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Yes, ir was just another line item on the invoice.

He used to require it, but, as noted, it was scrapped for the July 2016 Profiles in History sale. I bought a BWS piece in that sale; not sure I would have if the TAR business was still in place, though. I mean, it wouldn't necessarily have been a deterrent if the bidding started at zero and I could just adjust my bid to factor in the TAR, but, IIRC, the minimum bid on the lot I won was higher than I would have paid had the TAR been in place. I bought a piece of European OA recently that the auction house says its subject to the droit de suite. Not sure to whom I'm supposed to send a check to in the event of a future profitable resale, though...I guess me and my heirs are just going to keep the art until at least 2088 and not worry about it.

I like early '70s Sal. I'm pretty indifferent to most of his art after about the mid-'70s, though, some of it works when paired with a strong inker (e.g., Bob McLeod inking him on New Mutants in the early '80s).

Sal Buscema is such a god that some guy created his own ultra-high quality bootleg Sal B. Artist Edition! @tth2

Yeah, I think the 5 limit is outdated at this point with so much participation. I agree that it should be 10 so people have enough votes to spread around. I havent voted in all the categories yet, but, in the ones i did, there were definitely more pieces that I wanted to acknowledge/recognize but didn't have the votes to do so. I agree that raising the number of votes permitted would also eliminate the need to break the categories down further. IMO there are already more than enough as it is.

On the Marvel Fanfare #21 page: "I thought this was an insane price. I thought it was already high when it was $20K" - Nick Barrucci "Yeah, this is pretty stupid." - Albert Moy "Yeah, I really thought it was a $12K or maybe, maybe a $15K page" - Nick B. again

Hats off to Heritage's packaging. I recently got a shipment from them that looked as if it had been totally submerged underwater (it was raining heavily that day). I mean, it was so bad that huge chunks of the box were literally peeling off and water/moisture was getting all over the inside. But, it was packaged so well on the inside that the art was unharmed.

I'd rather have this GSXM #1 page...than a stack of Marvel Fanfare #21 pages.

The ones from last month were at least "pretty good". The ones that just sold were "pretty meh". That said, in this market, I still expected prices to be higher on those JRJR X-pages. I don't know if the market is less stupid than I thought and made a rational differentiation on the basis of quality, or, probably more likely, that this auction just wasn't very well publicized and that contributed to the price gap (I only found out about it a day or two before myself).

"A+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++" - Malvin

Even more auctions??

Jugger Grimrod being Jugger Grimrod...awesome page! #LongLiveThe80s

I'm not saying that I agree or disagree, but, I kind of enjoyed Jason taking what can only be described as a colossal dump all over this cover in his auction recap video with Yo Kuri yesterday. Always fun when people are not afraid to stir the pot!

If this is an A+/A++ page, how many plus signs do the really great and important/significant Hulk vs. Thing pages that actually affected continuity and major storylines by artists more associated with the characters and that were published in the main runs of the characters' titles get? A+++? A++++?? A∞ maybe??? IMO, there has to be something truly exceptional to warrant calling something more than an "A" page or else these terms just lose all meaning. Just like the mis-use and over-use of the term "Grail" has diluted that term's meaning to irrelevance in the OA hobby.

A++ page? Sheesh, there's more grade inflation in the original art hobby than there is at Harvard these days!

Was it this page?

Sounds like you might have been the consignor of the Sienkiewicz B&B cover?

I think it's clear that the published cover is not color correct. And, based on your photo above, I would also question how accurately the colors were reproduced in Kevin's 21-year old book and on HA's website. 🤔 Also looking at your photo, it doesn't look like there was much fading at all - certainly not enough to trouble me if I was the buyer (which I unfortunately was not). Presents really well IMO.

I will soon be launching a Zoom class on comic art connoisseurship and will be teaching from the J. Evans Pritchard handbook. The cost will be $999 but you can sign up now for the discounted price of $749.

Yeah, but if you exclude Dragon Lady strips, this is where the last batch of them sold last Wednesday: $1440, $1320, $960, $1140, $1320, $504 And the strips from the week before that: $2280, $840, $1020, $2160, $900, $630, $504, $607, $384

I think the JIM #110 page is very good, with some very nice elements like Odin and Heimdall & Bifrost, though, I agree that the Avengers #6 page has, as you noted, "even more dynamic and awesome panels" and Stone's inks are super-tight on that page (I mean, they really, really pop) versus a bit less so on the JIM page. I think there's probably also a premium for being Avengers and early at that (plus more villains and an Iron Man cameo in panel #4). I expected mid-to-high $20Ks on the JIM page and high $30Ks to mid-$40Ks on the Avengers page, so, I would say both ended up on the slightly lower side of expectations, but, generally within the expected range. Regarding the Kirby market as a whole, I wrote this to some friends yesterday: "There's so much Kirby supply that buyers can pick and choose...the price appreciation curve has definitely flattened out a lot over the past 8-9 years vs. other top artists, which is exactly what you would expect given the relative maturity of the Kirby market vs. newer artists A lot of [newer] top artists have probably seen their art go up 3-5x or more during that time but Kirby is probably only up 1-2x on average I'd wager during that time."