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2 hours ago, zhamlau said:
I was going to fight for the LB Cole Mask Cover. He did this recreations back in the early 80s and advertised for them in the back of the CBG, supposedly only doing one of each of his covers for each type he would do (various sizes, mediums). The Mask 1 and 2 are im sure the homeruns, and this was by far the nicest I had seen.
But...the piece went from like 3k to 18k in a few hours. Yeah...no thank you.
It is an exceptional piece. Would this be the record price for a recreation?
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Daredevil 10 Claw page (colored) by Bob Wood: 3433. vs 10K at Heritage two years ago... ouch.
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On 5/20/2017 at 3:54 PM, npasto said:
Ended up getting a Kamandi page at the very ceiling of what I was willing to pay. Probably overspent by a a few hundred, but I can live with that. I think Jack is in a league of his own as a comic artist and I really wanted to get something by him. While it isn't an action page and doesn't feature any of his most famous creations, I think it represents his trademark style quite well and I get a kick out of the sheer goofiness of the story here.
On the downside, my OA budget is tapped for the foreseeable future. Ramen and beans diet from now on.
Congrats! Gorgeous middle panel.
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7 minutes ago, drdroom reborn said:
I believe that panel is from the Eternals robot-Hulk storyline.
I take it back, its from one of the What If pages that did sell. IIRC, the missing pages were two more pages from X-men 2.
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2 minutes ago, chromium said:
Looks like they were Kirby pieces.
In the catalogue one of the pulled lots still had a panel showing (Kirby)
I believe that panel is from the Eternals robot-Hulk storyline.
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If only there was some way for Heritage to monitor the live feed...
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1 minute ago, comix4fun said:
No, he's referring to bids previously placed by proxy, non-internet.
thanks!
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When he says "my bid" or "on the book" does that refer to Heritage bidding on the lot itself?
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1 minute ago, SquareChaos said:
There is a checkbox that controls "Audible Alerts" to the right of the screen just under the video - I haven't heard the bell since I unchecked that box.
Good tip!
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I thought the price was very reasonable for the Fraz Charles Starrett page.
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Just now, chromium said:
Super low sound from the auction floor, so turn the sound way up and then almost blow your speakers when the "bell" alert rings as that one has the normal volume
Yup.
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Switched from Safari to Chrome with miraculous improvement! I even get to watch the video, who knew? I agree the sound is super low. Good price on Dr. Sacotti? Or low?
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Heritage app working very poorly for me, anyone else? The lot pictured at the top doesn't advance even though the bidding moves on.
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These are some lovely Foster examples.
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On 5/13/2017 at 9:27 PM, npasto said:
I'm watching some of the current auctions with interest. I checked old sales last night, but many of them are from so long ago that it would seem the prices are no longer relevant.
Arrange the results by date, latest first.
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5 hours ago, cstojano said:
So what is the deal with piece selling at HA and then appearing at the next CLink auction. Specific example here is the Carnevale Conan cover (which has updated issue # as well). Are these shilled, buyer's remorse, flips??
Any of the above, I assume. Flipping HA to C-Link in the same year strikes me as a very likely way to lose money. But if I have piece that I don't like as much as I thought I did, and something better comes along, if I think I can break even I'll go for it. But that usually means holding for a couple years at least.
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Beautiful work!
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I don't know nothin', but it screams Sienkiewicz to me.
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On 3/11/2017 at 8:56 AM, delekkerste said:
Lots of Kirby...I guess the fears of legal action from a couple/few months ago have abated?
I did a breakdown of the SA Kirby pages so far as to their inventory/ provenance status --can't see if any of them are signed by Jack yet.
Amazing Adventures 6, pg 10: Marvel had 23 pages in 1980. Kirby drew 13 pages in this issue and was returned 8 in 1987. Did some or all of the missing 5 go to the estate of the inker, George Klein, or accidentally to Ayers? At any rate it's possible this page passed through Kirby's possession.
FF 34, pg 19: Marvel had 21 pages in 1980, returned 13 to Kirby in 1987. But which ones?
FF 78, p19: This whole book was missing at the time of the 1980 inventory, and so, naturally, no pages were ever returned to Kirby.
TTA 7, 5pg complete story: Marvel had 18 pages from the issue in 1980, none were returned to Kirby (an obvious problem with many page provenances is that neither the 1980 inventory NOR the 1987 return list specify WHICH pages specifically, so these 5 pages could have been missing even before 1980).
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1 hour ago, SquareChaos said:
From all of my reading, I also feel it was a definite team effort. Kirby is King, but even a King can't do it alone. Kirby's largest successes came as part of a team with Joe and Stan; is it just fashionable these days to suggest Stan contributed little to nothing?
I certainly wouldn't say that. Stan did serious damage to Kirby's vision for ten long years! That's an indelible mark on comics history
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16 hours ago, tth2 said:
All I can do is point you to Kirby's 4th World work as evidence of life without Stan. Great concepts, great art, but virtually unreadable, even to middle school me. It got even worse during his mid-70s return to Marvel, which was the worst of all worlds--neither the concepts nor art were great, but the dialogue was just as bad (if not worse).
Or as Kirby would say in his own inimitable dialogue, "YYYAAAAGGGHHHH!!!"
As self-evident as that seems to you, I can promise you it is equally baffling to me how many comic fans still can't see how brilliant Kirby's writing was in the 70's. His are virtually the only mainstream US comics that hold up on the text end from that period of brilliant drawing and embarrassing literary pretense. The fact that he was a complete comic creator meant that he could meld word and image into a seamless whole just as my other choices, Tezuka, Crumb and Herriman did. For the same reason, I can understand the arguments for Barks, Herge, Caniff, Eisner, Schulz, and a few others.
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8 hours ago, tth2 said:
Romita Sr and J Buscema would also be in my list, as they're the epitome of journeymen. Although I think it's unfair to say that Romita is worse than Heck. If Romita was a journeyman, then Heck was the apprentice who should've been told by his master after a few years that perhaps he should consider another line of work, such as being a butcher.
LOL. I like Heck's pre-hero work. But on balance, maybe Romita makes the greater contribution overall. He designed several terrific covers in his first 30 or so Spidey issues.
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My tracked GA lots:
All New 7 pg 23 (Fujitani attrib; The Zebra) $803
Cap 9 page 36 (Kirby/Shores): $14,011
Master Comics 1 pg 1 (Newt Alfred, 1st app & origin of Master Man): $5,272
Daredevil Comics 10 pg 4 (Bob Wood, colored by unknown): $3,433
Hello Pal 1 pg 3 (Charles Sultan, Yankee Doodle Jones, big skull panel): $940
Master Comics 22 pg 21 (Phil Bard, Minute Man action page): $750
Military Comics 15 pg 15 (Crandall Blackhawk page): $3400
Rex Dexter of Mars 1 cover recreation ( Briefer 1980): $1951
Slam-Bang 3 pg 59 (Lee Granger, Jungle King): $702
Smash 33 pg 62 (Alex Koda, The Marksman): $420
Twice-Told Tales unpublished cover (Joe Kubert): $1900