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I remember that page from a few years back with it being offered along with a few other X-Factor DP pages. They sold much cheaper back then.

A lot of my wants are basically to pieces I sold like Sienks Moon Knight and John Buscema. Would love to add a A+ panel page or cover of  early Darkhawk by Manley and Marvel Fanfare pin-ups when I can afford it. Was finally able to add a Spidey page to my collection this year at least.

8 hours ago, Unstoppablejayd said:

First time going... I have a few pieces I would not mind trading... is this the kind of place where you can bring some art to include in the negotiations?

Yes. A lot of collectors will bring a portfolio with them that has a few pieces of art in it. Either to show each other interesting pieces they have, sell themselves, or to include as trade towards something else. Keep in mind while you have a lot of dealers there they aren't the only people you can do business with. Many of the people in attendance will have interesting and impressive collections themselves and through networking with them might be able to find you something you want and are willing to deal for it that that the dealers didn't have. You might even run into someone that has been wanting something you have and can use it to get something nice in return either in trade or money. There's been a few deals made with people that otherwise wouldn't have happened if they didn't bring some art with them or talked with others. 

I haven't been to the last few shows but plan on going to this one even though I probably won't be buying anything. I'll still bring some art with me though that shows what my collecting focus is and try to make some contacts. Hopefully I'll meet some people who have something I would want that I otherwise wouldn't know about since a lot of collectors don't post what they have online and meeting in person is really the only way.

 

Oh yeah, EE. He and me seem to have a lot of the same taste so I often think I'm bidding against him on a lot of pieces. When a Moon Knight or ROM piece gets sold there's a good chance he might have been the one to get it to resell. I also noticed he had one of the the ROM pieces I sold myself which he might have actually found a buyer for.

You can find him on Instagram also where he advertises these pieces for sale along with comics.

5 hours ago, tth2 said:

I've heard Sal Buscema is now a top 5 artist, so I expect the value of his pages will be soaring. 

I think this just made me a 1%. See you all at the next cabal round table.  

Despite the username and avatar the majority of my pieces are of ROM Spaceknight. 

Sal Buscema for both. 

As someone who also looks for Ed McGuinness Deadpool I've found that it's very hard to come by but does appear time to time so not a complete lost. If you're willing to expand your want list to pages from the first series that will make your looking extremely easier.

Any increase in bronze and copper age pieces hitting the floor that weren't seen before with the increases those eras have been demanding? ROM and Moon Knight are the ones I'm especially interested in of course. 

The upcoming Clink auction has two consecutive pages from issue one. Will be interesting to see what they go for and will probably be a good indicator for that market.

I think the complete issue to ROM #32 was gotten for cheap at $13.5K in my opinion. Especially with single ROM pages going to 1$k-$2k if not more on their own. Especially with it being an issue where it has one of ROM's more known enemies and the guest appearance of X-Men villains in it.

17 minutes ago, Stan Singh said:

Bump! Strangely quiet group on this and I am bored at work so... BUMP!

No one wants to draw attention to the stuff they're watching. 

Yes, sometimes buying a character you like that appeared in another title can save you money that otherwise would cost you a lot more for a page of the same quality if it was from their main title. Spider-man is a great example of that. Another reason is that it might be the only time the artist working on that title ever drew the character you like when they made an appearance in it. Having something like that is interesting.

I first come across OA on Ebay when a collector was selling their collection. I didn't buy anything but was now interested in it. The first piece I got was from a comiclink focus auction. It was a page from the 90's DC Demon series that I got for the large sum of $11 dollars. The shipping on it cost me $30. it was something I didn't even plan on buying. I just decided to look at the comic art tab which I had ignored up to then. As I was scrolling through I saw the piece with it ending in around 30 minutes and decided to put a thrill bid on it and that was that. That $11 dollar purchase has ended up costing me a lot more than I thought it would.

https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1291383

I think a lot of people who were readers of it as it came out (70 issues for what was a toy tie-in comic is good) are now just in a period where they can finally start collecting stuff from having an income.  Same for ROM art. It used to be one of the more affordable titles but now a good page will be in the 4 figure range. 

A lot of cool stuff in this auction that fits in my wheelhouse for sure. Wonder whoever buys that complete issue of ROM will break it up later on too?

To add to this discussion I believe Felix or @Nexus on the boards had an interesting way of handling digital art that was done by some of the artists he reps. Please correct me if I'm wrong about this, Felix but I remember that if a person was interested in a page or cover from East of West that is done digitally that you would have the option to select what page you were interested and the artist would only draw it once. So instead of buying a 1 for 1 print, you would instead buy the page with the artist drawing it to order, never making another one so that it became the original art that couldn't be duplicated. Is that correct or did Dragotta do some pages and covers physically?

15 hours ago, vodou said:

Great post, I remember those now (the original CLINK offering) and the speculation was rampant at the time that they wouldn't do well. I didn't remember that they went for four figures each though. And again, on at least one re-sale. Wow and wow. Bigger numbers than I would have expected and a nice pushback on the generally negative assumption being made  on these.

Fine art is just fine with prints, going back to at least Rembrandt and friends. It's only in comic art where "who's on it, what are they wearing, and what are they doing" is more important than "who made it and why". But no worries, surely MOMA is going to walk away with...Egyptian Queen...whatever it takes

Yeah, I was pretty surprised myself. And as a correction to what I said, after looking it wasn't the cover but the splashpage that showed her for the first time as Thor. It looks like he sells one page from each book and didn't just print these two out. You can see the auction listing for the splashpage on comicartfans along with another page that someone bought from the artist.

https://www.comicartfans.com/SearchResult.asp

Monoprints have already come and sold at auction before this batman example. A little while back I noticed that in one of Comiclink's featured auctions that someone (probably the artist) had consigned two monoprints from the Female Thor comic. Issue #1. This was while the series was in the news at the time. The pieces were the printed out cover and the interior page in where she picked up the hammer and transformed into Thor. Both ended up selling for a few thousand a piece with the interior page coming to auction again a little later and selling for a few thousand again.

On a semi-related note. I remember talking to someone about art a while back who told me that they spent some money on a one-off print. Ten or eleven thousand I think. So the idea of selling and people buying these isn't really a foreign concept and seems to be accepted in the art world even if it's not in our subfield of comic art.

8 hours ago, Spiderturtle said:

Now have to pay 10 percent extra.  That doesnt suck?

Not for me. I live in NJ and we and a few other states always had to deal with the sales tax in mind as we bid while a lot of others didn't. For us, it just levels the playing field.

Frank Cho https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQh59EYrTsqljJj6QIlKtLQ

 

On 4/18/2019 at 10:35 AM, Doc McCoy said:

So I heard back (after a mutual friend reached out to Paolo) and was told the piece went out the day after the shipping label was created, which would have been April 9th.  Asked to keep an eye out for it, because local outgoing tracking is spotty (Maspeth, NY).  

I would think that even if it didn't get scanned in leaving NY, at some point along the line (shipping to FL) it would have been, but you never know.  So fingers crossed that it shows up here sometime soon.  Without tracking, I really have no idea.

This is the piece I'm waiting for, a commission by Jim Towe:

I really like the Jordan 1s being part of it.

The item that most surprised me this auction was the sealed booster box of first edition pokemon cards. $66K is amazing to me.