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Finished writing up an article on Silver Surfer Black and this paging coming to auction. It’s going to be an event for sure. https://comicartguide.com/thelegendofsilversurferblack/

I’m sure most know of the large illustrations Kirby did at comic con. Anyone have an archive or list of what exists? Anyone actually attend or know someone who attended one? Just a subject I am fascinated about that I have never found much information of. Would love to see what exists outside of what heritage has offered over the years.

It would go into political talk so I won’t/can’t expand. I guess I can say that many supporting Jim would complain about the inequity of many professional athletes salaries, when it is of course the identical situation. I for one find it a breath of fresh air when artists/reps can speak plainly with customers about topics related to market values and pricing of art and have large amounts of transparency. I am all for it.

Obviously Jim can charge whatever he wants and artists rates are going to be determined by the market. I think it is blown out of proportion as most people agree with and understand that. What I do find hilarious is MANY of these creators that are supporting Jim……… let’s just say don’t carry these same beliefs in other markets/ facets of life outside their own industry when you check out their twitter posts.

Yeah, that corner of the market has crashed pretty hard, but this auction was hilariously low(not funny if you were a consignor though) I actually won 2 pieces last night, one easily at half what I thought it was worth. Don’t think I have won more than one piece from a single auction in 5 years or so. Was tempted to buy a few more pieces but I have my sights set on something in the next signature.

Has any received or know anyone who has received any art from them in the past few months?

Definitely a feature and really a perfectly sized room for the guests and attendees. When we all gathered for the auction that room was packed and you could see what attendance truly was.

Finished the write up. Enjoy! https://comicartguide.com/articles/oax/

Will try to get a full write up down for tomorrow and will upload the rest of my pictures momentarily. A LOT of media was taken from several sources….so I’m sure that will come eventually so everyone can see the show.

I didn’t stay for the majority of it but for what I thought were the coolest pieces,…the Allred paintings both went for just over the opening bid of $4k. I almost bid on the Surfer as it is just a monstrously amazing piece of art. The Beatty SW8 piece $2800 I think. Told to me, second hand….The Gerhard/Hughes piece went for $9100, the Bianchi Weapon X $8500, The Manix around 5k (his art is gorgeous in person and he is a really nice guy.) was told the Kang card art did very well(There was a fairly large group of card art collectors there)

2019 I think? Made it because I never built a website before and to improve my writing skills. I love art and I know there can be a steep learning curve so focused a lot on helping newer collectors learn things I wish I knew.

Anything specific you want to see?

Just left the auction, they were still on B after about half an hour and there was not a ton of bidding on some of the early lots so may not be as fun as you think lol.

It’s pretty good. With some fine tuning could see it becoming epic. I’m doing updates on my site for those who couldn’t make it. https://comicartguide.com/articles/oax/

The Seasons of Mist page is much more insane in my mind. Maybe craziest results in the auction so far. I was watching the live bidding and was floored watching it. It seemed like the Sandman market pulled back a bit post show hype, but with these two results maybe that’s over and then some.

Hard to estimate any sort of price on so many pieces as comparatively a lot of these results make no sense.

I find the comparison of these two pieces so interesting. Pre auction I would have guessed the Miller would have sold for slightly more, 3x seems crazy to me. I wonder what Mandel thought of the results. As you said very strong for a page without DD/Elektra. I would bet that page never sells higher ever.

Judging by the pieces sold, and the pieces available at pretty reasonable prices IMO seems like a very weak show so far. Not a lot of buying at all.

I think the reason is pretty obvious with the events of the past 48 hours. Little live bidding and some of it seemed very hesitant. They really had to milk some of these bids out. I actually placed a few bids on stuff not necessarily at the top of my want list, but they were so low I had to take a shot. The DKR pages went at what I thought the minimum was $250k/300k bit thought they had a chance for more. I’m sure Mandel is happy with paying that for them assuming that’s where they went.

Yeah I figured the issue would be at a premium just not by that much…..especially extrapolating to a page with better content being in the 50k+ range. I still really need to scratch the itch and add a Moore run example. I thought the Miller DD was about right for a Bullseye fight page pre 168. The Tim Sale pages did ok, the DPS was pretty strong. The Sandman pages I probably should have thrown another bid or two on a couple of them…but I think prices are coming down after the pre show hype prices. I am very surprised the prices were as strong as they were on the Matt Wagner pieces due to the sheer number of them.

Was hoping for a steal on several things I really liked and that sure didn’t happen. Strong overall prices. …..the Swamp thing page…is that price because it was super early, issue #21? That price seemed insane to me at over 30k.

I think in general they would get more separate but in this case maybe not as buyers may hesitate much more bidding on the second page due to it basically being a rejected page. Doesn’t look so good when you title it alone that way. 425k now

Yeah, I went through the mental gymnastics of the proper discounted value of the page should be, but in the end it is what it is and where they end up actually selling for may not be far off.

What’s the number for the collusion hotline so I can ask everybody to refrain from bidding on the DKR pages? They are going to go for a huge number aren’t they.