First Upgrade

About 5 years ago, the current owner politely declined a CASH offer of $360k...imagine that...

It is absolutely not mine. I am just a shared keeper of the original's history, nostalgia, and memory...

While I do not have the exact dimensions, I guesstimate that it is approximately in line with the sister plates created around the same time...not as large as we would like, and certainly not as large as most of the 'modern' prints... However, you may extrapolate a better idea of it's size from this invaluable relic...

Until now, only a handful of individuals have seen this...it is shot from the ORIGINAL plate... "...I shall be with you on your wedding night."

...speaking of Wrightson's 'finest work'...ya'll wanna see something cool??...

I see this as a B-Level cover from an A-Level Artist on a C-Level title(A-Level Story & Property)... ...which has an eerily familiar 'score' as the Art Adams Classic X-Men cover from the last Featured auction... The Byrne cover breaks $18k, but, stops short of $22k... And, thee weeks after the auction, it reappears on your favorite professional art dealer's website...guess what the asking price will be...

I consigned this piece, which I believed to be exactly in the classification which Gene describes, and feel that the auction result supports this...$6k ($7.2k w/BP)...

The Killing Joke page will exceed $65k with BP, but, stops short of $75k... As of now, I am 0 for 1 at this 'guess the final bid' show...for those of you keeping score at home...

All this talk about that page is inspiring...a bid perhaps...or two...

Did you know... In this HA Sig. Auction, Jack Kirby's very first 'Superman' in costume, in story(exluding the cover scene), panel page is being offered for the first time in over 25 years... Full disclosure...I am the consignor.

I have been envisioning a rapidly approaching (alternate reality) future where KIRBY prices, on more so-called 'weaker' pieces, stalls out & by default becomes more affordable, and, because of numerous previously well discussed hypothetical variables, demand for them significantly drops...resulting in more 'dead' inventory, and auction material...

To clarify...the highest offer was $80k. The piece was not priced.

Or...

"Discipline! Discipline was the thing!" ...fortunately, in this 'hobby', tomorrow brings another opportunity...and, nearly daily, another dealer update...and, shortly thereafter, another Sunday auction...and, once numerous days pass, another monthly Focused auction or Featured auction starts...and then some Signature auction opens for bidding...etc., etc., etc...

The Leonardi & Williamson Spider-man 2099 also had me contemplating on Thursday morning...

Speaking of 'previously stolen' pieces...word got back that this one is priced at $80k...

For the sake of clarity, should everyone here just pitch in for the deluxe bottle with 33% more 'juice'...?? The savings can then be 'applied' to the down payment for whichever 'previously stolen' piece you prefer...

Any chance 'we' can get price checks on 2 pages from Moy's rack of 'previously stolen' original art ??...

This just came in over the wire...at the CLink booth...any bets on there being old masking tape holding the two boards together??...

Is this the final published version of Mignola's work being offered? Was this question ever satisfactorily answered in a previous thread? Are the STATS original or are they DONNELLY BROS.? Which of our FAVORITE original comic book art dealers had the 'unpublished' verison? Was it BURKEY??...

I wasn't present during their creation & can not say with certainty if Todd McFarlane put masking tape on any or all of his DPS pieces from the 'Spider-Man' run, however, I have seen one of those examples which did have old masking tape holding the two boards together... Which, makes me curious as to whether or not the example being offered in the next CLink Featured Auction has the same old masking tape holding the two boards together...I get the impression that this condition detail may matter a great deal to specific original art collectors...

May I assume here, now, that no one else noticed the three identified pieces being offered in the HA Signature Auction are listed as 'stolen' with Albert Moy??... You may proceed, Counselors...

Coupon knocked off $100 from this BEAST...