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2 hours ago, MagnusX said:

The surprise for me was Mark Bagley:
Spiderman # 25 Cover $ 9,900
New Warriors # 4 Cover $ 8,700

As the owner of a different (yet shockingly similar) New Warriors cover who held out hopes of acquiring another, let's just say that last night's price was discouraging.

9 hours ago, stinkininkin said:

Of your 4, here is the one I kept... 

Love this cover. Volume 2 #'s 1,2,3 and 5 are my personal favorites in the Lee/Williams run.  I know for most, Uncanny>v2, and I get it, but I'd rather have any of those over any of the Uncanny ones.  Although 271 and 274 are big favorites as well.  I understand all the love for 268, but it's never really excited me like it does others.  Part of that is I didn't come onboard until a couple of months after 268, so I don't have the same nostalgia for it.

Scott, was v2 #5 the last X-Men cover you and Jim did together?  Or did you do the Ghost Rider ones? (I suppose I could look it up, but when the man is right here...) I was always curious why you and Art Thibert more or less swapped books in 1992. I just assumed there was a ton of chaos around that time with deadlines and writer turnover and Image beginning to percolate in the distance, but wasn't sure if there was more to it than that.

Let me preface this by saying that I started reading comics in 1991, so Infinity Guantlet is right square in the middle of my peak nostalgia period and I do enjoy it. That said, I think it's pretty overrated by those who love it and is far inferior to Starlin's Captain Marvel/Warlock/Thanos stuff from the 70's. It's got some cool moments, and the Perez art is especially nice (I like Lim, and his work here is solid, but anyone putting his stuff on Perez's level is crazy pants), but there's not much substance. Make it a 4 issue series instead of 6, and cut out the useless tie ins, and it would be much improved.

As a Connecticut resident who sadly pays sales tax on Heritage auctions, I just want to say please don't forget about us.

37 minutes ago, PhilipB2k17 said:

There is only a single recent (and that was during the height of the WW movie mania) Perez WW cover sale that topped $10K. And that cover is pretty exceptional. It is WW soaring in full on flight, facing the viewer. A classic cover from the Perez run.

So, while I think the OP's cover is really nice, it's not as good as the one that went for over $10K, with juice.

The next highest recent Perez WW sale was just under $6K. I think the OP's cover is nicer than that one. (Which, admittedly, is subjective).

Based on those two recent auction sales, I pegged this one at between $6K and $8K.

But, sure, if it became a bidding war, it could go higher. And I agree, you can easily get ~$4K right now for it from a dealer.

That cover you reference isn't even a Perez penciled cover though. Perez only inked it.

I started reading comics in 1991, so Liefeld was a big, big deal for me.  While I fully recognize his artistic limitations, nostalgia is a heck of a thing.  That said, I'd argue that his work from say 1990-1993 (late run New mutants to early Youngblood) is not without merit.  His anatomy might be whack, and his work incorporates just about every bad 90's cliche there is, but as other have mentioned, it has an energy that is totally unique to Rob Liefeld.  I also think it is noticeably better than the stuff that came later.  I'm not sure what happened, but I'm right there with all the Liefeld haters on everything post 94 or so.  His work the last 10 years in particular isn't even fun to mock.  It's just not very nice to look at.

I know Austin has kept most of his art, but is there any reason he would be opposed to lending scans to IDW?  I know he's provided scans to Marvel for bonus content in reprint editions.

3 hours ago, John S. said:

Well Comiclink auction has started and the Hush cover is already at $25,250. Given the poll and how low this covered scored, is this a case of people putting in their max price now and just letting it ride, or is this a $35k + piece?

I wouldn't read too much into those poll results.  I think the consensus seems to be that other than one or two, none of these covers seem to stand out much from the pack.  Even then, there seems to be much disagreement over what those one or two standouts might be.   For me, 610, 614 and 616 are easily the three least desirable, but the rest are more or less on equal footing.  If you're willing to drop 50k+ on a Hush cover, 618 is as good as any other.

I love Jim Lee and Hush is what got me back reading comics after a few years away, but I have to agree that this set of covers leaves me somewhat cold.  608 (first print) is probably the most memorable of the bunch.  It's a nice image, but it was also the first, which I think helps its cache.  The second print of 608 is cool too, but Batman's got a little too much of "Liefeld Cap" chest thing going on.  I really like the figures on 612, but the white nothingness of the background takes something away from it.  Almost as if the cover is unfinished.  615 could be a classic (even if it is something we've seen a million times), but Nightwing's right leg really sticks out.  I also like 611, even if it doesn't totally make sense to me what's happening.

All that said, I would happily own any of the above.  Not at market prices mind you, but that's true of just about anything greater than low 4 figures.

I'm under 40 and a Lim Surfer page is very high on my want list.  When it comes to early 90's Marvel nostalgia, Lim cosmic is right there below the Image crew.  His work can be very hit or miss, but when it's on, it's on.  Purely on artistic merits I don't think that #44 page is a great one, but storywise it's THE Lim Thanos page to own, isn't it?  I'd say mid to high 4 figures though.  No way it hits 10k. 

All that said, Perez vs. Lim?  Perez everyday of the week and twice on Sunday.  Let's not be silly.

So for the record, can someone clarify just what is the correct pronunciation of Mazzuchelli?

8 hours ago, delekkerste said:

Really?  I'm more shocked by people who don't remember their first comic!

 

That's kind of how I feel.  I know I'm younger than most here, but I could probably name my first 20 or so comics more or less in the order I acquired them. 

25 minutes ago, Flambit said:

Huh.  Did not realized they owned the X-Men 141 cover.  Unless that's a repro - which I doubt, looking at the other stuff on those walls.  I had heard Terry Austin had managed to hang on to a lot of those later, legendary X-Men covers.  

Interesting.  The Uncanny X-Men Omnibus vol.2 (which came out in 2014 and reprints DoFP) includes an image of the original cover art to 141 in the extras section that is marked "courtesy of Terry Austin."    The art to 132 and 137 is also included with the same attribution.

edit to add: Looking closer at the image in the article, I think that might be a recreation done by Byrne.  From what I can see, there's no lettering on the poster.  My recollection (don't have my book handy) is that the original has all the lettering and I know I've seen a Byrne recreation before.  Perhaps on his website.

My work firewall will not allow access to CAF, unless I manually edit the web address to from "http" to "https".  Even then, it's still not fully functional.  For example, I cannot search.  This is also the case for some (not all) of the dealer sites associated with CAF (Romitman, Albert, some others).  I assume this is all related to how our IT administrator has set up our security and access.  I can access everything at home fine and can't really imagine why anyone would have trouble unless they were running a strict firewall or web blocker of some kind.  And if that were the case, I would think you'd know about it.

21 minutes ago, Pete Marino said:

I don't have any New Warriors art, but i thought it was cool as a kid, so i keep an eye on those pages from time to time.  FWIW, I thought $1500 was going to be about the hammer on the page.  It's a really well done page, every main character, a title splash, heroic poses.  If someone was looking for their singular example, I'd say that was a great get.

I actively collect New Warriors art (didn't bid on this one though) and I mostly agree.  $1500 feels high to me, but I think it's a more desirable page than the double page spread that went for $1200 last week (it may be a dps, but it's from an alternate reality story and mostly features non-series characters), so I guess the market is what it is.  Speedball is missing, so it's not perfect, but as a single page example, I don't think you could find many that are better.

David Newbold was the original inker on Runaways.  He did issue #s 1-5, 11-12.  It looks like you have pages from #2 and #8(?).  The #2 page has the Newbold Inks signature on the back, which would make sense.  I don't see any reason to believe that those pages aren't legit.  The only question would be whether or not the inks were done over Alphona's original pencils, or if they were done over a blueline copies of the pencils.  Can you see pencil marks under the inks?

1 hour ago, Bronty said:

 

Link doesn’t work.   Did the splash sell? What are people expecting the cover on sale to go for?   It’s a nice enough cover and memorable story but as was said there are better covers .   Somebody out there will want it fairly badly?

No idea what the cover will sell for, but I'd have to imagine that there are a lot of people out there that would be pretty excited to have the opportunity to buy a KLH cover outside of the complete set.

5 minutes ago, Ryanfromottawa said:

Figured I’d start a thread to discuss the November fall feature auction held by comiclink. They re just starting to list items, but so far there are some very attractive pieces here s a select few

batman adventures 12 cover Bruce Timm 

http://www.comiclink.com/auctions/item.asp?id=1195759

Just so people don't have an aneurysm reading this, it looks like the cover in question is actually Batman: Gotham Adventures #10.

13 minutes ago, Flambit said:

Pretty fantastic.  

I'd love to see an option to restrict certain dealers from my search...  *cough*coollines*cough*

In the settings there is a "sources" tab which allows you to customize which sources are included in searches.

6 hours ago, PhilipB2k17 said:

I’m sure that’s part of it. But, I think 90% of it is Wolverine related. 

You'd could flip those percentages and I'd still disagree with you. 

3 hours ago, PhilipB2k17 said:

There are some OA trends I just don't get. Herb Trimpe Hulk pages, is one of them. That, IMHO, is SOLELY due to the fact he was the first to draw Wolverine for publication, and that 1st appearance page went for so much. It drove collector interest in Trimpe Hulk stuff.

Surely the interest in Trimpe Hulk pages has something to do with the fact that he was the primary Hulk artist for the better part of a decade and anyone with any sort of nostalgia for his work would be squarely in the age group that is the primary driving force in this hobby.  It's not always just about Wolverine.

8 minutes ago, BCarter27 said:

There was an article about it in here on p72-

http://intelligentcollector.com/mag/2017-8/2017-8/?ctrack=497416&type=bodylink-flipbook-intelligentcollector--dig-fall-17--tem090517

Thanks for clearing that up.  You'd think that the descriptions would be a little more explicit as to what exactly these things are and what their purpose is.

For the TLDR crowd, these are imaginary covers from the Funky Winkerbean universe drawn by famous artists that are being sold to support Tom Batiuk's (Funky Winkerbean creator) cancer charity.

7 minutes ago, batman_fan said:

Not sure if it has been posted yet but what is the deal with all the funky winkerbean stuff?  I remember an old newspaper comic strip under that name but I am a bit out of the loop on all this work. 

I was wondering the same thing.  Every week I see stuff in the weekly auctions that I think should be in the higher profile auctions.  It's rare that I see something in the quarterlies and think "what the heck is this doing there?"

Is anyone else having trouble with the Heritage website as it relates to wantlist and tracking notifications?  It just occurred to me that I haven't been receiving any e-mails from them lately despite a recent flurry of items popping up from my wantlist.  I'm also tracking items on a weekly basis and haven't been getting e-mails on those either.  I thought that maybe I had inadvertently altered my notification settings, but I checked my wantlist on the website and everything is coming up with "no current matches," which definitely is not the case.