KirbyCollector

Byrne's sketchy inks on himself tho... grrr. It must have been ego, because there were plenty of inkers aside from Austin who made Byrne shine... this Dan Green page in the current HA auction is a good example:

Are these based on raw price or price + BP?

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Butch Guice posted on Insta this morning, the post contains imgs of Joe's work over the years https://www.instagram.com/p/CqIgsjZMHXh/

https://www.marvel.com/xmen60event

The moment the seller received a message that this was not original art, yet refused to change the description, this listing became fraud. I sent him a message and so did others, so Ebay could easily pull them and make the case. The problem is Ebay's fraud department is probably so miniscule, in comparison to the complaints they field daily, that they never address 99% of these problems.

Looks like the page may have been pulled from the auction Congrats to whoever beat me out on UXM 187..

Not making the sales results available forever is part of their business philosophy, as Doug will tell you

I reported this as fraudulent. If enough of us do, it will get Ebay's attention and they may halt this in time. Sadly, this seller is one of those whom Ebay allows despite obvious fraudulent practices (as evidenced by feedback). It makes me wonder how many of the 30+ bids so far on this print are even real.

Sometimes you just need to go with your gut... was going to toss in a last minute bid of 25K for the 130 page but talked myself out of it... stupid... was one of the last two bidders for one of the spec Al Williamson Star Wars strips last year and didn't push it an extra 2K for the same reason... the highs and lows of collecting I guess

That 130 page is the bargain of the year

Watching the UXM 130 auction... I know everyone approaches auction bidding differently, but there is a special place in hell for those who run in small bid after small bid on large dollar items... like watching a real life Scrooge McDuck bid

Hulk toejamb + Iron Man in a skirt with a walkie talkie antenna = If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all

A long time ago someone I know who was friends with a famous artist was invited with that artist to visit Walt. Walt decided to show the dealer some of his art, so he went to get it from the closet where it was kept. The art was not in portfolios, mind you, but simply stacked in a giant pile from floor to ceiling. I was horrified to hear this, thinking of the all the ways it could be easily damaged in such a setting (bugs, humidity, water, fire etc). The dealer thought it was no big deal, which confused me -- until I visited the dealer at his house and saw he stored art the exact same way

Let me rephrase, "Artists who kept their OWN art..."

Was watching last night's podcast with Walt Simonson, who has notoriously kept a sizable amount of his own art and publishes his own OA editions. Is he the best example of this, among Silver/Bronze age artists?

If you have a higher value item/items with an aggregated value (via their own valuation metrics) of $50K+, HA's fee is much, much lower.

I wouldn't worry so much about the seller due to his ratings + Paypal's buyer protections... I would sweat out how well he packs his art, though. Just got a package from overseas, the seller used 4 pieces of thin packing box cardboard (2 on each side)... needless to say the package was creased, and the art as well. Just a $500 piece, but a good reminder to ask unknowns the packing questions before finalizing a sale...

If I have my math right the seller will pay less than he would on Heritage (approx 13% on first 7500, then 2.35% on the remainder)... less than half of HA's lowest selling fee of 7.5% (or whatever it is these days for items over $50K)

Curious to see how resilient buyers are... the market has absorbed an incredible level of art over the past 6 months and prices are still rising

Any update from attendees? New art still thin on the ground as it all goes to HA?

I'm more than involved in the real whys of it all, it was just simpler to paste the screenshot without getting into the esoterics of HTM, the bond market, etc etc. Good news is yay, the fed govt essentially said the hell with the FDIC limit, we'll cover your deposits by claiming "systemic risk" every time a bank mismanages risk and craters itself. The bad news? Banking is in worse shape than 2008, despite all the reforms, meaning the financial world is in even more dangerous shape than we thought. NOTE TO CGC POLICE: Nothing about this is political. It is about BANKING, period. Thank you

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I loved the Silvestri Naze page, esp that lower panel, but couldn't pull the trigger with just a single panel containing Storm... liked the Dune pages but am waiting for the better pages from that book, now that it is slowly being fed to the market... the bigger problem might be the economy right now, with all the easy stimulus money gone and inflation hitting everyone. I spend all my day in the financial markets and things look very grim right now on many fronts.