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CAF Update: Come check out my Wood, it's Super!

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On 7/15/2022 at 8:53 AM, Buzzetta said:

So then I ask the crowd to evaluate my purchase and to be honest.  I mostly lurk here and learn in the art section. I never know if I underpaid or overpaid.  I had picked up the Michael Walsh Spider-man page for $804 + tax and shipping from PP Spectacular Spider-man 6 (whatever series.)

Appeal was the retelling of part of Spider-man's origin as a Spider-man collector. 

 

I bid (& lost) on this one.  It's got good appeal for me!

How much was the Ditko & the McFarlane pages?

Lots of nice things in the 10-50k range coming up, but no superstar piece added yet, and that’s okay. Those are fun to see, but unaffordable anyway!

A page from Superboy 153 by Brown and Wood just sold for $5760 last night in HA. No softness there!

Did you try Burkey? I bought the cover to ASM 195 from him. He may have 194 pages as well.

Based on what I heard, only those logistically close were selected to attend.

On 6/30/2022 at 6:19 PM, Will_K said:

I doubt anything here really influences the DD participants or people in the chat.  And certainly doesn't influence what they choose to sell or even their pricing. 

re: the 6/29/2022 DD... when the Fish Police art was shown, someone in the chat said "mouth gap".  And there was an informal CAF gathering at the HeroesCon last weekend.  Someone commented that Bill Cox was taller than one might have guessed.  Someone said "height gap".  So add those to the "gap" tote board.

I said “insect gap” last night, hope that was PC!

CAF Update:  I'VE GOT WOOD!  Wally Wood!

https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1831253

The Big Apple collection goes back to 1939. There is even a Detective #31 in the collection. But the older books were pretty damaged with lower page quality. Then in late 1943, the page quality goes up significantly! As do the grades!  The main problem with those books is they were stored next to gasoline or kerosine and smell. What’s worse is there was a leak of some sort and many of those pristine, white paged books have stains do to this leak.

On 6/4/2022 at 12:46 AM, comiconxion said:

There are over 80 comic art lots in Propstore's June 21-24 auction which includes over 1800 lots of props, costumes, animation, toys, production art, posters, and more.  Check out the selection of comic art here:

https://propstoreauction.com/auctions/catalog/id/319?page=1&view=grid&cat=3281%2C2692&catm=any&order=order_num&xclosed=no&featured=no

Bill Cox will be hosting a special live auction preview with Propstore on Monday, June 6 starting at 6PM PT/9PM ET:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr3fWLTJWB4

 

Highlights include:

• Brian Bolland's B&W Joker cover art for USA Magazine #36 - the publication which printed Batman: The Killing Joke for the first time in France in 1988
• The splash page featuring the 1st appearance of the Punisher from Super Spider-Man with the Super-Heroes #178 by Dave Hunt & Mike Esposito which reprinted Amazing Spider-Man #129 for the 1st time in the UK in 1976
• Over 40 lots from the personal collection of Ed Hannigan including his interior prelims to Cloak & Dagger (Limited Series) #1, the cover prelim to Fantastic Four #244 (1st Frankie Raye), a Defenders DPS, and many Batman cover prelims
• 5 fresh-to-market Cerebus pieces from the collection of Gerhard including a cover and DPS
• The Molecule Man pin-up from Fantastic Four Annual #2 by Jack Kirby and Chic Stone
• A Magneto action page by Dave Cockrum and Joe Rubinstein from Uncanny X-Men #150
• A Snake Eyes page from G.I. Joe #4 and a Transformers Limited Series #3 page featuring Optimus Prime with a rare Black Symbiote Spider-Man appearance (same month as Secret Wars #9)
• Some amazing cover paintings by Mike Zeck/Phil Zimelman (Spider-Man & Kraven), Bill Sienkiewicz (Hit Girl homage to Elektra #1), and Greg Hildebrandt (Punisher/Deadpool)
• Pieces by Frank Frazetta, Bernie Wrightson and Will Eisner from the collection of Lucasfilm historian J.W. Rinzler

Check out the catalog and register at propstore.com/liveauction. Most comic art will be sold on Day 4 of the auction (June 24).  Bid live, online, over the phone, or via absentee bidding.  Interest-free payment plans are available up to three months on auction purchases over $1,000.

I’m confused. On the lot below, it says the opening bid is $2000. It has 1 bid only, but it is currently at $4000. How is that possible?

Definitely Superman #30.

On 6/16/2022 at 6:59 PM, batman_fan said:

I think there was some softness on the Peanuts strips.

Softness?  More like a half off sale!

On 4/16/2022 at 9:19 AM, Timely said:

300k + juice.

I guessed the McFarlane cover would go for $360k, it went for $408k...  not too far off!

On 6/15/2022 at 11:40 PM, Sooners151 said:

It's been a while since I've posted to this board but someone pointed this out to me.  Thank you for the kind words!  It was an enjoyable time.  Can't believe I did pushups on youtube...

I can’t believe you only did 40!

On 6/15/2022 at 4:30 PM, MrBedrock said:

I can understand the need for notations when looking things up online without the book in hand, so I understand WHY "Tarzan" is printed on the label. But come on...you can't tell me that it doesn't look a little ridiculous when the title printed across the top of the book is so huge already. I show this book to folks in the shop and it never fails to get some response along the lines of "Tarzan? Well duh!"

This is also done on other titles in a similar vein, such as Four Color.

Good art, good prices. A winning combination every time!

On 5/28/2022 at 11:21 PM, Professor K said:

Nice. Collecting Morgans can be a quite an endeavor. I've always loved coins but never had a serious collection, but in my research I've learned that there are so many "variants" that have been noted over the years.  It's really something.  You really need to know your stuff. An old lady who lived across the street from where I grew up had stacks of them. She showed them to me once and I still remember how they looked when the hit the light a certain way. Really cool.

Do you like the ones that are toned or do you prefer the silver tone? Blast White I've heard them called. And do you have any 1921 Peace dollars? 

I prefer the blast white coins. Some toned coins look neat, but some to me just look plain ugly. Apparently there are ways to artificially tone a coin, so to me I would not know the difference.
No 1921 btw.