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I’m not in the Sin City art market but loved the series. I would place a big premium on which series it came from, I’d imagine the prices roughly follow the publication history The Hard Goodbye > A Dame to Kill For > The Big Fat Kill >That Yellow > Family Values > Hell and Back With some of the jumps more significant than others.

I picked up two big items (for me) I’d been after for a while and thought they were my best chance. The Totleben/Bissette Swamp Thing page. It’s the right art team from Alan Moore’s run, it’s kind of “Anatomy Lesson” adjacent, it kind of got Swamp Thing...decent at $3k due to the “kind of’s”. The Quitely X-Men page. $3,120 seems high, but probably market price as I just can’t seem to find a good page with x-men. As an aside it was a lot more fun bidding against the auction floor watching along on video yesterday, then on my phone today:)

Good topic! I’ve really been enjoying Farel Dalrymple’s (The Wrenchies) Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/fareldal The patreon per month is less than the cost of a comic, and he’s doing daily drawings all year you can buy for $20. He throws up other sketchbook type drawings for sale too. I bought this character the other day. The other one I support is James Stokoe. He posts like once a month just a couple drawings, but if it means more Orc Stain at some point...:)

Me too. That really stood out early. I was the under bidder on the Batman page, but it went out of range.

I was able to stop by the exhibit today, being in NYC for work. As someone who’s never been to SDCC or seen art other than my own it was AMAZING. A must see if in NY. The society was such a cool building and concept. It was “sketch night” so majority of the people were there to draw/a lot of regulars at the bar. But the artwork, for me, was outstanding. The Frank Quitely Batman issue is a personal favorite. Getting to see a dark knight page in person. The Knightfall covers are mesmerizing, I’ve read killing joke 20 times, but found new things in the pages, Alex Ross pages...you get the idea. Here are some pictures I took : http://imgur.com/a/OSWZveY

Eric Roberts owns the 497 pieces per the exhibit.

Does that Art Adams cover say $2,000? Seems incredibly discounted to what I’ve seen of his covers.

I really love those covers, this is really nice. I haven’t seen any of the final inked ones.

No Carnage, but a pair of nice Venom and Spidey pages from that arc also were up. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Amazing-Spider-Man-363-Marvel-1992-Original-Art-Pg-5-Mark-Bagley-Venom/382902337551?hash=item5926c2000f:g:UeoAAOSwIyxctAGI:sc:USPSPriority!20105!US!-1 I picked up the other one. These don’t show up often.

Thanks for sharing Glen. I signed up. I appreciate CAF of course. And have also enjoyed Comic Art Tracker, and the Comic Art Aficionados auction recaps. Most of all though I’m grateful in to have an active, old school, message board community of people sharing interests. Thanks!

The descriptions in these auctions drive me bonkers. One piece I'd been tracking and planning to bid on was this John McCrea Demon page. I own a couple McCrea pages so I am used to his pencil and ink boards (he seems to pencil on one board, then light box himself to ink separate). Basically exactly as the photos show. I've looked at this listing probably 50 times, but just noticed: "This lot includes McCrea's original pencil art for this splash and a production stat of the inked art (the art was inked on a separate board which is not included in this lot)." I'm not super interested in that. Glad I saw it. It's funny how many words they spend describing the Publisher, or Artist's other work, the Character's history ("Did you know Wolverine is Popular?!"), or in this case how "DC really needs to make an R-rated Hitman movie for the same people who loved the Deadpool films." That you have to really search for meaningful information about the piece you are potentially buying. -Over:)

I have the Omnibus, took a peak at that page. The only description is "X-Statix vs Avengers Jam piece"

Sure. He had a couple panels that were 300-400. Just single panels. One was the mr sinister her tweeted recently. Very cool image but small. https://goo.gl/images/pQ83Po For that cover he had 3 boards: wolverine & gambit- $1500 full team- $1000 head shots and storm/cyclops question mark (1 board) $500 varios sizes but all on the smaller end. Someone bought the $500 within the first hour of the show. I like the art to represent the printed page so couldn't get over single panel or how they were split.

@jay Ollie espy: It totally escaped me to ask. I'd meant to, and forgot.

I went yesterday. Sorry no pics. The only art dealer/rep set up was Anthony's Comic Art. Many artists had there own work for sale, but his was the only "wall" or display. Anthonys set up is noteworthy. He has portfolio after portfolio stacked up to rummage through like comic long boxes. It makes me shudder on one hand as I watch the bending and soft corners sticking out, but on the other it's cool to give so much accessibility. I went to see if Ed Piskor had any X-Men Grand Design pages. He did not. Had some cool panel patches and he had the "cover" to one. The cover was made up of 4 different corner boxes from old x-men issues. He light boxed the actual art from Jim Lee, Paul Smith, etc, then inked over with some tweaks. They were cool, but being all separate and pricey I passed. Someone bought at least one.

Thanks a ton all, and BCarter for linking that thread. Art is from the 90's, I'll remove and store side by side in a portfolio.

I just received a DPS in the mail and I recalled reading here about the damage masking tape glue can have to paper over time. I'm not 100% sure this is masking tape, though it sure looks like it and shows yellowing on the back. Is there any advice or opinions on a) If it is masking tape and b) If it is, should I remove it? Assuming I can do so without damaging the art, will removing it help? Thanks!

The Prydain Chrinicles was my absolute favorite book series as a kid. I've always looked for Jody Lee's paperback painting from the last book, but this version was the tattered, worn paperback I first read. Found it on a French site thanks to comicarttracker.com and made my first illustration purchase. I love the pulpy nature of it. It's a beauty to behold by a Belgium artist named Huens.

A bit more recent but this image from Queen and Country by Tim Sale stops me in my tracks every time. This series was so rich in character and this image just epitomizes Tara Chace. I think it's one of Sale's best.

Seems to be with Essential Sequential these days. They have some kunert vintage art from this time period, both on the site and some not listed that they post on Instagram from time to time.

It would be appropriate if this HellBlazer cover ended now:)

Ah, right! I knew I'd 'seen' that one before. That was it. Very cool.

Vulture published this article today: http://www.vulture.com/article/100-most-influential-pages-comic-book-history.html It seems really well researched and thoughtful from a number of contributors. It spans nearly 100 years and includes Shuster, Kirby, Bolland and Liefeld! It spans indies and underground comix and goes right up to modern books. Its worth a read and thought would make for good discussion (although there's almost TOO much to dissect). Realize it's not OA related specifically but: -Any boardies own any pages here? (Who's hoarding the 1933 origin of Batman, and is it marked NFS? ) -Anyone think there is a glaring miss? Or would swap a page from the issue mentioned? The article definitely is focused on "importance" rather than "athestics", though sometimes importance is due to an artist changing the game. Must admit I haven't heard of a lot of these (Pre silver age and Underground outside of Crumb), including "Shatter" which was just being discussed on the 80's Indies thread. I'll shut up now. Hope you guys enjoy the article as much as I did.

I looked too and tried sluething. That we all have different guesses is what makes it fun. My guess based on what was divulged: -was posted ~2009 or earlier - was purchased for $6k. -had no real comps at the time. -has someone at least two people (Felix and prospective buyer) who think it’s the bees knees -has had a comp come out (I think $50k, but I didn’t re-listen, not look at archives). Anyway, it’s fun to speculate. Hopefully harmlessly. My guess would be the Y the last man cover. I can see how that would be “priceless” to fans of the series and not really have any comps. Felix- I’ll try and catch you at a con as suggested to ask, and say thanks for the podcast and content you provide the hobby!

Here's one. Art Thibert's Wizard 14 cover. I thought it was just a couple years back, but checking, it was 2013 that it sold on HA for ~$1700. Too rich for my blood at the time. I read Wizard 14 cover to cover 100 times. I had no clue who was on the cover, but I pored over all the characters in it, as I was just starting to read comics. It had a back cover ad for the first Marvel Masterpieces cards that I marveled (no pun intended) at. I still have it. When it came back up in the last Comiclink auction I thought it'd have a slight bump, and bid on it. But a $4K hammer was just too much. Pragmatism beat nostalgia. The one that got away twice.