dem1138

FYI - Robert Weiner on CAF has put up some PHENOMENAL GA Original art in his gallery, including a few Basil Wolverton unpublished covers... http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryDetail.asp?GCat=5054

My favorite Golden Age cover of all time!!!!!!!!

Not trying to rain on anyone's parade, just sharing my thoughts, since, y'know, this is a message board. I believe if you read my comments you will see that there was no judgement call on anyone other than myself and how I felt about the piece. The main point of my post was really to bring up an interesting topic on art inspired by the posting of that piece - which is that often times, there are other emotions that come up, that are not inherent to, or inspired by, the artistic value of the piece itself, but rather the events surrounding the piece. I mean, in essence this is an aspect of art that cannot be separtated from the art itself. In any event, my apologies BZ, your posts are so awe-inspiring - I count myself among the many who comes back on a daily basis to see what new treasures you have posted. I have read every page of this massive thread, and look forward to reading many more...you have helped make the GA forum what I believe to be the best forum on this message board.

My apologies. Those of us who swim more in the original art waters are bred to be more cryptic - agreed, that it's a terrible habit. Yes, all that has been said is true. Ferzoco gave it to Lu, who had a booth at SD '06, to sell. Lu was completely unfamiliar with the Frazetta market and misunderstood the asking price of the piece (which was not written down anywhere) and sold it for $1500, I guess to the first person who asked. The new buyer was quickly tracked down and was explained the misunderstanding. The new buyer refused reason, more than fair trade/cash back, whatever - and even apparently claimed to have already sold the piece at the show. The topic was then discussed ad naseum on the boards as to who was at fault. In the end, as I recall, there was no reimbursement to any parties - and no one was really blamed for the unfortunate occurance. Ferzoco tried to search out the piece for quite some time, and then I guess Mr. Bedrock got wind of this and let him know that he was the current owner. It's one of those situations where, as someone who is friendly with both Lu and Ferzoco, looking at that piece just leaves an ugly taste in your mouth, even though it's a really cool piece. Similar to when you sell something for 10% of what it later sells for and you can't remove that bitterness from seeing that item again.

this being the piece you told me about at Geppi's museum? VERY nice. (thumbs u i'll give you fifteen hundred bucks for it. Yes, it's interesting how some art you can look at - and see it for the art itself - but some art, you can't help but see the story as well as the art...and unfortunately, this piece of art carries a very ugly story behind it. I mean no disrespect to Mr. Bedrock, who owns it fair and square...but I can't help but look at that and feel bad for the person that used to own it who is one of the more decent human beings on the planet and didn't deserve to lose it the way that he did.

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If anyone EVER has an unrestored Detective 29 or 31 to sell, please let me know! (I know, I know...I'm preaching to the choir...)

To follow along the same line as Clem's comment -- pages from Amazing Spider-Man Annual #2 - because the Crime Master pin-up was up for auction from Sotheby's many years ago, this means that the book exists and is out there...could you imangine Ditko Spidey AND Dr. Strange...and there are some GREAT GREAT pages in that book... However, I have heard stories of books where a certain number of pages show up and that's all that anyone knows about or has seen...which could mean that other pages were given away early on and lost forever or are buried deep in collections somewhere. Remember, Marvel would send pages to business clients far as Japan...so as far as we know, there's an entirely different OA sub-culture over there where children of these former high level executives have A+ pages on their wall or buried somewhere amongst other "trash" and aren't aware of what's going on here... For me, right now, I would really like a nice Watchmen Rorschach page -- and I have plenty to trade as well...and I'm always looking for 60s/70s Kirby...

I read a review of it here. Review It sounds like something I would enjoy. I'm going to ask the library to try to get it and "It’s a Good Life if You Don’t Weaken" as interlibrary loans. Great choice - "It's a Good Life..." is a very powerful GN.

I have some great new art from Seth Fisher - click on my CAF link below to see!

BZ, You've single handedly renewed my interest in Golden Age books! Do you have any super-hero original art? Please share!

It seems pretty clear that the Joker was chasing him and Robin was trying to create more space between them until the Batman could arrive and save the day. The only place left for him to go was the pole - which appears to be breaking. Thankfully, Batman has arrived in the nick of time to save the day. If you need me to explain any of these other Detective covers, Stephen, please just let me know!

Bang, Please continue to share! Your collection is amazing. One question that no one seems to have asked you -- What are your feelings with regards to this being a Pedigree? Do you have any desire to have this collection garner Pedigree status? It seems that others who do not own this collection are motivated to annoint this a Pedigreed collection -- but, as the owner of this collection - what are your thoughts? Do you care?

Anyone have a copy? As long as it is: a) unrestored b) the cover and book is clean and complete and c) the price is right Please e-mail me scans and price to dem1138@yahoo.com Thanks!

A friend has a collection of books maybe valued at $150 that he'd like to donate to a charity and use it as a tax write off. Any suggestions? I know that someone on here has an organization that looks for comic books...

Um, slight?

I agree that this might affect pricing. The splash went for more than was reported on Comiclink for the ASM 12 splash -- and at San Diego - OK, and I mean OK pages were offered at 15K-20K which many thought was way too high. Interesting to see what happens the next time I see a Ditko Spidey page and ask the price and am told 20K. It will also be funny (but not ha, ha funny) to see a few of these pages reemerge at at least twice the purchase price.

The pages are now in the lead with about 1 day to go... Interesting to see 2 key pages w/o Spider-Man top the page bids - it seems very likely that the individual pages will exceed the total book price. ASM #10 went for 161K and that had a number of battle pages and a great splash. This book has a great splash, a few key first appearances, and very few Spidey pages... This auction continues to intrigue...

There are only a few decent pages, and besides the splash, no page is phenomenal - just historical. The complete book is now in the "lead" at a bid close to 100K - which only breaks down to 5K/page... A little more than 9 days to go...

Someone seriously needs to write a book or post the details on a website for everyone to read so we can refer to that work when anyone asks instead of retreading the same questions every few months when something new gets us talking. From my experience, if you want to know the details, go to the cons, go to the OA gatherings, and network. Most people who know the information first or second hand will tell you what you want to know face to face or through PM, but a public forum makes everyone a little...shy.

You can go on Veitch's website and see the MM #9 pages - they were sold for $75-$150/EACH! He hasn't updated the site in awhile - but everything has sold...

The ironic thing that no one has mentioned yet is that if you went to conventions in the 80s/early 90s - practically every Golden Age, Silver Age, and Bronze Age key was obtainable and 'got away.' I can remember MANY conventions in the 80s where dealers had tons of keys and if you stayed around until 3:30/4:00 - the dealers would start to slash prices. However, until prices started to really jump in the early 90s - I never remember seeing really 'High Grade' gems... I was remarking to a friend the other day that when we were younger - we "knew" that this hobby was going to take off but we really didn't "know." Though I look back with some regret with everything that I sold off, I know that if I take the potential financial benefits out of the equation, that the comics I owned provided thousands of hours of enjoyment and escape - and there is no way to put a price on that. It really was a fun time to be 12-16 and reading TMNT, Fish Police, Boris the Bear, and X-Men, Watchmen, The Dark Knight, etc...and then discovering Miller's run on Daredevil and other great stories from the past...

These are great stories so it makes me want to share more...and speaking of dad's...In the 80s my dad had an office on City Line Ave. that borders Philly and his office was right across the street from Fat Jack's Comic Crypt. My dad's office was on the good side of the street and the LCS was on the bad side. I used to shop there all the time mostly because everything was SO cheap. Why? Since it was in a 'poorer' neighborhood it was explained to me that they had to have lower prices so that the people in the neighborhood could afford the books. I remember going in and buying ASM 3,5, and a few others, JIM 83, FF 8, etc. I never paid more than $40 for a book and they were all in above VG shape. It was great for me because I was able to afford and read these books as a 12 or 13 year old even though they guided for much more. I remember they had an ASM 2 for $25 and thinking 'nah, I don't want to spend that much.' Ofcouse I sold all of those long ago for little profit I'm sure. If anyone remembers - that was a great store! And as a completely random notation, I used to run into Seth Green(of Austin Powers, Buffy fame) there every so often.

Donut That is the EXACT type of story I wanted to hear - keep it going guys!

Stories are great and I think we all love to read them. SO...share some stories of that one comic book that you thought about getting and before you knew it...it was gone OR in contrast tell us about that one you did get - and still can't believe you acquired... I'll start. I remember many years ago(in the late 80s), Sparkle City Comics(does ANYONE remember them? The owner was a surly one - whatever happened to them?) in Sewell, NJ had a VF Superman #1 with "snow white pages" for $10,000. I knew that this was a steal but I was probably 16 at the time and knew I'd have no way of buying it. Then again, if you knew Sparkle City, VF meant F-... Who's next?