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John E.
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Brick-a-Brack
Funny how bricks only appear in the upper right hand corner in 3 of the 4 pages.
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I emailed Eclipse Paper on 10/31/21 asking for an estimate and I never received a response from them.
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On 6/22/2023 at 6:53 AM, KirbyCollector said:
The MK TV show helped boost the character's profile and may have added value, but the NM movie didn't add a dollar. It could of, had it been treated right...
I’m interpreting what I have in bold as New Mutants OA doesn’t need a movie to boost its value because fans of the original series continue to push the value to the atmosphere, or that prices are already so high they can’t grow at a faster rate.
It’s hard to find a deal on any of the first 100 issues of the original series.
If asked, I’d say Sienkiewicz and Platt Moon Knight art was doing just fine on its own without Hollywood.I wish I could prove that movies and television don’t affect art prices—but rather the storyline, character, artist, and nostalgia/the Rule of 25 are the real influence—but I cannot. Tom Cruise sells Ray Bans. James Bond sells Aston Martins. Marvel Studios sells toys and T-shirts. To me, the Marvel movies and series are just half hour to 3-hour ads that remind every collector that they need a Vosburg or Byrne She-Hulk in their collection, just like a Mentos commercial reminds me to carry mints in my car. So up goes the good She-Hulk art. I don’t give two chits about Cosmic Marvel but I enjoy the h e l l out of the movies. I still didn’t run out and read the comics nor did I buy Thanos art, but I do buy the Marvel Legends figures of my favorite screen version of the characters (No Thanos though). I will admit that it was the GOTG film(s) that introduced me to all those lovable characters but I have no desire to own any of them on paper. Except for Rocket Raccoon, but it would have to a page from the Mignola series. So maybe the movies have an influence on me to buy a RR page (I haven’t), but era and artist are the real driving factor in my choice(s) of art purchases…er, preferences…since prices are a factor.
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On 6/17/2023 at 9:31 AM, artdisease said:
The Frank Miller Punisher arrived yesterday. I was expecting it to be big, but it's huge. The image is 16x21, but the board is 20x30. Looks amazing in person
Congratulations. That’s a nice surprise. This one must be going on the wall then.
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On 6/16/2023 at 8:46 PM, cbaileypacker said:
For those that did not read the book, Marvel did not kill the Punisher.
booked ended with Frank not dead but sent to Weird World, and is protecting a group of kids, while his resurrected wife is pregnant with his new baby.
They left it wide open for more Frank. 🤷♂️
Long live the Punisher. 💀
https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1731584
This cover always reminded me of James Bond. I can’t remember which movie had Roger Moore skiing and fighting bad guys. Sure enough, Joe Jusko wrote somewhere Bond indeed inspired this one.
How do you store or display this large art, cbailey?
And here’s Jusko sketching the Punisher while wearing a Punisher skull T-Shirt💀🤘
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On 6/14/2023 at 7:05 PM, stinkininkin said:
Since we have some card art collectors on this thread, does anyone recognize this Wolverine card--what set is it from and what year? I think I did it in the mid-90's, but can't remember for sure or what card set it was for. I want to say maybe an Upper Deck set? I also have a card of the Xmen's Thunderbird from the same card set somewhere around here...
I’m having a hard time finding that card in my usual resources. It may be the reason why you don’t recall where it was published—maybe it wasn’t? Off hand, the image didn’t look familiar. If it is a published card, it could be that it was used as a promo card by a snack company or a magazine maybe? Those are rarer and less likely to pop up on the Internet. How about showing the Thunderbird art? If I find that then maybe I can find the set.
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On 6/15/2023 at 6:05 PM, Panelfan1 said:
Who really wants comics to be like Shakespeare? The Zeck run maybe among the best, but this one is amongst the most unexpected.
Another check-less box on the checklist
I believe Marvel & Archie Comics kept this project a secret until its publication day. Their marketing strategy was to sucker-punch us like the simps we were.
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On 5/31/2023 at 1:56 AM, thethedew said:
Anybody wonder if a convention in this all-art, all-artist format would work in the States? Any particular reason it needs to be Europe-only?
Steve Morger, lawyer and art rep to the likes of Frank Cho and Travis Charest (formerly) under Big Wow! Art, established the Lake Como convention. Morger and another comic-con promoter Steve Wyatt ran Big Wow! Comic Fest in San Jose, California for years. Big Wow! was like a Lake Como in that it had a very impressive Artist Alley, but it also had the typical stuff you’d find at cons, like panels, which is where I first learned about the hobby and became a collector at that show the following years.
Around 2017 the two Steves sold Big Wow! to Steve Wozniak. The Woz then changed the name to Silicon Valley Comic Con and turned the show from comics to All-Pop Culture inclusive show with a lot of science. Morger and Wyatt had signed a multi-year non-compete clause and so they had to sit on their hands for a while before they could bring anything else resembling Big Wow! A few years after I asked Morger at a show if he was going to bring another show like Big Wow the Bay Area and he said he can’t yet, but he was going to bring a show to Lake Como. Why he chose that location? I don’t know or don’t remember. Maybe it was just a nice place he visited or maybe it was far away enough not to be sued by Woz for competing. This is all relatively public information and since Morger is also a collector and important member of the community I’m sure there are Boardies here can correct my information.
Otherwise there are two other All-Comic Art shows on both coasts. The one that Bechara runs twice a year in L.A. and S.F. and the one in New Jersey or whatever. They just don’t have the artist alley aspect to it.
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On 6/8/2023 at 9:40 PM, KingOfRulers said:
It's cool to have a sealed box. That's a great relic to have from the period, and would display nice in any comic room. I believe that's the Jusko Spidey 2099 art, correct? How about your collection; do you have any original pieces from any of the Marvel card sets?
I believe the Jusko Spider-Man 2099 box you’re referring to is the 1993 set. I have the premiere ‘92 series that looks like this:
I lifted that image from eBay since it’s too much of a hassle to pull mine out of the closet.
For a minute I thought this was my only card art. It took me for 8-9 years to actually add card art to my collection. This is from the Skybox Saga of the Dark Knight set. Sorry, not Marvel.
Then I remembered that I bought some card art from Ariel Olivetti earlier this year. This is considered a prelim since Olivetti digitally painted the published image. I paid $150 for it—same price as the rest—so I’ll eat my words there. For an additional $600 Olivetti offered to do a 1/1 painting of any of the cards in the set. See: recreation. You can find the recreation on eBay and CAF. This is from Upper Deck’s 2016 Marvel Exquisite set. My plan was to keep this out of sight but screw it—CGC Boards exclusive, right?
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On 6/13/2023 at 2:07 PM, Garf said:
https://www.twitch.tv/directory/game/MARVEL SNAP
... but I was looking forward to your long and illustrious streaming career.
I’ve never had a reason to go on Twitch until now and holy sith—did someone just thaw me from a block of ice? Where am I? I was like the Prophet John trying to describe to the world what I saw in the Book of Revelations No, no, I was Danny Torrance getting sucker-punched by my shine. Whatever this is it got to the Italians, and I’m sure all of Europe will soon fall. This paisa is Twitchin’ and eatin’ his lunch in front of the whole world and now I’m 😵
Return me to my glacier at once. Fogey out.
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On 6/13/2023 at 12:45 PM, ignimbrite said:
Has anyone ordered from Skottie Young's website before? I was looking at pieces and noticed it was inked over Blue Lines, has this always been the case?
Yup.
EDIT: Yes, it’s always been ink over blue lines.
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On 6/13/2023 at 8:46 AM, Garf said:
Well for the $200 - $500 fix there is still some modern TCG art.
The current generation will have whatever Marvel Snap cards were not done digitally, and haven't already been... snapped up
I clicked on the link and I was so boggled by what I was looking at that I went ahead and financed a plot of dirt and a tombstone because I’m that much closer to dying of old age.
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On 6/13/2023 at 9:42 AM, stinkininkin said:
I'll always be a Punisher fan because it was really my first big break in comics. He was an A list character when Whilce Portacio and I took over the regular Punisher series with issue 8. That run helped my professional career immensely and I will always be grateful. And he is very cool and nuanced character (in the proper creative hands). Kept some nice art pages, but only one cover from that run...
I wanted to tag you, Scott, for your opinion on the matter but that was before the Moderator Mike stepped in. I appreciate this perspective nonetheless. A Portacio/Williams Punisher piece has eluded me.* When I flip through my copy of Essential Punisher vol 2, I can see the progress you make as an inker. I think that must’ve been a fun book to work on then.
*I also have my Bought-off-the-rack copy of Batman: Black and White from ‘96 signed by every living creator who worked on the book except for you
One day maybe.
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On 6/12/2023 at 10:06 AM, artdisease said:
I think I'm done for the year, though.
Remember: Anything under $500 doesn’t count
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On 6/12/2023 at 8:25 AM, artdisease said:
I'm the buyer of the Punisher piece. I was absolutely thrilled to win it for what I did. Well below my max bid. It makes me think "what if Frank Castle moved to Basin City?" I wasn't aware of the size until after the lot closed, so that was a nice surprise. Needless to say I'm not selling this one, so you won't see it on the attempted flip thread.
Thee angels! They heard me!
Congratulations!
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On 6/11/2023 at 6:19 PM, Michael Browning said:
When DC announces a movie, you should sell, sell, sell because it always causes everything associated with that character to drop to rock-bottom prices.
Are you telling me I shouldn’t have vacuumed all this Captain Marvel art???
Seriously, we were trying to decide as a family what movie to watch last Friday night so played the trailer for the new Shazam movie and it couldn’t even hold anyone’s attention for 10 seconds. And it’s the trailer!
There always seems to be interest in Batman art but there’s so much. Wonder Woman art seemed to have survived that horrible sequel, but it has to be the sexy stuff. I really wish it impacted the Deodato run so I could afford some.
Vigilante art seems to be enjoying a resurgence.
But yeah, movie or not, anything DC after Knightfall doesn’t capture my attention.
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On 6/11/2023 at 3:51 PM, MAR1979 said:
When I started Original Comic Book Art Hobby it was by seeking out what I liked. The old saying at least for me is true; "Buy What You Like and you Will Never Lose".
The time to start worrying is if a Character has 5+ year lapse of not being seen and no way that is happening especially given TV and Movies are now more important for a Character that printed comics. Will be on Daredevil next year then likley a Punisher Season 3
What is in bold is an idea I hadn’t considered. I’ve learned to not put too much stock in Hollywood coming soons as they too will cancel productions that seem like a sure thing. Think HBO’s Batgirl.
I try my best to buy what I love too, in theory. I also buy when a good opportunity presents itself. My worry with value is that I also trade up a lot and if I had to trade up two Punisher pieces to get a great one, I’d certainly feel the pain if I took a hit of more than 10% on them
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I’m a fan of the Punisher, at least The Punisher of the time of yore. I have a few of my pieces posted on my CAF—the ones I want to share. Yes, I am concerned about having too many Punisher eggs in one basket. Before or after, Punisher has never been valued higher than say Spider-Man or Wolverine pages but they also don’t have much trouble selling either. And as before and after, there have always been collectors who don’t give two chets about the character period. I think on principle there will always be a demand for classic Punisher as there would be for any significant Marvel character. What I have always liked about the character is how he represents raw, unencumbered justice that returns a victims’ sense of control and agency. He isn’t the first or last intellectual property to symbolize that (from Paul Kersey to Eric Draven) . No different than Bruce Banner summoning a repressed power when he gets pushed too far. Those two symbols will always have an appeal. Anyway, maybe I do wish prices would come down but the Romita Jr PWJ comp that I posted shows otherwise.
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Didn’t influence the price on this JRJR Punisher-in-only-one-panel page from the original War Zone run that sold in CheeeaapLink the same week as retirement
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On 6/8/2023 at 10:01 PM, Xatari said:
I didn’t win but know who did. I think it was the steal of the auction personally.
It’s always a bit of a shock to see something from the 90s hit that 30K range without comps. The art for the cover before it—“1st” Azrael since Sword—sold twice in the 11k-14k range prior to the pandemic. Anyway, 489 has lots of room for growth. I wonder how much Graham Nolan’s flood of primo Vengeance of Bane pages may have an effect on the price?
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On 6/8/2023 at 5:18 PM, Xatari said:
I personally count all pages in an issue as a first appearance since their publication date is the same.
I know some people use other monikers for first ever interiors but I look at an issue as a whole in most cases.
Did you win the Batman #489 cover? Or do you who did? I’d die happy if I had…and just use the life insurance money to pay it off.
Vintage ASM photocopies on ComicLink
in Original Comic Art Marketplace
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Hi Lee,
Story page 19 (final page) is not included in the lot?