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Thanks @Dr. Balls It's a beautiful page.

I never even saw the image before but almost bid on it when it was in the low 20s. Such a beautiful piece of art!

So you're comparing this interior page to your imagined (and unknown) prices of 2 iconic covers? So it would be a bad comp even if you had the values, but you don't have the values so you don't even have a comp? Great!

This is the only thing that is important. I'm sorry about your health. Get better soon!

Show me any comp outside of that one day and those 2 pages. Even 1.

Yes, but one sale does not a market make. People who base all their expectations off that one sale are being silly.

Have to say I disagree strongly with both of these assessments. Not sure where you're getting your Byrne comps from but the last Byrne X-Men page was better imo and sold for the exact same price (81k). And before that, the one in 2023, was much better (with prof x and the whole team), and it sold for 90. Where are you comping that this was a 30k discount? And same for the 252 page. There was one crazy day where 2 black spidey pages sold super high. Outside of that day, if I told you that a 252 page was going to sell for 174k, that would be a HUGE number. Where do you see anywhere except for that one crazy sale of 2 pages that this isn't a GREAT number? Sounds like you have a narrative ready to go and you're bending the facts to fit it. The X-Men page sold for close to expected. The ASM page was a WOW sale.

This is how it was 3 years ago. Not anymore. Not if you're a new seller with them. (If you already sold with them in the past, it's different.) Now, it's 50k and they lower it to 5% and 100k they lower it to 0.

I was saying that if you bid on something, whether you're ahead or not, if you click on "Auction Bids" it will show you the current price of everything you've bid on in the auction. It lets you follow each and every one like a watchlist. I'm not sure what email notifications have to do with it.

My group of friends all put in trackers on CL. We don't do it on HA or CC. I know of many others that are the same. Because of the lack of watchlist.

You didn't understand what I wrote.

ComicLink (unlink HA and CC) doesn't have a "watch item" function. No watchlist. So everyone bids early, prices that everyone knows won't be the winners, so that items go on their "Auction Bids" list, which essentially functions as a watchlist. This happens every auction. As an effect of this, many items get most of their bids early and barely move at the end.

Also, Ron Lim is a super sweet class act. If you've ever met him, you know he's very kind. Obviously, Perez was too. Two absolute winners.

A lim interior for well into 6 figures? Are you talking about the 4 page deal?

Luckily for the fans, Perez and Lim are/were both fantastic artists. I like to think of Lim as more of a crowdpleasing shiny cosmic bubbly style (that I loved as a kid and still love now), and Perez as a more serious and deep artistic style.

Many of the most expensive IG pages to sell, both publicly and privately, are Perez. In general Perez does outsell Lim, but there some great Lim battles and DPSs in the later books. But I've seen some Perez pages from IG sell for staggering amounts privately.

I bought the Perez IG page. I agree it was lowish. I figured it would sell for 12-14 and I would just watch. Especially with the better (more action filled) Perez IG Thanos pages recently selling in the 20s+. But when no one else bid, I did and won. Time will tell if I got a good deal or if the release of all the Thanos Quest pages has dampered the demand for early 90's Thanos. Even so, that being Lim and this being Perez makes this different imo. I'm happy to add it to my IG collection. If anyone else has Infinity Gauntlet pages from book 1 and is considering selling them, I'd love to have a conversation.

336,000.

Exactly. As long as you're not putting your family at any risk, sometimes it's good to figure it out later and have the piece.

The what if 29 cover was purchased at auction (by someone I know), sold to someone else 3 years later, then flipped on Heritage, and now Bill J owns it. Beautiful cover! but a different book as you said.

So, if I understand you correctly, what you're saying is: Don't take my own money and buy what I love because it will lead to prices going up in the hobby? Doesn't it sound silly when rephrased like that?

If I can buy what I love and make the money back by selling off other pieces that I don't love (and that have gone up in value over the years), why not?

Sorry you lost out on the piece! When that happens to me (and it happens once or twice a year between eBay, Heritage etc) I ask myself if I really wanted that piece or was it (my own) hype? Did I even know that piece existed a few days/weeks earlier? In this case, with your GA piece, I'm guessing not, right? In that case, realize there will be many more like that and move on. The one piece that I absolutely needed to have was the What If 32 cover that showed up on eBay in 2018 or so. It was one of my favorite 2 or 3 comics as a kid and the cover showed up! I waited a week until the end of the auction, and with seconds left I upped the bid from 8k to 14k, and then when outbid, I went to 16k (WAYYYYYY more than I could afford at the time, but I had to have it), and still lost! I was super bummed for weeks. Years later it showed up at Heritage (last year). I was determined to get it this time. It sat at 18k (or something like that) going into the live auction. All my friends were confident that if I was willing to go to 30k or so, it would be mine. I was so ready. 30k came and went, and when it sat at 46 or 48k (whichever the increment before 50k is) my buddies told me to just leave it be. I couldn't lose out on it again. It had become a mission. I bid 50 (all in, with bp), and won it. I immediately sold a couple other pages to soften the blow, and have had no regrets at all since. It sits behind me on my wall right now. So, if it's a piece you just happened upon, let the loss go. There will be many others. If it's a piece you've loved since childhood, GO NUTS! (https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1868226)

With no proof at all except that the page is for sale again at a higher price? Making the accusation itself is sour grapes. I've sold pieces through dealers that those dealers then had again years later, that's the business. And if consignors insist on knowing who buys their art, all the anonymous buyers that dealers have go away. I'd rather have access to a larger pool of buyers, that's why I sometimes go through a dealer in the first place.

So you bought a page for 900, then, by your own admission, flipped it within a year or two for more than double (2k), and this happened before the Covid run-up....then, soon after, all the pieces went up in value and now the buyer is trying to do what you did (flip it for more) and you're resentful? Sounds like sour grapes to me.