Pound for Pound from a quality bang for the buck perspective, buying original published artwork seems to be a better buy both as a fan and as an investment compared to the remarks.
Sure, a published cover starts at $5k, generally navigates the $6-8k range, and with the more popular characters can go for $10-15k+, but when you look at a "remark" with a simple head sketch, regardless of CGC grading, personally I'd rather have one quality cover over 10-20 quantity remarks, as a collector - - as well as from a long term perspective.
He can crank out more and more sketches and remarks of varied detail and quality, but with published art it's iconic and recognizable with greater prestige as that one of a kind grail.
So, in a way, when you look at the remarks and sketches, if they're truly selling for those $1-2k prices, his published artwork might indeed be the true steal of a deal today and could be underpriced in comparison, and maybe should be priced starting at least at $10k and averaging $20k
Most of his marvel art now starts at least in the 10-15 range for minor characters. If it's spider man it starts at 20. If it's a team shot of characters expect to pay more.
The savage land prints oa from sdcc this year sold at over 50 for the 3. Sold as set only.
The Mary Jane iron spider cover was 25
The recent champions 1 cover is currently 18
The unpublished riri was 12
The dark knight cover was 20
The Harley Quinn cover was 20
The Spider-Man cover set from midtown was over 60 - MJ, Villians, Black Cat. Sold as set only.
Spidergwen 1 was 18/rupps variant was 12
So anything popular and marvel/DC in the 6-10 range should be bought up fast. (Not x-factor/nova)
Some of these prices are the savage land piece has amazing art. thanks for sharing the info Doug. Interesting to see these OA numbers