Captain ShipWreck

On 2/2/2024 at 10:11 AM, NinjaSealed said:

Has any received or know anyone who has received any art from them in the past few months?

Bought a piece last week from them. Hasn't shipped out yet but I'll keep you posted when I get it. 

On 1/24/2024 at 10:18 AM, Dr. Balls said:

 

Plus, at 30 you want to live a little. Congrats on being 30 and buying a house. That has gone from 'challenging' to 'practically impossible' in the past few years - you are one of the fortunate ones to have locked that in. Good on you for gettin' it done.

Thank you! The timing was perfect and I live in a smaller tourist town so prices weren’t insane yet. My neighbor, who has a similar layout to mine, just sold theirs for 140k more than what I paid. If I were in the market today it would have been practically impossible without selling off some of the best pieces in my collection.

Currently, it's about 60% of my net worth. My collectibles were as high as 80% two years ago when I was still collecting books. I liquidated some when I purchased a house. I've been throwing most of my income into art and books since I started collecting almost a decade ago. I'm 30 btw.

On 1/1/2024 at 9:31 PM, batman_fan said:

I had a ~$20k package of CGC books go missing.  Spent 3 weeks calling with no luck.  Package was shipped registered.  My wife went to the local post office, asked if they had it which they promptly gave to her.  Had just been sitting at the local PO.

I had a similar issue but as the seller. A few years back I sold a book registered mail through my local PO. It took two weeks to go from Georgia to Texas and then disappeared. After a week with no updates, I opened a claim. After four more weeks with nothing updating, the buyer drove three hours to the last place it was scanned. Turned out the package was sitting there but was flagged because it wasn't initially marked correctly at my PO. Instead of marking it in their back-end intranet system as being held, that location just put it to the side. If the buyer never drove to that location it probably wouldn't have been "found". This was the last time I used registered mail.

On 10/19/2023 at 1:00 PM, DocGo said:

Does this really happen? I’ve only ever watched Jeff’s campaigns and I don’t think anyone gave up the $5k Bone #1s on his first one 

It does. I ended up with a Bone #1 from the Kickstarter because someone backed out. 

On 10/4/2023 at 12:42 PM, alxjhnsn said:

Not I.

Ah. Sorry about that. Maybe we just talked about what we were going for that night. The piece went high, something like $700. I missed out on the two pieces I was after too. 

On 9/30/2023 at 12:02 PM, alxjhnsn said:

Updated my Jeff Smith pieces with a few I missed the other day.

I might be remembering this wrong but didn't you win the charity piece at Heroescon this year as well?

On 9/25/2023 at 1:37 PM, DocGo said:

No, his piece was created long before Jeff ever went to a comic convention. Which ones are you referring to?

Heroes Con 1994 program back cover/ 2023 front cover. Jeff sent a drawing in a reply letter saying he would do the show and they could use this image for the program. I've spoken to the owner about it once a while ago and I believe it was a pencil sketch he had inked by a few different artists. The other is a cover from the Bone run. It was gifted years ago when Bone was still coming out.

On 9/22/2023 at 12:57 PM, DocGo said:

Sorry about the delay on the final original art piece. We are still hammering out the details. The end result should be worth it…

out of curiosity, is this piece one of the two pieces Jeff gave as gifts to convention organizers? 

Most recent pick-up and probably my favorite piece in the PC right now. Hellboy & The Angel of Death.  

 I picked this up a couple of years ago. This was Mike’s second attempt at a promo image (team drawing being the first) and drawn right after the Dimepress cover. 

SOLD

SOLD

6 hours ago, Darth Corgi said:

I’ve been to Mountain Man Comics and that’s a great shop you’ve got there in Blue Ridge. Comics in the mountains! 🙂 

Congrats on the sale. WM is a superb title. 
 

Thank you! I hope you got to see it when we had all the slabs. It was a cool couple years when are walls were just major keys. 

Thank you but it's back up for sale. The previous buyer bought it for his son as a gift, but it was the wrong SOTI book he was needing. 

Back on the chopping block...

John Byrne's Next Men #21 CGC 9.8 White Pages. 1st full color app of Hellboy. FOR SALE $285-Free shipping for Domestic!

Payment must be made via paypal invoice and is expected within 72hrs of claiming. 

First   in the thread trumps all. Feel free to PM me any questions or if you want more pics.

1 hour ago, Black Bat said:

Forgive me if I'm wrong- but it appears this exact same book un-slabbed is for sale on Ebay right now.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/WEIRD-MYSTERIES-7-2-5-GOLDEN-AGE-HORROR-1953/362903442015?hash=item547ebb125f:g:6J8AAOSwBDdeMLzX

Identical twin or...?

Sorry for the delay, was out shopping. Hope this helps.

Weird Mysteries (1952) #7 CGC 2.0 Off-White Pages. Used in SOTI (Seduction of the innocent). FOR SALE $500-Free shipping for Domestic!

Payment must be made via paypal invoice and is expected within 72hrs of claiming. 

First   in the thread trumps all else. Feel free to PM me any questions or if you want more pics.

Weird Mysteries (1952) #7 CGC 2.0 Off-white Pages. Used in SOTI (Seduction of the innocent). FOR SALE $800 OBO. Free shipping for Domestic! (No international shipping at this time)

Payment must be made via paypal invoice and is expecting within 72hrs of claiming. 

First   in the thread trumps all else. Feel free to PM me any questions or if you want more pics.

SOLD!

Price Drop! $2250 

For Sale! Published nude female and head study by Frank Frazetta. This piece is currently framed but the page roughly measures 2.25” by 6.5”. This is an undated piece but was most likely drawn sometime in the late 50’s possibly early 60’s according to Frazetta expert, David Spurlock. Published in Ballantine vol 4, the female figure can be seen on page 7 and the head is on page 86. $6,500 OBO via PayPal invoice. Insured shipping is included but only shipping to the US at this time. I will take payment plans depending on time needed.

DM me for any questions.

1 minute ago, thehumantorch said:

Nice book but board rules state books for sale here can't be on sale anywhere else.

Thank you for letting me know. I wasn't aware of that.