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Monkeyman

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    YEAR IN REVIEW: What you’ve collected in 2019 with recommendations.

    in Golden Age Comic Books

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    17 hours ago, Ricksneatstuff said:

    Here are my favorite personal collection acquisitions this year. I have some bigger comic buys that are still with me but the one I included here is one I would definitely not sell. I love Tip Topper 1 and to have the Church copy is pretty cool.

    I think the Haunted Mansion sign would fall under memorabilia. That was my favorite thing about Disney as a kid.To own the original mold from WED Enterprises is...amazing.

    The All-Story is something I look at every day. Peanuts is my all-time favorite thing and that strip I love for personal reasons.

    Spicy Mystery "Batman" cover was a pretty major pulp pickup.

    McFarlane Mary Jane page from ASM 300 is an extremely memorable page from my younger days.

    Calvin and Hobbes is right behind Peanuts for me and this is as close as I can get to an original daily without breaking the bank.

    Don Rosa is awesome and to have a page featuring Uncle Scrooge, Donald, the money bin and the Beagle Boys is pretty exciting. That page is not dark like the photo appears.

    Overall, my personal collection has become a little more diversified and eclectic, but I am having more fun now with comics and all things comic related than ever. 

     

     

     

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    Congrats on the All-Story.  I wish I could afford one, but I settled for this in 2019.

    Golden Age (1938-1955):Adventure, Large Feature Comic (Series I) #5 Tarzan of the Apes - File Copy (Dell, 1939) Condition: VG/FN....

    Clink Spring Featured Auction - if you got 'em post 'em

    in Golden Age Comic Books

    Posted

    11 hours ago, lou_fine said:

    Just going by CL's auction description for this particular book. :gossip:

    Even in their title heading it states "Listed as 'Scarce' in Overstreet Guide.  In their detailed auction description, it states the following:  "It is very uncommon on the market. Since our inception in 1996, only a handful have ever sold on ComicLink."  (shrug)

    I think it was scarce in the market until the price rocketed up over the last few years.  I was looking for a copy 4 or 5 years ago and didn't find one.  now that it's 10x more expensive than it used to be sellers are more motivated.

    Mike

    Cool Lines Art Work Inquiry

    in Original Comic Art

    Posted

    On ‎5‎/‎27‎/‎2018 at 6:15 PM, Flambit said:

    I think I told this story a few years back on the list, but many years ago I really was hankering for a Kirby/Wood Sky Masters Sunday.  So that year at SDCC, probably mid 2000s, that was my goal.  The Donnellys had two - I think it was Rich (tall, thin) that I was dealing with - and he trotted out two Sundays.  One, he said, was inked by Ayers.  But the other was certainly inked by Wood, so a deal was made.  At this point, I knew that Wood only inked a portion of the Sunday strips, but I didn't know which ones.  But I literally thought, "A dealer wouldn't lie to me." Of course, he lied to me; I found out later it was inked by Ayers.  

    I bear my portion of the responsibility for this: I should have done my research, but at the time I didn't know how to tell what was done by whom (I later found out when I bought a copy of the Jack Kirby Collector on a whim and they were all right there under Sky Masters, broken down by inker/date).  But I had assumed, having purchased most of my art though auction houses, which are generally pretty reputable, that dealers were as well.  

    Another lesson: listen to your gut.  The whole time, my gut was screaming that this was wrong, that it wasn't Wood, and it didn't look right.  And the subject matter of the strip is odd.  I'm sure they were thrilled to unload it.  Still have it - I figure it's not totally worthless; there are Kirby pencils under there, but the whole thing left a horrible taste in my mouth.  

    I bought a Fiction House piece once from them that they stated was by Lubbers even though it says Elias in the GCD.  They said they disagreed with GCD so I bought it (I didn't really care that much anyway as I liked no matter which artists it was).  Everyone who's seen it since says it's Elias.

    Cool Lines Art Work Inquiry

    in Original Comic Art

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    On ‎5‎/‎26‎/‎2018 at 7:25 PM, artcollector9 said:

    Very interesting. 

    I did two deals with them. Difficult. 

    I had several deals ALMOST happen. One, we were 10K apart (it was a big deal) and they suggested I add in a 60K piece. Really?  I walked. 

    Another time I got something that had been photoshopped to remove discoloration. I mentioned it and they offered a credit, no refund. 

    I wrote them 5 times to say how did the discoloration not show up and to confirm they manually manipulated the image. They ignored my emails. 

    I mentioned the photoshop story to a pal and he said the same thing happened to him. 

     

    I bought a Humorama piece from them that looked white on their site.  When I got it there was a big tanning halo.  I paid $100 to have it deacidified and it came out well in the end.

    Mike

    CLINK Auction is ending, anyone win anything?

    in Golden Age Comic Books

    Posted

    11 minutes ago, Dark Knight said:

    Biggest surprise for me was the Terrific 5 for $37k!!! Wow what a sale! Kinda feel bad letting go of my 8.5 copy a few years ago for around  $16k. Ugh!!

    I saw a few books that I used to own in similar grades going for much more than my sales. Fortunately, I used the money when I sold to buy other comics that also went up a lot.

    Mike