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Scott great question!! Anyone have sale data for the Frankenstein or any of the other art?

Yes some great comics....a Detective 27..... The catalog was very impressive with comics and art. The presentation was neat for that time period. The Superman cover too. That’s why I saved this catalog. I wish I’d kept everything... had so much related to comic art. Oh well guess I just have to rely on Lee B

They had excellent catalogs. Greg Manning CEO/President, William Hughes VP Collectibles and Rob Hughes Comic Book Consultant. You had to call in or wait to be notified to find out if you won. I have all the pics from the Spring 2000 catalog. This was before transitioning to online bidding. Anyone have documentation of final sale/bid amounts? Anyone have memories of participating in this auction?

Yes eBay had some quicksand no doubt. Cash in envelopes? 😂 I had one bad experience where my high bid disappeared in twenty dollar increments until I lost by $5. Within five minutes I was offered the page by the seller because the winner “changed his mind.” Terrible shill. The buy would’ve been off the record outside eBay. Guy actually berated me. “You want it or not.” I regularly visit the CAF page where the page resides. Wild Wild West but I scored some great deals.

Mitch and Scott Dunbier have some really solid comments on everything in terms of too much skin in the game for the consultants, taking up too much of the listings and shutting out other consignors. And surprisingly? a widely unprofessional display of the art (broken glass or frames?) Read the article. Prices realized and unsold auctions. Overvalued estimates that sold way under or not at all.

Vodou I agree with your remarks and thank you. I remember the times where I routinely paid above FMV for art simply because I was positive (intuition) the future for comic art was beyond the imagination of those selling art back then. How many times I heard, “you paid how much?” Early ebay was great no? That was the mid nineties to about 2005. I did very well on any resells and I still have many pieces I acquired from back then. I would not be so cute today. I look for pricing mistakes or an overlooked auction. I sure as hell avoid these over heated bidding wars today😢

Really not surprised as I’ve heard complaints in the past about this auction. If you bought some of these lots as a long term investment you no doubt are in good position today. As a skeptic, with auction prices going higher and higher today I wonder how much manipulation from 1993-2020 has assembled a skyscraper of original art pricing out of straw? I would be very careful getting into bidding wars today. Like the stock market you shouldn’t approach collecting-buying like a day trader. You’re luck is bound to run out. I think you should buy what you love. Buy what you can afford. Consider how long you can hold on to a piece without selling. I know a lot of collectors who spend beyond their means and then are scrambling a month later for dough to pay bills. One fella bought $3,000 of art from me in 2006. In great detail my opinion I explained that he should hold the two pages a minimum of five years. I priced the flip out of the deal because these were excellent pages. ”Yeah yeah I know it’s no problem.” Five weeks later he contacts me begging to get his money back for a personal issue that came up. I’m no Rockefeller then or now. I didn’t have the money to give back to him. I pleaded with him to try to hold on to the pages as they’d be worth a lot in the future. He dumped them. I know things unexpected come up in life. That’s why you can’t let your hobby be “everything.” It has to have its proper place especially if you have a family to support. I saw those two pages again years later and they combined were five figures. If you bought anything from Sotheby’s or anywhere else in the last 30 years you’re probably ok if you have your life and responsibilities in check. I’ve bought obvious manipulated-over FMV if I believed I could hold it long enough to out distance that manipulation. Buying art is not for the faint of heart. I hope everyone reads this article. There’s a lot of good stuff in here. Id love to hear more from Mitch on his recollections. In more detail what did he see that bothered him? Thanks Lee!! Thanks adamstrange for your contributions. 🍇 🦍

Happy Birthday Jazzy Johnny

The hedge fund ghouls got what they deserved. Hey maybe time for original comic artwork shares to trade on Wall Street. I dare the hedgies to short a Sal Buscema position: Sal Nation day traders will go G Stop 2.0 on their asphalt!

The only thing I ever found hidden in the attic were a bunch of Super 8 films depicting some pretty “sinister” goings on. Let’s see we can see 🪐 and the astronaut has a red suit and a mustache. Any signature front or back or and copyright stamps?

John Buscema was an excellent soul. I’ll cherish the one and only time I met and conversed with him. It took me until within a year of the end of his life to finally meet him. I know nothing about John personally. I just know he was a masterful artist. Money changes everything. Greed is not good (sorry Gene’s avatar). The turmoil within the Buscema family is unfortunate.Ant comes off very bitter. The theft, the family infighting, the inquiries into available art..... I wish him peace. Very hard for me to be excited about these pieces as Ant is dropping them like something he is repulsed by (not the art but the collectors desire? The family pain?) As I respected and liked John so much I sincerely wish his surviving family all the best.

I stopped reading after you said no Tradd SSB for sale No just kidding. That’s cool you put this out. I went to your CAF link and there’s some sweet pieces to make offers on. If you didn’t see it find the ComicArtLive episode on YouTube hosted by Bill Cox, Felix Lu and Tradd Moore. Since you’re a fan I’m sure you will enjoy it. Good luck and for others reading this thread give the posted CAF link above a look see. 🍇 + 🦍

It’s a gorgeous piece of art.

I’m glad you kept it.

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I like your enthusiasm so 🍇 🦍 has hit the subscribe button!!

This was a very interesting story. Suicide Squad was being disbanded. These weirdos were addicting the public with free drugs putting them in a psychotic zombie walk of the dead mode Poison Ivy was key to the story but it’s Amanda Waller that actually declines a chance to arrest the evil doers. Instead she executed them with blazing gunfire. With a chance to get out of prison Amanda accepts her fate instead? Why? Why did she want to get in that prison? Fairly nice art work by Luke McConnell and Geof Isherwood. I was very surprised by that price (win bid) but I think it was a story that stands out and I actually would like a page (with Poison Ivy). Speculating that it will be remembered as an important modern day story?