Man what a showing of killer pieces! 

The Bernie Wrightson’s Frankenstein illustrations were almost my favorites, but at the end of the day nostalgia wins, and FOR ME the best in show is:

Steve Lawrence’s X-Men 102 slash by the great Dave Cockrum

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Who knows what my childhood would have been like without Dave’s creations, would I have maintained my interest in comics without the dominos Dave tipped over with his contributions to the New X-Men? It’s hard imagine the X-Men without Storm, Colossus and Nightcrawler!!! 
 

THANKS DAVE!

On 2/7/2024 at 7:00 AM, delekkerste said:

 

 

 

 

I didn't know Tradd Moore was old enough to have drawn a Beatles cover!

It’s nice to hear from a dealer and an artist in regards to OAX. I have a hard time thinking of a show for comic artists and comic art dealers that would be better for their bottom line than this one! Talk about a very focused group of convention attendees. They are all there for your inventory not comics, not movie stars, not Funko Pop toys… the whole crowd is there to buy your stuff.
 

I would think it would be as easy as falling off a log backwards to have a successful show. Kudos to Bill Cox for OAX, glad it was a success!

WOW Alex, you have to be ecstatic about how nice that came out.. so cool! Allred always seems to hit it out of the park!

VOTING IS OPEN! I worked my way through each of the categories and got all of my votes in, congrats to all the owners of these fine pieces, there were a lot of gems posted.

On 1/21/2024 at 10:26 AM, MAR1979 said:

Perhaps the new owner will splurge for stats that do not appear to have been created by a small child using a 1990 era fax machine ?

Hopefully, the new owner isn’t a dealer who decides to fix it by replacing the stat with a new one:

“Legion of Superheroes #1”

On 1/20/2024 at 7:21 AM, ShallowDan said:

I ended up checking out "The Stuff Dreams are Made of" after the December edition of Felix's podcast with Dave where they discuss the big wins that resulted in him selling off these pieces.  It's a very fun listen

All the episodes pre and post the X-wing auction are awesome, the funniest is the season’s final episode, where Dave and Ryan have their wives on to talk about the x-wing auction… heehee

No spoilers here…. another great must listen!

I enjoy all Dave’s podcasts, but these related to the X-Wing auction, it’s purchase and the auctioning of OA to fund the purchase are especially great… thanks Dave and Felix!!!

Slight drift- My list of favorite X-Men stories has the X-Men Savage Land at the top spot (the Byrne/Claremont story of course).

On 1/17/2024 at 5:34 PM, ShallowDan said:

he asked how much I'd spent on everything when it was all totaled up and immediately responded "sell that mess"   But he admittedly has no appreciation of the finer things in life!

Dan, your friend is the shallow one! Keep it all as along as you can as you are now the EnlightenedDan

On 1/15/2024 at 10:24 AM, stinkininkin said:

Hey Byrne Xmen experts! Might the Xmen 137 page have underperformed a bit? I don't know that market as well as some, but the 81k price seems a tad light? Also thinking about it next to the DD 181 page at 156k--nice pages from big time key issues--but about half the price for the Xmen page with all the main characters, and the DD page that's Bullseye only. I know, kinda apples and oranges in some regards, but the comparison interests me.

Seems off to me as well, if the results were reversed it would make more sense.
 

Perhaps it’s the fact Frank Miller crossed over into the Hollywood world - that puts more sizzle on his name, or the fact that DD was solely his vision and not a collaboration like Byrne/Claremont on X-Men. Frank Miller - Auteur (Stolen from Felix) may be the ultimate scale tipper for the big spenders.

Both pieces are awesome BTW!!!

There are some many of the same type of pieces it seems like an individual’s collection, I was half expecting to see a “from the collection of” attributation on these.
 

The conventional logic says these should be spread across multiple auctions… or maybe it is, and these are just part of the collection?!?

Oops I just zoomed into the wolverine cover - his claws are popped… now it’s undervalued ; )

Cartoony style covers are hard for me to place a high value on, but I don’t dislike em.

Scottie Young does have quite an enthusiastic following.

Seems like Alex Ross may be losing a bit of steam (in this auction at least) 

Crisis on Multiple Earths #4 Superman vs. Captain Marvel Cover Original Art (DC, 2006)

Alex Ross Amazing Spider-Man #790 Cover Original Art (Marvel, 2017)

Michael sorry to hear of your bad experience with this dealer. I found that greed sometimes shows itself through a phony personalty… seems like this guy didn’t even bother with the phony personality!

Glad you stuck around… probably took you a while to attempt another trade.

and I like watching you guys spend your money... GO GET EM!!!   

WAKE UP... IT"S AUCTION DAY!!!!

Man that is a tricky page… a special issue with such an fantastic artistic pairing Byrne and Perez, fresh to market and as hyper detailed as you can get (the Perez factor) BUT no Sups or Wonder Woman.
 

Maybe throw it on Heritage and see where the chips fall BUT without heroes would it be worth it after subtracting ALL their fees? That’s a tough call. The “yeah but” pages are very unpredictable.
 

Hopefully, you’ll get some good offers via DM! I’m sure you’ll get a few.

I dropped a package off at a big 3 shipper. When the clerk handed it to his coworker to process, she looked a the insurance on the label and excitedly asked the coworker “what kind of drawing is it?!? It’s insured for big money!” 
 

I wasn’t  feeling too good that my package wasn’t going to be unwrapped for a peak at best and at worst, “strange I don’t know what happened to your package.. luckily you were insured.’

My story ended well, I was relieved when it arrived unharmed to its destination. I hate the shipping labels (showing costs) tend to make it a target all the way to its destination.  We are dealing with human nature and that human nature is becoming less impressive with each passing day. 

I wonder how often the highly insured value packages are lost at the shipping facility vs low insured value packages …. I would love to see those stats from various carriers.

Bump

Thanks Brian for shepherding this fun project through this each year!