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  1. Oh I don't know, there are quite a few nice pieces in there if you like your DC, Vertigo and indie stuff. If it's not your thing then sure there isn't much meat on the bone for buyers. There isn't really a focus on anything super powered. To me it looks like a pretty cool part nostalgia, part creator collection. If he's selling it then OA was probably never really a long term priority. I have always wondered if creators eventually become less and less interested in what they did as they move towards getting the next thing out of the gate.
  2. I could list all my pages like that! I wouldn't care if they sold
  3. I recall reading that someone mentioned Jeff specifically likes to take care when drawing Thorn to make sure she looks consistent, which is difficult to do when time is limited at conventions, so yes not many con sketches of her at all.
  4. It's a fair question. There are so many reasons. The main two are that I have already gone past the amount I can comfortably display and rotate, and I am also in a pretty happy place when it comes to having a collection that spans a lot of titles which I have really enjoyed reading. I need to work out where to go from here, and slowing right down will make that a lot easier. I really don't mind taking my foot off the gas, it will probably be a good thing. I only have so much time and energy and there is a lot of change going on in my life over the next couple of years... house, bigger job, kids going to college. I got back into all things comics when my life felt more settled after starting a family, and now things are a lot busier. ... I mean I could do that, or I could just become Captain Compulsive with his trusty OA crack pipe (as I do still very much enjoy this part of the hobby) and claw my way up the buy/sell/trade ladder
  5. That one really helped me out. When I decided to actually keep a written list of what I want to "complete" my collection it eventually highlighted how unrealistic my goals could get. It started off as a solid list of all the things within a reasonable price range that I wanted $100 - $1000. It was fairly easy to compile too as I only had to glance over at my Omnibus and TPB collection to work out which books were dear to me, and they were usually the ones I had read and re-read time and again. Gradually I started to weed out the "nice to haves", and sometimes things would weed themselves out because pieces would sell before I got to them. Then as the list shrank I tried adding in a few bigger ticket items just to see what that change would feel like, and you know what I didn't like it one bit. Putting them on there made me think long and hard about how they would have a much larger impact on everything else I enjoy. If you have a list for OA then it stands to reason that you should have lists for other goals, and putting these side by side cemented that I should keep all things OA in the fun zone. Now I am actually only two pieces away from finishing the list Maybe I will finally get to transition to being a collector who buys max one or two pieces a year
  6. There isn't a chance this is going for less than several thousand.
  7. Oooh... I could play but I don't have any pictures to hand. I recently found and bought a Batman page over 9 years after I originally bought the one that follows it. They make a nice little story sequence too, was a pretty easy purchase decision
  8. https://www.mycomicshop.com/search?IID=29482319 https://comicvine.gamespot.com/spider-man-national-committee-for-prevention-of-ch/4000-192272/ Looks like it is two pencillers across two stories. 1995 Edition. Prevention of Child Abuse Toyota giveaway. Cover by John Romita Sr. (W) Louise Simonson (P) John Buscema, Mark Bright (3 pgs). "Who Cares" & "Nobody Wins". Hobgoblin appears in both stories.
  9. This must have inspired this episode of the cartoon (about 2mins 30 in)
  10. ... or simply point out all the big ticket items in this auction, then when you buy something for a fraction if the price it ain't so bad :P
  11. You have a really good suggestion already regarding the pencils + inks. Splashpage Art has a few books with this available e.g. Gotham Central - https://www.splashpageart.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=36399&ArtistId=113&Details=1&Mag=Gotham+Central&From=TDetail - where you get everything done by the same artist. Walking Dead - https://www.splashpageart.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=28724&ArtistId=84&Details=1&Mag=Walking+Dead&From=TDetail - where you have pencils by one artist and inks by another. The colour guide thing is really tricky. You could sign up for Comic Art Tracker https://comicarttracker.com/search?query=color-guide and search for that term to see what is out there... who knows you might find a match. I know that there are at least 3x colour guides out there on eBay for pages that I own, but I am not willing to pay $200+ for them when I could spend that elsewhere. The other thing is that you won't get colour guides for modern comics, because people just don't do them any more since the advent of digital colouring. That will make your search even harder. It's not impossible. If you are interested in all aspects of comic book creation then you could also count lettering as another aspect. You might get a kick out of Todd Klein's blog and shop https://kleinletters.com/Blog/signed-prints/
  12. You stole my reply Thanos is a really good example. He had a lot of iconic moments in those films too which stand alone as pop culture references too. The ones translated directly from the comics like the Thanos "snap", which are already grail pages, will just elevate everything else close to them. I am guessing that the amount it goes up depends on if we are looking at increased value amongst the same collectors, increased speculation or... or new collectors coming in The path that the money takes to get to this end of the hobby when something has a buzz around it doesn't feel like it should be TV and Film alone. We have seen the occasional unicorn appear out of nowhere after screen releases, but it's not the norm. I would still think that something like ... comic fan > comics > films / tv / > return to comics > omnibus collection / key comics > conventions / social media exposure to original art content ... would be a more natural fit over time. Speculation and FOMO (let's face it there isn't always enough to go around) might still be what is fuelling things.
  13. https://www.twitch.tv/directory/game/MARVEL SNAP ... but I was looking forward to your long and illustrious streaming career.