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Talk to Mike Burkey Romitaman for Romita Sr. if in particular Spider-Man is your focus, but interior pages are costly now Amazing Spider-Man page on the low end just sold $45k in April Heritage Auction. non published and prelims do offer value but it depends. The better the detail + importance of piece is what will make it “valuable.” Same for sketches. For investment (financial) going after Romita Sr. you may find some non Spider-Man opportunities. But everything from Spidey Super Stories to 3 panel newspaper strips can go for $10k + Cover recreations as investment I’m not a big believer in. There are exceptions, like the large sized John Buscema Surfer 4 recreation cover that’s going to sell for 💰 💰 💰 in the June HA. sketches I think over time might generate up to double (or more) your initial purchase price.... depending on quality of character(s) art and detail. Get in slowly 💰 Those in business to make 💰 can talk you into anything. Do a lot of research and ask many questions. A lot of knowledge here on the board. good luck 🍇 🦍

Go Big Red ! Blackshirts throw the bones ☠️ NU

This looks great. And as a native New Yorker transplanted to southern cal, I think it’s great this exhibit lands smack dab in the middle of the country in Lincoln, Nebraska. My grandmother worked for Mutual of Omaha and transfered from the New York office to Omaha in the seventies. Of course she became a Cornhusker fan like everyone else in the state and passed the bug on to me when we’d visit for vacation. So maybe this fall I’ll come for the exhibit and stay for a gridiron Saturday get together at Memorial Stadium.🏈

I can recommend taking a look at the artists repped by Felix Lu. His site Felix Comic Art features “modern day” artists and some of the more talented ones. There are quite a few good artists repped by others or on their own also. Of course perusing the comic shelf at ye ole local comic store is the best way to put your eyes on something you might fancy.

you should go ahead and contact them with what you have. Their pre auction valuation will determine what auction items would be placed in. Right now for original comic art and comics to be featured in a signature auction HA has to determine the likely valuation of the item for listing is $5k +. For First edition books I would call to be put in touch with a representative who specializes in that field. You'll get the best information that way.

Glen due to the seller’s presence on CAF I recommend reaching out to Bill Cox to inform him of the situation. I hope it gets straightened out. 🍇 🦍 in ☀️ so cal

Agreed on Timely’s evaluation . If I owned it I’d ask the same. For that kind of money you have to find one you love. Great example though. Jack Davis A+++

What can ComicLink do to be more competitive? I made an offer

“CABAL !!” “CABAL”

Peanuts disrespect is all the rage lately. Maybe if we had back window decals of Snoopy peeing on everything Peanuts would have more street cred.

I’m not ready Bill 😂 not just yet.

🎶 I don’t like Mondays

Josh? Is that you?

Bagley very impressive piece and this is a cool comparison. I have another one. Also Gotta appreciate Ayers getting love on the very early Spider-Man appearance from the sixties. Check out this one: Lot # 94120 Erik Larsen ASM 322 $54,000 Lot # 94162 Romita Sr. ASM 75 $45,600 The Romita was a 1/2 splash with Spider-Man from the sixties. It’s clear now that age is just a number. Money goes where it goes for all kinds of reasons. I think the sixties stuff is very strong. I’m also very impressed with nineties art. If you’d told me that Erik Larsen and now Mark Bagley would bring these kind of numbers four years ago I would of bet against it. If you really love art for art sake there’s plenty of affordable art left. You probably won’t find it at these auctions.Maybe value can be found buying from some of the brand new artists out there. I enjoyed the last two days chaos from the side lines. Good luck to anyone brave enough to fight the good fight out there.

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I blame Ryan Gossling.

The best way to hide your splash.....is not to mention it before this merry band of maniacs 😂

Haha..... you mean...you’ve heard about “us” ? 😂

The 1992 hand painted WB publicity cell promoting Batman the animated series sold for $156,000 with the juice. It predates anything we see featuring Harley by a full year. I had guessed around $35k, just blows my mind. The ASM 50 page went strong. That What If 1 cover... it was available recently at 1/3 the price wtf??? Talk about paying a premium. Did it seem like the auctioneer was slow to get to final call on the Frazetta T Rex painting?

The Ape stands corrected as the Kirby “only” sold for $630,000. 😂

Time has shown that breaking up a story.... is more profitable than selling it as one commodity. The same goes for sets I would argue. Spreading out 3 pages of an important fight scene between Batman and Joker at auction should generate a greater fever. The perception is that maybe a collector has a shot of winning at least 1 of the 3 important pages and that can create rabid bidding on all the pages. Putting a high price on a set can dull the belief that an individual can raise enough to buy them. It may limit the actual offers you get. As a collector though if you have a set of pages that go together resign yourself to keep them together. Selling one of the pages, breaking up a sequence, you will always regret it. Keep it together than sell them all at the same time, but as separate listed pieces (in my humble opinion.)

Lots of room indeed, in fact I'm calling the Kirby TOS splash to bust $1,000,000 on auction day. It seems a few serious collectors have taken stock of what's out there in the way of Kirby Cap splashes.... this issue always desirable to comic collectors and I think it's part of what's driving that bidding. Another is that this very attractive splash is released along with the complete set of pages. That seems to push the splash up. It was a factor I believe with the FF2 Kirby Doom splash at HA when the entire story came up (maybe missing 1 page?)Besides your top 10 (thanks) I think there are plenty of other sleepers. *TOS 39 p 12 = $51k Not for the aesthetic, page is light on the Ironman, but man o man the first ever appearance. Seems destined to fly well over $100k *Jim Lee and Scott Williams Uncanny X-Men 274 DPS p 2-3 = $42k Lee's got two in the top ten already and this one feels like an auction day bloomer. *Mad #9 Cover Kurtzman = $59k Yes Virginia there is a field of OA outside the superhero genre. GrapeApe prays for mad money when he sees coolness such as this. *Judge Dredd #4 Cover Bolland = $48k It's a superb cover and it no doubt will take many more bids on last call day. *Avengers 1 p 2 Kirby = $33,600 You could've had this page or a hand full of others from issue 1 for around $4k twenty years ago. This one will more than double it's current price by auctions end I'm guessing.

That Miller Shadowman cover is awesome. The Byrne pieces are going to do very well -- that FF page very solid and the cover with PM and IF on it is superb. Good luck you have enough good stuff this alone would cover a featured auction for one of the smaller houses

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I was thinking this ⬆️ yesterday when I kept following dead links on C-Link telling me ERROR. They’ve come along way but they need more talent development to be that true rival. it’s the stubborn hold on 10% sellers commission and 0% for the buyer that’s kept them relevant. The rest of the field comes up with nice pieces but most of it was somewhere on a dealers site or gallery previously. Feels stale and doesn’t nourish the fever that HA does for its customers. In our quarterly drum beats leading up to HA auctions we here express our desire for a taste..... it’s always I need I need I need and that’s HA fever. Some of you are going to say, “not me, I don’t NEED anything.” I’m not talking about just a want to buy. I’m talking about how many times you come back to your tracked pieces. What’s it at now? What do you think the final bid price lands at? We’re addicted 😂 Just talking about HA entries is unrivaled. If this were the plot to American gangster HA would be offering Frank’s Blue Magic and everybody else is pushing that weak s**t that Nicky Barnes is dishing out. I remember once a few years ago posting pics from an upcoming C-Link auction and giving a few detailed sentences about why the piece was so great. I received a PM. Why are you going to the trouble? Are you working for them? 😂 😂 No. of course not. it was my civic duty. C-Link in my opinion does a horrible job of writing up descriptions for their auctions. If you sell something with Spidey or Avengers, it seemed like 90% of their write up was “movie coming out featuring....” I actually had somebody ask me to help them write up a description for a piece they were auctioning at C-Link. I had pointed out the piece on our board saying how garbage the write up was. Turned out a member owned the piece. He asked me to write a great description that he could take to CLINK and I did. I think we risk too much when we let the “experts” take over. We have a lot of knowledge about what we own and what we are consigning. We need to use our voices to make sure we are not taken for granted. Speak up about how you want your art featured and described. Make sure your listing at a good time. C-Link is valuable and HA has its own problems. But HA truly left C-Link and everybody else in the dust long ago. Without viable competition (RB 👍) is correct. Gives HA more leverage against us sellers trying to claw back their fee bite.