glendgold

All these other attempted flips are puny - see how the master swings at a 33333333% return, or something, with just one little tiny word.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/133878906609?hash=item1f2bcdfef1%3Ag%3AyisAAOSwVf5hIVWq&nma=true&si=2V%2FRHt32Iz5G%2BmwGNIwtGAdL5kI%3D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

https://www.ebay.com/itm/234237154020?hash=item36899f52e4:g:IoIAAOSwel1hZ~Bw7

On 9/23/2021 at 12:52 PM, Will_K said:

I tried to find the story on thr.com.  Maybe the story got pulled because... "fake news" ??

It was never up. That was a photoshopped joke story.  And I'm sure that now a bunch of people believe it, the way people believe that Tim Burton bought -- oh, wait, maybe I won't keep that 25 year old joke going.  (FWIW, back in 1996 or so two early Kirby pages from books no one has otherwis seen a page from showed up for sale - no one seems to have seen them in person, the seller was obscure, and then the sale was consummated (maybe) with an unknown buyer that someone joked was probably Tim Burton. And so eve since...)

I think that guessing an amount legitimizes the donkey show.  "I wonder if it sold for XX" becomes "Didn't I hear it sold for XX?" eventually.  I'll go as far as this speculation: I wonder if it sold.

Have any of you read that Damon Runyon short story where there's this craps game in an alleyway and the guy running it says he's going to have the largest payout in New York history, so all these guys show up, and when they ask where the dice are, he says he'll throw them himself, and he rolls the dice - in his overturnd hat, behind his back. And then he picks up his hat, looks really close, and announces what each person rolled, and tells them none of them won the pot. I can't remember the name of the story, and was hoping someone here did.  No particular reason.

On 9/16/2021 at 11:29 AM, stinkininkin said:

Collectibles that any guy off the street would probably recognize, and yet still down (after a big run up I guess). All the while, the only hobby I ever took any real interest in out of pure love and completely devoid of investment considerations, original comic art, seems to be just about bullet proof (so far). What are the odds?

I don't know much about most of those categories but can attest that both the wine and the book are problematic, the equivalent of a B+ piece of art. They're exactly the names you recognize (DRC! Gatsby!) with little asterisks that the people who actually drive those markets know to avoid.

On 9/7/2021 at 3:12 PM, Rick2you2 said:

Pretty much. I don’t buy grand cru wines, either. Not worth the money.

I'm going to be thinking about this comparison for a while - wine is my other money-wasting hobby, and so far I haven't learned much from one hobby that applies to the other, except some stuff is overhyped and some stuff slips through the cracks. The prices over in that other hobby are fueled, as here, by people with infinite money, and the rest of us chase QPR, quality to price ratio. There's gotta be an OA QPR lesson here but I haven't had enough coffee to apply it yet. "It's cheap but it speaks to me" is where it starts, I guess. 

On 9/6/2021 at 10:39 AM, artdealer said:

Hey, it’s only Monday morning. 
wait till Wednesday afternoon for me to be more ornery. 

Mitch is so hardcore he LIKES Mondays.

On 9/5/2021 at 9:52 PM, drdroom said:

I'll throw in my two bits, in celebration of one of Jack's signature characteristics: his unquenchable desire to keep going, to find out what else is out there.

I mean it's no color guide, but still...

On 8/30/2021 at 8:13 AM, lb jefferies said:

Happy Birthday, Jack!

it's funny - I remember reading this comic as a kid and thinking 'Oh, he's doing the extraneous splashes thing again' because I was an insufficiently_thoughtful_person. This is such a fantastic piece of work - so concrete, and yet every individual line comes off as almost abstract. Look at all the crazy textures and patterns that go into making up a couple of bust shots. Really cool.

On 8/24/2021 at 8:16 AM, Ecclectica said:

Many of the others sketches he already sold seems to be forgeries IMHO, but I would be glad to hear what you think of them...

https://www.ebay.com/sch/Books-Magazines/267/m.html?item=224583343112&toolid=10001&campid=5338116315&customid=CGCForum&mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&hash=item344a35dc08%3Ag%3AA7MAAOSwHJphI7Cs&LH_Complete=1&_ssn=davidgoldingart&_sac=1

It's me, or many of them seems to have been done... with the same pen ?

Wow, I hadn't noticed that - good eye!

On 8/22/2021 at 8:59 PM, inovrmihd said:

Can someone please respond on this thread or send me a direct message if they know of precedent for HA cutting their buyers fees (if so, how much do you have to spend to expect a cut)?  

So: no, this is a copy of one of Jack's New Gods presentations pieces, and if you were wondering how Jack's work ended up in Poland, you might ask the same of Watterson, Peter Max, Miro, Bob Kane, etc.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/255103062980?hash=item3b6553d3c4:g:RyYAAOSw6qxg7IGK

https://www.ebay.com/sch/art_for_life/m.html?item=255103062980&mkcid=7&bu=43188547830&emsid=e11021.m43.l1120&euid=bdc4438ed9b848afacae7a42a12e89d7&crd=20210822032345&sojTags=ch%3Dch%2Cbu%3Dbu%2Cut%3Dut%2Cosub%3Dosub%2Ccrd%3Dcrd%2Csegname%3Dsegname%2Cchnl%3Dmkcid&ch=osgood&osub=-1~1&segname=11021&mkpid=0&ut=RU&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562

I wouldn't have bothered linking (we are living through a time of waaaay too many forgeries to keep up with), but dude already sold a "Kirby" Hulk, so someone is going to be sad. The broad line work on these isn't the worst I've seen, but he lacks confidence in the detail work.

Start your engines. It's open.

On 8/13/2021 at 7:39 AM, alxjhnsn said:

I'd add that Bookshop.org is a reasonable place to shop; they were setup up to fight Amazon and directly support  independent book shops with cash why you buy from them. Forbes has a good article about them here.

Note: I have no idea if the author's get paid.

Yes! This is a great resource - thanks for linking to it. Authors do get paid, too. 

On 8/4/2021 at 2:01 PM, Will_K said:

Although the link is still good (and still contains "captain-princess"), the title has been updated to: Captive Princess.

Aw, shoot, I was working on my Captain Princess costume for Halloween.

On 8/1/2021 at 11:34 AM, jjonahjameson11 said:

Sure, its a recreation, but its HUGE!  Image size = 19x28

Anyone who knows Buscema can correct me here, but I was under the impression that John did a few SS 1 recreations -- but every time he moved the position of the Earth. Is that right?

Intrigued to see what the description of this one will be. Signed by Kirby, but isn't this Romita? Then again it looks like the coloring is by Kirby.  I know those Marvelmania posters have oddball stories behind them, and that there are several versions of this (one definitely by Jack and one definitely by JR), but I am fuzzy on the details.

Ah, geez, I bought this from Howard Lowery's auction in 1994 for $450 and sold it the next year for $750, I think, and I felt like a GENIUS.