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2 hours ago, cstojano said:

Where are you seeing the shipping label created on the site? I don't see anything, no email from Fedex either.

They sent me an email with the tracking number, so I was able to look it up on Fedex's site.  I haven't been able to find the tracking number on their site anywhere.  But as long as I have the tracking number for Fedex, I'm good from there.  

Same here.  They created the shipping label on 12/29, but didn't ship until today.  Fedex says it'll be here Thursday.  It's not the end of the world, but definitely not as quickly as I'd expect.  Based on the description of their packaging on their site, I'm pretty excited to see the exquisite packaging job.  It will be like a piece of art unto itself.  

54 minutes ago, Lee B. said:

As I mentioned in my new column, I am totally mystified by Transformers prices.  Maybe Don Perlin is more beloved than Jose Delbo when it comes to art from this series.  

I don't think it has anything to do with the artist.  The first 30 issues or so all had the classic characters and had more grounded plots.  After that, they got pretty far out there - things like a brainwashing car wash, some kids getting shot into space, or a secret base masquerading as a beach resort.  The characters they added were pretty weak as well.  I doubt anyone could name all the Seacons or pick the Pretenders out of a lineup.  I would always expect decent pages with characters introduced before or in the 1986 movie to perform better than those afterward, regardless of who drew them.  

I emailed them about mine after a couple weeks.  They said my check had cleared (which I knew) and that they would be packing up everything and sending it soon.  Still no shipping confirmation email though. I've won things in the past and I'm pretty sure they were quicker to ship.  

Congratulations!  That's a really nice page!  Gene Ha's work is always so intricate and great to look at. 

Very cool!  

17 minutes ago, NinjaSealed said:

Second does DWJ realize what a beast he is? He comes off as ridiculously humble.

I thought the same thing.  I think it's really refreshing, compared with some of the other artists out there who are (deservedly) very aware of and vocal about how talented they are.  Really makes me appreciate the guy even more. 

18 minutes ago, delekkerste said:

$22,694 for the Bissette/Yeates Swamp Thing strikes me as nutty, even if it is from an early Moore issue.

Certainly a memorable cover and from one of my favorite issues, but yeah that's really high, especially since it's not Bissette/Totleben.  I'd have loved to get it, and thought I might have been in the running until it started taking off near the end of bidding.  

2 hours ago, Bill Cox said:

I chose to parse out sellers from the feed if their results would be duplicated. CC, CL, TDArts, ComicInkKing, and many others. Ditto on keywords in the For Sale field, like ON HOLD, SOLD, NFS, ebay.com, etc etc etc. 

I played around with it for a few searches and it looks like it works very well.  Really awesome job!  Thank you!   

44 minutes ago, NicoV said:

CAT will probably first have access to the CAF Classifieds sales, dealers will come right after.

Any way you'd have the ability to screen out the Comicconnect and Comiclink classifieds?  They've both started listing lots of the art in their auctions in the Classified section, and filling it up with things that aren't really classifieds, some that are months past the auction finish. Probably a lot of work to do that, but it would help filter out hundreds of duplicates.  I guess maybe that's more of a CAF question. 

11 hours ago, romitaman said:

I bought this cover because it WAS NOT a recreation and because it was drawn 2.5-3 years or so after asm 121 -122... and drawn to PERFECTION by Dave Hunt and PUBLISHED!  I got the asm 121 british cover as well as the asm 122 British SPLASH Sunday night..  I feel these are all INCREDIBLY HISTORIC and much more valuable than what I paid.......Needless to say i was quite ecstatic to get all 3. I bought a few nice items this weekend that i thought were undervalued.

I agree completely.  Those are all really nice, especially since they were published so soon after the originals. Congrats on the great score!

It depends.  Some of my first comics influenced my tastes and were very influential.  I'd love to have a page from those.  Others didn't, and weren't that important to me at a young age, so they aren't on my want list.  

Very happy to hear!  

I asked about a couple things and got a similar list.  Kind of a mix of happiness at actually having prices, but disappointment at the incredibly high asking prices.  One of the pieces I was interested in sold for $8000 at an auction a year ago and they're now asking $25,000 for it.  

6 hours ago, NicoV said:

You're right, and as far as I know it's a quite recent issue, only on Chrome v61... If you're using another browser please tell me which one, it could help me to fix it.

Yep, Chrome.  You got it.  

Just wanted to reiterate how cool this is.  I've been playing around with this more and more and it's really just great.  Thanks again for putting it together!  

The only bug I've encountered is that if you search for something too broad (2000+ results) it executes the full search and shows the first few results, but then it crashes the site and you have to close out the browser.  Not that I plan on searching for that general of a term much, but it can make it painful if you accidentally hit enter at the wrong place. 

5 minutes ago, Panelfan1 said:

So you have a problem with

cover-ish  too?

 

You jest, but I can't count the number of times I've seen a page listed as being the "cover scene".  It's like the front cover, only smaller.  

Only if it's really good and stands on its own.  Your Deadworld piece certainly qualifies.  I couldn't ever get into the series, but that's a really nice piece of art.  Really dark and haunting. 

I loved that movie, but I've never seen this before.  Really cool stuff. 

The more I use it, the more I like it.  Great job on this!  I can't imagine how long it took to put together, but I'll certainly use it a lot. 

The only suggestion I have is that it would be really nice if it also included CAF classified postings.  

I like it.  I signed up and was able to select all the sources except for one dealer that someone mentioned earlier. 182 out of 183 sources - perfect. 

15 minutes ago, Hal Turner said:

Bronty mentioned that the WD market isn't as hot as it used to be. Is it because it's biggest collector is out of the game? Without his participation, will it ever get as hot again?

I think it's more because the property is cooling off in general, not just the art market.   Happens to everything that gets popular.  Nothing can stay at the top of its influence forever.  It's more a question of whether it'll be cyclical and come back, or if it will drop off for good.      

Very nice!  I like it!

There's often graffiti in caves, and it's generally split up into 2 types.  Historical graffiti is from quite some time ago, before it was generally accepted as wrong to deface natural features.  It's an interesting curiosity and sometimes offers a glimpse into times past when people thought of things very differently.  More recent graffiti is vandalism, making a mark on something important to change it forever.  The motive doesn't really matter - whether for signifying possession, art, furthering the ego, etc.   Basically people value caves differently than they did in times past and have realized that they're a finite resource that needs to be preserved for future generations.  

I look at art much the same way.  A $20K piece with $50 written on the back is an interesting window into the time before people valued comic art as art.  Writing your name on the back of a piece now would be an entirely different thing.  Might as well write it on the back of a painting or chisel it into the bottom of a sculpture.     

Really cool that you were able to find the published book!