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On 12/8/2022 at 4:05 PM, Sauce Dog said:

Top right corner in your before slab...seen that a dozen times: looks like the cover is higher than the interior, this is due to how the book was slabbed, possibly tightness or it sticking, and results in the cover and interior pulling apart during shipping/handling/shaking. Basically small rips near the staple and pulling...I have it on a 9.6 book that I know won't regrade as such (and if I tap the case I can 'reset' the interior into the cover wrap)

any notes?

light spine stress lines to cover
light, multiple crease right center of front cover

Literally baffling. Sent in slabbed.

Before:

After:

https://www.comiclink.com/Auctions/item.asp?back=%2FComicTrack%2FAuctions%2Fauctions_first.asp&id=1602846

That Elektra cover that went for $7k lmaooo

Some of the prices these pieces ended at... wtf?

Bonkers.

Buy what you like.

19 hours ago, Peter L said:

Was this the art that he was selling for $10,000?  If anyone knows where this ended up please let me know.  I would buy this.

u in a hurry huh

Curious. Why are you so in a rush?

Just now, SquareChaos said:

In response to the edit with your age, I'd hazard to guess most here trend older, but I bet some others might show up in their late 20s to 30s. Though I have read many are on FB art groups... personally, I won't touch that site.

 

Welcome, and I hope you find what you're after!

 

Yeah, that's kind of why I'm putting it out there since I know most of the people in this hobby trends older.

Yeah, I'm in those FB groups. But, just wanted to finally make a concerted effort to find people here.

Cheers, boomer. 

26 here

12 minutes ago, Brian Peck said:

The Nightcrawler is from Excalibur #3 from the 80s. There is a pretty big line for that back cover.

 

 

I know that, man lol.

I have a few more that I want to put out there <3.

(This one was sold on eBay years ago but I missed out T.T)

(Tim might still have this one)

2 hours ago, Brian Peck said:

I bought the New X-Men #139 cover by Jimenez and Townsend back in 2003 from Jimenez thru Spencer Beck. I do not own the cover anymore. I think I traded it away about 10 years ago but can't remember who it was.

Ah, thanks for the reply. If you have any scans of the original I would love to see them. T.T

1 minute ago, Varanis said:

Not sure if this would work well, but having some pieces in an auction could be a way to develop a sort of perpetual interest during the event as interested parties check on the bids. Lots of logistics there, but could be interesting.

Doesn't that kind of go against why this was created in the first place?

3 minutes ago, Rick2you2 said:

No, I am not the sheriff. He came to these boards looking for justification for what he did. For the most part, he didn’t get it. If the lesson was really learned, then why doesn’t he correct what he did?

Someone needs to learn how to deduce others' replies and not project lol.

30 minutes ago, Rick2you2 said:

Then follow it. Send him the money, and accept what he did. Also, he is probably owed an apology.

Bad behavior messes it up for others who may want a commission from him.

Ugh, don't worry, one day you might even be a good enough artist to be able to kindly say to someone who has commissioned a piece from you that the very reason why they don't take money upfront is so that the person receiving the art is happy. Cheers .

25 minutes ago, Rick2you2 said:

 

Bad behavior messes it up for others who may want a commission from him.

It didn't but keep at it  .

Lesson learned. 

I commissioned a very very expensive piece from a well-known, prolific artist. It turned out super ugly.

Luckily, the artist previewed it on his social media before I was contacted to come pick up the piece. 

I kindly messaged the artist and said I didn't like the way it turned out and since it was such a huge lump sum of money, I couldn't go through with the purchase. He understood. He tried to re-sell the commission on his FB page and I let him passive-aggressively bash me in the process to help him sell it. *liked comments from others that said things like "the original buyer's an insufficiently_thoughtful_person for passing on this!"*
 

2 months later... and it was still in his portfolio at SDCC unsold.

I can't believe people are still buying these.

14 hours ago, Bomber-Bob said:

Nice book. However, you are not doing the book any justice by taking your pics with it still in the bag. It's impossible to see the quality of the book without more clarity. It looks terrible in the bag. 

Let me re-do pics.