at least you're ok, but sorry about the accident. good luck!

11 minutes ago, comicwiz said:

Highly doubtful. Crumb's work may seem wierd, but he had creator rights smarts before everyone got theirs, and built both his legacy and fortune on retaining publishing rights to his works, and didn't mind getting involved from the early beginnings, helping in assembling his self-published work in his apartment, and distributing his own comics on the streets. And his tight grip on publishing rights paid off as many of his works have been reprinted for over 40 years (hard to imagine that Zap Comix 1 celebrates 50 this year).  Some of the projects I'm aware of from the last two decades he was contacted about were seeking permission to reprint his work, so unless there's something different about this Fritz cover, I'd imagine the same rules apply of owning his work for aesthetic/decorative enjoyment, and not for commercial gain.

Something like repro rights would have influenced the price and be mentioned in the listing if they were included I'm sure

https://comics.ha.com/itm/original-comic-art/robert-crumb-r-crumb-s-fritz-the-cat-cover-original-art-ballantine-1969-/a/7163-91033.s?ic4=GalleryView-Thumbnail-071515

Spencer Beck at the artists choice is his rep

12 minutes ago, Bird said:

Makes the Donnelly ones I looked at back then for $6K and $7K seem like a deal!

scary times when Donnelly 3-4x prices might be reasonable!

9 minutes ago, Flambit said:

I am kinda stunned that Captain America 211 cover only went for 20k.   I know it's been passed around a lot since 2012, but I think it sold on Heritage back then for right around the same price.  That CA annual cover sold on Comiclink since then for 40k... a little better Cap image I guess, but wow, double?

I'd say that maybe all that lawsuit garbage is hurting the Kirby sales - but it obviously didn't stop the Thor cover from crossing the 100k mark....  

only 9k more than the Devil Dino cover?

beautiful artwork mixed with the perfert (horrendous) font!

argh!!! that's a crime! I hope it works out

2 hours ago, Shaun C89 said:

Does anyone know what pages McFarlane inked from DKR? Someone has video from that show? I would like to see that!

41 minutes ago, Nexus said:

Cool, thanks for that link. Can't recall if I've seen that before. But the bit about Todd inking DKR has been around a while (he's talked about it before, elsewhere). Just not which specific page(s). Going by the description, sounds like the attached page was one of them. Which I owned for about 5 minutes. Getting it in hand...boy, the inks were sloppy.

If the Miller/Janson team had broken up over DKR, as was assumed, my reaction after going through a bunch of originals was that I wouldn't blame Frank if that's what happened. Not Klaus' best work by a mile. And knowing what we know now, we have a better understanding why.

cool. here's the note on HA https://comics.ha.com/itm/original-comic-art/frank-miller-and-klaus-janson-batman-the-dark-knight-3-batman-in-disguise-page-2-original-art-dc-1986-/a/7033-92136.s?ic4=GalleryView-Thumbnail-071515#

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Note that there are some differences between the original art and the published version, as Miller reportedly took issue with some of the inking and made some changes on pasteovers that aren't included with this lot. Differences include the face of the "old woman" in panel 5 and the face of the neo-Nazi in panel 7.

Interesting. Would someone mind posting the pages McFarlane mentions?

I just got my catalog today. It's cool to see some of the stuff on paper instead of on your screen.

I could see having a grail for each of your favorite artists or characters that would make you stop searching for other examples. Or one true grail over everything. 

ask Dave Mandel

hmm I see this as having crossed over from low end throwaway "original art" (I don't follow WD but it doesn't seem to be a key page?) to pop culture conversation piece.

the signatures are going to be the most interesting to most non art afficianados.

oh neat! this was covered on the boards here a couple times:

it's back!

here's the seller 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/CONAN-THE-BARBARIAN-1-ORIGINAL-COVER-ART-JOHN-BUSCEMA-VERY-RARE-RECREATION-/371922186092?hash=item56984a2f6c:g:bpAAAOSw5cNYKcZc&rmvSB=true

1 hour ago, simplyrob said:

 

As far as selling goes, I suppose, everything is for sale, it's just a matter of agreeing on a price.

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I tell them the old joke about the man who asks a girl if she will sleep with him for a million dollars. Of course, she says yes. He then offers her two dollars and she slaps his face, saying, ‘What do you think I am?’ He answers, ‘I know what you are. We are just haggling over the price.’

9 hours ago, zhamlau said:

Whats really odd is that in the tombstone it looks like "AL MIL..." is being spelled out, either as a joke or a secret "I worked on this cover" hidden Easter egg?  Whats more, Al signed the cover too along with the credited artists Nasser and Rubinstein. I should email him and ask, it has a milgrom feel to it to be sure, but his style was very marvel-y so a lot of stuff "Feels" like it (at least to my eye).  What do you guys think, he work on it?

congrats!

http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Defenders_Vol_1_89 says Al Milgrom was the editor & he signed it on the bottom where an editor would sign off on a cover I think

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #700.5 COVER

http://www.comiclink.com/auctions/item.asp?back=%2Fauctions%2Fpreview.asp%3Fcode%3D2017may%26itemtype%3D1%26pg%3D2%23Item_1179955&id=1179955

I mean it depends on the piece, person, and their situation. 

Why sell it to you for fmv when they could just sell it for fmv (if they're not motivated).

All I try to do is research and make a fair offer. It gets the ball rolling. If my offer isn't motivated enough why should the owner sell?

You'll want to post this in the Marketplace subforum

If you are contacting someone then they have all the power in the negotiation. 

If something is worth $300-400 and you offer an extra $100-200 on top of that, it's not even worth them packing up and shipping it if they like the piece. It's easier to just keep it and keep enjoying it. 

I just did an inventory. I've collected a bunch of stuff, & comic art isn't the first or last art I've been into.

I actively read comics from the mid 80s to early 90s. I've been into comic art for 4 years.

I don't buy anything I haven't read.

I have 15 pieces (including four DPSes). 8 are from my original reading period, 7 are newer. so I'm almost 50/50.

4 hours ago, Bird said:

So I buy at auction mostly these days. But I swam in the lowest pools for a decade or two so I offered advice. I think I would listen to whatever people have to say and treat it accordingly. But again, when 8/10, 9/10, or 10/10 people tell me the same thing I would have to think "maybe I am off a bit here" and see why everyone but me feels that way.

heh is that a really nice way of saying

"If you run into an individual_without_enough_empathy in the morning, you ran into an individual_without_enough_empathy. If you run into individual_without_enough_empathys all day, you're the individual_without_enough_empathy."

no offense but you're asking too much for stuff that isn't in demand obviously. the attitude doesn't help either.

if you sell once at 10% of what you're expecting that's an oddity. if you consistently sell at 10% that's the very definition of fair market value.