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On 7/21/2021 at 11:00 PM, TellshiarMarvelmaniaCollector said:

Well, maybe this old art price guide from the famous New York comic store SuperSnipe can help. It is from 1977 and shows prices for X-Men 98 and Giant-Size #1. These prices would make me think around $15-$20. $45 with Fed Ex shipping included. Contact me if interested in selling. Rick or Corey from Pawn Stars would only give you $5-$7 as they have to make a profit.

Do I get a 20% discount if I buy it all? 

On 7/21/2021 at 11:02 PM, batman_fan said:

Wow Wow Wow

Worth way more than the X-men 109 Byrne page IMO! My gosh!

On 7/21/2021 at 6:23 AM, Bronty said:

I’m not so sure.   The last two romita asm covers under 100k on HA have no Spider-Man on them.   The good ones went 300k or so.    There is also an unpublished cover that got 15k which I won’t count and then one where you only see spidey in the reflection of doc ock’s glasses that got 105.   
 

Can we agree #61 is a good example of a decent cover?   Spider-Man is on it, but it’s far from pretty.    Even that went for 167k, and three years ago.
 

in other words, while I don’t care for or track romita asm, I don’t see a recent HA  result for what I’d call a decent romita Spider-Man cover  (ie spidey actually on the cover as a starting point ) for under 100k.   Now again I don’t watch this material so maybe there are sales you know  of outside of that.    

When I was referring to ASM Romita, I meant Bronze Age covers, not Silver Age.

The ASM Annual #7 cover went for 87k. The ASM 90 and 91 went for over 100k, but not by much. And 3 ASM covers under #100 went for around 100k or less, but they certainly were not A covers.

But my point was you can do a lot with 100k other than buy this page.

$100k for this page? Man you guys are throwing around some heavy numbers! You can get a decent Romita ASM cover for $100k. I know which one I’d prefer!

On 7/19/2021 at 11:17 AM, bpc3qh said:

  

 

Eric Robert’s 9.6 AF #15 copy?!

9 minutes ago, grapeape said:

These pages at auction will obliterate sales records.

For sure! I find it interesting that both the newest and oldest Ditko Ditko pages are represented here. AF 15 pages are now owned by the government, and no ASM pgs from 1-4 have ever been on the open market.

I wonder how Ditko ended up getting those 2 stories? Was it random?

Many say that Ditko quit ASM in the middle of issue 38 and someone else inked a lot of those pages. Being the purest we know Ditko to be, I’m surprised he’d want it or keep it. I’d think that ASM 38 would just be an annoying reminder to Ditko of things gone bad.

How much are those 2 complete stories worth? I’d guess $5-6 million for the pair.

Not sure I’d go all the way out there to view photo copies, but glad to see Ditko’s getting his due!

59 minutes ago, Rick2you2 said:

I like that cover, but that's not where I was going.

This is not intended as a "hate" thread at all. More like, "least likely to hold value". Think of it as the flip side of the other thread involving "most valuable" as "greatest".

Example: Gene Colan's Daredevil. Collectible, absolutely. Good, yes. But why would a future generation buy it if they have no nostalgia for the artist? Candidate for slippage? Yup.

Similarly, we seen quite a few comments about a certain barbarian's main artist, and the the prices on some of that work can definitely be higher. Is that likely to be rejected by future collectors who don't give a fig about sword-welders in loin cloth?

Kids comic art doesn't typically carry a high price, so it isn't likely to suffer much. On the other hand, what about toy-based art for toys out of circulation (except to collectors)?

What's likely to take the biggest plunge, or least likely to keep up with a pricier market? 

 

I’m going to disagree with your Daredevil example.

Any solid character will have those collectors who will buy pieces they are not nostalgically linked to. Some Golden Age Superman art isn’t all that great artistically but still sells well, and no one remembers buying that stuff as a kid!

So 25 years from now Colan Daredevil will be bought and sold at a decent rate just as 40’s art Superman is today.

What will go down to dumpster levels in 25 years are insignificant characters that are barely a blip even today. 

2 minutes ago, aokartman said:

Stop dumping on my Dillin!  JLA 100, inked by Giella.  David

I’d buy that for a Dollar!

I think there is a distinction between “bad” art vs unpopular art. Although, bad art is usually unpopular, but not always!

Just now, GreatEscape said:

Weird Science Fantasy 29 cover by Frazetta (owned by Halperin) is Top 10 worthy and, in my book, more desirable than Action 15 and HOS 92.

 

 

All the Famous Funnies Frazetta covers exist. Just pick the one you like the most! 

I think the cover to House of Secrets #92 would sell for more than the Action 15 cover.

I know there are two Ditko ASM covers known to exist!

The splash to X-Men #1 might be a contender.

Dang Jeff, how many statues and busts do you have now? 50ish? 

On 7/4/2021 at 11:07 AM, Chicago Boy said:

Willing to trade Coverless Tec 27.  1939  Also, willing to pay up to 150k for right piece

150k should get you a pretty good Ditko page. The Kraven battle page went for 144k last week in HA.

Is cgc raising their prices in the middle of a pandemic attributed to the state of the market, or the state of the Blackwell buy out?