Ironmandrd

Initial thought in response to above: lower than $30k.

Reminds me of the following: i was next to Liefeld at the NY show I guess two years ago when he was going through Bechara's portfolio books and he saw a commission piece that was attributed to him. He stared at it, called Bechara over and said he didn't do the piece. Bechara immediately crossed out Liefeld's name on it and flipped the art so it's back was facing out (meaning it was not for sale).

Thanks Gene and Joe for the pics!

It is a nice splash and from a good storyline but it didn't have any Iron Man in it. So I was somewhat surprised at this result--it almost tripled in the last minute. Clearly two or three people who really wanted it.

I'm a bit surprised to read that several people have an issue with ComicLink re-opening these few auction lots that were clearly affected by a type of "force majeure." Some posts seem to be saying re-opening only is in the interest of the sellers and catering to them--but it also favors all the bidders who wanted to bid and who couldn't. What about fairness to them? The only person it directly hurts is each "winning" buyer, who a seller (and the other bidders who couldn't bid) could argue basically won on the equivalent of a technicality since their winning bid would otherwise not have won. Weighing that against the interests of the sellers and the prospective bidders, I think fairness favors re-opening up those few lots. *Edit - By the way, I'm not affected--I didn't sell any of those lots or bid on any of those lots.

Any chance, if it were an option that you'd want to pursue, to just return the piece and get a full refund (minus shipping in both directions)?

I don't know what it said before but it looks like ComicLink revised the description to say pencils by Capullo. "McFarlane was the finisher on this cover with pencils by the equally talented Greg Capullo."

That's what I thought originally or all the Featured items on Thursday etc. But the first example I looked at shows they made a wrong decision at least in one instance if that was their intent. The Starlin Captain Marvel #29 page 1 splash with the Avengers and Thanos to be auctioned on Friday is a lock to go higher than the Starlin Iron Man #55 endpage with IM and the Destroyer to be auctioned on Thursday.

Right, but that's always been the case--Saturday Internet-only pieces are generally lesser value. But how did they decide between Thursday and Friday?

What methodology did they use to determine what goes on Thursday vs Friday? At a glance, I saw two Featured pieces by the same artist for two different titles and they are on different days (and they are actually from the same consignor). And it wasn't alphabetical by title as the one later in the alphabet is on Thursday.

"Here's the one that took me paying 100x its FMV" Michael-- you must mean cost not FMV, right?? The pin-up's FMV was not $31. As I recall, the prior owner's cost was something like $50 (oops-$75) quite a number of years earlier (ooops-10 years) so I guess that is roughly 100x original cost--although that is an unusual way of looking at purchases for pieces originally purchased that many years earlier. (I apologize in advance if my recollection is off re the above).

By the way, on the Doctor Who piece, how is is known for certain that Coollines bought it from HA (where it didn't have the borders)? Did they post the piece right away after the HA auction? Or did they post it on their site without the borders and then re-posted with the borders? Is it possible that someone bought it from HA, had it mounted to a new board (or somehow otherwise added the borders), then traded or sold it to Coollines (who therefore may not have know about the non-original borders?)? It fits within their MO to do something like this but just curious how certain people are that this is their doing.

I reported one to Ebay that I had personal knowledge of at least twice (maybe even three times) (inked-only cover that does not state that) and it does not appear as if Ebay ever did anything (maybe they contacted Coollines and Coollines refuted it and Ebay dropped it). I also emailed Coollines the first time they posted it on their site--no response.

I'll leave it up to others who may, like me, disagree to some extent with your initial core point above. But I will note a correction regarding your reference to HA Live being the winning dealers in attendance to support your point---the person who is the winning bidder who bid in the auction room gets posted as "Floor bidder," not HA Live. In terms of the other categories--the winning bidder who bid on the phone gets posted as "Phone bidder," the winning bidder who used the HA Live software gets posted as "HA.com/Live bidder" and the winning bidder who used the regular HA website/internet bidding (either on Saturday internet-only bidding or in the days prior to live bidding) gets posted as "Internet bidder." I'm not sure what a bidder who faxed in his bids and wins gets posted as -- it may also be "HA.com/Live bidder" as the software may be deemed to bid for such person.

Hah--didn't see this and posted it in the other thread that I thought Anthony was a possible buyer too

I wonder if it was Anthony and if we'll see the pages tomorrow

But when you do that, you are not using your thread to overtly or discretely sell the piece.

As usual, prospective buyers from Coollines need to be knowledgeable, ask questions, be skeptical, don't take any descriptions or pieces at face value, etc. and don't buy unless there is an acceptable degree of certainty or one is willing to take the risks.

I'm confused. If this cover is inks over a copy of pencils (blue line) then how is the Ebay description now corrected or accurate?

Thanks. It's part of a nostalgic group of issues of IM for me. A sizeable premium certainly for it being Layton's first IM page. A long term keeper.

I have never seen anything in an HA auction like what happened to that Tuska/Layton IM splash. Reopened twice but with no new bidding (as far as I could tell). That was ridiculous. According to my HA guy on the phone, I won that auction three separate times.

Said a bit differently: "Who is responsible for where I am today?" Someone still somehow connected to comic books (through OA) all these years later (even if I have stopped reading new material). These are the 70s/early 80s artists responsible for getting me under the comic book influence: John Buscema--Avengers Byrne---X-Men Perez--Avengers Tuska---Iron Man Starlin Captain Marvel would be right there too. Romita Jr/Layton close but by then I was already hooked. I also did not get into Kirby's amazing work until after I was hooked.

Looks also to be a photocopy of the pencils only with inking notations

Some nice 70s Marvel covers/splashes

FWIW, I don't think anyone is going to be guessing outrageous numbers if there's no $1000 cutout. Better I think to just play it straight --people say what they actually believe and whoever is closest (up or down) "wins." Setting any limits puts into play a bidding strategy to win (like people do on Price is Right) instead of just making an honest assessment of price. If that means that someone believes a cover is $20k but someone else thinks it's going to hit $45k, so be it. You never really know where a particular auction might end anyway (we can all think of examples where something sold for much, much higher than anyone could have reasonably anticipated and a few examples of pieces selling for a fair amount less than anticipated).