Timely

I made an offer on a 5 figure piece but was turned down. tomorrow is a new day with more art to buy!

Artistically, not the best piece. Characters are small, it’s more of a panel page than a splash page. What I like is it has 5 main Marvel characters on it.
 

HOWEVER, what this piece has going for it is history. It’s a historic piece of Marvel. It is very early Spider-Man, early FF, and retells parts of ASM #1. 
 

As a piece of art: 6/10

As a piece of Marvel history: 9/10

Overall 7.5 rating for me.

On 5/15/2022 at 1:04 AM, The Voord said:

Ditko pencils/Ditko inks.

On 5/15/2022 at 8:43 AM, skypinkblu said:

Another question would be, what do they look for during the process? Also are the QC people familiar with comics? Because the book I posted, clearly had the writer/artist's name on it, plus a 10-cent book would not be from 1986, so there were two things that should have been on a check list not just one. I get that people make mistakes, I also get that there are a limited amount of people who are willing to work in Sarasota and know a lot about comics...but training for the people who are there seems to be an issue.

Even easier than that would be to look for the July cover date on the comic not matching the 10/1986 label date!

On 5/14/2022 at 10:57 AM, grapeape said:

Bill Everett Daredevil #1 Story Page 5 Original Art (Marvel, 1964)

A fellow collector believes he saw this on a dealer's sight about

22 years ago for $12k. I could almost swear I also saw it prior to

that (1997-1998?) for below $8k. Bill was in a class of his own.

Now that I am a dad, this is one of my favorite pages in the book. I love that middle panel with Matt and his father,

On 5/12/2022 at 6:43 PM, Rick2you2 said:

While this is a stunningly vibrant page, which any collector would be happy to own, it also contains some of the elements of his work that bother and distract me. Take a look at that left leg of Cap’s. Did he dislocate it? And, why does it seem to be longer than his other leg? Then,  there’s the window angle compared to Cap. From a composition perspective, it’s tilted shape makes sense. But then why is Cap jumping almost straight out? Was the floor crooked? Now, none of this changes the fact that it is a great piece, but I really don’t like these types of mistakes.

If you don’t like these “mistakes” you’ll hate the even more exaggerated “mistakes” of Todd McFarlane’s anatomy.

On 5/11/2022 at 12:42 AM, Artifiction said:

I purchased these online over a year ago. Just now noticed something about them. Yup, it took me that long. 

Pretty sure these came out Feb 2014.

Neal last week and George this week? A sad time for us all! 

So sad! I met Neal Adams several times. One time in particular he was at a bar after a day at a con back in 2014. He was telling us all (a court of 10-15) many stories of his early days back at DC. He was quite the story teller!

On 4/19/2022 at 1:41 AM, The Voord said:

Negative comments on his CAF image are starting to build-up, I've just added mine.  Maybe more people here should do the same.  If he's not answering Glen's e-mails, it's a good way of reminding him that he needs to put this right.

The fact that it is sideways art, does that help it or hurt it?

On 4/16/2022 at 5:00 PM, bulldogs78 said:

Saw this page today at a local show: Jack Davis, Tales From the Crypt #25, 1951. Ask price was $5,000, but, it's not in my wheelhouse of collecting, (and he wanted cash), so I passed. Did I err?

No, I’d say it was priced right on the money.

On 4/16/2022 at 11:07 AM, stinkininkin said:

Not in my wheelhouse as a collector, but that seems like a crazy low number to me. I'll take the over for sure.

The fact that it looks like the entire book is up for auction, collectors will have a lot of choices. One already said they prefer the splash to the cover. 300k plus juice plus tax is actually a 400k purchase!  I could be off, probably am. I guess we’ll see.

On 4/14/2022 at 6:28 PM, jjonahjameson11 said:

I realize the market is very volatile at the moment, but I’m curious as to what folks think the McSpidey 16 cover will go for?

300k + juice.

On 4/13/2022 at 1:19 PM, sfcityduck said:

It's not a pedigree.  He side by sided the MH with the copy he has and his copy was better.  That guy has proven to be the most astute buyer of high grade comics ever, and it is clearly out of love as he's not sold any of the top books without an upgrade.  

It’s possible in todays arena, the MH is better than his, why? 30-35 years back, the MH was viewed as a restored 7.0 to 8.0, depending on who you asked. Everyone knew it was restored, with some resto having been removed since those days, such as piece removal. If the other copy was only a 6.5, by default a 6.5 unrestored trumps any restored copy, MH or not! Flash forward to the world of restoration removal, grading and grading bumps, it’s not so clear. 
 

I know nothing about the other copy, never seen it. I’m only suggesting 1 possible outcome. Until a grading company verifies the other copy, this is all we have, guesses!

On 4/11/2022 at 5:08 PM, THE_BEYONDER said:

More fail....

 

 

Facsimile edition!

On 4/8/2022 at 11:36 AM, vodou said:

Congratulations -you're rich! (measured in art or money)

Or maybe not, after all?

For about twenty years now I've considered "trading up" a terrible way to collect and haven't done it. Why? Because you are strip-mining your bench* to add a single star. I had done a bit of that very early on but found the practice leaving me feeling a bit empty. One new star in, bench cut in half. Bah! So then around that time, when my cumulative collection value was approximately what it would take, I tested myself with a thought experiment: would you trade it all for one top Frazetta oil? Answer: no. And that was that, I haven't looked back since. 

A much better idea, which I've practiced ever since, is to just pour as much new money as possible in -and be happy with what that level of spending buys. It's true that the first ten years of the new century, when prices were not moving up more than 10% or so a year, some years not particularly at all, some discipline and faith were required to stick to that plan but those were also the years when I was accumulating a ton of art, as my income was (still, then) climbing faster than prices! That's the essence of buy low and like any dollar cost averaging (DCA) plan, you will buy less and less quantity (for the same periodic outlay) as you climb the price ladder (which is a sign that your early faith was well-founded after all) but you'll also see the value of your existing accumulation (your bench!) to date rising along with. And...

Which means you can still buy "today" like yesterday and for around the same money, meaning just as many pieces coming in and approximately just as much thrills (a much anticipated package arriving several times a week if not every day) as before...if you're flexible on content. Are you collecting art or certain specific nostalgic characters/titles/companies/era? Your answer there is going to drive it all. To those that most/all of the above doesn't work for...I wish you the best and it's well past time to buckle down and get another degree or suite of professional designations along with a second job as you're going to need to double your income every year to keep up with the limited pool of art you're stuck on that's also doubling every year. No snark, just how it is.

*Imagine if the New England Patriots hadn't had a sudden QB health problem requiring promotion of Tom (from The Bench) and instead Drew stayed healthy and NE traded Tom away for a "star" replacement a few seasons later? Lots of (future) stars start off riding the bench, just like the mountains of 1980s Marvel panel pages I was buying for less than $50/page 25 years ago -glad I kept 'em!

Do you want 1 Michael Jordan or 20 Joe Blows? Quality over quantity! All day, every day!

On 11/24/2020 at 3:25 PM, littledoom said:

How long to you typically leave comics in for?

My advice: Go to your LCS and buy 1000 books from their 25¢ boxes & press everyone at least once! Then you MIGHT be ready to press something of value.  Seriously!