Ironmandrd

17 hours ago, LB JEFFERIES1 said:

What I'd wish you'd do is pinpoint some key pieces prior to the auction commencing and post your thoughts prior, and then see how close your estimates are afterwards. I'm sure your blog is not influential enough to move the needle in any great way and it would be an education for newer collectors to actually see how difficult it is to nail down hammer prices. I'm afraid I'm slightly skeptical of all your pre-auction estimates.

+1

16 hours ago, delekkerste said:

Agreed - I think the estimates need to be posted before the auction even starts, otherwise it's too easy to dismiss it as an exercise in curve (data) fitting after the fact, whether or not that's actually the case.  It also helps mitigate selection bias; even if the estimates being posted are true, pre-auction estimates, it's very easy to just spotlight the results that give the best spin.  Any potential bias can be mitigated, though, by posting pre-auction estimates in advance and opening them up to public scrutiny.  

+1

The Adams Avengers #93 page at $9350 seemed reasonably in line or even reasonably strong given no Avengers on it.

http://www.comiclink.com/Auctions/item.asp?back=%2FComicTrack%2FAuctions%2Fbids.asp&id=1213163

Maybe someone should start a thread--The Sustainability of WD Prices (pre and post cancellation)

Is there a good link to see the WD pages?

Ugh.  I missed this.  Outside my area but I like Frenz Thor.

https://www.comicconnect.com/bookDetail.php?id=741487

I thought the McSpidey would go for a few thousand more given that great bottom panel.

1 hour ago, batman_fan said:

Strong price on the Ironman splash

Yes-very uppermost range of where I thought it could go.

Some nice Avengers and Iron Man pieces.  Looking at my tracking bids, a lot of pieces "undervalued" so far.

Shouldn't you contact a conservationist?  Can't the pages be given a wash/bath by someone like Robert Dennis?

This reminds me:

For the desperate at-home remedy I did once:   very early in my collecting days I bought a bunch of not that expensive pages that smelled badly of cigarette smoke---I didn't want to return them---it was driving me crazy though and also I thought it would make other pages start to smell too--if I am recalling correctly I very gently Fabrized and/or Lysoled them on the back side (sprayed above them and let the mist settle down on the back side) and then aired them out by an open window --it took a fair number of tries.  To much spray though and the page could get "wet" and warp (thankfully that didn't happen).  I think other pages I put in a box with two Bounce drier sheets.  By some minor miracle it worked.  The pages smelled like Fabrize/Lysol/Bounce for awhile but over a reasonable time that faded and the pages then didn't smell like anything. 

I'm sure I'll get bashed for the above but I was a newbie and it worked with no discernable damage to the pages (probably someone will say I damaged the pages in some chemical way--since the pages are forever keepers, I guess it won't really matter for the next 25+ years).  

5 hours ago, stinkininkin said:

Noticed another wow result from today.  John Buscema/Tom Palmer Avengers 76 page closed at about 9k.  That is close to double what I would have guessed.  Nice page, but like I said, wow!

Scott

Was quite surprised at this too.  Not sure whether it was because of a high proxy bid and/or just several bidders bidding quickly, but this jumped up very quickly once it went to live bidding.   

Yup, put at least 20 tracking bids in.

Ah, nostalgia.  I can recall the oldest Iron Man comic (#41) and Avengers comic (#89) I ever looked at (bought by my dad).  Comparing dates, Avengers #89 came out first.  Iron Man #41 was a throw-away (not a great story and it had a scary monster at the end) but I "read" and "re-read" Avengers #89 and #90 until one cover was completely off and the other ripped to shreds.  My parents picked out a new comic here or there after that but not frequently.  I got Avengers #107 and promptly drew a mustache on the Grim Reaper on the cover.  I didn't pick out my own comics until about two years after Avengers #89 and didn't start regularly picking up books every month until about a year after that.  Iron Man #64 and #71 were the first Iron Man comics I read to shreds.   So I guess I fall into the camp of remembering. 

Those original books I kept until unfortunately losing them in Hurricane Sandy.

I wonder if HA asked Joe Sinnott (or Joe's son to ask Joe)?  Is Joe too ill (hopefully not) or doesn't recall?  I had a question for Joe about a year and a half ago and his son got back to me relatively quickly after checking with Joe.

Ah, I can recall the good old days when that Iron Man #106 cover was priced at only $40,000.  Of course other Cockrum non-X-Men (or not having X-Men on them) covers were selling for like $15,000 around then.

A bit late to this thread.  I generally agree with Gene and John S.   Based on the definition being used**, I think it is between 10-15 excluding dealers.  It would be mildly interesting if someone set up a ballot with the categories identified by Gene to see what % of Board respondents correlate to each category. 

And love the jokes about the Cabal (or are they jokes?!? ).

**By the way, it's seems that the OP's definition has drifted a bit or been interpreted a bit differently later in the thread---in the first posting, it was spend 6 figures on OA frequently--not 6 figures on a single piece of OA frequently.  For purposes of separately the true whales from the rest of the pack, the definition of 6 figures on a single piece of OA frequently is I think probably more appropriate.

Planning to hopefully drop by before it ends.

That posting is misleading.  This page sold in the Featured auction that ended earlier this month. It was never listed for sale on the ComicLink art exchange.

Avengers 330 cover by Paul Ryan closed at $6355--strong result

16 hours ago, jjonahjameson11 said:

So, getting back to the actual auction, has anyone else noticed the Byrne Avengers pages at $8K and $15.25k ?! 

Nice pages for sure but $15,250 - CRAZY       I cannot imagine it going higher.

Don't trim.  Buy an oversized mylar and acid-free backing board and store it separately.

3 hours ago, AnkurJ said:

The title and description both say copy. Maybe people should read before they bid. Ebay will not do anything as the seller is properly describing the item. Caveat Emptor.

C'mon Ankur- this is the seller you want to champion?  His descriptions are purposefully misleading.  $400 for a Kinko copy?   He wants to catch someone sleeping.  Yes he throws the word "copy" around a few times - in the middle of words like "original published"  (an original published copy?). He also says the "Art is Approx. 8" X 10" IN STANDARD PLAIN WHITE PAPER AND IN VERY GOOD CONDITION"  

Yes caveat emptor but that doesn't excuse his trying to put one over some buyer.

I reported the listing to Ebay.  Unless there is an avalanche of reports, 99.9% chance they do nothing.

That What If? has a nice image and the Sinnott inks add a lot I think.

I think I recall HA saying they have never had a Ditko ST Dr Strange page

28 minutes ago, stinkininkin said:

Actually went for a tad less than I thought it would, but pretty fair price over all.

 

That Avengers 76 page went higher than I thought it would but in retrospect, maybe not that surprising -- it is one of the best pages of that storyline and a large multi-Avengers "Avengers Assemble" panel or page during the JB/Palmer era is not as common as you might otherwise think.