lb jefferies

I'll play.... 1. Winsor McCay 2. George Herriman 3. Frank King 4. Carl Barks 5. Alex Raymond 6. Noel Sickles 7. Milt Caniff 8. Charles Schulz 9. Will Eisner 10. Jack Kirby 11. Steve Ditko 12. Alex Toth 13. Joe Kubert 14. R. Crumb 15. Art Spiegelman

I believe the large figure has always been thought to be Marie Severin's work

Ha!

See: Alex Toth

What I'd wish you'd do is pinpoint some key pieces prior to the auction commencing and post your thoughts prior, and then see how close your estimates are afterwards. I'm sure your blog is not influential enough to move the needle in any great way and it would be an education for newer collectors to actually see how difficult it is to nail down hammer prices. I'm afraid I'm slightly skeptical of all your pre-auction estimates.

I thought Kim Kardashian already broke it earlier this week? It's been a tough week for the internets

Joe just broke the internets with this one: http://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1178089

Kind of tough to get into that one, Gene. Everyone you're debating with I already have on ignore.

Nothing at all "stinks" about this. Janson has absolutely no dog in this fight. He's long divested himself of this art. How about we stick to finding the truth regardless of how many of us own full Miller/half Miller/Miller-touched-it-with-his-butt-cheek pages. I, for one, am curious to get as close to the bottom of it as we can get. Better to attempt to correct the record than stick our heads in the sand.

One of the nicest pages in the book to me. I'm not a buyer for any of these - I'm in the minority as someone who didn't spark to the story (either back then or now) - but this is a beautiful set up page

Here's something bushy ... NSFW http://www.anthonyscomicbookart.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=40354&ArtistId=357

WHOA

+1

Perception or not, I doubt that anyone is going to be chased off at a charity auction.

From someone who should know better, I found this to be one of the more ridiculous things I've seen in this thread. Surely not more ridiculous than the asinine "the book should be destroyed" comment

Very well said

Yes, because it's just all so dang convoluted. By all means destroy the fifty year old book.

This is kind of cool: http://comics.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=7093&lotIdNo=34001

For me Kirby's best inkers were Everett, Sinnott, and Royer in that order.

I can confirm that no one has better stories than Mike

I'm going to go out on a limb and say less than $200K, though.

I'd be shocked if this didn't end up with one of the usual suspects. Even if there are outsiders with bigger bankrolls, only the diehards of the hobby have the capacity for rationalization and self-delusion required to bid this material deep into record territory. Yup.

Alex still owns a ton of his OA

Oh man. I think that's bad form for an artist to buy his own piece at a benefit auction... I remember it selling for under 5k but I couldn't get set up in time. It's one of my favorite pieces by either artist. One of the best ink jobs Todd ever did, IMO. Really? He bid the highest. If he didn't bid the beneficiary's of the auction would have received less money. I have zero problem with what he did.