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The Starlin modern pieces and that Lim piece were really strong. Anything Thanos is nuts right now. It will be interesting to see prices a few years from now when Thanos is gone from the MCU.

Now that I have had time to look at all the lots and see the early bidding..... TKJ page - I knew another page would pop up after the sale of page one and that final hammer. It will be interesting to see how this one fares in comparison, it is probably the best of the worst pages in the book. I can't wait to see the fireworks when an A page from the story pops up.......For Bolland fans the Camelot $3k cover will make an excellent consolation price. I have always liked that one. Mark Bagley - There are two Bagley pieces in this auction, an ASM splash and a New Warriors cover. Both are REALLY nice Bagley/90's Marvel examples that I love. Silvestri UXM #233 Wolverine page is already at almost $4k, which I thought would be around the hammer. May be an eye popping result here. The Sekowsky JLA #1 Title splash is awesome. SA DC is very hit or miss and this one was is a home run. There are a few Wally Wood early DD pages that are absolutely delightful. There are several very nice Mignola pieces in the auction, including a Shadow cover that is absolutely killer. The DC stuff he did right before Hellboyis some of his best work IMO and this one is no exception. Finally not OA related, but for those who might not know and be interested, this is the first HA signature auction to have video games. I may be after one or two if I get destroyed on my art bids.

I can't wait for the auction to start. I kind of get withdrawals this time of year when the major auction go on hiatus during the holidays. I made consignments to Heritage for the first time so it will be extra fun. I have my eye on one piece, but will probably get destroyed on it as usual during event auctions.

@Panelfan1 congrats! Cool piece. My thoughts were $6k ish don’t think the price was that crazy.

Wonderful pages that are worth every penny.

Love this piece. I was in for it until $5k.

For me as well. Although there was not alot in my wheelhouse this go round.

For sure. For some reason the early red costume Kid Flash is not really interesting to me at all. He has always kind of looked like a kid dressing up for Halloween.

Did you add anymore Don Newton pages to the collection? I was very tempted by the end page from #367.

Wow, just saw this one. Someone must be REALLY into KGBeast! #112 was the best buy for sure, I was debating picking one of these pages up, but none of them had the images/story for me so I held off.

I usually place my bid rounded up to the nearest $100 to the current bid, just because of a slight ocd for nice round numbers. i guess I consider any bid that should have very little chance of winning a tracking bid, which to me is any bid below 1/2 fmv. I do not place a tracking bid if the number has already breached that point, unless I know I am going hard on the piece.

Still high bidder on a few lots with tracking bids placed in the first couple days of the auction. I usually place my max bids at clink with about 20 seconds to go due to the mediocre bidding system.

Estimated based on experience. I’m fairly certain most people look at fmv and net proceeds from a sale separately. I know I do. It is all a mental calculation after that measuring risk/reward and urgency of receiving funds in the various formats of selling art.

I don't think that is it, as what amazes me the most at heritage is there ability to get $1k for $200 estimated FMV dollar pieces, $2k for $500 estimated FMV dollar pieces and $5k for $1k estimated FMV pieces. If I had to guess at values of hammer prices compared to my perceived FMV at the two sites I think it would look something like this. HA CLINK 15% Way Above FMV 5% 25% Above FMV 15% 50% FMV 45% 8% Below FMV 25% 2% Way Below FMV 10% HA I feel has more upside, and clink far more downside, but for all lots that sell for FMV the juice at heritage stings.

The apparent disconnect between the monster prices heritage seems to achieve regularly and the consignor disappointments is interesting. Probably a combination of the massive juice and maybe some unrealistic expectations? I have never consigned with them and have a pile of art I was going to send them in January. You guys are giving me second thoughts!

I didn't even notice these pages as they are both fairly blah. Crazy prices for sure. Must be Catwoman for some reason or another. The McFarlane Bats page was well bought I thought. I wanted to pick it up, but am pretty tapped from excessive buying this year. I was expecting $7-8k. Especially compared to those two pages and the Marini page, an absolute steal.

This is a very strange sale for sure. I was interested in the page, liked the art and the book so was researching during the auction what FMV would be. That's why I am curious as to someone who is more familiar with the European art market/Marini's work. It looks like Marini's work does demand dollars(There is no way this went to an American Batman collector, there are just too many better ways to spend that much money on both modern or vintage Batman art.) but that number is just sooooooooooo high. I could see it sell for 10-15k, which would have still be very strong but plausible. At 26k it is just absurd, as there are hundreds of objectively better ways to spend that money on modern and/or Batman art. Even a drunk bidder would have gained his senses at that level. Also interesting is I think no live bids were placed on it. The price was reached pre auction. A very strange way to go after a page if you are willing to go that high on it.

My new state motto, Live free(and don’t pay taxes on OA) or die.

I was interested in this one, strong to say the least!

Is Enrico Marini a big deal in the European art market? https://comics.ha.com/itm/original-comic-art/panel-pages/enrico-marini-batman-the-dark-prince-charming-1-story-page-17-catwoman-original-art-dc-2018-/a/7192-93168.s?ic2=mybidspage-lotlinks-12202013&tab=MyBids-101116 This is........absolutely insane?!?

My random thoughts.... IH 330 cover - it's hideous, 33k seems like a massive overpay. A classic example of box checking and not actually looking at the art. The Mignola Action comics story seemed strong for non-peak non Hellboy art, but the pages were pretty nice. The Wrightson Twisted Tales cover coming up at auction again for the 3rd time in six years has impressively appreciated each time. Most of the covers seemed strong in general. GSXM #1 and X-Men #94 pages seemed reasonable coming for "key" issues.

My thoughts on the unpublished manga market are fake until proven real. Unless you have ironclad provenance, it's has to be assumed fake.

Not much of interest to me in this auction(thankfully.) I do see one piece I really like though, so I do have a target. The interesting thing about this auction is with the sales tax collections heritage has implemented this is the first event auction where most US bidders will be paying sales tax. That plus the holidays may have an effect on prices? The Sunday weekly auctions have been crazy recently, so sales tax has yet to have any effect there.

Found it, I too never noticed this list It's a really cool feature, I have always wondered how much offer activity there was on HA. So thanks for bringing it up! Also it looks like the list goes back forever. 9/11 is just the end of the first page of offers.

Wait a minute, what button?