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On 3/20/2024 at 12:29 AM, tth2 said:
I loved Grell when I was a kid, but his art hasn't aged well, in my opinion.
It looks a little more dated than average, doesn’t it? I’d say it was more stylized than most and that’s contributed to the dating in a similar way to how Don Heck Tales of Suspense Iron Man stories look incredibly dated ( he spent a lot of time getting clothes and hairstyles and so on right for the time, which now look kind of ridiculous to modern eyes).
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On 3/19/2024 at 11:04 PM, Nexus said:
Just feels like the page will be turning on '80s indie sooner rather than later.
Possible, but also hard to say. As an imperfect analogy, I'm somewhat suprised at how strong the 60/70s underground market remains. Crumb, not surprising, but the more marginal figures command good prices too.
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On 3/19/2024 at 1:28 PM, batman_fan said:
I will likely get blasted but the artwork
$17k for that one seems like an insane price.
We all have artists we don't get the love for. (I've spent 30 years wondering what the Jim Lee fuss is about but at this point his market is his market. Others might not appreciate McFarlane, or Kirby, or fill-in-the-blank, but as non-participants in the market for their work our voices effectively don't matter).
Maybe you're not a fan of Grell, but he certainly has his fans, and the Longbow Hunters, when it came out, was a super successful and well received project that he will always be remembered for by readers at the time.
Its a cover, its Grell, its material he's known for (although not his best known material). Sometimes that's all you need. I agree that its not the strongest image he ever drew (although the girl is a nice touch), and I agree that it was a strong result. But Grell has a body of work beyond this one cover and that will impact pricing in the same way it does for every artist.
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On 3/19/2024 at 9:02 AM, delekkerste said:
This one (pleasantly) surprised me. Having paid a very big price for the JSF cover I bought a couple years ago, I was glad that this one did not bomb.
That does seem strong.
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On 3/19/2024 at 8:32 AM, Sean I said:
Seemed like soft prices to me.
I spend more time in the Morlock tunnels and don't breath the rarified air of 5 figure pages, but wasn't ~$20,000 for a Sandman Issue 1 page pretty low?
https://www.comicconnect.com/item/1034657
I don't follow the market very closely but I would guess that no dream equals no dollars.
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On 3/14/2024 at 12:08 PM, J.Sid said:
I have often wondered why Kirby Avengers pages were so "low."
Between the great character content, the surge of Avengers popularity, and the scarcity of issues he penciled (8, compared with 100 FF books for example) I always felt these should cost more.
Without looking up comps, I had the sense they were actually doing pretty well. I seem to remember some pages in the 40k range at initial auction and remember some in the 150-200 range more recently? Its pretty good money. However, there's no first character appearance here either.
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On 3/13/2024 at 7:24 PM, Ameri said:
cool. I only have these 2
Good old skipper
From my CAF, the artwork for the Gilligan's pinball machine. They couldn't get the rights for Tina Louise's face so she's blonde here.
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On 3/14/2024 at 2:47 AM, drdroom said:
OK, that's interesting. What niggles me though, is 2001 is an important FILM property, created by Clarke and Kubrick. The much later comic adaptation? That seems kind of trivial (much as I like the series). Kamandi is much less known of course, but it's Kirby's own creation. So I'm still puzzled, but the market has spoken. Shoulda bought a bunch of those caveman pages back when the getting was good!
Yeah, its a funny thing. The flip side of the 'price is where supply meets demand' equation is that none of it has to make sense. Nowhere in that equation is logic. If they want to pay for the comic pages of film properties then as you say the market speaks, whether it makes sense or not.
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the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th panels are great. To your point though as basically an Iron Man page, you'd rather have a TOS 39 page for sure. The Teen Brigade is a big... whatever... and the last panel with the FF is always cool, but its just the one panel.
As an Avengers page, you'd want more of the team present.
I guess its about right as well. Maybe one increment light IMO but that's splitting hairs.
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On 3/11/2024 at 2:53 PM, delekkerste said:
Decades at this point.
As much as I love both Conan and Arnold, I think this is a pairing that is now past its sell-by date unless they want to digitally make Arnold look 25 years younger a la Harrison Ford in the flashback part of the last Indiana Jones film.
Sure, it would be better if he was still 50 or 60, but if anybody can pull it off, he can.
I really can't imagine anyone else in the role, is another way to put it. Can you? The very idea seems weird to me.
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On 3/11/2024 at 9:37 AM, F For Fake said:
I wonder if the winner lives in Europe? Don Rosa is a rock star over there, and there are tons of devoted Duck fans. I guess at least a few of them have deep pockets as well.
I think there's interest on both sides of the Atlantic. But yeah my guess is that the winner lives in Germany. I could be very wrong..
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On 3/10/2024 at 11:05 PM, tth2 said:
Yeah, but still--$45k!
Sure. Don't get me wrong its more than I would have guessed too, but at the same time the kind of page where a big outlier price is less of a surprise after the fact because of the things the page has going for it. In other words, I wouldn't get in a 45k pizzing match over it, but if I really had to get in that kind of a pizzing match on a Rosa interior, its a pretty good choice.
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On 3/9/2024 at 10:37 PM, tth2 said:
Some decent prices on pieces I was following on Day 1 of the International auction:
Don Rosa Anders And & Co. Splash -- $45,000 (this one really surprised me)
its a perfect one and done Life & Times page. All 12 chapters represented in one shot.
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On 3/7/2024 at 9:05 AM, PhilipB2k17 said:
I think Conan is a sleeping giant of a movie or TV franchise, frankly. The issue with Conan has always been, who plays him in a live action setting? Arnold was perfect, but the reboot with Jason Mamoa fizzled. Conan with a surfer dudebro accent just doesn't work.
I think you need to find someone to play him with the right physicality. Maybe John Cena could pull it off. I don't think the Rock is the right guy, as he's too campy. But, who knows? Another possibility is Alan Ritchson. They are working on a Red Sonja project right now, so I think another Conan try is inevitable. If that works, then the Conan stuff goes up again.
I dunno about sleeping giant but to me you have an old Schwarzenegger play an old Conan.
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On 3/4/2024 at 2:56 PM, eccomic said:
It is on the back cover of DIZZY DON Comics # 3
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This is too much like work
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On 3/4/2024 at 1:07 PM, sfcityduck said:
Its not an ad for Super Duper 3. It's an ad for the title which apparently was supposed to continue. And, yes, it definitely post-dates Super Duper 3. It's just that no Super Duper 4 ever came out.
I do NOT view ads as the type of first appearances that Action 1 is, but ads can have historic value as the first time a character appeared in print. The folks trying to claim that an appearance in a house ad, company preview publication, or fanzine/newszine/CBG etc. is a "trust first appearance" rub me the wrong way. I'm not claiming that this book should have any greater value than Nelvana's last appearance in a story, but I am attempting to ascertain if it was the last printed appearance of Nelvana during the GA. I think it was, and as a back cover it is pretty neat. Is it worth something? To me it was the only reason to buy this book.
Sure. So what book is it exactly?
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On 3/4/2024 at 11:31 AM, Bronty said:
3. Given that's an ad for Super Duper 3, wouldn't it pre-date Super Duper 3 and therefore not be the last appearance even if you do count ads?
Hmm, on second thought it does say on sale NOW, so I guess it would post-date Super Duper 3!
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Also, regarding the Mr Monster appearance - its a full story appearance, not just a cover FWIW.
One of my favorite books from this era. Great subject matter with the dark superhero and all the Bell cast of characters, beautiful yellow cover, etc.
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On 3/2/2024 at 7:41 PM, sfcityduck said:
Somewhere on this site, I saw Super Duper 3 (May-June 1947) referred to as not only the first cover appearance of Mr. Monster but also the last appearance of Nelvana. While it’s true it has the first Mr. Monster cover appearance and the last Nelvana story, I'm not sure it was her last appearance on the cover of a GA Canadian white. I believe her last appearance was this:
I don't own many Canadian Whites, but I've been looking for a decent comic with Nelvana on the cover. Instead, I found this in very nice shape. Your Canadian White collection is unrivaled, so I guess you've got this one but I haven't seen it posted. Can you let me know if I'm right on this being the last time Nelvana appeared in or on a GA Canadian comic?
A few questions/comments:
1. what book is that?
2. I wouldn't call that an appearance, as its an ad, but I understand both perspectives on ads.
3. Given that's an ad for Super Duper 3, wouldn't it pre-date Super Duper 3 and therefore not be the last appearance even if you do count ads?
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Yeah maybe. I see that POV, but on the other hand if the market was 12 year old boys, its not hard to convey gorgeous to them. Draw a couple balloons on a stick (or whatever passed for that in the 60s) and you're done.