John E.

My wife doesn’t ask about it. I try to keep OA out of our conversations but it will come up if I, say, have to go to a con or it’s on a need to know basis. She knows it’s my thing. Also, I don’t spend any of our money on it; my hobbies fund themselves, so there’s no stink eye in return; although she may think there’s a lot more things that that money would be better spent on.

When did heritage start auctioning comic art and when did they start leaving sales info up?

NNEEEAAALLLL!!!!

The Market has spoken.

Not my thing, just an example: Excalibur #1 page 6 by Alan and Neary before live bidding: $310 hammer with bp: ~$2400 Hopes were crushed; anxiousness quelled.

This is just a random post to try to get to page 32 of this thread so that I don’t have to keep super scrolling because of that 🤬 c.v. Voudou superfluously posted. Why you gotta troll us like that man?

For something like this, it’s best to just look up the going price on eBay. Iron Man WITH the toy sells for between $20-$30; so, without the toy you’re looking at a lot less. By the way, this a forum for original, one-of-kind artwork; most, if not all, of the regular contributors here don’t bother responding to questions about mass produced artwork like posters and prints. There might be another forum here on CGC for non-comic related items that might be of better help.

Stan, If you go to page 40 of the pinned thread, “New to OA, Collecting Advice,” Doc67 wrote an interesting and informative post advising against consigning to HA and going through ComicLink instead. Check it out.

Tom did some memorable Spider-Man covers right before the Clone Saga. I hope he’s in peace. Condolences to his family.

A Knightfall page featuring Bane.

If Deadpool art is of “low value,” it’s because the supply of art outstrips the demand. That character is overexposed because he sells books. Look him up in the Comic Book Database and there are a zillion “Earth-XXX” versions of him. What artist hasn’t touched him 🤭? I don’t differentiate modern Deadpool art price-wise than, say, modern Wolverine or Spider-Man. Modern pages of any of those three are readily available at all price points to the collector with a modest budget. And if published pages are still too much, there are a zillion Artist Alley artists who will whip a headshot for you for $50 or less in 50 seconds or less. Or, and let’s not even start on the tons of fan made art on eBay ready to be yours at the click of a BIN. I looked up Deadpool original art on eBay and there’s plenty of it at every price point, like I mentioned. I wouldn’t feel comfortable paying some of those prices which is why I think it’s all not that cheap. I think the underlying question to your question is: Which Deadpool art is valuable? Easily any early Rob Liefeld art from New Mutants 98 to X-Force 5. A page from the latter is on HA right for a very strong $1850 currently. Any Deadpool art from 1991-1999 is pretty hard to find. Try finding early Deadpool art from Joe Mad, Aaron Lopresti, Ian Churchill, Greg Capullo, and Ed McGuiness. I guarantee you it won’t be of “low value.”

Y’all were too slow

Early 90s Sam Kieth.

And just because it’s the new terms of services it doesn’t mean that it’s fair or... legal.

Felix-Con 🤔

You had a lot of art with you. How did you do moving stuff? Would you set up again?

Mr. Halperin, I believe the cyber attacks on October 21, 2019 were merely Neal Adams’ test run. Sincerely, John

Early in my collecting I was fortunate enough to buy the cover to the Super Powers mini comic for The Penguin for what was a lot of money for me then. I mentioned this to a collector I had met and at the same time I mentioned that I was trying to put together the complete issue for Azrael 39 because I had 4-5 pages. Well this guy found the cover to Azrael 39 and wanted to trade me for my Penguin. Only it was supposed to be a three way deal, sort of. He was going to take my cover and trade it for some Joker Super Powers merchandising art to a collector who had the complete interiors to the Penguin comic PLUS the complete color guide (supposedly). The Penguin cover by Ernie Chan is small art about 8-1/2” x 11” and a bit underwhelming vs 11x17 with nice action. But most of all this was going to bring all these pieces in one home. It was one of those “between a rock and a hard place” and decided to do the trade almost based on ethics. Well the third collector didn’t budge on the Joker art (apparently) which is kind of ballsy. That was huge trade bait. So then the original collector just sold him the Penguin at cost of the Azrael cover which he later told me he paid 2/3s of what I paid. Back then I told myself that I had to make peace with letting this go so the sting is minimal. I wish that that I could have kept both pieces. If I was faced with this decision today I might say that he needs to make sure the other party agrees to the trade first and not just assume. Otherwise today I would just flat out say No, regardless of how it could bring all these pieces together.

This is my sole pick up from L.A. Comic Art Show. I knew Bechara had it from the first Ultimate Art Show as well as a Frank Springer page from #30, just kept that info to myself during this thread bwahahaha 😒 The Spinger page, my first choice, was sold. Kicking myself for not picking it up then. Since then, “early” Joe art (depends on how you define “early”) has been going for healthy prices, so I’m glad to have picked up this example. The original owner of this page was our very own Chuck Costas aka comicconxion. I talked to him about Joe art at the show and he says that early stuff was snatched up quick due to GI Joe’s immense popularity at release and really hasn’t been seen since.

Some iconic art pieces by Quesada right there. Thanks for posting the Charlotte’s Web art. Now that’s some non-comic art illustrations I’d love to own. Glad the whereabouts are known.

He does not have an online presence and doesn’t do “many shows” in his words. There are two art shows in LA and that’s probably about it.

I didn’t hear of any major sales (not to say they didn’t happen) but I did see folks walk away with a few vintage pieces. I did have a small small chat with a first time collector who wanted to jump head first with a BWS Conan. He was so green that I, of all people, gave him a little guidance (as I furtively folded Gene’s market report and tucked it in my back pocket.) Based on the scientific study of looks and appearances, It may be that a pool of younger boomers may be ready to jump in the fray. I also saw a younger Gen-Xer buy his first Kirby, albeit budget Kirby. Mignola sketches sold well, but not sold out. He had covers (priced $6k-$8k). Says he doesn’t like schlepping that big portfolio to busy shows but will for small ones. Good turn out. Very busy. Lots of good art for sale not on the internet.... but those “A” pages still tucked away somewhere.

Rich Donnelly

Bechara