Sideshow Bob

Imagine Santa asks, "This year, you been a good socially-adjusted man-child who still reads comic books...what OA would you want for Christmas?"

So here's that list!!!

1) Still on the hunt for Y:The Last Man interior pages (from the first 12 issues only).

2) Any interiors or covers from Locke & Key. If you have any L&K art by Gabe Rodriguez, don't hesitate to reach out and receive a very healthy offer!

3) Also: Looking for any pages from Detective #526 or Batman #366, both of which are Newton/Alcala on pencils/inks. 

4) Also, also: Jerry Bingham pages from Batman: Son of the Demon

5) Needle in haystack: Looking for the six covers from IDW's Wild Blue Yonder, by Zach Howard. Bought directly from the artist, and poof, just like Keyser Soze, they're gone. 

Happy holidays!

Bob

7 minutes ago, delekkerste said:

 

Thanks!  Looks like I bought my first Kaluta at half my maximum bid!!  

Was hoping for a similar result on the Hush DPS, but alas, someone took it one increment higher than my absentee bid. The vig + sales tax was suffucating, even after sidestepping the 8% iCollector charge.

I bought three Y:TLM pages from Cadence two months ago. From my payment date to getting the art, it was two weeks max. Smooth and with no drama. That being said, I think they had the art in hand and ready to ship. Sorry to hear of the multiple stories of delays and buyers getting ghosted, but I had a completely different experience. 

Bob

4 minutes ago, Bronty said:

Obviously I don't know Neal to be able to say, but from 1000 miles away that would be my guess as well with the exception that any art returned to him he would have sold for a three figure amount in the 1970s through Mitch or whomever.     There'd be no goldmine.

Yep, its the old Hindsight Trading 20/20 phenomenon. Of course he would never have sold those covers for hundreds in the 70's since they would eventually be worth hundreds of thousands each, and only he would be the one to figure that out.  My read is that its a case of very sour grapes, but that bitterness is fueled by the work-for-hire ambiguity. 

1 hour ago, comix4fun said:

He's not "making money over and over on someone else's work". We are talking about personal property. The "work" is a physical piece of property that, once sold, belongs entirely to the person who purchased it. Like a car, a house, a comic book, or any other item that is bought and sold in the course of regular and every day commerce. 

If a piece of property is sold, outright, without reservation or condition at the time of sale it belongs entirely to the person who paid the agreed upon price for it. 

The person who created the work has the right to strike whatever legal terms they would like at the time of sale. They can retain copyright (such as they are entitled) or set any other term they and the person they are contracting with for the sale shall agree. If they don't set additional terms concerning the rights to the physical piece of art changing hands then they cannot demand those additional terms at a later date, unilaterally. 

Do we know that Neal originally sold this piece to a collector and its just sour grapes that the price has increased exponentially since then? Or that it was held in DC's office and somehow found its way out of the office, unprotected by a contract that said the OA was specifically his?

When I asked him to sign a pencil prelim to the cover of Batman #226, he said "you know that's stolen property?" I followed up with an email asking him for the police report so I could take it up with Heritage (obviously got no reply to that...).

But I believe that is the crux of his bitterness and the core of his advocacy for other artists: there weren't actual contracts for the "work-for-hire" crowd when he was in his hey-day, and if there had been, he'd have gotten all his art back and would be sitting on a veritable goldmine. Instead, his OA was produced without the specific artist rights terms that exist nowadays (which he fought for), thereby allowing someone else to profit from every subsequent sale. Now he seethes with every commission he pops out to make a good living, albeit at rock-star prices, every day adding to his ongoing bitterness and crystallizing in his purported shakedown of every major OA sale of his work by creating strawman "authenticity concerns". 

32 minutes ago, malvin said:

For stuff I follow, I thought it was strong.

I didn't win anything (blown out of the water) but for some of the pieces that were sold, I have comparables in my own collection and I like how their potential implied values increased based on these auction results!

Malvin

You're probably pretty happy with that Dark Victory splash page with Joker going for a decent bit of coin...

I picked up the Nightwing cover (with Chicago burning) that I sold a couple years ago and regretted ever since.

That is a great Punk Rock Jesus page. Can't remember the last time I saw a quality example from that series available...

GLTA.

Bob

Batman. Quite a lot of Batman.

Surprisingly, my #2 is Wild Blue Yonder by Zach Howard. Loved his inks so much, I bought a complete issue and a ton of other pages. 

17 hours ago, vodou said:

That source has confirmed itself to be dry? Wow. I never thought it would be two years worth. Got mine quite early, the rare steal of them, and moved on with my life

The consignment shop owner told me the consignor was in a care facility and has since passed. The house it came from was mostly packed with collectibles. Chance that some of the key pages were cherry-picked as they left the house, but impossible to say from the limited insight given to me.There are a couple pages I would aggressively go after... and then I would rest for a good while.

After the last two years of the eBay drip release of so many Don Newton Batman/Detective pages (just ended, thank God!), its going to be Don Newton for me. 

Zach Howard (The Cape, Wild Blue Yonder) blows me away.

Sean Murphy. Some great stuff in Batman: White Knight.

Terry Moore: Doesn't skip a beat while doing the whole job of writing/inking/lettering solo, SIP25 is a treat.

Fiona Staples. Oh how I wish she did OA. Actually, my bank account says thank you for not doing OA.

At the risk of causing offense for going to four, I'm adding one more page that I just picked up: 

Batman finds out he's going to be a daddy! Talia breaks the news to him that she's with child, in Batman: Son of the Demon [1987]. Eventually, DC will ret-con this story to become Damien Wayne's origin story. Some superb pencil and ink work by Jerry Bigham.

Bob

We bypassed all that recommended 529 planning (fake news!), and went into a surefire investment investment...CGC certified sketch covers! Now we sit and wait and watch them quadruple in value each year. Hello, Harvard! 

10 hours ago, malvin said:

My consignments have ended. I was very pleased that the walking dead page hit 1k a few days ago, especially when I wasn't able to sell it on CAF for 500 a few months ago. The Perez avengers and McFarlane cover stat was slow but went to the prices I was expecting near the end so overall I am pleased. 

Of course the stuff I wanted to buy spiked up near the end so I didn't win.. 

Malvin 

One hell of a lucky coincidence of WD ending last week, and your WD Tony Moore page ending this week... congrats! 

If anyone is hanging onto some Batman #366 pages (Don Newton/Alfredo Alcala), let me know! Top dollar paid. There was a bunch that went through ebay last year, but it was only the front half of the book. The back half has the fight between Joker and Batman (plus Jason Todd in a stolen Robin suit). I have the end splash that I picked up years ago, but would love to add a page from the fight.

Thanks!

Bob

PS: The DPS from Detective #526, also Newton/Alcala...also looking for this and top, top dollar. Been looking for it for years...

For nostalgia, its got to be 1987! Jerry Bingham on Batman is first. I devoured the Son of the Demon HC over and over again.

A close second would be Kevin O'Neill on Marshall Law.

On 2/12/2019 at 2:25 PM, engelhard said:

anyone who lives in IL and about 2 hours away from  chicago says they live in chicago... i was out of state and met some people from il.. oh cool i live in chicago im in the south loop where you at?.. they said naperville

I grew up three miles from this shop. My neighborhood is actually in Chicago, which Oak Lawn borders. There is a solid but small-ish LCS a mile away (All American on 95th between Kedzie & Pulaski; I rode my bike there to buy the Punisher mini off the shelf in 1986) vs Chimera (also on 95th but just west of Cicero). Does that part of the city/SW suburbs have enough interest to support two brick-and-mortars just a mile apart? I actually don't think that they do, as they couldn't even pull that off successfully in the '80s. I have fond memories of that little part of the world, but not a chance in hell that I would be applying for that contest, even if the entry fee was zero. 

Decent chance I'll be there with my two young daughters. 

Bob

On 5/10/2019 at 5:28 PM, 1p36DSA said:

$1200.00

Mouse Guard Black Axe Black White Edition Cover

HC book NOT included, just as reference

per PM.