John E.

Bechara Malouf / Nostalgic Investments

Zimmerman $1500? (always check prices with dealer) LARGE art

Saul Zimmerman (late in the day)

I flew in from Texas to see my family and go to this show.

Dealer list is up. The major east coast dealers won’t be there. Actually I’m hoping this is a partial list since Prop Store says they will be there taking consignments and yet they are not listed on the site.

10 am (to 4 pm)

I predict that during the live auction Neal Adams activates a remote device that releases the art from its frame and into a shredder 🖼

And your underlying assumption here too is that you got there by selling and finding buyers. Doing that legwork opens your eyes differently about value than just following auctions and creating an imaginary buyer in your head. (Unless, of course, you put it all on eBay at a penny starting bid then ducked under a table.)

I’m a heep. Definitely a heep. I mean, follow comps if you’re in it to flip it.

45 published Marvel Preview pages of one of Doyle’s most recognizable stories at about $66 a page, I’d say it was a good deal.

My daddy used to tell me that there are two kinds of people in the world: those who rely on comps, and those who create them.

You left me crying in bed for days.

Ok, I finally caught the pun in the title

Might be this one

Please don’t tell me it’s the one with the Punisher.

This had to happen 2 months after my first auction win. Hackers are going to see my account and put some money in. Or say, “I don’t remember cleaning this one out. Do you?”

You’re killing me (good thing I have 30 lives). That is a Holy Grail. And I just ordered a Contra shirt yesterday.

Don’t get me wrong, $4500 for a page is no chump change. Just wondering what $4500 would be the equivalent today? That like paying $9000 for a Paul Pope Batman 100 page today?

Just curious, what is “less than $5000” in 2019 dollars?

I just spent 12 hours last week volunteering at my kid’s school’s book fair, pretty much working the register. This is an elementary school, so grades K-12. Kids still love books. Dav Pilkey’s newest Dog Man and Guts flew off the shelf and sold out. The librarian had to reorder and since there’s a Scholastic warehouse nearby, they deliver books in 30 minutes. The older Dog Man books didn’t sell as much because...they kids already had them. Quite a bit of kids pre-ordered the new Dog-Man book coming out in December. What I got out of this was that kids love reading sequential art narrative, much like us, but not so much the traditional hero stuff. It may be because super heroes are oversaturating media right now. Why read the comic when you can watch the movie, the tv show, the animated show, or play the video game? When I was a kid, there was Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends...then there was the season ending and reruns once a week. If I wanted a cape and tights fix, it came once a month, or in my case, once every 2-3 months. And think that access, or lack of, has an impact on traditional comic book consumption. Ultimately, I think art will have value in the future, but we will really be buying and trading among ourselves.

That would be a great troll. Replace that sign with “All Comic Art 50% off.” Thanks for the pics, Dino!

I believe Texas started collecting internet tax on October 1st which includes eBay. I’ll be buying *even less* from there too. If I don’t love it, I won’t buy it.

Now it’s up to 2400

This thread is hands down my favorite. Had I come up with it, I would’ve titled it, “Attempted Flip of the Day, or The Pot Calls the Kettle Black.”

Have your cousin try this. Call 1-866-974-2733 At the prompt say, “No” then select “Action 2” then “Action 2” again and that should get you to a live agent in accounting that handles insurance claims. If anything, perhaps your cousin will get a better understanding of why the claim was denied. Hope that works 🤞 I don’t keep the best notes.