour Legion
Violet, a.k.a., Shrinking Violet from the LSH
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Sodom Yat a GL who made it to the 30th century in one LSH version
Yera Allon who married Colossal Boy of the LSH after impersonating Shrinking Violet
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1 hour ago, GreatEscape said:
I'm halfway through my 2020 A-Z challenge, I'm proud to post my 'M' for Man-Thing!
Have you had to go out and buy a piece yet to make this work?
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Reposted so I could change an image. The original post is here.
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I need to put together a DB Q&A. I started one once, but ...
I'd like to preface this with that my relationship with Coollines Art has been primarily through e-mail and while we've never struck a deal they have always been prompt and polite. I've met Rich a few times and he's been cordial. I don't recall meeting Steve, but we've corresponded and he too has been cordial. I've never traded or bought from them. That said, they do things differently than I would and one of those is "restoration" of their art.
Before we go on, I'd like to share my opinion:
I believe that they are really collectors in disguise. I believe that they use the advantages of being well advertised dealers to build their collection at a discount. Advantages include potential tax advantages as a reseller, e.g., sales tax avoidance on purchases, early con access, and so on. I am not contending that there is anything wrong with this.
As I mentioned above, they alter their art work to "restore"it and to "enhance" its value. Often they do not disclose the alterations. They have turned drawings into "preliminary/rejected/unpublished" variant coverss and they do special things to make drawings into "covers." We are going to discuss one example: Curt Swan's cover for Superman Annual #7.
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Note the words on the statue's base.As I understand it, the Heritage buyer sold/traded it to the Donneleys some time later.
They now show it on their site as:
Note the words on the base of the statue.
A conversation on the Curt Swan FB fan page led to an e-mail conversation with Steve. Steve told me in that note that:As our web site mentions, the large center Superman figure by Curt Swan was the only original art ever created for this cover. The four side images were stats taken from images of earlier reprinted stories and were missing from the original when I bought it."The 4 side images on the 1963 annual were originally stat'ed from earlier Superman stories and were hand redrawn for this cover"So, I had the missing stats redrawn and placed on the original art board in the exact position that the DC production material would have gone!They "restored" the cover to its original state by re-creating stats using an unknown artist. Curt passed away in 1996 and the art was acquired by the Donnelly's after the Heritage Auction in Jan 18, 2007 in a trade with the buyer.
An interesting point was made on the Swan FB page by Ray Cuthbert about Steve's assumption:Steve's information to Alex above shows an incorrect assumption. All of the images for that cover were drawn especially for that cover by Swan & Klein. They were not stats unless they were drawn by Swan and Klein and then statted for publication purposes. The stories reprinted were not all drawn by Swan, let alone all inked by Klein. There is no way that those were stats from story panels originally. I have no idea if it was done on two separate boards, but I suspect so, since only the "statue" part was done in ink wash, to make it look distinctive.While I would not have mounted "replacement stats" on the original Swan piece, I might have done it on an overlay.
There are several takeaways here:- People do try to "restore" art and Coollines is one place that does.
- Proper restoration is hard.
- Be an informed buyer
- One man's restoration is another man's fake.
By the way, this piece was not originally designed for the cover of Superman Annual #7. Ray Cuthbert says:The statuette image was originally used prior to SUPERMAN ANNUAL #7 - as the Independent News Initiative Award. This is why the actual original art has a different inscription than on the ANNUAL cover. Here’s that original image:
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On 6/3/2020 at 6:36 AM, Rick2you2 said:
I was watching the Aparo page from JLA 200 with the Phantom Stranger and Aquaman. The page went for $2,920, and I think that was a surprising strong price for a 1982 Aparo page with a mediocre rendering of PS.
Wow! I paid $900 in March of 2011 for the Flash/Elongated Man page from that issue by Infantino and Giacoia. Bought it from Mike Burkey who was kind enough to let me stretch the payments. Glad I got it when I did!
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I love a good write-up and try to make all of my posts an interesting read.
Did you know that there's a 5000 character limit to the Description field? Yep, there is. I've run into it on several pieces.
Pro Tip: I like to include links to related information and one way to shrink your Description's character count is to use "outside-affiliatelinksnotallowed DOT com" to shorten your links.
Here are two of my long ones:
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That is rather spectactular. Thanks for sharing.
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I'm sure that for some the stories about Cameron Stuart will taint his art and for some they will not. Both are reasonable reactions, IMO.
Same goes for Gerard Jones' books (Men of Tomorrow is terrific) and comics.
My decision was that I would not buy from them, but I won't get rid of what I own.