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I don't want to have to toggle back and forth between My Bids and My Tracked Lots. Would rather see everything in one place.

#DefenderOfTheFaith

That's only comparing our Federal income tax rate when most U.S. taxpayers pay a state (and sometimes local) income tax rate as well (plus a 3.8% Federal surcharge on investment income if you are in the top tax bracket). If you live in NYC, your top marginal income tax rate (excluding the investment income surcharge) is 51.776% (37% Federal + 10.9% NY State + 3.876% NYC).

Dealers are exempt from sales tax if they are set up as resale businesses and apply for a reseller number.

The one suggestion I would have for Bill is to make it possible to see more than just the 18 or 24 or however many listings per page there were on CAF Live (you can see up to 54 pieces on one page on the regular CAF site), as it was exhausting clicking through the 169 pages of listings for the Saturday drop. On Sunday, I resorted to just searching by art type so all the commissions were excluded, which helped cut down on the search time, but, it would be great to have less pages to click through next time around.

No one has ever accused me of being an OA market pumper, so, let me just say that I was pretty impressed that more than 600 pieces were sold in the span of just two days, including dozens of pieces above $5K (it's actually more than just the 47 number; I know of at least 3 more >$5K pieces, including one I bought, that were purchased as a result of CAF Live but were not listed among the totals). I really don't know what more people could have expected - not everybody has time to look through 5,000 listings over a weekend (my wife was pretty annoyed that I spent as much time looking as I did). And, while there was certainly a good deal of aspirational pricing, especially at the higher end, there was also a lot of stuff that was priced to move. I bought 3 pieces from one seller (all very close to his cost basis judging from either direct HA sales data or market comps) and a fourth piece from another seller. Other things caught my eye as well, but, even at FMV, I was only ever going to shell out so much dough in one sale. The only negative to my CAF Live experience is that I placed an order early Saturday for one piece, didn't hear back from the seller, followed up with him a couple hours later, still didn't hear back from him, and then saw the piece was marked SOLD on Sunday and I was never informed about such. My guess is that the seller either preferred to ship within Europe (hinted at in his listings) and waited to see if any offers came in from such, and/or his virtual booth was unattended on Saturday and he just sorted through all the offers he got later on (maybe Sunday morning in Europe). I feel like if you set up one of these virtual booths, you should have the courtesy of letting someone who fills out a Purchase Request form know that they did or didn't get the piece within a few hours. Or at least the same day. Or how about at all - that really shouldn't be too much to ask for.

Echoing a recommendation from President Joe Biden's administration, the Supreme Court focused on the specific use that allegedly infringed Goldsmith's copyright - a license of Warhol's work to Conde Nast - and said it was not fair use because it served the same commercial purpose as Goldsmith's photo: to depict Prince in a magazine. Andy Warhol Foundation President Joel Wachs said the foundation disagreed with the ruling but welcomed that it focused only on the Conde Nast license and did not "question the legality of Andy Warhol's creation of the Prince series." Pretty clear that this was only very narrowly deemed to be infringement because it served the same commercial purpose as the original photo, whereas the series itself was deemed to be transformative enough to fall under Fair Use. And both Kagan (L) and Roberts (R) dissented here, as did other attorneys and legal scholars. Even Sotomayor, who wrote the majority opinion, specifically distinguished this case from Warhol's other works ("The Soup Cans series uses Campbell's copyrighted work for an artistic commentary on consumerism, a purpose that is orthogonal to advertising soup" she said), choosing to construe the infringement very narrowly as opposed to the broad-ranging interpretation of the 2nd Circuit.

This page just sold for $10.8K on March 29 in a Heritage weekly auction. Now it's getting insta-flipped in the June Signature Auction:

That is so sweet that I could easily see it fetching millionaire prices.

Did you happen to catch the price for this??? Amazing.

I still have the Aston but it's no longer kept in NYC. The other car got sold so I've been sans wheels here for the past few years.

A lot easier for those of us who are well-served by public transportation into Manhattan, but, the consensus I've heard from those living in NJ/Philly/Maryland/Virginia/D.C. is that they prefer driving to the NJ show than having to drive into NYC. I really hope this show continues on, as it's a lot easier for me, personally; I haven't been to the NJ show since I sold my car almost 5 years ago.

Others: 1. Betty & Me #16 Cover "I Had to Beat Off Three Other Guys!" 2. Perez New Teen Titans page with a tearful Starfire screaming "I Love D .ick ! D. ick! I Love D. ick!" 3. Michael Gaydos Alias - the infamous buggery page with Luke Cage and the DPS of JJ, um, fantasizing to a Johnny Storm poster Here are two of the 13 panels of the infamous DPS from Alias #22 that I can actually show:

I've seen people use "LS" (for limited series), e.g., "the Wolverine LS" [from 1982], but, had never before seen anyone use MS for mini-series.

It was on display at Metropolis back in 2015 as part of a gallery exhibition/sale and it was with the family at that time. Last I heard (a few years ago), it was still with a family member but not sure if it moved since then.

You're not alone...I've heard A LOT of people murmuring behind the scenes about WTF is going on with those leg muscles.

Got this one back in 2016 and never posted it - love it, though! A killer title splash page from Conan the Barbarian #79 by Howard Chaykin & Ernie Chan featuring Belit, Neftha and multiple images of Conan.

I was on vacation and forgot about the auction. There were a few low-rent pieces that I would definitely have pushed higher and maybe won.

That is some truly bizarre logic. (A) Not only was I not part of the group which sought to manipulate the auction, but, the consignor is a very good friend of mine. (B) As for why I didn't bid $10K+ during the auction, the answer is simple - I was keeping my powder dry for other pieces later in the sale and there's only so much money in the art budget. But, since the 2 main things I was after fell through (one due to being outbid and the other due to the HeritageLive technical glitch I mentioned), now I'd be happy to pay $10K for the UXM #200 page. Because it's worth every penny and more.

As far as JRJR UXM pages go (recognizing that the clean lines and tight inks of a Byrne/Austin or P. Smith/Wiacek combination are not the hallmark of JRJR/Green), the inking job on this page looks pretty darn good to me. I doubt you'll find many examples outside of issue #177 (when John Sr. inked over Jr.) that look meaningfully tighter than this page. And there is A LOT of detail and effects on this page - it looks the opposite of rushed; clearly both JRJR and Dan Green put a lot of time into this page. I'd be happy to pay $10K cash right now if the buyer is feeling any buyer's remorse for overpaying for such a mediocre page. The more I look at it the more I recognize what an excellent example it is and that I'd be happy to stump up a bit more than I tapped out at during the live auction to get it.

The number one rule of Collusion Club is that you do not talk about Collusion Club.

All of the JRJR UXM collectors I have spoken with thought it went light, including myself. I think many people would have preferred the all-out battle page from the memorable issue #200 with six X-Men (including Wolverine) than the single, 3rd-tier character splash with the Secret Wars II tie-in that people either don't care about or, like me, actively despise. The $7200 gap between where they ended just bolsters my & others' contention that the #200 page should have been $10K+ all day long and it looks like it would have been without the backroom maneuvering.

I thought the V page was fine too, especially considering most of the V figures were stats IIRC. I don't know if some other pages have sold privately for more, but, the Miracleman #16 page result struck me as fine as well at $21K. Really pretty page I have to say. The Swamp Thing #50 page maybe went a touch light at $5,760; I would have probably pegged it around $6500-$7000 personally, but, "not the best pages from desirable runs" didn't fare so well in this sale (I thought the ST #50 page was decent, but, the few & tiny ST images capped the value IMO). Like the JRJR UXM #181 page went cheap (3rd tier page but a very low price for JRJR X-Men these days). Heck, even the pretty good JRJR UXM #200 page definitely sold cheaply; I was expecting $10-15K on that all day long. Similarly, if you just wanted just "an example" of a Kraven's Last Hunt page, you could have picked one up fairly reasonably in this sale (no Spidey or Kraven of course).

Alternatively, you can think of it as the bar for entry for a BWS Conan page is only $4320, which is pretty low for the market we're in. Besides, if you squint really hard, one of the guys on the page looks a lot like Conan.