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“In a statement, eBay said it swiftly reviews and removes items it suspects may be fakes when it receives a complaint. “Counterfeits and unauthorized copies are illegal and not welcome on any of eBay’s sites,” it said.“..........yeah.......right.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/24/arts/design/fake-art-prints.html
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4 hours ago, Rick2you2 said:
Now that’s an art history lesson
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Crossing my fingers they don’t f##k it up.
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1 hour ago, BCarter27 said:
I thought Mad had ceased publication long ago!
Probably everyone else thought that too! Ha!
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ive read a few of these articles with no mention of Harvey Kurtzman, from what I’ve read in the past, Kurtz was very involved in the creation of Mad.....thoughts? Insights anyone.....
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On 7/10/2019 at 10:15 PM, Grant Turner said:
I don’t know if a thread like this already exists (I tried a search but didn’t find one)...
The OA I love, that really gets me going, is early Marvel: Kirby, Ditko, Heck, Ayers, Wood, Everett, Lieberman, Burgos, Powell, et.al
Here's mine, show me what you’ve got!
Great! I used to own one of those! I sold or traded all my Marvel twice ups, so I’ll have to live vicariously through the posters here.
- delekkerste and Grant Turner
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2 hours ago, vodou said:
The one I never got, going back to the late 1980s (and throughout the 90s) was all those old radio shows on cassette, The Complete Shadow, etc. Oh man...Bud Plant tried so hard to push that stuff, it must have sold, but I'm betting to nobody under the age of 50...then!
Ha! I bought some of those for driving back in the 80s! I was maybe 19 or 20.......
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thanks for posting!
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2 hours ago, delekkerste said:
Ummmm....isn't $1.125 mil like dirt cheap for an important Tintin cover?? I'm no expert on this, so, what am I missing here??
I watched that, very uninspired bidding, I read somewhere the estimate was around 2 million +
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Really great stuff in there
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16 hours ago, Brian Peck said:
Have you heard the story about Caulkins quitting the Buck Rogers strip?
Supposedly the someone at National Newspaper Service syndicate told Caulkins he was a terrible artist no where as good as Alex Raymond, Hal Foster or Burne Hogarth. So quit the strip, went home and burned all the strips he had done for Buck Rogers. Never could confirm that story but does explain why most of his art isn't out there. The syndicate had some of his early stuff but considering how many years he drew it, wonder where the rest of the artwork is.
I have not heard the story, I personally think it’s more of a style thing than incompetence as a draftsman.....he isn’t the type of artist as the guys you mentioned, more of a stylist, and if someone is interested in getting close to “realism” Calkins isn’t for them....he’s quirky but his lines are confident enough that I trust what he does. He also creates some real weirdness that complements the strip in many cases.
Ive seen quite a few out there over the years, but not a ton....so maybe he did destroy many of them....that would be too bad IMHO
id also just throw out that Ditko could be quite odd at times, and that made for a heck of a lot of charm and humanity to his Spider-Man.
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7 minutes ago, dem1138 said:
Back in 2010 I found this auction for strip #9 where Buck Rogers was given his first rocket gun and was mesmerized by it. Despite the estimate, the strip didn't sell and I emailed the auction house afterwards and it was available for offer and I believe the initial reserve was around 5K. I ultimately decided against it but have thought about/regretted it ever since. I do wonder where it wound up...
Lot 2044
44/7000-159
CALKINS, BUCK ROGERS DAILY COMIC STRIP ORIGINAL ART (JOHN F. DILLE CO., 1929).
Comprised of strip #9 from the "Meeting the Mongols" series. The top left corner of the first panel is numbered 10, but the strip is actually #9. The first two panels depict Buck Rogers being administered an electro-hyptonic test, being given his first rocket gun, and being welcomed into the Alleghany organization. The third panel is the original concept, which details the audio death machine, and the revelation that Buck had not seen Wilma in many days. The last panel depicts Buck being told that Wilma is missing. The last panel is signed in the LM "LT. Calkins, Air Corps"
Image area: 6.5" x 25.1"
$18,000/$22,000Condition: No Specific Condition Recorded - Sold As Is
Unsold
----- Forwarded Message -----From: Patrick Kearney <patrick@susanins.com>To: "dem1138@yahoo.com" <dem1138@yahoo.com>Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010, 10:09:52 AM PDTSubject: Buck Rogers unsold lotGood afternoon,Thank you for contacting Susanin's Auctions regarding the unsold Buck Rogers lot. I would suggest that you make an offer on the lot with me, and I will present it to the consignor of the collection to see if they would be interested in selling the piece.Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.Many thanks,
Patrick Kearney900 S. Clinton StreetChicago, IL 60607P: 312-832-9800F: 312-832-9311www.twitter.com/SUSANINSauctionWow, that’s a great early one! Too bad you didn’t land it. Prices on those have really been up and down over the years; I was happy to see the solid result at heritage.
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1 hour ago, tth2 said:
So I had my sights set on the Buck Rogers daily from 1929 and figured I would have a free run at it, because who collects an old dead strip that has zero relevance to the modern era and is by Caulkins, right?
So I put in one online bid after another, and none was able to outbid the high online bid. When my bid inclusive of BP topped $5000, I gave up. I really wanted the piece, but not that bad.
I love those, Calkins has a great style, nice heavy lines......they’ll be others.
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11 minutes ago, delekkerste said:
"As billionaires compete for art in an overheated market, the merely affluent are giving up."
I kind of feel like this is happening on a smaller scale in our hobby. At this point in my collecting career, I feel like I've been priced out of most of my all-time favorite pieces if they were to ever become available, while the prices on the material that is still potentially within reach are now so high that I have to keep my powder dry for these and not blow cash on anything that isn't truly in the top 1 or 2 % of my want list.
As such, my true "must-have" want list, of things that are both likely to be attainable and available at some point, is down to probably less than 5 medium-to-high end items, plus a few low-to-medium end items. I'm just glad I acquired what I did when I did, because if I was starting out from scratch today, I'd probably just be looking to build a collection of maybe 10-20 great pieces; there's no way I could build out anywhere near the collection I have starting from 2019 prices. Would wager that almost no one collecting for more than 15 years would be able to at this point.
I hear you Gene!
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5 hours ago, delekkerste said:
On behalf of a client!
It's the Egyptian Queen for Jeff Koons collectors
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Kirby prices seemed weird
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1 hour ago, delekkerste said:
I finally watched "The Price of Everything" the other night. One of the owners of this series (edition of 3 plus one AP) valued it at $65 million IIRC. It's surprisingly small.
“Robert E. Mnuchin, an art dealer and the father of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, made the winning bid for Mr. Koons’s 1986 “Rabbit”
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10 hours ago, glendgold said:
Can we call this a reasonably strong position to take on small-sized Kirby interiors 12 hours before the auction?
I was a bit shocked by that one
underground donation
in Original Comic Art
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https://library.osu.edu/site/cartoons/2017/07/10/erwin-and-alfred-bergdoll-collection-of-underground-comics-and-original-art-donated-to-the-billy-ireland-cartoon-library-museum/