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Today's prices have been very strong. Overall, I'd say Thursday was strong. Friday was a mixed bag. Some strong, some weak, some middling. And today strong. Is the market still moving upwards? No. Is the market collapsing? No. (I'm sorry to the guy who overpaid for 2 pages in his heat and then lost a ton on the flip one year later. But that does not a market make.) I'm optimistic!

I think Friday's Byrne sold well too. 45k for a panel page with Kitty running away from an alien/brood? That's not squishy, add Wolverine with claws or Phoenix and you're back up to 70k. This all seems like peak pricing to me.

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This was what set off my responses to you. Either way, today's prices have been super strong. Blue chip Comic oa looks strong to me.

I'm not talking about that 1 piece. That was never what we debated on. We were debating on the general state of the comic art market, and today's prices have been fire. Everything has gone on the higher end. The market looks super-strong at least for today.

Today's prices have been super strong so far. Agree?

I hear what you're saying, but again, let me step in with some facts: BTC is up 60% ytd. The S&P 500 is up 15% YTD and that's after starting in a deep hole and digging it's way back out (to now be up 15%). So, are many collectibles down? Yes! Comics, and Video games have gotten killed. Is everything down? No. Not at all. If you just look at news headlines everything seems glum. But if you check the facts, plenty of asset classes are doing fine to great. (I also think we may have a bigger downturn soon. I'm just saying that it hasn't happened yet. People are just saying it's happened and finding random examples here and there to prove something that just isn't true yet.) P.S. If a number of pieces slip through the cracks this weekend in HA and end at low prices, I hope to be the winner on a few of them.

Yes. Comics have gone way down. That is definitely true. Some as much as 80% off their height. But I don't think of comics and comic art as the same asset class. If I'm having a rough financial time, I can sell off any comic and buy it back later. Whether I want the same grade or a different grade, I can always get one back (except in very rare circumstances). But if I sell a piece of comic art I love, it's most probably gone forever. And the same is true if one I love comes up for sale: Even if I'm worried about a recession, I know that if I pass, I may never have the shot again, so I somehow make it work. Very different asset classes at least in my opinion.

Bronty, I know you're a video game collector, or maybe more specifically a video game art collector, so I can understand if your "halted pretty abruptly" is referring to that market. But, if your comment is geared towards the original comic art, I really don't think that's been true at all. The comiclink results were strong. The Heritage auction is this weekend and already a number of pages are very high. Weekly auctions are still bringing in huge numbers. I just came back from Heroes con where a lot of big deals were made. Are there some pages that aren't selling well? Sure. Is the market stabilizing? Maybe? But you make it sound like you've witnessed some great fall that I just haven't see evidence of yet. I guess we'll all know more after this weekend's HA auction, and maybe you'll be right. But for right now, it's just a guessing game.

A few people who knew the family knew, but then last night they announced it at Heroe's Con. So I guess it's public knowledge now.

Jim's son, Mikey, passed away last week (at a very young age).

First ever panel appearance fun!

Ah. Thanks for clarifying.

Wait. In all seriousness, how did you come up with a price for a "standard" 11x17 piece? How would one even begin to figure that out?

And I don't really like pizza. I can't understand why others would want it. Maybe I'd pay 50 cents for a pie. But more than that? Definitely not for me. More insightful comments coming soon.

They would have looked nice together, but with his impending nuptials, 35k was out of the question.

It's 9 different Spiderman cards. So that's less than 4k each. The fact that they make one huge poster makes them even more valuable imo.

LOL KirbyCollector you keep advancing this same thought about the unsold pieces on CAF, then getting shut down for it, and then re-sharing the same thought on the next thread. A convention selling 10%+ of the listed art is AMAZING. Even if every single piece had been priced right, there is only so much a market could absorb with each convention. Have you ever been to an art convention before? Have you been to NJ Art Con where not even 2% of the art sells (but they are still amazingly successful!). C'mon man, let that one thought go. I agree that we are in the midst of a softening (not the great crash that anyone predicted though, at least not yet), but evoking CAF shows the opposite!

Thanks, Benedict! The money went to other comic art already, haha. So it all stays in the hobby.

https://www.comicconnect.com/browse/set/63691?fbclid=IwAR0tNy2POBV59axfuZ5CaRDz60ZFNomZLrLAoAf5VP5FO0lr2ot0TDr-A2Q Above is the link for all the pages I'm selling. I'll attach some pics below. Thanks for checking them out!

No. Heritage sells all its lots because when you have no reserve auctions, everything sells. Comparing a price based system to an auction based system is not fair at all.

Why should everything sell? What percentage of a dealers inventory do you think he/she sells at any one 2 day show? Surely not more than 5% and probably wayyyy less than that. 10% of all listed pieces selling in a 2 day window is an amazing turnout and isn't sign of anything else.

I haven't had this for too long, but I haven't posted it anywhere either (though it was seen briefly in a flip I did for Bill). Keith Pollard drawing a great Mephisto vs Thor scene.

It's not about her knowledge, it's about her speed....the whole advantage of a live auction vs a comiclink format is that you can be coaxed to make a few more bids after you're past your number. If it's too fast, you can't come to that bid moment. I know that for the what if 32 cover my max was 35k. I ended up winning it at 50k because of the live format and me saying what the hell. She's Zooooming.

I don't feel like we're watching the same auction. I think for the most part the prices are very strong today. Maybe not an advance, but definitely not a regression. There just aren't very many A+ pages. Pages that sold at auction a year ago almost always take a hit if they're thrown right back up to auction. So many pages today went very high imo. Like yesterday, I just don't think the pages are super exciting, but the prices are good.