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Seems as we have similar tastes! I am desperately after work by Phil Noto but don't think I'll ever get the chance to see him at a convention. Nice to know there's some chance of owning a piece, albeit quite slim. Thanks for your views on this. It's nice to know someone shares your thoughts on this subject in the hobby. I'll keep my response brief in an effort to not sideline the thread as you mentioned but I too also have similar criteria regarding the purchase of monoprints. Namely, it has to be an exceptional piece (in my opinion). I am surprised to hear of monoprints going for $3K though, who is selling these?

He actually admitted he's an opportunist scumbag!

Funny I always though Phil painted his pieces - didn't realise he was a digital artist. I know that digital work and monoprints are generally disliked in this forum. I won't go into it but I disagree with that general consensus. Would you buy a monoprint of Phil's work if he decides to produce them?

Phil Noto...?

I had a feeling @gadzukes timeliness was off. I first came to know about Maus as an eight year old in the late 80s. I had joined my local library which came with a well stocked graphic novel section. I was even more intrigued as they only let people of 13 years and older borrow graphic novels! 'Comics for adults' I thought, bring it on! Well, I avoided reading Maus at that time as it looked way too depressing. Thankfully after 30+ years, I was still into graphic novels and managed to pick up a collected edition.

Sounds more like a flipper to me than a dealer... I've heard it being said before that most dealers are collectors. Some understand the hobby and try to help collectors while others try to manipulate collectors for their own gain... Glen initially mentioned (then retracted) he was only accepting ETH for a number of pieces. I wonder what percentage of users of this forum/regular customers of his hold Etherium? Have Heritage /Homedepot/Starbucks stated that they will only accept crypto currency for certain products? I wonder what it would do to their business if they did. Yeah sure I don't have to buy it if I don't like it etc. etc. But I'm sure as hell free to express my opinion about it, especially on a forum designed to do so.

They were available for non crypto payments a couple of weeks ago. I initially logged in to create a post like this I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels this way. An incredibly greedy and isolating move by Glen. He will never get my business in the future. I fail to see how this move is not motivated by greed. Or the unfounded fear that the market is being flooded by crypto cash. Where did this rumour come from actually and where are the hard cold facts? From what I know, crypto enthusiasts are more likely to put their money into NFTs, urban or contemporary art. A market which has is far less niche, has a larger following and yields higher returns than comic art.

Totally agree with this. I feel this forum represents a subset of the comic art hobby as a whole. There's a ton of art I know to have been sold that isn't even posted on CAF.

The Comic was published in 2013, way before he was selling his art through Felix (and SS:B). Tradd may have been selling his art independently at the time and may have possibly held onto these as there's no trace of them anywhere. I would message Felix on FelixComicArt in the off chance that Tradd would be willing to sell his Zero pages. But I wouldn't get my hope up.

Welcome to the wonderful world of (comic) art auctions. Whatever you think the piece is worth, double it, then add another half on top and you'll be close to what is sells for. I saw some modern comic art recently that was sitting untouched on a reps website for about a year at least. It was then bought and subsequently appeared on ComicLink's auction after about another year. It ended up selling for four times the price on the reps website!

Yep, the story is all over the news sites. BBC, Sky News, CNN - even all over social media! Normally you wouldn't hear a peep from past auction sales. This is big news for the hobby. Hold onto your hats - I'd expect to see an influx of new collectors coming soon! The last time I remember a comic art sale made a splash so big it was noticed outside the hobby was the sale of the McFarlane Spidey cover in 2012. The one where Spider-Man's punching the Hulk. At the time it was the most expensive Comic Art sold at $657,250. I heard about the sale and I wasn't even into collecting comic art at the time.

Thank you, that's extremely useful information and confirms what I had initially thought. I'll see if I can get access to his facebook group. I absolutely loathe facebook but I don't think I'll be making it to a US based Comic Con anytime soon! Thanks once again!

I stand with @Bronty on this. It makes no sense for someone who paid a good price for some great pages to then pay an astronomical price for a page that would be sub par in their collection. I don't understand why you think this is the most likely scenario? Another scenario, as others have mentioned, is that it's a comic art collector noob with deep pockets. This seems more likely to me.

Well I'm still waiting for a response after 5 months! His website seems to be a remnant of the 90s. Pretty sure he's not using it anymore as it must be a nightmare to update and keep track of stock... But..I've seen collectors with new pieces from the artists he reps so he must be active to some capacity.

I'm guessing someone told the winner "First appearance of venom blah blah blah" and they just saw dollar signs. As others have mentioned, it got down to two bidders after 1.2 mil or so. At that point I reckon it was more a pride/d*ck measuring contest rather than actually wanting the art.

The thing is, I see these prices in contemporary art all the time! I personally feel that recent Comic Art sales prices have been a little too low. The recent sale of the cover to ASM #300 wasn't even $1 million for goodness sake! that really surprised me!! I've heard a lot of comic art collectors say that comic art prices have room to grow. Isn't this growing room we're seeing then?

I'd be surprised if a Spider-Man comic fan exists that doesn't know these facts... There's also that Marvel tales Spider-Man and Daredevil book that came out around the same time as ASM #252...competing for 1st appearance. The cover to ASM #252 should command a hefty price....the others before Secret Wars 8...significantly less I'd imagine due to there not being a 'stand out' page that people identify as the 2nd, 3rd, 4th appearance

That's a shame! I had a feeling it was too good to be true. Still I can't believe the entire issue was selling for $700,000. That's an amazing ROI!

Seeing how everyone's estimate for the recent Secret Wars page got blown out of the water, I wouldn't be surprised if The Original art for the complete issue of the 1st X-Men comic went for at least $20 Million!

My goodness! What year was this lot for sale?

The fact that this Secret Wars page sold for so much, probably has a lot to do with historical significance rather than artistic merit. If a page can sell for over $3 Million, I have a feeling an equally significant cover should do as well if not better, regardless of what it's composed of.

Thank you!

Hate to be that guy, but it wasn't the first appearance of 'Venom' that sold for $3,360,000 but the first appearance of Spider-Man wearing the symbiote costume. It always irks me when people say Spidey's wearing the 'venom symbiote' or something equally incorrect. The Symbiote Spider-Man and Venom are two completely different characters.

Has anyone dealt with Spencer Beck from theartistschoice recently? I emailed him about 4-5 months ago and have yet to receive a reply. What's the best way to contact him? Thanks!

Thanks for sharing, those are awesome pieces!