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Just got my GLORY pages of digital color by Scott Rockwell, and the separations by Extreme Color, for GLORY #6. The Rob Liefield title was drawn for this issue by Mike Deodato, and finishes by Mota and Ribeiro. Story pages are 2, 7, and 11. Nice additions to my collection! From across the pond through ebay, no issues. Thanks for checking them out! Best, David S. Albright

Dillin and Giella. From JLA #100, Metamorpho appears. David

Thank you for the pics! It reminds me to contact my local show person for the only event I can do locally. That looks like a tremendous array of art! David

Hi Terry, How far can you go getting creative here with found art before the critics chime in? Best, David

I just picked up this four color separation acetates production art (gasp!) piece from the Deodato 1995 Image Comics GLORY series. David

Agree, comic art does not rock for the arbitrage specialist (investor or flipper). Too much connectivity these days. I bought many items when I only had dial-up (what's that?). Not much slipping through the cracks in comic art these days. David

Agree. At the high end of the original comic art field within major auction houses, you have a good point. But a one-off winner may take comfort that the win is fully documented and maybe just an increment above the current perceived floor. Below the high end, there is so much product that even the major houses deliver volume that can't possibly be completely covered by shill bidding. (One of the great things about original comic art.) So, the astute collector has a chance there while still getting some comfort cover on authenticity. What the casual collector is more likely to encounter in the smaller offbeat "auctions", on any platform, is the spectre of outright deception that might be disguised, overlooked, encouraged, or even perpetrated by a middle person or a seller. In my opinion. And, the serious collectors and dealers certainly do follow small auctions. I remember being at a local live auction which had an Alex Raymond daily which was in a bad state of preservation, but presented OK in the online picture. I bid into the hundreds, but a remote bid quickly ended the "auction" at about 12 or 15 hundred, I forget. That is another thing about liveauctioneers, is the lack of proxy bidding, depending on the local house. David

If people think ebay is bad, liveauctioneers is truly the wild west. Makes you respect the documentation of the major auction houses. Even there, it is a good idea to do as much research as you can. David

LINK TO AUCTION OF WOOD ART NSFW The first appearance of Sally Forth is in an upcoming Heritage auction, if you were not aware. It is not colored, so I would guess the coloring of your strips was done after publication. Or, perhaps they are color guides for the publisher done directly on the art. Best, David

A panel I used to own, apologies if the current owner is a boardie, this is a Bill Discount from pre-code Thing, if I recall correctly. Happy Halloween, David

Sometimes Hannigan lost art credit if he was the layout artist only. If he was just the idea man, no credit was given. Check my CAF for a Hannigan/Rubenstein Cap cover that I bought directly from Ed Hannigan in 1995. https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1275344 David Albright

Hi New Hampshire, Vermont here. You might have a nice poster for a local comic convention. People collect them. Take a picture with your device, and we all can chime in. David

I think the Batman #251 will settle out at $400 thousand (add juice).

Well then, you are the clear winner in the most dedicated original comic art collector contest between the two of us, and I salute you! I have never traveled far for art, and my finds have been either local, mail, or internet. I rarely travel outside Vermont, but I did pick up a couple pages at an obscure South Florida local comic book store about fifteen years ago. I still have one of them, a Punisher page. Edit ..... It is not on my CAF gallery, I'll try to get a pic up here for you. I thought it was on my David Albright CAF page, and I'll try to get an image up here for you. Edit .... Sorry for not providing artist credit, this is Hugh Haynes pencils, and either/or Mark McKenna and Mick Gray inks.per the Grand Comics Database. This particular page is signed on the reverse by Haynes. Best, David

#3 for the font size and black text. Maybe try it with the silver background in #1. David

That's very funny! Along the same morbid theme, a pet peeve of mine is that when I die, there will be a heck of an estate sale....that I will not be able to attend!

I like your 70%, and I will bump mine to 80% since I am well pleased with my efforts working up here near the Canadian border without realistic access to shows. Any of my grail possibilities would be out of my price range even if I sold all of my minor original comic art collection. It is an interesting thought to consider the prospect of selling a remaining big piece to finance a personal grail, though. It would be sort of like a trade. My best pieces are bronze superhero covers, which are still ascending, and a personal grail might not be so good as an investment. So that is a cause for pause. David

As someone who has consigned to Heritage in the past, I'm glad they are back up and running. I don't fault a nervous consignor for withdrawing a lot, because each circumstance is different. A few hundred, or a few thousand, dollars is a lot of money for most people so I don't blame them. Let's hope this is just an infrequent disturbance of the auction world. David

This is a good remark about whether your most perfect desired piece, if achieved, relates to what you have actually managed to acquire. I have adjusted my expectations based on my early buys which I could never duplicate. But, I still look for pieces which sing to me based on nostalgia or my perceived value. I'm hanging on to my best pieces, but always looking for bargains. Nice conversation, David

They will get through this. It may cost them some extortion money to the malware people. Heritage is much more than comics. David

The cover nostalgia intensity is quite a phenomenon. Witness the slabbing which entombs books likely forever, which books might otherwise have been read by curious collectors. I like my old coverless golden age books which I can re-read without fear of grade reduction. That said, my OA covers do stand out within my collection by perceived market value, so they command respect from me. Interesting topic, David

Bump, I'm curious if there is a reason Overstreet designated this art as not Messmer. Thanks, David S. Albright

When I sell art from my collection, I try to include anything I find... old receipts, published info, artist(s) info, facsimiles of provenance if I need to retain originals of them, and when I feel the info is only in my mind, I will make a note in pencil for myself and a future owner on the back. Otherwise it is lost and sometimes hard to retrieve for the next collector. If you are submitting to an auction house or a dealer on commission, they may or may not include such extraneous material in the lot, but they will likely not remove notes directly on the piece. I continue back notes to this day, since my experience has been old provenance documents can be misplaced to the detriment of the history of the piece. FWIW, my wife is a professional oil painter, and she marks the back of each piece with title and inventory number which indicates the time frame of the making of the piece. She is currently around 1500 original oil paintings, and I point out the info for the a buyer while I'm packing it up. David

I'm not sure why this is different than pulling off an old flea market sticker on a piece that is being re-sold. But, somehow it is significant, because of how dramatic the values have changed in a short (geologic) period of time in this field of collecting. The drama kind of forgives how much the seller is netting, and becomes a historical marker of the bull market which is original comic art. I say leave it on there. David

Cool, I wish I could go. I have three Rube originals. They were all early ebay finds. Here I show an early 1913 strip which I think predates his first trip to Europe (he went 28 times) all about Cubism! Apologies for the stitching software look in the last image. David S. Albright