AndyFish

That's a start for tonight-- more this weekend.

Thanks for looking!

Here's an odd one to wrap up tonight (more to come)

as I said, my wife Veronica and I are comic book artists-- I have 19 graphic novels from various publishers including McFarland Press, Quarto Publishing in London, Chartwell Books, Penguin and more.  I've also done quite a bit of licensing work for both Marvel and DC.  Currently I'm working on Gumby with Veronica, and I've done some ghost work on her Marvel titles.  The latest issue of Wasp features a fight down a flight of stairs from above-- that was me.

Veronica has worked on the ARCHIE relaunch, Marvel's SPIDERWOMAN, WASP, Squirrel Girl as well as Boom Studios creator owned SLAM! and she has a pretty big project soon to be announced.
We often collaborate and recently did this color commission piece for a friend of his wife.

You'll have to trust me on the likeness because I don't want to publicly post a photo of someone here.  But needless to say, they were happy with it and we had fun doing it.
We decided we'll do a few more of these and will be announcing that on our blogs, but here's your chance to get yourself or someone you care about done as a superhero or heroine.

11x14 bristol, full color single figure $125

Two figures $200

That's a unique gift and one that will certainly put a smile on someone's face.

Richard Sala
Violenza Returns Page 19
Watercolor and ink on 11x14 watercolor paper
Great page for fans of Sala, zombies, great art-- you name it.  Colors are vibrant.

$375  MOVED TO EBAY SELLER ID ROBOPICTO

Nice Phil Hester page, I think Phil is underrated and this page, from Beyond Belief, evokes a lot of Mignola while still having what makes Phil great.

All done in ink-- no markers here.  11x17 on bristol.  $125  MOVED TO eBAY seller ID ROBOPICTO

Just a quick sales thread with some original art bargain priced (or at least I think it is).

1- Shipping inside the good ol' US of A is $20 via Priority Mail with tracking the rest of the world it's more but it's just actual shipping.  I'll get you some quotes if you take something.  Shipping is the same for one or all of the pieces so don't be afraid to make a pile.  OUTSIDE of the USA you must pay for insurance and tracking too.  Sorry had some bad overseas folks who ruin it for everyone.

2- Payment is by Paypal, check or money order.  PP will only go to whatever address is on record for them, so straighten out your info beforehand.

3- Don't be a bumble.  I don't like bumbles. 

4- First TAKEIT in the thread trumps any and all PM negotiations.  If we make an agreement via PM please post TAKEN BY PM in the thread.

5- No probies or hosies allowed.  See #3.

6- I have a Kudos thread and have been doing business on eBay as Seller ROBOPICTO for many many years.  I am a comic book artist as well as my wife.  We are currently working on GUMBY for Papercutz.

I'll be posting to the thread all weekend, 7-8 pieces. 

First up, Jim Aparo BATMAN page from Detective #716-- I believe this is inked by Stan Woch but it's not marked.    Aparo was a classic Batman artist in the 70s, by the late 90s he was not quite his old self but this is a good page with some nice Batman action on it.  There are flickers of vintage Aparo in here (I'm pointing to the top right panel with Batsy).  I like this page and I hope you do too.  

$175 for a nice Aparo page, with some great action and nice inks.  MOVED TO eBAY $10 starting bid-- seller ROBOPICTO

Just now, VintageComics said:

What name did you set up under?

Andy and Veronica Fish

First year in about five Veronica and I didn't set up at the show.  The Heroes Crew is tops, they throw a great party back at the store after the show wraps on Sunday night-- music, food, open bar.  The Uber cars to the airport were in a constant and steady stream last year, and yet they still offer to drive you (and they did) because they know how to treat people.

Weather wise all of my friends who are down there insist it's not usually as humid as it is but every year it's crazy humid-- not Tokyo mid August but close.  We went out to dinner with friends, walked through the great little downtown area (sweating) and came to a famous BBQ place.

"You'll love this place, it's air conditioned!" My chum offers.

I swear it was hotter inside that it was outside.  I think you folks in the south just get acclimated to humidity.

But it's a great show-- I think it beats San Diego hands down because it's about COMICS.

Went black for a week in honor of Adam West's passing, but now we're up and rolling again.
Batman continues...

THOSE are the best presents you could ask for. 
I've got a Godzilla drawing my youngest son drew for me when he was 7 or 8-- and he's now coming up on 21.  That drawing still makes me smile every time I look at it.

Enjoy them they aren't small very long.

"The difference is the psychology of bidding.  If an item has no bids or one bid and bidders are watching it, they might wait till the last moment and make some nominal bid thinking they are he only one interested and they will get the item.  If everyone is putting their max bid the item may be at $100 with days left to go in the auction.  Now the cards are on the table and people realize what they may have to bid to get the item.  An experienced sniper will wait in his gilley suit with his max bid ready-then when people place their nominal bids his max bid swoops in and grabs the item.  Example is a 3 pair of soccer socks I just sniped.  Bid was at 99c for days, then jumped to $5.  I knew if I bid my max of $13 with plenty of time left in the auction, someone would probably outbid me.  The socks retail at $20.  So I waited and 4 sec before auction bid $13 and got the socks for $5.50. " -- KAV

Exactly this.

3 hours ago, Gaard said:

re: bidding up in small increments.

Andy (or anyone) - Do you know why people do this? I've often wondered why, but can't figure it out.

I honestly don't have any idea-- I don't have that kind of free time to hover over an auction which is why I do the gavelsnipe thing-- set the bid and forget about it.

I've cracked open more than two dozen slabs and if this one was put back together it's in a lot better shape than any of the ones I've had experience with.  I think ONE out of the 24 came apart in two fairly clean pieces but there was some serious cracking not scratching on the plastic.  It's hard to tell from pictures but this looks like it was just roughed up not broken, at least to me.

I third the microchamber paper theory.

I had a friend who used to sell on eBay all the time, and there was a guy who would often win his auctions who lived not that far away and the guy would always arrange pickups of his wins.  My friend wasn't crazy about this-- while it might seem like it was great to save the hassle of shipping these were mostly comics and mailing them wasn't all that hard to do.  Taking time out of his day to go and meet in neutral territory was actually more work.

Now this guy won a LOT of items he put up, but that meant he bid on a lot too-- and it turned out this guy was ONLY bidding on stuff my friend was selling because he was local and he liked the idea of being able to pick up a win and not have to wait for shipping.

Trouble was, when you looked at it-- it looked completely shill.  Not only was this guy not bidding or buying other people's stuff very often, when they would do local pickup there was no tracking to prove he'd gotten it.  It created all kinds of trouble when someone reported this apparent shill bidding and it caused my friend to sour on the whole process.

He's since back on but he insists on shipping even if the person is across the street. 

But my long winded point is just because it looks like shill bidding doesn't mean it is.  There are a ton of people on eBay who don't seem to use the "max bid" and let it go feature, choosing instead to bid up in increments.  Me?  I use Gavelsnipe so I set my bid and I forget about it, but I'm always hesitant to assume a seller is crooked unless there is more evidence.

Now what makes you think it's a shill?  There are plenty of buyers who do stupid things-- we've had auctions where the high bidder cancels his bid because they "accidently" bid the auction up-- we've had people with zero feedback bid in increments of a few dollars-- all of which looks like shill bidding while we don't do that.  This type of thing gives honest sellers a bad name.

As for overpaying-- that's part of the auction process, people get caught up in it.   I for one always check to see if an item is available in the same condition elsewhere-- but not everyone does.

I think we should be less inclined to call foul unless we have some evidence to the contrary-- it's not fair to the seller's reputation.

On 5/17/2017 at 10:25 PM, 1950's war comics said:

These are better than off the rack Andyfish...........

Thank you very much!  Just wait to see what's coming up!  19 weeks in and more to go!

Batman's got guns because this is set in 1940