Pete Marino

Is that for gauntlet?

I'd imagine the opposite is closer to reality. It's a lot harder to get a 200k+ consignment than a run of the mill 2k-8k interior page / cover.

Saw this one with the wife we agreed it was funny for all the wrong reasons. I can't believe writing this bad made it into a movie. Cool explosions though.

Today, Grant Morrison signed a deal with the guys who he's making happy! With to create content, the 1st series up on the docket is the invisibles, I think this is the 2nd or 3rd try to make this into a series. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/grant-morrison-adapting-invisibles-as-part-ucp-deal-1159226

I had a funny feeling you had picked this one up. Huge congrats Malvin.

I know we all focus on the top end of the market, because the next top selling page evar(!) is more fun. But even in this "crazy" environment, there were a ton of pages in the latest Comic Link monthly under $200, published pages by DC/Marvel. Heck, there were Marvel pages that were sub $30, pencils only, by an artist I'm not familiar with, but still published Marvel art for sub $30? Even in this market, there really can be art for any budget. But you might not be able to get that Kirby FF / McFarlane ASM / whatever gets you all frothy cover or splash.

I only have 1. This is an Interior from one of the Rifts RPG books by Ramon Perez. This is really early work by him, but you can already see the talent starting to poke through.

Betting on the american economy as a whole (IMO) is always a good bet, but someday it will be wrong. My point is not about buying into a in the economy as a whole. I'm talking about when someone give you a tip about the "can't miss, opportunity of a lifetime." The one investment that will always work out with huge rewards according to them. It's almost always cow feces. And that is how Comic art is starting to be described. If there is a faltering sustained in prices for comic art (2-3 weak Heritage auctions would do it IMO), I just feel in my bones there will be a hug panic and sell off of a lot of stuff. A lot of people have a lot of "money in the bank" from buying cheap and stuff appreciating in value according to recent results. Once those assets start depreciating, i think more than 1 person's going to hit the big red button and start selling. We all know there are many hoards of art out there.

All I know is how well every "Can't Miss Opportunity" for investment works out in the long run.

looks like he's asking facebook for help as well from the original comic art collectors group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/459273764470607/

Well, some of those blind boxes came with t-shirts and a variant comic so i'm thinking the whole box needs to be graded and slabbed.

So, those bagged Superman books that had like a poster, a headband or whatever, and a bunch of other stuff, you want that all in the slab too? That's insane. The 90's got pretty crazy with what was inside the bag and not attached to the book at all. I think this is 100% the right call, all sorts of stuff were inserted in polybags over the years, Some books would need a suitcase to slab.

I don't know the answer, and it might be personal to each individual. But from a comics lore perspective, the most famous (to me) is the unpublished page is where Jean lives at the end of the DPS. Does that page fetch more than the page where she dies?

Almost universally, unpublished will be less valuable than published.

That doesn't seem that impressive. in 1996 if you spent 340k on comic art, I bet your collection would be worth a lot more than 9 Mil now.

Cobra Kai was way better than it had any right to be. I'll second the recommendation.

I'm still in Received Purgatory, but I think that CCS is done with my books, as i got another invoice summary email. But my status has not changed in a long time. I'm hoping I'll get verified some time next week.

Even though she's digital, so there's no OA to collect, Fiona Staples has to be considered a superstar at this point doesn't she? And i'm not not sure if he's "new" enough, but Quitely has to be one as well. But I feel like he's been around forever. The man created the art for a hotel! That has to mean something...

it's weird, this is a question i've seen a bunch of times of late. the answer is no. You own the art, not the reproduction rights. if you want the reproduction rights, you'd have to purchase them separately from the entity that owns them. If it's art from the big 2, that means buying the rights to reproduce the image from WB or Disney.

I had a similar issue a few years ago with RPG art. The artist did high quality prints of his art that he'd throw in as freebies to fans. Apparently 1 fan thought that he threw in like 10 extra originals for free () and started questioning the authenticity of my art when i was selling it since he was given that original as a gift 10 years ago. It was so crazy I wound up having to get the artist to pop into my sales thread directly to say that he had given the guy prints and I had the original. In this case it was pretty easy to figure out as the art was done on duo-tone board, and the print was just on thick cardstock. But it can show you an uninformed customer base can cause a lot of issues down the road unless the prints are clearly labeled as so on the front or back.

That's what I thought too! But I email'd them and asked why it was sitting in Rev'd so long, they said that it was in the queue for CCS, so i have no idea what the status' mean anymore, or they're just all off now. I got charged by CCS, which usually only happens after the press is complete, but they're still just sitting received, and I don't want to be "that guy" and keep asking for updates. So i'm just going to sit and see what happens for the next 4 weeks.

It just seems a bit insane to me, in this day and age the hurdles to creating your own comic seem to be so much lower than in the past. I'm all for the free market. Go create, and if it's something that has a market then it seems that it's not that hard for those people to find your products with social media.

I don't know, I might be slightly intimidated by Carly if I met her. Rami seems like Puck, a creature of chaos and anarchy.

These days I'd say people would be looking for this:

wow, this looks like it's going to be bad.