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comix4fun

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  1. comix4fun
    Love it. One of my favorite movies. I went a different direction for my autograph. Same pose and no artwork was harmed in the creation.....
  2. comix4fun
    Imagine the possibilities this opens up for Artwork Collectors!!!
  3. comix4fun
    Directly across the image ares of the original art? There isn’t a better place for it? like NOT in the image area? or on a mass produced copy of the comic that isn’t the one and only original piece? or, literally, ANYWHERE ELSE but on the art itself?
  4. comix4fun
    It's wild that "Tied to a Tree - No Sword - No Babe - Pooped His Loin Cloth Facial Expression" Conan cover sold out before Frost Giants.
  5. comix4fun
    On today's episode of "CRIMES AGAINST ARTWORK" PUT DOWN THE SHARPIE ARNOLD!!!!
  6. comix4fun
    I hear those guys bought out the holdings of PRESTIGE WORLDWIDE. So......total ballers.
  7. comix4fun
    Even worse…..aye carumba.
  8. comix4fun
    Well, art collectors collect by artist and not by title or character for the most part and especially as the value level climbs. I mean, it only makes sense to alpha order their artwork. Clink does it too. But I like the idea of maybe starting at "L" and working back around every once in a while.
  9. comix4fun
    Alphabetical listings have, in my opinion, limited the Neal Adams market on everything but the very top shelf items as people are afraid to blow their budget in the first 15 minutes, not knowing where the Ditko, Kirby, Frazetta, Wood etc etc are going to end.
  10. comix4fun
    Extended time bidding is a problem whether it's 3 minutes or 15 minutes, whatever. To keep bidders engaged and the auction emotion pumping you need bids hitting each other in real time and closing immediately after. There's one small auction house that I've bid with and their online portal extends bidding by 10 minutes. The problem is they extend ALL lots by 10 minutes if ANY lot gets a bid. So, 1500 lots of toys, cards, and comics.....lot 1201 gets a bid....all 1500 lots get bumped 10 minutes. The last lot I won from them was supposed to end at 7:30pm and didn't actually end until 3:30am. And my original winning bid from 7:30pm was still the winning bid, but anyone could have outbid me on it in the intervening 8 hours.
  11. comix4fun
    Include site maneuverability, user friendliness, closing procedures, marketing of auctions and items, shipping speed and overall ease of use and enjoyment of the overall auction and it may tip you one way.
  12. comix4fun
    The copy in the auction is the "Curator" copy. There was a Curator ASM #1 that was a 9.6. Unless there are two Curators it's sitting in a 9.8 slab now.
  13. comix4fun
    They just don't move or jump in value over time. They've done a lot of books and portfolios and simply don't run on the same appreciation curve as everything else.
  14. comix4fun
    Fastner & Larson pieces always seem to be the "Cash Equivalent" portion of the art appreciation portfolio.
  15. comix4fun
    To put it most succinctly…Byrne She Hulk collectors, collect Byrne She Hulk pages that have She Hulk by Byrne on them. added….I thought 10k was right, this was $9500 for sales tax paying patrons.
  16. comix4fun
    And went right in the range we were talking about at the convention when you showed it to me. A bit of sanity returns to the world. 😂
  17. comix4fun
    Probably wouldn’t even call him “Ed”
  18. comix4fun
    It was.....but that's ok. I went extra subtle cuz it's Sunday.
  19. comix4fun
    Does anyone know if this artist was related to Eduardo Barreto?
  20. comix4fun
    And in a business transaction, lying is called fraud around here.
  21. comix4fun
    yeah "prelim" in the broadest sense is an "unfinished" drawing. So lots of things are prelims. "Cover Prelims" were drawings, when finished, that were for publication. Comics have always used "prelim" for unfinished work. That part doesn't bug me, because it's unfinished looking work. It's the "sketch" vs "cover" part that crosses a line to me. Calling something a "cover" connotes something very much different. Something this seller is leveraging to gain interest and increased valuation for a piece that was purchased as just a sketch.
  22. comix4fun
    It's just a sketch, a prelim of a sketch really, and that's how the eBay seller sold it. If Garcia-Lopez was hired to do a cover, and produced this, and it was rejected (formally, by DC) and it never saw publication in any format it could still be considered a "cover prelim", but this was not sold by the seller as anything more than a commission preliminary sketch...full stop. It didn't become an "unused...cover prelim" with all new trade dress until the current seller decided to add those descriptors and adornments to it.
  23. comix4fun
    Calling it a "Cover Prelim" indicates it was part of a contract to create a cover for publication and by the publisher. Nothing is a "cover" or should utilize that terminology unless it can be tied to work done for publication. If the seller doesn't have proof or provenance of work for publication they've created a fiction meant to induce purchase.
  24. comix4fun
    That's 6-8 pages more than we'd seen at auction for year's long stretches until the last couple of auctions. That's probably what he means.
  25. comix4fun
    I'll pass. I've been present in all the other groups, not just this one, for everything in the past. I've heard a lot of words over a lot of years to explain a lot of things to promise even more things...what happened, what didn't happen, what won't happen again. Save the energy you'd use proving something to me to fixing things, if that's truly the goal.