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    What is the best auction venue for comic book art?

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    21 minutes ago, captain_em said:

    Any opinions/advice on the best auction venue to sell original art? I'm preparing to downsize my collection. I plan on selling the low-end items through ebay and local venues. I figure the higher valued items will do better at places like Heritage or ComicLink or ComicConnect (or another place?). 

    Any opinions on price-points for each venue, including ebay?

    Thanks in advance for your input!

    Give them to Hakes so they sell way under full market value and we can snag some great deals! Ha. 

    HA is best in breed but you have to factor in the 19.5% vig they hit people with. If you have good stuff they will waive the 10% sellers fee. I do not care for ComicConnect extended bidding. If people get jammed up on prior pieces getting extensions, and your piece comes up maybe it doesnt get full attention.

    CL main events bring good money but if your art gets relegated to one of their monthly auctions, kiss strong money returns goodbye.

    Don't forget  the market place on here. Always better to deal with  a fellow collector 1 on 1.

    Good luck!

    Infinity Gauntlet is heading into TDKR and Killing Joke territory

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    On 9/5/2018 at 6:50 AM, O. said:

    Now that it's sold for $23k, does anyone have further thoughts on the quality and price of this IG #1 page?

    I was rather surprised there was so much interest in it, as to my eyes it's just a small image of Thanos surrounded by abstract art. Going by a traditional method of valuing Perez IG OA - size/quantity of Thanos/Gauntlet images - this page doesn't tick many boxes.

    So is it the prettiness of the cosmic/psychedelic background, or demonstration of the Gauntlet's power, that drove the price? Or am I missing something else entirely?

     

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    anyone with a discerning eye can clearly see the Wong effect price bump here.

    (attempted) Flip of the Day!

    in Original Comic Art

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    7 hours ago, Stefanomjr said:

    Probably makes no difference but I think they made an error when they put that page up on the site. Should be a DPS but each page listed individually as $9k (in error?)

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    Drop $9k and I guarantee you'll never forget Paris. The looming black whole swallowing the 7th arrondissement, I am not so sure. 

    This Crazy collector environment we're in

    in Original Comic Art

    Posted

    On 8/6/2018 at 9:31 AM, PhilipB2k17 said:

    Things change so quickly in the comic collecting world (and to an extent the OA world as well), that crazy stuff happens. I have dealer friends who can barely keep up with all the books that suddenly become "keys" due to some new retcon, or TV show.

    I just discovered one such instance relating to my OA collecting. Last year, I was eyeing a couple of nice Doctor Strange pages by Geoff Isherwood on eBay. They were from (at the time) a run of the mill early 90's run, but it they featured a nice battle between Strange and the Juggernaut. At the time, the pages were a bit over my price range, so I kind put them on my watch list to see if they got reduced. I was close enough to pulling the trigger on one of them that I went out and hunted through local comic shop dollar bins for the issue it was from: #44.

    I like to own the published comic my art is from. So, anticipating that I may buy one of these pages, I purchased a nice copy of the comic for no more than $1. As it turns out, I decided against buying the art, but I still have the comic. It was a nothinburger issue, which just happened to feature some nice art.

    Well, that's all changed folks!

    It turns out this issue featured the first appearance of Cyttorak. You know, of the "Crimson bands of Cyttorak?" And, it has become a valuable commodity in the past year. It went from being a dollar bin nothingburger to a $40-$50 key book. (Not sure how long that'll last, but that's the case right now!). Why did it skyrocket in price? I have no idea.

    Now, I regret not buying one of those pages from this issue. Granted, none of them had Cyttorak in them. But still.

     

    Snyder had 2 pages left up to a few days ago. He had them about $550 each or thereabouts. Both had Cyttorak in them. He had no idea and that had been the prices he had on them for quite a while. I thought about it for a minute but still thought it was too much. Today they are gone. Guess we will see them at auction soon. Not sure if all comic related upticks translate into comic art. 

    (attempted) Flip of the Day!

    in Original Comic Art

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    What someone asks and what they will take if you put some serious cash in their face are 2 different things. He's asking $85-90k. He paid $59k 2 months ago. Do you really think is someone dropped $70-75k on the table at his booth he would turn it down? Anything is possible but my money would be on $old!

    OA for sale

    in Original Comic Art Marketplace

    Posted · Edited by dirtymartini1

    Hi folks. As it goes with most of us, I just bought something sweet so I have the short time OA agita while I try to digest the cost of my new acquisition. A couple of days and some pepto and it goes away but in the mean time, I got a few pieces for sale. You can check them following the links below.

    Happy to deal direct and knock off 13% on any of the pieces. There are a nice assortment of covers, pages and splashes. Feel free to message me with any questions or to chat.

    http://www.ebay.com/itm/-/223058365022?roken=cUgayN&soutkn=1JhA7Y

    http://www.ebay.com/itm/-/223058364157?roken=cUgayN&soutkn=T0nASf

    http://www.ebay.com/itm/-/223058363585?roken=cUgayN&soutkn=jagCje

    http://www.ebay.com/itm/-/223058363362?roken=cUgayN&soutkn=erUKjB

    http://www.ebay.com/itm/-/223058363099?roken=cUgayN&soutkn=NKgrcj

    http://www.ebay.com/itm/-/223058362699?roken=cUgayN&soutkn=bYH7kl

    http://www.ebay.com/itm/-/222896085854?roken=cUgayN&soutkn=uKXAGX

     

    James Cawley

    jcawley79@yahoo.com

     

     

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    To have and to HOLD... but for how long?

    in Original Comic Art

    Posted

    A few days is more than enough.

    This too happened to me with a CAF member. He reached out and haggled ad nauseum. Finally when we agreed on a price, he would vanish for a week, then resurface and try to add and subtract pages from the deal. After this happened twice, I realized that there is something worse out there than an OA flipper. An OA flipper trying to sell your art to someone else before he even owns it to mitigate his risk and need to lay out any cash himself. A true scumbag if I ever saw one. Every time I see him pop up with a post of new art for sale,  my blood boils in reflection for a few seconds. 

    Long read - Story of how I lost a DWJ commission and so much more.

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    Posted

    3 hours ago, malvin said:

    Agree with almost everything, except for the statement that implies all published art will appreciate in value 

    Malvin 

    Agreed.  def not all will increase in value.

    20 years from now when ready to sell some of the collection,  I would rather be the guy with 200 published pages for sale vs the guy with 200 commissions for sale.

    Archaic ComicLink user interface

    in Original Comic Art

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    So I was at a relatives bday party tonight but fully aware and ready for CL as I was waiting for 1 piece. As you cannot save or track an item, alarms were set, the phone was fully charged and I was logged in. I thought I had thought of everything and was ready. Despite the bday distraction I would not miss the page. Now I am driving home and its 1 min to game time. Its ok im off the highway and on a side street.  30 seconds. Yes red light, I can focus. 5 seconds left. Its only at $400. Wow. Let me bid $777, no wait $802 just to be safe. More than double. The CL skin flints never go double last second. OK yeah your right $809 just for that extra few bucks of protection. 4 seconds.... bid enter, yes click....

    "please log in". you have been logged out due to inactivity! FML FCL!!!  I have been clicking and refreshing nonstop but their caveman website still logs you out. I know we all have horror stories. I thought I would share. To feel sorrow, loss and rage all at once.

    Someone made out like a bandit. First panel page of Quasar - Hulk 234 - Sal B. Hammer price $426. I wonder if its one of the regulars and we will see it on flip of the day for $1500 tom.

     

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    Long read - Story of how I lost a DWJ commission and so much more.

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    Posted · Edited by dirtymartini1

    I already keep back 200 ft like I am behind a fire truck but this thread only reinforces what I already know. Stay away from commissions. Buy published art work that you enjoy. If and when you need to sell, it also appreciates in value whereas the commission is personal and much less marketable if put on the selling block. Also there is no agita or aggravation when buying published as there is no unknown completion date or worry of getting a piece.