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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. 

59 minutes ago, Doc Joe said:

finally got my hands on this...

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

45 minutes ago, BCarter27 said:

 

Back to the buying POV, most of the stuff I was tracking met or exceeded expectations.

 

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

10 hours ago, Bill C said:

The Kid Flash page from #135 would have been extremely tempting if he had been wearing the new costume he was to receive later that very issue.

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. 

22 minutes ago, Sideshow Bob said:

Haha. That KGBeast was my too pricey buy. It goes into my collection alongside a Zeck cover recreation on #420, and two other production covers from Ten Nights. Excited to see it pop up. 

Bob

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

8 minutes ago, BCarter27 said:

And Aparo KGBeast might be suffering from 1st appearance-itus. Too pricey, imo.

Wow, just saw this one. Someone must be REALLY into KGBeast!

1 hour ago, Bill C said:

Interesting results on the Cinfa SA Flash pages-

The pages from 119 and 135 seemed like healthy current values.

But that page with Flash (in costume and in action) from 112 (as far as I know, the earliest SA Flash issue to be on the market) only hitting like 2.4K seems like a really good buy.

Same with the later page from 132 with Flash in costume in a few panels. Not even 2K for that one. 

Seemed like for a while full panel pages with Flash in costume (even poorly rendered) would see 3K or so as the floor.

#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.

4 hours ago, Panelfan1 said:

Are you basing the above on your own experience or are those pure guesses? And when you say fmv - is that after all feels or before.  Because the way to look at fmv from seller perspective is after fees.

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.

On 11/30/2018 at 3:57 PM, Panelfan1 said:

Is the disconnect simply that a lot of items are actually sold without much gain or even a loss - but we pay so much attention to items like 'master race' and vintage spidey covers that we miss what's going on at other things?

_{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.}

On 11/30/2018 at 3:57 PM, Panelfan1 said:

Does this disconnect exist as much at clink which is less celebrated than HA?

_{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!

22 hours ago, Catwoman_Fan said:

You're not alone with that theory.  That was my first thought too. 

 

Any guesses on what caused these 2 Batman/Catwoman pages to go for 4-6 K on Saturday? (Same price as a McFarlane Detective page!)  I was watching and was floored by the hammer.

• DC Digest page
• Batman by Kurt Schaffenberger

Is there someone with deep pockets actively looking for Catwoman art??! (...please god, no!)

 

 

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.

53 minutes ago, vodou said:

Cost of not living in New Hampshire

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

1 hour ago, Brian Peck said:

Silver Surfer #14 page by Buscema and Adkins had a final hammer of $28,800.

That is the highest panel page by John Buscema I have seen go at public auction. Twice the Silver Surfer #1 back in May Ha this year.

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.

36 minutes ago, cstojano said:

It is the View Recent Offers on Sold Items button located under the Green Make an Offer button on closed listings for which the new owner is actively participating. For some reason I never noticed it. 

On the first page of listings, which granted only goes back to Sept 11 (but there are still MANY offers listed here) I only see one accepted.

In fact, there are 160 Rejected, 39 Pending, and 1 Accepted offer in the comic category since Sept 11.

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.

3 hours ago, cstojano said:

On the topic of fielding offers, I just discovered the button on Heritage that allows you to view all offers made within the comic category. The number of accepted offers was low. In fact, I saw only 1 in my quick glance and that was at a loss for the seller (oddly enough).

Wait a minute, what button?