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The Watchmen page is getting the obligatory early "price defense" bids.

I've read that 25% of all 7-footers in the world have played in the NBA. For a 25% chance to play in the NBA, I would've thought that most people would be willing to pay to be 7 feet tall, not have to be paid.

Don't forget the GarfieldBirthers.

Which makes the selection of Goldin as the auction venue for such a niche book even more puzzling.

If his job scope at CC included scanning books, it's not surprising that he decided to jump ship.

Heritage should reimburse you for the time you wasted, and, more importantly, the trauma you suffered. You get me.

I just went to check out the previews for the upcoming April Signature Auction and there were so many low grade GA books that for a second I thought I had accidentally opened up the ComicConnect auction.

Good luck with that. It's clear from OA bidding across all platforms that there are bidders who put in what I call "defend the price" bids right from the start on OA, particularly high profile pieces. Bidding patterns are very different from most comics, where even high profile books will typically see pretty restrained bidding at the start and there's no concern in putting in a tracking bid, while OA prices jump so quickly from the start that there can be some trepidation at putting in a tracking bid.

Congrats on quitting smoking.

I don't know if the absence of a watch list makes that much of a difference. Most people I know put in a tracking bid on Heritage, even though they do have a watch function, because it's a pain to toggle between a watch list and a bid list. It's easier just to consolidate everything someone is watching on one page, which ends up being the bid list. In addition, many OA owners feel compelled to put in "defend the price" bids from the start to establish floor prices for the art and to goose the bidding. This is true on Heritage as well as as Clink. Combined with the tracking bids that many bidders put in, this quickly drives the prices up, but then they'll usually sit for a couple of weeks after the initial flurry.

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Just take a pic or scan without the label showing.

What rumors? If anything, I'm surprised that prices haven't been even higher lately given the 1999-2000 style froth (aspects of which are "worse than 1999" according to JP Morgan this week) that has enveloped the financial markets. Most of the discussion in this forum after the last couple of Heritage Signature auctions struck me more as laments of the disappointed rather than the paeans of the triumphant. People seemed resigned to prices not revisiting the peaks of the Pandemic.

He's got a blowtorch going right onto his bicep and he's still holding on, as opposed to having his arm cut in two!

that would be amazing

That's good, it'll be the first auction in decades where I won't have been outbid on a Peanuts strip!

Based on the weekly Heritage auction that just concluded, I have to say that the rumors of the death of the OA market have been greatly exaggerated. Among the pieces I was watching, a Terry & the Pirates daily from 1942 went for $11,400, while a badly stained and damaged Prince Valiant from 1943 went for $15,600. The latter would normally be a $25-30k piece in decent condition, so I was surprised/impressed that it still went for so much considering that the damage affects the aesthetics of the piece.

Don't be surprised if they bring it to other auctions if it's successful in this first auction.

Diane Lane says you are wrong!

I call it "Stop the world, I want to get off".

I've heard this same argument being made for the entire 4+ decades that I've been collecting.

Wow, and I always thought Gene was the Boards' Debbie Downer.

A comic that went from a 9.4 to a 7.0.

Just looked at the preview of the Neil Gaiman auction. I gotta say that Neil has excellent taste!