PhilipB2k17

I think you have to assume that Turner "Supergirl" pages go for a premium.

Were they from one of his outside-continuity books? He said he may start selling those.

Maybe call it the Comicraft era, which is the name of the independent digital lettering company that revolutionized how lettering was done by standardizing the digital format.

Any thought to breaking down eras by format? i.e. the Twice Up era, etc.

Why do you even need Bitcoin or a block chain to buy & sell partial ownership shares of art?

I'm not a Walking Dead fan, and am not particularly enamored of the art from the comic. So, I'd never shell out that kind of money for a page. I also think BWS Conan pages are overvalued in the long term, FWIW.

I stick to published art, and have been buying more and more from artists, or their official reps. At some point, maybe I'll do a commission. But I'm not at that point yet.

How could he be selling a copy of your sketch, if you have the sketch? Did the artist scan it in before selling it to you? Did you post in on CAF, so it could be copied?

Speaking of Coollines, check this out. Recent Estate sale in Independence Missouri: Nice Late Silver/Early Bronze age Three Mousketeers cover circa 1970 attributed to Phil Mendez. Art on Coollines: http://www.coollinesartwork.com/Featured.asp?Piece=305117 Same piece, but its the "finished pencils." GCD says Mendez both pencilled and inked the cover, admittedly with a question mark. https://www.comics.org/issue/75697/ So, why do both pieces have a paste up title, and mastheads, etc. on it if he lightboxed the final inked version from his pencils? And look at the word "Milk" on the bowl. It's colored in with pencil on the Coollines piece, but its not on the inked version, or the actual published cover. And it's not blue line. It's just kind of odd. I came across this when I found the above published cover, and started research comps. Only one comp cover was sold on HA back in 2004, so that value is practically useless. I found the Coollines piece on CAF.

I found this drawing, and wanted to get your opinions on what it is, and maybe who it's by. Its obviously Donald Duck, and it's drawn on a card stock of some sort. Question is, when was it done, and by whom. I don't think it's Barks, but maybe another DD artist? Opinions welcome.

I'd love to find the Perez cover to NTT Annual #1. One of my grails.

How much for that Captain Marvel #29 Thanos/Drax panel page by Starlin?

If you think WD art is going to continue being a major cultural touchstone, $27,500 for that page might be worth it. If not.....

What do you guys have against James Chen, Ed Benes and Ethan Van Sciver?

I'll buy (all) that for a dollar!

You can buy acid free boards and Mylar bags in bulk directly from E. Gerber, as well. The sell a bag product call "Mylites." (Not sure if we're allowed to give produce names, but oh well). It's also important when buying bags and boards to make sure you get the right size for the book involved. If you have books from the silver to modern age, the "standard" sized bags and boards from eGerber will fit almost all of them, except for the big thick treasury editions and oversized books and comic magazines.

I think the problem is that it's on eBay and not Heritage or Comiclink. Was it sold recently, and now being flipped? Maybe that's the issue. The Drax second appearance Starlin splash sold for around $47K. So, 30K for the second appearance Star Lord, Wrightson Splash, seems like an fair estimation of value (plus, IMHO its much NICER and it's Wrightson. Berni does a nice homage to Frazetta). But, as you said, nobody's bought it yet! So, who knows?

After signing into eBay do the following: 1. Find and click/tap"Categories." 2. Under "Categories" find and click/tap "Collectibles." 3. Under "Collectibles," find and click/tap "Comics." 4. Under "Comics," find and click/tap "Original Comic Art." At that point, it breaks "Original Comic Art" down into subcategories such as "Covers," "Interior Pages," and "Splash Pages," etc. You'll see that "Drawings, Sketches" is its own subcategory. Pick which subcategory you want to search in. Say "Covers," and click/tap that. Once inside the "Covers" category it should have filtered out any non-covers, for the most part. You will get nearly ALL the cover art, plus some additional stuff. It's over-inclusive because sellers want to cast a wide net. But this will minimize the irrelevant chaff. You can further refine your search within covers (at least on the eBay mobile app) by tapping the "Filter" feature then "ending" it without applying any filters. This will return you to the "Covers" start page, but add a search box to allow you do do a specific keyword search within the "Covers" OA subcategory. So you can then search for a specific Title, character or Artist. Again, the results will be over-inclusive, because sellers stick keywords into their sales items to cast a broad search net. But it will reduce significantly the amount of irrelevant stuff, and capture almost everything you are looking for. This procedure takes a total of about 20 seconds. It probably took you longer to read this than it would to actually do it.

Only if you haven't learned to use the refine search function. ;-)

On that last point, I used to think paying for an iPhone all at once was expensive. NOT SINE I STARTED THIS HOBBY! Now it's "Oh, that's a modern OA cover by an up and coming artist on an IDW book."

I know everyone here seems to hate eBay, but if you follow auctions there for a few months (a lot of them) you can get a pretty good handle on pricing for certain types of art. I am always following dozens of art auctions on eBay, even for things I am not going to bid on, just to see if I can peg the final price within a reasonable range. Also, for things I consider comparable to my own collection, I want to see what they sell for, and even if they do not sell at the listed price, and get relisted for a lower amount. There is a ton of value in just following and not even bidding on auctions there. It's literally going on 24-7, so you don't have to sit around and wait for a comiclink or Heritage auction to end. Its also, more importantly, real time. And, frankly, its free. After a while, you get pretty good at pegging final sales prices within about 5-10%. But, you have to watch a lot of them. You also know what's "hot" by seeing how many people are bidding on stuff vs other stuff that sits around for a while.

But in that case, you have the "wisdom of crowd" thing going on. Someone did do that with some art a few weeks ago, and I think the board reached a consensus on it. Whether it was accurate or not, who knows! It's just a guess until someone actually tries to sell it and you get a sales price.

Right. Stan has covers available for sale on his site right now, in fact. My error. I heard a recent interview with him where he said he has kept virtually all of his art. I assumed he meant covers as well, since I rarely see any available. As I understand it, he will only sell internal pages that he rejected for a book, and had to redraw for some reason. So, only unpublished ones.

All I can say is: Wow

Thanks for that info. I know he holds onto almost all of his stuff. And, he inks and letters his own stuff, so there is no other collaborator to give pages to. His original art book was based on his actual pages, not scans of his pages. He sent them to the publisher.