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Is there any reason for this sort of thing other than a willingness to provide people with a good laugh?

If that's the case, then Button Man by John Wagner and illustrated by the excellent Arthur Ranson has been optioned (for a movie, I believe). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Button_Man

In fairness, it depends upon what he was drawing. He did an issue of Brave and the Bold with Batman and the Phantom Stranger in it, and frankly, the pages I have seen for sale have been pretty pedestrian. Same with other artists. If the subject matter is little better than an old fashioned 6 panel, I think it takes exceptional ability to make it excellent (which is a reason I love creative border work). I don't count illustrative skill within a panel as adequate to compensate for a dull overall look.

I don't mind actual flips, unless the seller thought he was selling to a collector who he thought had planned to keep it but then sold it, which I believe happened on one occasion here. I would also feel annoyed if I were an artist who did a commission for a collector--who then flipped it. To me, a commission is personal and should be kept, at least for a long time. What I do enjoy is reading about the nerve of some buyers who think they can buy a $50 piece of art and turn around to sell it for $500. I like it even better if they fail, and it keeps reappearing for months on end on eBay, for example. Ah, schadenfreude.

Nice stash. Any particular varieties of Pym you prefer?

Perhaps it’s time for a new category: graphic story telling. With someone like Schultz, I agree. It’s the wedding of story and art; they only work as well as they do by tying them together. That’s what makes Eisner’s work so special, too. Same with Miller and his run on Daredevil, etc. With Adams, I love his artwork, but not his occasional attempts at writing. So, who do you consider the best story tellers? And yes this is leaving out a lot of artists who don’t do the writing, too.

I used to like the character when I was younger, but he's a bit too pedestrian for my tastes, now. I much prefer supernatural or sci-fi stories.

Why?

Not a lot of room left. Going to try and add more, or are you basically done?

Here's a shock. The Phantom Stranger appears in most of my pieces. I frankly don't know how many, but a lot. Still looking for more, by the way. Feel free to drop me a line about anything you might want to sell. If it has already been advertised for sale, however, the odds are high that I have seen it at the advertised price and passed. If it has been on CAF, but not advertised for sale, I might very well be interested.

The art is lovely, but all I could think of is how the hell do mermaids reproduce?

Brother Power, the Geek?

They look quite high to me, unless some bidders got involved in a bizarre price war. Someone may have been engaged in price support or manipulation. Watch in the coming months to see what similar quality pieces list or sell for.

Superman by Picasso.

It's not moving too quickly.

I had tried that, but for some reason, the site wouldn't accept emails or questions for the seller. The response I got was: "We couldn't find an answer. Unfortunately, this seller isn't able to respond to your question. We suggest reviewing the item again to see if your answer is in the seller's listing." I plan to try again later.

I saw something on eBay Europe I was thinking of bidding on which is located in England until I noticed the seller won't ship to the US. Is there a way around this people which use? And, is there a reason for it? We don't pay any import duties on art (I think), as those in Europe do, so I don't know of any.

On the effect of "milking" a cow from Quora: "A full udder causes discomfort - these animals quickly learn that being milked feels good, and alleviates that discomfort. Milking releases oxytocin - the animals find it pleasing and relaxing, not painful!" Help yourself. Just make sure you are only pulling at an udder.

Holy s#&*@! And the response was almost instantaneous.

Honestly, I don't think it's that terrible. The outer edges of the page really are not part of the artwork in most cases (that is, no bleeds). You could also probably send it to a restorer to remove the dedication, if you wanted. But, as I have learned here, those portfolio's are not made of the type of plastic which is best for long term storage. I am now dropping them into mylar sleeves (where possible), and dropping that into a larger portfolio. Regarding the comments, this is not a particularly rough audience, IMO, particularly if someone is clearly new to the hobby.

Uh, not in my line of work, or those old bar exams (I passed 4 of them). The facts in those cases were usually set up to get the attorney to be sympathetic to a particular view, or had lots of irrelevant facts in them to sort out. That’s the way it is with cases. Clients think that something worked before, and what they have now is similar, or they don’t understand why their sympathetic situation will not win for them. I spend a part of my time tearing up their assumptions, rebuilding from the ground up, and getting additional facts they did not think mattered. Same here. We wish for something without back-up based on real analogies. I have shown a number of unknowledgeable by-standers my art, and what they like is not always consistent with price.

Great news! I always wanted my own Mondrian.

There is so much money in the hands of wealthy people these days that even things like Banksy’s art sells for huge sums. So yes, HTL would sell for more today than in the past. I don’t follow the fine art market, except for general notice, but my understanding is that true representational art has not kept pace with more modern stuff.

Certainly, not all of the market. But will there be as big a market in 25 years to sustain the prices of many pieces, particularly middle of the road items? Too many of us will leave the hobby, either head first or feet first, so I doubt it. Let me add that I would love to get a Thomas Nast political cartoon, and I sure wasn’t around in the 19th century. While I am not positive, weren’t most of the items which you listed self-contained? You didn’t need outside knowledge of, say, X-men to like a piece? I expect those are more likely to hold up in price. That’s why I expect covers are more likely to hold up. They are closest to fine art.

But at what price?