grapeape

I agree with you that the FF Annual 1 page was a deal for the buyer. Appreciate your breakdown of the number of early Kirby/Ditko pages.

I have no empirical evidence only intuition. I'm 56 years young, so I've seen a thing or two. Enough so that I have an outstanding offer from State Farm Insurance to be a claims adjuster I remember the year 1987 hanging out at Page After Page Comics and debating the value of the Mile High copy of Action Comics 1. The story we heard was a guy walked in with a briefcase with $300k, but his offer to buy was rejected. This stunned us. Surely the refusal was a mistake. $300k in 1987 was a lot of money. Later I thought about it and told myself, if I owned the book, and didn't need money, I wouldn't sell either. My gut is telling me that we enjoyed a renaissance due to unusual factors related to the gloomy, doomsday Covid fear days. And now a lot of the heat has cooled. Perhaps a good deal of mid and lower tier material has lost its HOT value. I'm holding my best work. I believe there's a second wave that's coming in the next ten years that will explode the values of the best examples of OA that will distance the 2020-2022 period by a good amount. Agree. Disagree. It's just my personal opinion, my gut. what say you?

It's occurred to me that there are collectors who did buy stolen, pillaged European art from H***er. In spite of all the horrors he unleashed on the world, there are those who, to this day have stolen artwork hidden away in their collections. I'll stop here. I'd like to believe we will all obey our moral compass, but collecting in and of its nature brings about green eyed monsters within our souls. What are you willing to live with? Let your conscience be your guide.

Which auction was this slated for?

Being unpublished I think will temper the bidding. It's one of the best Spidey pinups by the late great Ditko though. My guess is $395,000. I'll be surprised if it goes way over, but not surprised if it goes lower. if it were a published pinup from the era of 1-37 I'd have it at $673,012.49. So here's a thought. If grapeape wins this, is there a way to make this available to Marvel so it could be published in Amazing Spider-Man? How about a tribute issue ASM #37 B with this pinup used on either cover or title splash, or center of comic! A 56 year old boy can dream:-)

I went back and looked but I didn't see an obvious issue. What don't you like my friend?

Me: Love the original Simek lettering ✅ Me: A DITKO PINUP ✅ Me: Stan Signature not across chest ✅ Hater: It's not a published piece ❌

....... "this artwork was gifted to him and his brother." Two brothers. Two....... brothers... Oh no, please no not, please not them........

The dealer that has (had) this tried to. The ask was + $100,000

Great albums: Stating the obvious I guess.

If I were an artist today, and I could have someone of the caliber of FELIX rep me, no problem. Otherwise, I'd be really nervous today.

Played that album over and over on a cross country drive when it came out. Loved it.

Took the words out of my mouth! And I won't even start my rant about how 1984 seems like yesterday to me! My kids have threatened to "dispose" of me if I don't find peace with the time ravaged beast that I am today.

OP name Silver Surfer "was surfing." Made me smile. Actually thought of the sentinel of the space ways for a moment.

It's back, just in time for the holidays.

Somebody (joking I hope) in reference to this failed waken film, suggested that Hollywood do a waken version of Dirty Harry. i pissed my pants and snorted unsweetened ice tea all over my keyboard when I heard that. It's time for these freaks to understand we've had enough. No more messaging, no virtue signaling, we want entertainment dang it!!!!

Jim Mooney was a true blue guy. He always left me a personal note or an extra surprise when shipping me a piece of art. I do believe Jim was almost exclusively concentrating on commissions until he passed away. Looks like like you snagged a good piece Dr. Balls. Enjoy it.

Brilliant example, the G O A T of Sky Masters strips. Has it all. So glad you brought this here to remind us how incredibly important these strips were (are).

It sure paid to beat the crowd. I really like Scott's work. This one is great. There is a commission page thread on the OA boards here. You should maybe move this over there, or repost this where other collectors post their commissions. Very sweet Cap there! The Official Commission Collecting Thread it's on the very first OA page.

+1

Never use friends and family on PayPal for a business transaction. You are not covered if you get scammed. I would leave negative comments on his CAF page explaining the situation. I hope that might get him to respond to you.

It's a handsome piece but I don't have the knowledge you need unfortunately.

It's nice at an 8.0 but I'll hold out for a 9.4. 😊

This......... is everything.

Those who saw this and didn't laugh, consider yourselves "unforgiven"