dirtymartini1

When getting your OA professionally framed, do you leave the art in its mylar and acid free board or take it out when framing? Please feel free to elaborate on either side why you do what you do.

thanks for the input.

Tips for dealing with them. 

1. pour a full glass of scotch. 
2. bang you head against the table 3 times.
3. email them about a page similar to the one you really want. they will then give you prices on many pages of that artist/comic title. While the specific item you asked about will be marked 100% over FMV, the others which include the page you really want will range from 40-70% over FMV. 
4. If its  a must have piece then go back and forth to get 10% more off. Bite your tongue/hold your nose and pay.
5. take a shower.

Dialogue and the story help give you the complete array of feelings and satisfaction of a piece. Eye candy has no substance or resonance once the ooh aww factor wears off. You want your art like you want a good woman. Pretty but something underneath to keep you interested and coming back for more.

On 4/25/2018 at 10:56 AM, First Upgrade said:

After researching some of the characters featured on this cover, I suspect for several of them that it is their FIRST APPEARANCE...

Combined with TRANSFORMERS NOSTALGIA, COVER status, & FIRST APPEARANCES, this piece is a personal favorite in the collection...

Damn what an amazing find. You just gave all us kids of the 80s a guy shot. Thrilled to see it but sad it’s gobbled up. Enjoy. Wow

I would love to use Hakes but its user interface is stone age. I give up after about a dozen clicks sending me in circles. I should be able to locate ORIGINAL COMIC ART in less than 10 seconds. Not waste 10 minutes and still feel like a paulsey bc I'm on a page with bottle caps.

Good thing it wasn't a $15k commish for a Lake Como Jim Lee. They would of put a lien on your house and took a kidney.

I think what makes most owners of art keep their guard up is when they get messaged out of the blue by strangers showing interest in their art. There's a good chance its a straw buyer acting on someone else's behalf. Oh it happens just as much as shill bidding. 

On 4/4/2018 at 10:23 PM, DeadpoolJr. said:

No, I'd still consider your help if you offered. And Yes, New Jersey has a lot of young people leaving it from being unable to find jobs and the high cost of living. My county was the most expensive to live in for the whole country last I checked. I do plan to move in the next few years since you bring that up.

I am in Bergen Country. I cant wait to get out of here. Hopefully 3-5 years left of overpaying property tax. Then I can buy more art!

The CGC label says page 6 detached. I have heard that its actually an non attached insert that was added with the original comic way back when. Does anyone have any idea if this is true?  If so I would think it way more valuable and even a better grade if that is the case. Page detached must knock off points.

Any golden age Green Lantern experts out there to weigh in?

5 hours ago, vodou said:

Wow. Overpriced at source. Not based on what it went for last night as a comp though, but rather for "what it is". Nice but...there's tons of "nice" out there. Does it make anyone physically salivate as some pieces do? No. But it's nice. I could see it at $4500 or so live and $6500 (and sitting for a while) on a reseller site. But never, ever, ever would I see $10k as anything other than predatory source pricing, where it's take it or leave it as the source has no cost basis and only the overhead of whatever % the rep takes out. Even throwing out all $10k++ nonsense the buyer did well. Against my numbers. Consignor had no protection "friends" doing any bidding?

 2 places you def need "friends"

In prison and protecting your OA in auction. Ha! 

15 hours ago, Rick2you2 said:

May it sit there and rot.

ha while i love this thread the one sad part is the actions of these people sometimes make ones love a piece turn to hatred and it has nothing to do with the art but the circumstances surrounding it. i have had it happen. it stinks. the art is the same but you are instantly soured to it bc of outside influences.

2 minutes ago, jaybuck43 said:

I own a ton of Eastman art from the early mirage run. While the cover to 66 was nice, I wouldn't consider $1200 a steal. That's about what those covers run.  He's got the cover for 77 up on his site and it's sitting at $1120.

77 is a 4 dinosaur heads w no turtles. This one is full on Leo in a down poor w lighting and an archangel above him. Forget apples an oranges you are talking anchoivies and pepperoni.

Just now, Claudio said:

Batman Hush with little movement in the last two weeks. 

http://comiclink.com/Auctions/item.asp?back=%2FComicTrack%2FAuctions%2Fbids.asp&id=1234520

all the owners of related pages have shilled it up enough to protect their own pages and are content.   

9 minutes ago, NelsonAI said:

Did I just see the Bryan Hitch Captain America Reborn # 1 DPS Cover end at $2,150?

Absolutely, the steal of the auction.  With the auction still going on......

Cheers!

N.

Def agree. and 2 pages to boot. The TMNT cover went under, the Harley Quinn cover under $1`k. There were a bunch that left tons of meat on the bone.  If only uncle sam didnt want his money next month

9 minutes ago, Greenlake said:

I have a feeling I'll regret not going after that TMNT 66 cover. I don't know the current series or that market very well, so I chickened out at the last minute.  http://comiclink.com/Auctions/item.asp?back=%2FComicTrack%2FAuctions%2Fbids.asp&id=1233448

 

 

oh man tell me about it. even though its the new volume and a variant its still an awesome cover by the 1 and only. a steal just under $1200. damn internet lag and CL set up!

The auctions are like the wild west.

We have the shillers,

We have people w specific collections who bid up items to protect their overall value and establish new floor prices.

Best of all we have auctions that allow their own employees and owners to bid! How bout that? We are supposed to believe they are not looking at info only they are privy to? Anytime I see a piece actually about to go for a "good" price, there is a long pause, the hammer fails to drop and then there is a flurry of bidding. If the hammer does drop, 75% of the time they reopen the item bc of a last min delayed bid.   What can you do? If its a must have piece, you give it your best shot.

On 2/23/2018 at 2:55 PM, F For Fake said:

Wow, I was underbidder on this Azpiri piece in the last focused auction. It sold for $400. It's now up on eBay with a $3k asking price!

(Caution, image may be NSFW)

https://www.ebay.com/itm/PENTHOUSE-COMIX-BETHLEHEM-STEELE-10c-ORIGINAL-COMIC-ART-nude-cgc-gga-sleaze/192461813227?hash=item2ccf9e35eb:g:lrcAAOSw~4tajHSG

In the words of Alice in Chains  " Yeah here come the rooster, yeah" 

I have to say this is by far the guilty pleasure thread of the boards. So bad its good. Love it! We must name names! 

3 hours ago, PhilipB2k17 said:

I’ve been looking at a deal right now on eBay that is so good I don’t want to tell anyone about it yet,

pull the trigger so then you can tell us about it.

On 1/9/2018 at 2:52 PM, vodou said:

Hmmm. This is Borock's MO, buy high sell higher, (and as we'd all agree, nothing particularly wrong with that) but I think $1500 was already top of the mountain for Bright Firestorm

He may be stuck with this for a while. Which is too bad; there are some Firestorm folks out there (me) that would have been happy to get this for $700-$900 that it's actually worth

Dem Beckett bucks will hold him over while he waits.

On 1/7/2018 at 4:49 PM, Panelfan1 said:

Every piece he lists is a flip. JJ is not a collector. If he collects - he keeps it private.  He buys to resell from what I can see.

ive heard he is also a person who will verbally agree to a price on  art items for sale then vanish for a week while he is trying to shop them. If he works out a deal he will pay, if he fails he will break his word and back out of the deal. That is not a flipper, that is a scumbag. 

1 hour ago, glendgold said:

This made me laugh.  I like the cut of your jib.

Ha. Thank you Glenn! Finally someone who can appreciate a little bit of stinging sarcasm masked under a howdy doody veneer of aww shucks 1st rodeo ignorance.

I'm confused.

So is giving your 2 cents on a piece you used to own, wanted to own again, then negatively critiqued publicly more offensive, as offensive, less offensive or none of the above as shilling your own pieces at auction?

There is so much OA etiquette to learn, I wish someone would write up a rule book.