dekeuk

kudos to blue808 for the great Batman #272 9.8 he sold me.

what a great book

bronze Batman 9.8's

kudos to QualityComix for the 14 slabs he sold me at a big discount. Got any more?

kudos to Foolkiller for the killer TEC #356 9.6 he sold me

kudos to vtcomics for the nice batman books

they were low grade, but not too low grade, for a great price

Mags like LIFE are eventually going to get scarce because dealers keep cutting them up and selling the individual ads. Ironically, it will be the mags with "boring" non-celebrity covers that will eventually become the hardest to find.

When you can only sell a non-celeb 1940's mag for $3 but can get $30 worth of ad pages out of it, they will eventually all get cut apart by dealers. At that point, it will be hard to find any intact LIFE mags with non-celeb covers.

they are not worth that much.

sell the ones with recognizable movie stars, sports stars, sports teams, and political figures (Hitler, Stalin) individually on ebay. I used to get maybe $20 apiece for the better ones.

a few might even go to $50 like marilyn monroe.

and I think a couple might have baseball cards in them? was that LIFE mag? those are worth big $$.

sell the rest in larger lots because the ones with average covers are only worth a few $$ each, except perhaps the ones from the early 1930's

And sell the 1963 Roger Staubach cover to me for $10 (thumbs u (it's extremely rare)

Kudos to Dekeuk for a great deal on a bunch of X Men slabs. An excellent guy to buy from. (thumbs u

Enjoy those x-men slabs over there in the U.K. (thumbs u

Kudos to dekeuk for a nice ASM 39 shipped super fast (thumbs u

 

Thanks again

Thanks, glad you liked it.

Kudos to rza808 for a nice trade. Thanks for the TEC Batman.

The good news is the Clink Focused Auction results are now in the GPA system and many titles and keys have "Green Up Arrows" next to them when I just checked

 

It appears this thread and the comments made by many helped convince George to go ahead and include it.

I started the thread so you can all thank me now.

Donations of your comics to me as thanks will be accepted.

But as I said, the 1600+ sales that just occurred through their (CL's) latest auction are ready to include if we choose to do so. The question is, would you guys be happy that only some of CL's results are included (auction style) and not others (consignment style).

 

George.

Why would you not report ALL of the info your company collected, even if that info is incomplete. The consignments are usually only reinforcing results that have already been achieved elsewhere like ebay, since the best stuff does NOT go on consignment in general.

Whereas the focused auction results show books that are rarely sold, and have not had any update in your database since 2002 (i.e. golden age sales)

It's not a matter of what Comiclink wants or does not want.

The solution is simple. Once a month GPA needs to manually enter the auction results once the auctions have ended. All the results are sitting right there for anyone to view, here is an example of a listing of past results.

The results are sitting right there. These are very important sales.

Someone at GPA needs to spend 10 hours a month manually going through these results and recording them.

More and more quality material is migrating from Heritage and ebay to Comiclink Focused. If GPA does not start reporting it, their database will be woefully inadequate for the best material out there.

Sure they can give me a very accurate estimate on ASM #300 9.6

But for stuff where they have no recorded sales since 2002 or 2003, and then a sale is made on Comiclink Focused and this updated price is NOT recorded, I think that is a real dis-service to their subscribers

GPA risks becoming totally irrelevant for info on ultra high grade sales if they do not start reporting GPA Focused Auction results.

The latest Focused results blew away many of the numbers on the GPA, especially for Golden Age stuff where no copy has sold since 2003. And for bronze 9.8 Marvels where the highest reported sale on GPA is for a 9.6

I don't know why GPA does not report on Comiclink, but they should AT LEAST report the Focused results. Those types of sales are sorely lacking from the current GPA database.

not to interrupt this nerd fest, but, ive got an ASM Hooky mag that is 9.8 all day. Is it worth submitting? I had a Thing/Hulk one too in that grade but cant seem to locate it

some dude on comiclink is asking $400 for his HOOKY this week I think

I forgot to list Nestor Redondo, I liked his Swamp Thing run, but Wrightson is a tough act to follow....

Underrated?

 

Brunner, Gulacy, Aparo

Aparo was on my original list, he has to be one of the most under rated of all time. And he did pencils, inks, and lettering.

If he had worked for Marvel instead of DC, and had drawn Spiderman for 20 years instead of Batman, he would have so much more recognition I think.

Mike Grell.....Can't believe he hasn't been mentioned. His work on Superboy and the Legion in the '70s was fantastic - especially the 207 cover.

GRELL (thumbs u

I just picked up this Grell, one of his rare Batman covers:

hmmm, well a lot of these guys don't seem so "underrated" as they were "hot" in their time (dale keown, art adams, etc.) are semi-"legends" (or second tier legends) - kaluta, maybe ploog

 

 

Exactly. That's why I left a guy like Art Adams off my original list. Great artist, but he got TONS of recognition, praise, and covers in his day. Nothing under appreciated about him in my opinion.

But is hard to tell with post 1985 artists. Were they really appreciated by the public? Or did you just see their name a lot because Wizard and your LCS had a vested interested in promoting their name as a "great investment" so buy 20 copies for the future.

I've always been a big Kieth Giffen fan. I think all his work on Legion was fantastic.

I remember when his Legion issues were so hot, everyone was "investing" in them. I remember buying 5 copies of #300. And Legion got that Baxter paper book. So much hype.

Now his issues on the run sell for the same price as the issues before he got there. What happened? Were there any real fans of this series or was it all just price speculation.

Some artists get all the fame, glory and prices for their original art (i.e. Adams, Miller, Ditko, Kirby, Wrightson, McFarlane, Lee, Smith, Byrne, etc.)

Others work away year after year, producing great art, but are (relatively) unappeciated and underrated.

Who do you think are some of the most talented yet under appreciated artists since the Marvel era began in 1961?

A few of my favorites that come to mind (ignore the bad spelling):

Bill Sienkevitz

Jim Aparo

Dave Cockrum

John Romita Jr.

Marshall Rogers

Dave Sim

George Perez

Klaus Janson

Steven Bissette

John Totelbaum

Curt Swan

Brian Boland

Norm Breyfogle

Neil Gaiman

Jose Garcia-Lopez

Jim Starlin

So who is on your list as being under rated and deserving of more historical acclaim that they currently get?

Is it any wonder kids are no longer interested in comics? Even if they were, what parent would want their 7 year old reading something with a cover like this?

In the movie THE DEPARTED, Jack Nicholson makes a shopkeeper give the child version of Matt Damon's character some groceries. He also shoves a copy of a WOLVERINE comic into the grocery bag.