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Without knowing how realistic the estimates were, it's hard to judge whether your friends should really be disappointed or not. Did they make a decent return on their original purchase price?

Also Fargo Kid with Severin covers. Bought for a puny $113 in 2009 and sold for a mere $216 in 2022.

Not cheap in NM. I've been blown out of the water every time NM copies have come up for auction.

You know it's not the 1800s and everyone in India has to wait for the next steamer from England to arrive to get any foreign stuff, right?

Peter Rabbit is the Wolverine of rabbit characters. HOPPT!!!

I think we've seen time and again that people go nuts when something that wasn't available for so long suddenly becomes available. That said, even if some of this primo BWS Conan stuff comes out now/soon and sells for huge prices, please resist the urge to do a sack dance proclaiming the undying robust health of the BWS Conan market. Trust me when I say that I know people who were ready and willing to pay far-into-the-future prices for some of this material a decade ago and that whatever prices these pieces might fetch now probably aren't much (if at all) higher in a lot of cases. Just noticed that there are some significantly superior BWS Conan panel pages in the Comiclink auction. They should be a more fair gauge of the strength of the market.

These are solid prices, considering that most pages being offered were not A+ material. Expand They are. But it was really hard figuring out how to price them because most of them came from great story arcs but didn't have the main character in them. It'll be the same issue with the pieces coming up today, with two pages from a memorably intense scene (which was recreated very well in the Netflix series) but no Morpheus, and one page from #18 (the "cat issue"), a memorable issue in which Morpheus doesn't appear at all. Very strong pages for the Sandman pages on the last day. I'm guessing some people who lost out on Sandman pages the previous day were determined to win something yesterday.

$50k of interest from $1m of principal for 4 weeks would translate to $600k over a year. You're confusing the annualized yield of a 4 week T-bill with what you'd actually get for a 4-week period, which assuming a 5% annualized yield on $1m would mean only $4166 for 4 weeks (rough calculation). But no doubt that Heritage benefit from the float, particularly in the current interest rate environment.

Heritage have auctioned off a lot of bound volumes, so you can look through their archives to get a sense of the valuations they get.

These are solid prices, considering that most pages being offered were not A+ material. They are. But it was really hard figuring out how to price them because most of them came from great story arcs but didn't have the main character in them. It'll be the same issue with the pieces coming up today, with two pages from a memorably intense scene (which was recreated very well in the Netflix series) but no Morpheus, and one page from #18 (the "cat issue"), a memorable issue in which Morpheus doesn't appear at all.

Camera Comics #3 is a $7800 book?! Who said the Covid bubble has burst?!

The discussion of this piece in the OA forum is hilarious. Now everyone's coming out saying they predicted it was going to go this high and trying to justify why it's worth it. The term "FU money" is being used a lot.

Sally daily had a great gag, but sadly was still a Sally daily… thought it went high. Yes, while Sally isn't quite in the league of Peppermint Pattie, Marcie, Woodstock or Spike, she's not that far above them.

I don't know if all of the Sandman pieces in this auction came from the same collection, but if so, the collector managed the feat of somehow assembling a large collection of Sandman pages that didn't feature Morpheus in any of them (except for a few small images of him (and Death) looking different from their normal selves in the page from #21). I'm assuming that the page from #12, which did feature Morpheus prominently, came from a different consignor because it was auctioned off separately from the other pages. Nonetheless, the pages did relatively well despite being without Morpheus or Death, but the gap with the pages with either of them was big. The remaining pages coming up in a couple of days also don't feature Morpheus or Death.

$132k. What a wonderful piece, from his peak period. Unfortunately, I tapped out once it hit 6 figures. The other Flash Gordon, from 1938 after Raymond had transitioned to a cleaner but no less beautiful style, went for $96k.

Yeah, but Picasso was doing it deliberately.

Seems like 1950s dailies have come back down from the stratosphere. I just might win one one of these days.

"You paid how much for it?!?! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!"

The prices for Frazetta detritus in this auction were really strong. In some cases, the gap with his published pieces wasn't that big.

It had to be the detail level. Comparing it to other Foster's they've auctioned before it was short on a real depth of inks and backgrounds. I'm a huge Foster fan of both his Tarzan and Prince Valiant work, but the subject matter of this piece just wasn't that interesting to me.

Look at the faces of the creatures....it could ONLY be Corben. Yeah, but there's none of Corben's unique depth/3D-ness. Anyways, it appears that others considered this to be a highly desirable piece.

I really like Corben, but this page doesn't even look that Corben-esque.

I just saw that page $55,200! Wow. That's got to be a record for a Corben panel page. Anyone know why this particular page is so coveted?

Well, yeah. As you've said, the market has shifted from fanboys who looked at the art through nostalgia glasses to younger collectors who look at the art objectively and ask "So what's the big deal with the BWS Conan stuff?". It'd be interesting to see some of the later pages with peak BWS art come to market to see what it would do.

I just noticed that the Corben page from Voice of Comicdom #17 is currently sitting at $31,200. That seems really high for a page which quite frankly doesn't do much for me, and is much higher than I've seen for any of his other panel pages.