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On 5/5/2023 at 6:50 PM, drdroom said:

I post almost everything on CAF, but I do have a piece acquired in my first year of serious OA collecting (2009-2010) that I've always kept for myself. It's an unused pencil cover for a book that made an early impact on me, and when I saw it it provoked an ineffable sense of possibility, the forking paths of comics history--the dream books that might have been. The published cover was by Romita, & it's pretty solid, but I give the edge to Big John.

Dr Doom, of course it’d take an evil genius to land this stellar piece such as this! Pure Big John pencils WOW!

When the dust settles and the final bids are in on the next heritage auction. If you strip nostalgia away and look at art for its aesthetic value put their 12k 8k pieces up against Tradd’s 12k 8k art and I think you’ll find Tradd's work will stand up to those pieces at the same price points and may even surpass them. I think that the lovers of Tradd’s art really do feel that his work is superior to the other options at those price points. “They buy what they love.” The number one rule of comic art.

Of course if you don’t love Tradd artistic style, you’ll think the prices are way too high, which is fine we all have differing tastes. That’s what makes the hobby great.

Disclosure  - I’m a Tradd fan!
 

On 4/28/2023 at 2:58 AM, redrighthand said:

I'd love to see more editions of the podcast/YouTube series like this. Page by page interview before the drop. It doesn't have to be a big thunderous event like a Tradd drop, it can be for whoever's latest, I find them very interesting.

If you landed one of the coveted Dr Stange pages from the drop, how cool is it that you can scrub through the podcast and hear Tradd discussing his thoughts on your very page! 

Thanks Felix for another great podcast! It was incredible to watch Tradd talk about each page in this impressive issue, his stylistic evolution is fun to watch. He’s always exploring and pushing the envelope of his style, no wonder he has such a rabid following.

Also CONGRATS on a quick complete selliout of the issue on his art drop!!! 

This is not the ho hum auction like the last HA auction was, so we should get a better gauge of the market direction.

To add to the excitement of this auction, there is a lot of fresh to market Byrne/Austin X-Men and Starlord plus a wonderful Cap page… WOW! 

Now that is pure Byrne goodness and should make the consigner(s) verrry happy!

Opps

On 4/15/2023 at 3:14 PM, KirbyCollector said:

This is the point -- C and D level pages have been bid ever higher since covid but interest appears to have slackened for this material on all platforms over the past 4-5 months. Whatever you want to call it, something is going on.

I think everyone is taking notice, it’s a relief to see prices that seem to be heading in a more reasonable direction… it might not last, but for now we have a bit of hope!

On 4/15/2023 at 10:32 AM, KirbyCollector said:

Agree. Thought the latest big HA auction was light for pieces under 10K... then I picked up a Byrne Spidey page a week later on HA for 1900 (34%) less than the hammer price in October... now this auction. I think the smaller collector just doesn't have the extra cash right now.

 
I think I know the page nice pickup!

And yes it does feel like the art price correction has started.

I saw a page I thought would serve a fun lil art fix. At the time it was sub $200 and thought who knows might could win it at $250, but like all Comiclink auctions I forgot about it.

Went back later to see what it gaveled, and it was the exact same sub $200 price no movement!

I like Comiclink, but for some reason I just forget about their auctions.

New Teen Titans Who’s Donna Troy
trade paperback cover drawn by the legend George Perez! This is a piece in T n T’s gone gallery. It’s background is made up by incredible character headshots. Pieces like this show an artist that doesn’t phone it in but gives his all to his work, I love George’s work and the passion he puts into his pieces. 760 views and 4 comments 

Link to CAF page 

From Fred Chamberlain’s gallery is a killer AMS 206 page from the talented artistic team of BYRNE and DAY.  Fred wrote a nice description to this piece. You wouldn’t know it by Jonah’s comments, Spidey just came to his rescue! 

John did breakdowns for this issue and as you can see Day did a great finishing the art. I wish the two would have done more work together.

Does Heritage still get it's juice?

$10,500
BP $12,600

 

Friends having conversations about how high they would go on certian pieces, and agreeing not to drive the price up on who wants it more, seems to happen about as often as dealers randomly bidding up pieces to make sure the floor stays at a certain level for comic art. Seems like that is a natural way of most auctions, and in the end those two actions probably balance each other out.   

On 4/2/2023 at 7:44 PM, g-man said:

Yikes….

I also thought the cap splash went kinda low @ $6k w the juice. 

Agreed that was a sharp Cap slash!

Cool that you got you two pages, that’s a pretty good haul nowadays!

Doesn’t HA offer some fee discount if you relist a piece that you bought from them? maybe the losses are too bad

Good luck today! Hopefully the sellers and buyers will be equally happy.

May acquiring your art fix not cause you to eat a month of ramen.

Unless of course you LOVE Ramen! 

On 4/1/2023 at 9:10 AM, Michael Browning said:

Team America 1 far exceeded my expectations and I got crushed and lost big time. I had the high bid for all of two whole seconds. 😢

This cover reminds me of the greatest toy ever created:

On 4/1/2023 at 11:06 AM, artdealer said:

But of course, you’ll have same dealers exclaiming that those pieces “fell through the cracks”.

But….no. 

Our hobby does seem to have more than it’s share of hype men.

It doesn’t help that this auction didn’t seem to have as many top notch pieces as past auctions. The feature art (thurs) was a bit lack luster. So when you don’t have the bidding frenzy right out of the gate, I think people begin to question how aggressively they want to go for their target(s).

If prices aren’t only going up, but also down (see examples upthread) you better be sure you buy right before getting that second mortgage ; )

On 3/31/2023 at 12:58 PM, delekkerste said:

What is the world coming to when this classic Shaquille O'Neal cover only sells for $1,050?  

I go so far to say THE MOST IMPORTANT Shaq comic book cover ever!

The first Spider-Verse was really fun and visually exciting, I’m looking forward to the follow up, I hope it delivers.

OPPS I forgot, another recent Marvel flop - Eternals