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FlexMentallo

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  1. FlexMentallo
    Good point about nostalgia trumping craft. This isn't fine art (yet) and the injection of nostalgia differentiates it from such, thus market prices will always have that shadow at play influencing desirability as a collectible rather than objectively viewing a work of art for art's sake on its on its own merits. And that is OK but it detracts perhaps from wider respectability within the art community (not that we care). Now your actual point that the newer collector's care less about craft or the history of comic art.. guess I don't know enough collector's out there to say for certain. One the one hand we have more information available to us that explains the history through books, internet etc. and on the other you don't see a whole lot of conversation about older artists and their contributions on comic book forums. In the end given the shrinkage of the comic book hobby in general I imagine the circle of the dedicated few who take a serious look at craft shrinks as well.
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    Not much to add but for me it's always broken down as the top pages in a particular comic book (Cover, Splash, Hero in costume and battle etc) were the A pages and everything else was B or lower. If you then start cross-comparison across books, artists etc. it gets subjective pretty quick and I guess you end up chalking it up to monetary value to determine "A" pages across the hobby. So yeah agreeing with what others said that it depends on how you define A art and which category you are focusing on/emphasizing when doing so. Ibzan
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    For DPS I typically have to fold them in half, which virtually all of the time they have already been shipped to me in that way.
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    The very first commission I ever paid for ($350) back in 2005(?) never materialized. Part of my mind (the crazy part way in the back) thinks I am still waiting. On a positive note the experience quickly shifted me to buying interior pages instead and I've never looked back.
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    Glad to see Jesse pages still hovering in the $1000 mark for such a great series, makes it affordable.
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    Lark is amazing, beautiful technique