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You know what would also be great? If dealers updated their websites to actually remove stuff marked as "sold" instead of having it sit on there for years on end.

The one on the left is a real grail. Congrats!

I bid on every panel page featuring Thor from JIM. I lost every one but bid aggressive $17K-20K before BP on just about all of them during the live auction. I think its easy to get carried away during live bidding when all you have to do is click a button to try to win and the gambling impulses take over. I managed to keep my willpower and if it went over a dollar threshold I decided before bidding started I stopped bidding. It wasn't easy but at least I'm not going to get killed by my wife either for going any higher.

I was the underbidder on JIM 112. Lost it by a bid increment with 4 seconds left (who know what the max bid they put in was). End of the day with the taxes and fees $16,600 was as I high as I wanted to go.

The pages with the artist last name in all CAPS - are those Bechara pages? The $28,000 price looks like something on his site but I obviously don't see the full image.

Elementary school kids in 1983 would be chomping at the bit with their lunch money to get in on this Garfield action.

Thank you.

What is the preferred Itoya size for Twice Up art? 19 x 13? 20 x16? Something else?

A lot of items look they shot up pretty quick with 3-5 dozen bids in the first couple days and then not much activity since. Interested to see what happens as these come to a close in the next 10 days (especially since I'm the high bidder on a multi-dozen bid page currently).

I'd take this over anything Miller has drawn in the last several decades (especially DK2).

What's everyone's favorite penciller/inker combo on ASM? I'd take Kane pencils/Romita inks every time.

Gil Kane Ross Andru Steve Ditko John Romita These are not ranked in any way.

I am interested in buying a Kirby FF Twice page with any inker except George Bell or Vince Coletta. PM me if you have something to offer. Would like to complete the transaction in early/mid-June.

Looking at the Captain America Kirby/Stone pages from last auction I'm guessing these will be in the $25K-50K for panel pages with Thor on them. I actually think these pages are better than the Cap pages FWIW.

This reminds of something John Byrne said about Adams on his board years ago - "Neal Adams draws things exactly how they look - if things actually looked like that."

That FF 59 page that sold for around $16k a couple years ago at Burkey's went for $15.5k ($18.6k with the juice).

Let’s apply this to the video game market. Why did they choose to manipulate SMB on the NES and not every other game? Why not Pitfall or Donkey Kong too? They should do every game by your logic…but they don’t. Listen, it’s fairly obvious that some manipulation is occurring by Heritage based on real analysis and reporting whether in this particular auction or not (seems fishy for sure). Dealers like Romitaman bragged about shilling in their auctions but all of these records are genuine.

I think any consigner would be foolish to go with anybody else at this point. Have you watched that video game video? If you think every Heritage auction is on the level (with no collusion, shilling or market manipulation)I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.

But that Excalibur 16 cover sold about a year ago for around $9K. Gary Land was talking about it in a thread in the OA Facebook group a few days ago. You'd think somebody willing to pay $100k for it would have jumped at it a year ago but maybe they are new to the hobby or were unaware - still seems like a stretch for it to sell for 10x that amount a year later.

My last encounter with Mr. Massachusetts was about 8 years ago at the art show in NJ. I told him I was looking for art by a specific artist. He said he had some and to go through the 10 or so Itoya books he had on his table and find it myself. He was standing there doing nothing as I was the only person at his table at the time. I just walked away because if he couldn't be bothered to help me I couldn't be bothered to give him my money.

The only thing that changed with that Excalibur cover is it sold on Heritage. I'm not convinced that the astonishing prices for some of these recent items are completely on the level given the pattern Heritage and their cohorts have been involved in from a market manipulation perspective as discussed elsewhere on these boards.The only people that benefit from this are the sellers and Heritage (but the latter is main beneficiary as well as the dealers less directly as a new price floor is set). If somebody put the same piece on Comic Connect instead of Heritage for example, does it reach the same price? It should since the same bidders should be aware of its existence if they are willing to drop high 5 to 6 figures on it. Yet, somehow it seems like it wouldn't (especially something like that Excalibur cover). Why? I'm sure somebody will say that all of these auctions are totally on the level and there are is no shilling or market manipulation occurring but unless you can provide real evidence to the contrary I'm not buying it. I don't believe that any collectable goes up in price via auction 1000%+ in 12-24 months not a Super Mario Bros. video game and not that Alan Davis cover.

As far as "the people running the industry" goes I wouldn't trust almost any of them with my pet goldfish. Anthony and Albert have always been good, non-used car salesman like experiences for me. There are a few I just won't deal with based on either first hand accounts as well as reading the threads in here. The rest I've either never bought from/dealt with or its just a typical business transaction with nothing negative or positive to say (I'll put Will in this group as my wife bought something from him years ago and when she paid he shipped it promptly and the right page actually showed up in the mail - a Festivus Miracle).

He also just changes the dates on stuff that has been sitting for years so it looks like it is new.

That video game Youtube video is crazy. I agree that this market manipulation is wrong and I'm sure its not a coincidence that pages are starting to do the same thing with the same guy/company in the center of all of these other drastic price jump events. That Secret Wars page that broke records a few months ago is no different than what happened with Super Mario Bros - both generated headlines for a product sold by Heritage.

That Avengers #1 page went for almost $110K. Loki's floating eyes FTW.