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You have to separate the art from the artist.

I totally agree in theory, but there was that one Y auction (clink maybe) where a non-word bubble Y page featuring Yorick and Other Beth in the graveyard beat a really nice early word bubble Y page. Maybe that was an outlier, but who knows? On the other hand, I tend to think that a digital overlay of word bubbles would be perfectly fine if you want to enhance a digital-bubble page. I mean the original sequential art is what we're really after, right?

It's never because of the bindery tears. They don't ding 9.8s for bindery tears.

Thanks Felix. You are right. Only certain artists or characters seem to warrant that increase in price, but Dillon on Preacher is one I never would have guessed either. I wonder if we will start seeing prices climb for pages from YTLM and Fables and such. Those hold a special place with some of my fellow friends have no superheroes attached to them. Nice grab. I liked this page a lot for the self-contained gag. It's not a key story moment, but it has great, funny character development that can even be appreciated by non-Preacher fans. As for Y, it's already getting a bit pricey, IMO. I've seen panel pages sell for more than you paid for this Preacher page. Fables isn't in the same league for me (other than JJ's covers).

Being a personalized interior sig hurts the value, but $20 for the set is still low. I'd try $75 BIN/Best and see if any decent offers come in,

EOW 1 has a relatively high print run and tons of variants. Almost every copy is NM+ or better. It was speculated to death as a collectible. That said, if it finishes strong and becomes a classic, #1s will creep up over time. The RRP and the tiny bit of OA out there would benefit the most.

Abe cracks me up in the show. He's supposed to be a bad azz, but he looks like a ginger Kenny Powers.

Totally agree! Here is a perfect example of the black and white ... I would like to think at least.. http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=1231414&GSub=167429 That was a great buy! Zorro may not be a key Miller character, but it's a perfect example of his art from that period.

Ouch.

I don't think it was an ES meltdown. I think others had a meltdown because he shut down the advanced sales of a convention variant. He went radio silent, while other users set their caps lock to kill. The thread is probably still there, I just don't think it contained any ES meltdown. He was a bit of an arrogant tool on the boards. I called him out on Bedlam having 10+ variants, including retailer incentive, retailer exclusive multiple con exclusives, etc, while he railed against variants and speculators. The only thing he could come up with was along the lines of "well, DC did 50 variants of [some book with state flags I can't remember]." Super hypocritical at the time. Looks like he did actually apply some of it to Image policy, so at least there's that.

CGC went really easy on my copies. I got like 6 9.8s and 2 9.6s on books I had pegged as 1 9.8 and 4 9.6s and 3 9.4s.

My god. Tell me about it. I had to unfollow him despite wanting Bedlam updates (which probably aren't coming any time soon anyway).

That's an unpublished page from the Tundra series. James wanted it to be included, but page limits forced him to keep this one out. Nice - thanks for the info, Eddy!

Should be interesting. For some reason I feel like it's going to under-perform and should have been given to an auction house where it could be promoted and shilled properly But seriously, I'll take the under on $4K.

Yep, that's certainly a top-notch example!

Anybody know if this page was published? It doesn't seem to be in the graphic novel. http://www.ebay.com/itm/BRANDON-LEE-THE-CROW-ERIC-DRAVEN-ORIGINAL-ART-JAMES-OBARR-w-COA-/182013685794?hash=item2a60dc7022:g:Jd8AAOSwaA5WjEzb#ht_3437wt_1028

To be fair, that book used to be pretty tough to find in 9.8. I think the pre-movie hype drew all the nice copies out of storage, destroyed the 9.8 census and, as a result, the book's price.

Your "facts" change nothing. Let me say it nice and slow, so you can get it: What Mike did is immoral. It is wrong. That HA will allow it, doesn't mean it isn't. It just means Mike will face no repercussions from HA for having done it. But it is still Immoral. Shilling is still wrong. And no site's "rule" that lets you get away with it changes that. And it doesn't change that Mike can no longer claim to be one of the "most honest and trusted sellers." He's lost that title, by his own hand. Shilling is wrong and it's always wrong, no matter who would allow you to get away with it on their site. And if you think that suddenly makes shilling "okay and moral," then you are just another part of the problem. For being the guy, you're really serving him up a buffet across 4 different threads right now

My favorite things to look at

Man, I really need to catch up on these new issues. Sounds like EoW has come back strong since the delays ended.

Yeah, I go back and forth on that one. It's certainly not a killer example from #1, but it does have all three lead characters (how many pages in #1 have all 3? Can't be THAT many.). The composition is weak and the bottom panels are just set-up. It's one of those pages that I WANT to like because of its importance, but it's just.... I'm sure I'll regret not tire-kicking when it inevitably disappears.

Was that published before Absolute Vertigo or Preacher Preview? I don't really count those as first appearances either but if we're going to be technical, it's kind of necessary to figure out which book is the first of the pre-first issues. Comichron shows an entry for Vertigo Gallery of Dreams and Nightmares charting around 100 in sales August 1995. There are sites that record it's release date as 1/1/95 but that's only because the book is dated as an annual and they have no idea when it was actually released. Regardless, it's a very cool piece but for my money I'd rather have a Preacher #1 page as a 'first appearance' example.

I love that cover! Right up there with the FP variant as the best looking #1.

IMO, calling the cover lazy is silly. It's a fun concept and a totally transparent homage. It's not like Jock was hoping people wouldn't notice it's a swipe of the DKR2 cover

Holy shizzle on a stick. Congrats to the buyer. What is the Fair Market Estimate of this piece if it came to auction ? [/quote