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Uigher slave labor made it work 😉

From what I’ve read, Cheap Thrills sold for $75,000 at Sotheby's 1978. To Phil Knight (Nike).

https://www.julienslive.com/lot-details/index/catalog/299/lot/114932/DIO-THE-LAST-IN-LINE-ORIGINAL-ARTWORK

https://shungagallery.com/appetite-for-destruction-robert-williams/

Standard Operating Procedure (SOP).

http://spiritgrooves.net/pdf/articles/Posters/Classic Posters Interview with Phil Cushway by Michael Erlewine.pdf

That Captain Marvel is already halfway to disappeared 💩

That’s all very nice, but as we’ve recently been made aware, ROI is the only thing that really matters. What’s yours here, inflation-adjusted of course? 😈🤑💩👻🎃

…and coins, where all this graded and slabbed foolishness first started.

This is true, printings 2-4 all state so; also Omega ad back cover is only on 1st printing.

This entire thread, the article OP first linked to…all much ado about nothing. Give non-hobby economic and “other” factors a few more years “to mature” and this present “softening” some speak of will be seen, in hindsight, as another and possibly the last great buying opportunity - for speculation and wealth preservation. Nothing has changed, this trend has been in motion since the September 1985 Plaza Accord and will continue through 2032.

The “culture” of museum directors, curators and Board and how it affects what’s collected, in what quantity and what is not is almost more interesting than the art itself.

Two Brothers out of San Mateo have already forwarded their resumes…

No. But I consider the Bob Montana complete story preliminary set from the 1950s for under $400 to have been absolutely stolen 😉

And well more than half continues to suck, big whoop.

I read that as Kevin signing the COAs not the art. Those bidding, or more curious than I, could ask for clarity.

Thought provoking article Alex; thank you for bringing it forward, as I otherwise have no use for the NYT. I could go many directions here but the one I consider most compelling is identifying the prevalence of narcissistic traits, if not clinical narcissist personality disorder, appearing multigenerationally over 150 years. Those of us in the know know that narc is always about self-centered control, with little to no regard for how such an actions-informing no boundaries personality affects others, family friends lovers or not. It seems to me that the simplest of prenuptial agreements would have eliminated 95% (if not 100%) of the “risk” of “family by marriage” claims arising from divorce, sudden incapacitation or death, leaving nearly all of the whole intact and undisclosed, which was always the real point anyway…right? But…that would have required some upfront ceding of control (“if…,then…”) which the “no boundaries personality will always struggle mightily with! Thus, I 😉😗😛😂🤣 as the very traits that gave rise to such a vast accumulated fortune appear to be soon also destroying it; karma.

When can we expect NFT encapsulation and grading? 😉

I’m not aware of any of these Heritage auctioned pieces actually going into known collections. Absent solid evidence to the contrary, shouldn’t we leave on the table that most/all were bought in (aka or JH) to create the requisite stair steps to re-offer them again several years later to organic buyers but now with an auction “history”?

OT but they couldn’t hang for just 2 more years, do a big 50 celeb and then move??

Ken mentions a Swamp Thing exhibit at Kevin Eastman’s Words and Pictures Museum, details: October 5 - December 12, 1993 Swamp Thing : A Retrospective (Bernie Wrightson, John Totleben, Michael Zulli, Steve Bissette & Rick Veitch) http://www.wordsandpictures.org/exhibits.cfm I missed that one but did catch The Crow exhibit the following year…unforgettable.

They’re definitely careful with marquee brands like Picasso, Monet, Warhol, etc. But…the blind-eye stories are quite numerous too especially when the subject was looted antiquities with fully fabricated provenance.

That woman - pure Buscema mouth.

Depending on value, big crime: Texas Under Texas Penal Code, Title 7, Chapter 31 (Penal Code, Title 7, Chapter 31: State jail felony. Theft of $1,500 to $20,000. 180 days to two years incarceration and a fine of up to $10,000. 3rd degree felony for theft of $20,000 to $100,000. Two to 10 years imprisonment at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and a fine of up to $10,000. 2nd degree felony for theft of $100,000 to $200,000. Two to 20 years imprisonment at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and a fine of up to $10,000. 1st degree felony for theft above $200,000. Five to 99 years in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and/or a fine of up to $10,000. Civil penalties are also imposed and prior convictions are taken into consideration with sentencing.