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I thought it looked familiar. I'll look it up

The only way, with all possible respect, that Sal B makes my top five is if one of the criteria is that the artist’s first name be Sal But that’s the beauty of art, we all have our different takes.

I hope no one will mind a fresh thread as I am having trouble digging up my old one but real nice piece posted to the facebook group, from Blizzard's corporate vaults sadly.. as there is so little stuff like this around. Anyways, Warcraft 2 Here is the OA! ... and if anyone wants to join the group, it is here https://www.facebook.com/groups/502536466816380/

that's the same book your splash is from isn't it? Nice book too as Xemnu made some mainstream appearances. I was looking at it too but passed due to already having won enough for one auction, and the back of Xemnu being turned I didn't like so much.

^ it’s another one of those things that really can’t be calculated IMO. The vast vast majority of his work is owned by his museum. Hard to say where the art would be valued without that supply taken out of the equation.

That would be a great metric if all the art existed but it doesn't. Which means there's a whole extra layer of guessing involved. Of all of those, the only one that's easy to calculate to any degree is Schulz. The museum has half of it and most of the rest should exist. They fetch say 30k on average when you do a weighted average on the market value of 6 dailies and one sunday, making his output worth about $540m (18,000 x 30,000). Perhaps you reduce that by 10% or 20% to account for whatever art may have been destroyed.

but - but - but ... she's practically nekkid!! Just boils down to the amount of skin on the cover. I never thought much of 54 either.

49 to 72 is ok, it’s the 200 in between

That's got to be disappointing. Sorry.

looked like a great page too

I love Peanuts and would love to have a strip. It’s one of those bucket list things in collecting I need to get around to at some point. Just have to find the time when the stars align between the competing interests

I just assume his market is being managed by those who might benefit from that.

Just to be clear, we're still talking about Sal Buscema, right?

Did they? Or did they just want an early defenders cover with all the characters and captain America cover with a big Spider-Man image? No way to know, but my take on the Buscema and heck prices were that they were part of a greater trend of the specific artist mattering less and the content mattering more. Now every artist has his fans and you like Sal and that’s great. As you say there’s a lot to be said for Longevity. But I do see people analyzing content a lot more when they buy as opposed to just buying anything they can by a certain artist.

no market factors I know of beyond a very strong sale of a turtlemania gold (around 50-60k IIRC for a rare variant of a meaningless book). There's another 9.8 coming up in the next sale.

40 is just a round number and probably the same as the 38

Finally almost at the MTG and video games :P

TMNT 1 at 90k is a jaw dropper. previous record was 40.

Maybe I'm confusing 10 and 11

Since you're the captain of the BWS Conan Trendspotting Club, what did you think of the #11 cover result? Seemed strong? Hasn't it been for sale for a long time with no takers?

A nice Heck (but Heck), a couple Sal Buscemas, a weaker IMO barks, and a weak frazetta, all 96-264k. Yeesh.

I understand , but I think any mainstream appearances are a good thing to be honest. 👍🏻

Frazetta still going, speaking of not so great examples edit 264k

an exceptionally strong barks result on a painting that doesn't seem like a great one? (156k)

defenders 9 102k