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Really nice, memorable page from the story - congratulations!

Looks like I need to get my sets graded!

Well, it is a strip from within the first 5 months of launch.

I think someone lost their reading glasses and thought it was Psylocke, Jean Grey and Beast on the page.

"Museum of the City of New York - CERTIFIED"!!! What in the AF...there is no reason for a piece like this to have gone around multiple museums and galleries who all decided to stamp the back of it. As for the OP's piece, I really don't know when the Whitney would have had an occasion to have a "Bob Kane" Batman piece in their possession, much less have cause to stamp the back of it for some unfathomable reason. And sometime 2015-present no less. More likely that a forger wanted to create the illusion that this piece was somehow displayed at the Whitney at some point back in the day and was too dumb to realize that the museum wasn't always at its new location. The whole museum stamp thing just smells of some forger's trademark.

Sorry to heap more doubt and bad news on this situation, but, the Whitney Museum has only been at its 99 Gansevoort Street location since 2015. Before then, it was located on the Upper East Side on Madison Ave., so, that stamp on the back is 8 years old at most. - Gene (Founding Member of the "new" Whitney Museum)

Tbh I have very little recollection of it at this point! That said, I'm sure it was awesome, just like everything else in the early-to-mid '80s.

Another early 80s D&D rarity re-discovered!!

Was at my storage unit in San Diego the other day and snapped this pic...some of my original RPGs that I played in the early-to-mid '80s!

The Flash Gordon piece is one of the best things I've ever seen and was all anyone could talk about at the show (and by anyone, I mean me ). It's from 1939, too late for Tim, too late for anyone here, trust me, none of you want this one, wait for the others that are coming down the pike from the same consignor! I would love to own it but I fear that the Lucas Museum will crush all challengers...I mean, does panel #3 remind anyone of a certain princess' hairstyle?!!

I set up some half-hearted proxy bids but was otherwise preoccupied at SDCC Preview Night. I was at the Donnellys booth and Rich was actively bidding on the auction while I was there, though.

No idea...this is the only comic I've submitted for grading in almost 20 years and the only metal variant cover I own so don't know how CGC treats them generally.

I bought all four A series modules in great shape in August 2020 for $130 including tax & shipping (so probably about $110 before t&s).

I underbid 10 lots and won one. After getting blanked on all the other stuff, I was hoping to get outbid on the last lot as well. But, no, so, $38 winning bid on the module below plus $20 shipping. Awesome.

It's a comic where the front and back covers are actually made of a folded sheet of thin, brushed metal. They're fairly heavy. IIRC, I came across the writer of this series at NYCC 2021 and he was telling me about a potential high-profile TV deal for the series and such, so, I decided to get one of the metal variant cover issue #1s, which he offered to sign in front of a CGC witness and get it subbed directly at the show for the CGC Signature Series. It's now in my collection. As of January 2023, the property was in development at BR Films.

I see foil variant covers, relic trading cards and a 1/1 NFT in the future!

Here's some of my D&D collection. The best part of my collection is all the old TSR sets I've collected (most of them sealed), but, that stuff is harder to access; all of this stuff that follows is from one box:

I made it in early 1983 - it's 40 years old!

"Susan" appears in two stories in the issue plus a 1-page PSA announcement. Your page appears to be the last page from the Buscema/DeZuniga drawn story. I certainly wouldn't have guessed that artistic pairing looking at your page!

Yeah, but do any of you nerds have THIS rarity?!! This may very well be the only surviving copy in existence!!

I'm more of a middleweight collector these days. Sadly, I have zero D&D OA. Between stuff being thrown out by TSR the rest going down a black hole, there's just not a lot/any art out there that is of the right quality and time period that grabs my interest. I don't have any real interest in vintage pieces I don't remember (would rather buy a nice Conan page in that case), or more modern pieces and commissions that I also don't have any real connection to. I'm happy to just collect the actual games and accessories that I actually saw and/or played with back in the day - more nostalgia for less money that way.

I started collecting mostly sealed TSR stuff some years ago (and a decent amount of unsealed stuff too). Prices have gone up a lot during that time, though, in the grand scheme of things, they do seem cheap relative to things like OA. That said, I haven't noticed much price appreciation over the 12-18 months; seems like things have mostly flattened out in line with many other collectibles verticals post-pandemic. I also don't get the sense that the depth of the collector base is very deep - seems like the good stuff gets a couple/few guys fighting over it and then they move on. I don't get the sense that there's a lot of new blood coming in these days driving demand & prices higher...a lot of stuff just seems to sit on eBay these days that would have flown off the shelf a couple years ago. For a lot of the readily available things, I feel like the (limited) market has largely had its fill. Those $50 sealed mini-games (of which I have a good number of) you mentioned - I actually played some of those when I was a kid, but, I don't know that many/any younger folks who didn't grow up with that stuff are going to care about that stuff. Seems like the most heat is on '90s blockbuster properties now like Magic, Pokemon, some videogames, etc. I don't know how ripe this D&D stuff is for a big boom; I remember ComicConnect had a D&D auction a year or two ago, trying to expand the category...let's see how ComicLink fares. My guess is that some of the rare TSR tournament modules are going to go nuts while much of the non-TSR produced material is going to seem ho-hum.

Even paintings that fall into the comic or illustration art category? I've been with CI for many years. Only filed one claim - for a damaged painting - and they did pay out, though, only after some initial pushback. This was in 2013 and a comic art painting I consigned to Heritage was found to have paint cracking damage which either happened in transit or while in storage. It was my first (and only to date) claim, and I said I would walk if they didn't cover the damage as I told them there was no point in paying them if they weren't going to pony up to cover something like this after years of paying them thousands and thousands of dollars a year for coverage. In the end, they compensated me a fair amount for the damage (less than a year of my annual premium cost back then) and they've made their money back many, many times over at this point.