cstojano

Is that separate from his main page? I don't see any recent updates.

So I picked up my first piece of movie poster art for much less than I thought it would take. I am not complaining but wondered if the fact that the piece was mounted hurt its value. I know drymounting is a big no no, in general, but with presentation pieces like this it may not be uncommon. The second question is whether Poster Mountain could work their magic on a gouache on paper piece? Thanks

I ended up bidding. For this price and it being the top census SS copy I figured I could live with sig snafu.

EDIT: incorrect info posted. I swear I thought this Vamp 5 9.6 sold via offer on eBay when this same seller had listed it previously at a high Make an Offer listing. EDIT2: Makmorn talked me into it

I too am interested in how this one does. It "sold" on eBay previously via buy it now, I think. Same seller here so that sale didn't go through apparently. The sig though, we discussed this somewhere in this thread, its not the best sig. I'd prefer one of the unders (I think 9.4) with complete sigs. The Amazon copy, the guy won't budge below 3k because that was his cost, supposedly.

Yeah I had no idea what this was worth. I suspect 46 all in is a decent deal, but there aren't many people interested in this magazine, I take it

Picked this up at Clink. Not bad for 26 dollars (plus 20 for shipping, ouch). If the res is high enough I'd love someone to tell me why this is an 8.5 as my eyes really don't see it. It seems to have one color breaking spine tic and the rubbing. I suppose that is 8.5 territory??

Beautiful stuff. I just read the announcement at the top of the page and was curious how these awards are determined? Thematically, it seems there is some person or group at CGC that decides these based on a point system. I assume the winners just earn bragging rights (for the year?) and no compensation.

I really can't see any other reason to use the system Heritage uses. You can roughly estimate the time the lot will appear at live auction with plenty of time to submit max proxies. Auction fever is rampant - bid again, bid again, bid again. Buyers leave nothing in their wallets, like the eBay/CLink system allows.

I wonder how often the art inventory is checked. The Frazetta DD5 prelim has been listed for some time, just sold at auction at CLink, but is still listed on the CC site. I don't know what that means.

Estimates can help a new collector get some sense of ballpark, but then Heritage closed sales can do that as well. The big houses usually set the estimates pretty low to toy with us mortals.

15,250 for the Frazetta DD5 prelim I think is a record price for those prelims.

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That is one of the nicest Frazetta sigs I have seen, certainly nicer than any of the SS sigs. If that right corner kills an 8.5 then what to make of this casing error https://comics.ha.com/itm/magazines/horror/creepy-6-warren-1965-cgc-nm-94-off-white-to-white-pages/a/121722-14731.s?ic2=mytracked-lotspage-lotlinks-12202013&tab=MyTrackedLots-101116

I prefer the CLink piece in almost every way, though I didn't catch the differences on the signatures. A similar prelim for the DD5 piece was being offered in the UK for around 11k GBP, which is about the same amount that the PIH piece sold for. That piece is gone from that website so I assume it sold.

Under Warren Presents, 4 Universal and 3 SS, 2 in 9.8. Man I love the cover...

That Ring of the Warlords, new to me, LOVE the Sanjulian cover. Does CGC NOT grade this particular issue?

So I have to break the silence here, but any thoughts on these green labels?? I couldn't see the money they brought with the associated risk and uncertainty.

Did you pick up any of the other pages? Curious what you expected the results to be. I wasn't thinking 8k for page 1

Mine as well. Curious what the auction strategy is of taking the fourth page to the Jeff Jones Monster Times story and pushing it to a day later. You would think all the auction fever of losing the other pages and the spiteful bidding that can result would call for putting all four in order. But they did 3 in a row, then the fourth the next day. Surely it will be the cheapest page regardless.

Afternoon lots seem to be struggling for things I am watching (BWS Conan, Wrightson).

Just shy of 6k, and yeah it pretty much would scratch most itches.

Seemed in line with what I was thinking, last page sold for just under 11k, dealers have them for 15k, though one could argue the merits of PQ differences I suppose. The splash did 31k. Given the first story is apparently locked up for life, this leaves 3 issues to choose from and tastes may vary widely on the imagery with this book.

As I was reading your post this popped up in my feed, seems its an OMFG week in the art world. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/18/arts/jean-michel-basquiat-painting-is-sold-for-110-million-at-auction.html

Keyword auction alerts from the big three aggregators have killed that.