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If the consignor wants to win the auction then why'd he put it in the auction in the first place? That doesn't pass the smell test. OBVIOUSLY a consignor bid functions as a secret reserve.

Well, as it stands, and despite the public declaration of a Heritage representative, Heritage allows shilling, Comiclink doesn't. For me, that's a big plus for Comiclink.

...anyone? ...hello?

You think the HA article 15 just has a typo?

Dear Heritage, a valid question has arisen which you might have missed amidst much japery: Stewart Huckaby came on the boards and said unequivocally: "Heritage absolutely does not allow consignors to bid on their own lots." And yet your Terms and Conditions, Article 15, seems to say that consignor bids are perfectly fine: "Regardless of the disclosure of his identity, any bid by a consignor or his agent on a lot consigned by him is deemed to be made in “Good Faith.” I imagine all parties would like to have this clarified!

Apparently, this guy: http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Board=48&Number=9112945&Searchpage=1&Main=398822&Words=+swhuck&topic=0&Search=true#Post9112945 Versus: "Regardless of the disclosure of his identity, any bid by a consignor or his agent on a lot consigned by him is deemed to be made in “Good Faith.” Do you think maybe it is time for Heritage to grace us with another of their valuable clarifications?

Thanks Nexus for recalling this stuff from before my time. These threads have been an eye-opener, although some people seem to be trying to clog them up with repetitious nonsense.

Second the Fischler & Cochran suggestions! (& Donnelleys, of course!)

I'm a little hesitant to weigh in with this opinion, in case Simon is listening, but oh well. To me, his current work does not bear comparison to the prime period illustrated in the initial posts. As an artist myself (not comics), I'm sort of fascinated with (and terrified by) incidences of what appears to be drastic decline in an artist's gift. Not the more common gradual loss of freshness that we see in lots of artists as they keep grinding out the same sort of pictures on unrelenting deadlines, but the few cases in which it just seems like a gift has been taken away, almost overnight. Bernie Wrightson has been much discussed and himself has, at least to some extent, acknowledged the tragedy, which is what it is. In the contemporary art realm, Masami Teraoka is an artist who appears to have "lost his hand", producing work with the same formal ambition but a complete loss of the pleasure of elegant drawing. It seems to me a rare but real and terrible circumstance.

No one is answering my query about the Bruce Timm market. I'm not trying to be snarky at all, I think Timm is talented. But based on this result, 8300. for an average looking panel page it seems like he's hotter than Kirby or Toth. Is Batman Adventures an important book now?

FTFY So over the top He's done many pieces any illustrator would be proud of. And some cringeworthy ones like daredevil, there's no doubt. I've decided that the Daredevil is my favorite Boris piece.

So did someone not read the description very closely before bidding? Ok, actually never mind the stats issue, my real question is basically why is any Timm panel page more than, like, a thousand or so?

Bruce Timm half-stat Batman Adventure pages go for what, now?!?

that is 17.2% growth from 2003 sale That seems like a notable lag behind lower level Kirby pages, most of which have at least doubled since 2003, no?

Piracy 6 cover at 11K must be the steepest price-to-greatness ratio for EC covers. It was all in the color work!

Healthy result on Barks Trick or Treat page! 43K

Great deal for someone on the Amazing Adventures 7 page.

But is Heritage claiming them to be the same painting? As I read the description they are claiming the one they have is a formerly undocumented prelim. Naturally it would have differences.

ASM #121? Hmm. Yeah, that's pretty close, I guess, though for me it's no contest given the superior artistic quality of the Adams cover and the sort of official-reboot-of GA (already started in B&B, but now in his own series), plus this book is kind of the beginning of the Bronze age the way Showcase 4 began the Silver.

Seriously! I'm struggling to think of a comparably important piece that's been auctioned in the last few years... anyone?

Guess its time to rotate the exhibit...

Seems pretty clear that Buscema drew a cover very close to this, but with the Vision's face a bit more obscured by the other figures. This was statted, and the small figures separated from Vision's face and lowered about an inch. The seller's claim that Buscema drew the new jawline and other minimal fixes is pure wishful supposition.

If the new owner sells it in ten years for double, is he still nuts?

Kind of tough to get into that one, Gene. Everyone you're debating with I already have on ignore. :roflmao: Wait, I'm in there!! I shot my wad on the last Lichtenstein thread, screw it. Maybe this is what the internet is for: to just blast out all the arguments we used to keep in our head until one day we went postal, & everyone said "Gee, he seemed like a nice guy. Kept to himself a lot..."

Thanks! Good info. Glad I'm not looking for a Kane!