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Thanks for the info. I too made contact and was concerned about sending a 5 figure piece of art with no estmate of price or timeline in mind.

Any particular reason for Not Gordon besides the apparent endless backlog?

I thought this took a huge jump from 11k to 90k overnight but it turns out it was the reserve hitting.

Interesting, that would make December auctions particularly prone to higher than normal dealer bidding to offset projected income that year??

Today's udpate included what I thought was a fairly priced item but given the general pricing I just assumed it was my lack of knowledge of the market rather than a decent deal. This is the downside of this kind of activity.

Honestly I noticed the same thing at Heritage in their online auctions. You place a bid, a few seconds pass, then the 5 second timer starts, it gets to 1 or 2 seconds left and another bid comes in. I smash the bid button immediately, rinse and repeat...I won an item last week where this started at around 800 dollars and we ended north of 2k VERY SLOWLY. Now this is all fast paced so the 10 seconds may just be people deciding what to do. With Hakes, the extended bidding can be quite excessive and the entire thing becomes a war of attrition. Its a different form pf punishment bidding ;)

I have no interest in Iron Man but this one has quite the glow up in the finished published cover. The colors really do wonders.

This may be one of the perplexing threads I have seen on this forum lately. edit: looks like we can pick up this thread again in about 6 weeks. https://comics.ha.com/itm/original-comic-art/story-page/tradd-moore-the-legacy-of-luther-strode-2-story-page-15-original-art-image-comics-2015-/p/7381-36004.s?ic4=GalleryView-Thumbnail-071515

I would have been thrilled to fail this miserably on all of my weekly consignments. Seems this is really a glass half full type of thing. Its a shame HA doesn't preserve the bid history (I think) but I recall this nearly doubling during the live sale or at least did 1.5x the proxy value. That means there were people who cared enough to show up to a computer on a Wednesday during the summer. I had many lots that got a single bid and in some cases 0 bids during the live auction.

Heavy Metal 1. I was shocked when the sales listing came from I think Barbier. The Nicollet sold immediately and I am pretty sure it was 25k Euros. Weird image on HM 1 but again it sort of what you want isn't it? And for the first issue! Corben's B style poster art sold for around 250k as I recall and that I thought wasn't a pleasant image at all.

Yeah this seems like a great result for pretty much everyone. Felix has price confirmation, artist has price confirmation, buyer paid a little extra for missing on the drop, consignor may have lost a bit but nothing tragic. I paid a Spanish dealer nearly 4k for a piece that hammered at 800 on a weekly. Now what I learned from this is to be patient and not buy from dealers unless the piece is truly special. 9k all in; how many more weeklies are getting that much and considering the nearly 1k lots they sell every month including art that is many decades old?

This is about my number but could be way off. I think the Bode name attachment is the X Factor. I love seeing the blowup of this but its honestly not a very attractive image. I always wondered what the heck was going on here, to be honest. Seems to be an early Taarna concept but am not a heavy reader. I know this issue is one of those that is sought after for being difficult to find in mint condition. I also note the cover for HM 1 by Nicollet was sold by a French gallery about a year ago for 25k, which I thought was a steal (from a gallery not know for being cheap).

Yeah I have heard some people get money back from the bp in addition to 0% seller's fees. No way to know, especially if the consignor sent more stuff in, has a long term relationship, just knows the right person, or HA was eager to auction a Tradd Moore piece. I agree, I think all in all the consignor must be pretty relieved.

7500 hammer plus bp.

Ive had conversations with just one other collector about splitting pieces and can never make it work in my brain. So we each pay 50k for this 100k item, then what?

Its an interesting question across collecting fields. To me something like this that is simply a disaster waiting to happen really has no value beyond what I could immediately sell it for. I would never be able to keep it and enjoy it. Its like the few remaining clear bubble POTF vintage Star Wars carded figures. Its crazy that anyone would pay a premium for these given 99% of those figrues have yellowed bubbles and there's a 99% chance yours will too. For those that collect plastic-related collectibles you know what I mean. The problem child list of specific figures has REALLY started to expand in the last 10 years or so. Figures that were safe in the 90s and early 00s are now starting to manifest consistent condition deterioration (figure frosting, plastic capes darkening, the famous o ring issue with GI Joe figures from the 80s). Condition also creates something of a value binary. Pieces with fading are just a huge turnoff to me and one of a kind or not I just have no interest in the piece (recent EQ cover being a good example). So the value is either $xxxxxx.xx or 0.

I think I have only seen part of the first Deadpool movie on an overflight overseas flight (so basically drugged up) and all I remember was how crude and irreverent it seemed. I suppose that's in now, but does that = staying power?? I really don't know. Maybe the comic is different but it struck me as something I wouldnt bring little kids to see.

Interesting, I think you are right. I suspect it was either very high or very low

I assume the 8.75 includes commission, why would the dealer NOT want to juice the prices with the all in cost? Glad we agree on DD1 being most valuable. I think its definitely the Gateway Frazetta for many.

I imagine it was a straight private sale. It wasn't exactly hard to find and why involve a third party and its fees if you don't have to (total speculation). Still I am interested in the price. I always assumed DD1 was the most valuable Frazetta but in talking to other collectors over the years it seems DD1 is something of the Edgar Allen Poe of Frazettas - easy to find, easy to digest, a bit overexposed maybe?? I still think its his most well known work if not his best.

My first reaction to this post is - then why even bother buying the art. But I also am the guy that frames art and then hides it anyway so who am I to talk.

Interesting he went with the "art as artifact" model of framing here. Billionaires don't become billionaires by paying for double mats at Michaels.

FYI, its not an auction but a buy it now listing (7.5m) https://comics.ha.com/itm/original-comic-art/cover/rob-liefeld-new-mutants-98-cover-original-art-1991-/i/800113171.s?ic4=GalleryView-Thumbnail-071515 I first scrolled by it as it wasn't recognizable in monotone to my eyes.

Did you see that guy on reddit that inherited 700k and put it all in Intel the day before it took a major dump. He is internet famous. Well he's down another 10% today.

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