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I think his enthusiasm threw the blinders up. It's my understanding that he has seen some success in his Marvel/Independent work - the money may have represented an impulse buy. I don't get the impression that he is a collector, or that he understands the hobby. He knows and works with enough artists that I would think he would have a basic understanding of published vs recreation vs commission, but I don't know the guy.

oof. Well, that’s embarrassing.

Looks like Donny has removed his posts about the piece. Not sure about the reasoning, but maybe he did think it was the original and has realized that isn’t the case.

Maybe there was just a (much) lighter breeze that day.

I was terrified that this was going to be a original art page with a big signature across the center. This is nice work!

Spencer is good at responding to emails. That said, the only time I have ever found anything he actually had in stock was when I spoke with an artist who had just shipped him some art and managed to buy before it was even listed. That was in 2014/2015. If it’s something he hasn’t put on the site, you may be good. He does throw out the “I don’t have time to check” line a lot more these days, which strikes me as strange for someone with such strong competition from other art reps. Why leave a deal on the table?

That was the sale price. It had been up for some time at the original price.

Purchased from Essential Sequential for $800 on 7/22, now up for sale with a modest 450% markup: https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1748271

Never thought the reviews section would become a standout. Fishsticks69's frosty heart and "Thank you, Pat the Panda" were unexpected highlights.

Suddenly I'm not so sad that my pieces haven't shipped yet.

100%

Heritage is feeling the crunch too - while they generally get things out within a day or two of auction end (whether they have payment or not, in some cases), they still have my pieces that were paid for in late April. They say they're still waiting for FedEx to catch up with the backlog.

I know the original question is pretty old at this point, but I recommend Microsoft Office Lens - does the same thing with no watermark. I must have made the switch before the watermark issue came up, because I never ran into that change.

From my understanding (based solely on reddit) the card collecting crowd had gotten way out of hand (making threats, fights breaking out among competing collectors, etc). I worked at Walmart for a number of years in college, but I never had to deal with anything beyond the occasional overzealous Hot Wheels collector. This was the period after Star Wars cooled off and before Marvel Legends heated up. Between Cards, Funko Pops, Marvel Legends, Star Wars Black Series, and everything else out there (not to mention the pandemic), I am not missing that retail life.

Still appreciated! That's the only real drawback to black holes - there are so many pieces out there that I have to imagine exist, but where they are (and in what storage conditions) are a mystery. I have a few pieces I still don't have posted. I wouldn't consider any of these pieces something that someone would be searching out, but I received a message from someone recently telling me that they had been "wondering where that piece was located..." I purchased a small collection last year from a guy who was selling his late friend's collection of comics, art, and other collectibles. This set of 8 or 9 pages had two that I had been actively on the lookout for, and one that was very near the top of my list. These pages had been well taken care of, but it was obvious by looking at the entire collection that the art was just one piece of something much larger, and probably not something that the collector would have even thought to share on a site like CAF. It does make me wonder how many pages are out there that were given as gifts or picked up as a "cheap" curiosity or souvenir from a con and just filed away.

Very cool! Thanks for sharing.

Nice! I would love to see them.

Thanks! Tough to say whether or not I will end up with everything, but it has been fun to see these pieces reunited. I haven’t seen them all in the wild, but they’re all out there somewhere. Aquaman and Maxwell Lord are the only two that I don’t have either piece of, so I hope those are sitting safely united in someone’s collection.

I posted the pieces I do have to CAF. If you’re familiar with these covers but have never seen the throne artwork on its own, I recommend taking a look. It’s interesting to see how much detail was covered up by the seated figures. And again, let me know if you see any of the others floating around out there!

Hey guys, I am looking for the figure half of the Professor Zoom White Lantern variant cover for Green Lantern Corps 51 (Ryan Sook). If you have this piece, or if you know where it is located, let me know!

Same. The only issue is I seem to have run low in the wrong year! Looks like I am back to itoyas for the next few months - hopefully the story will be different when I check in again.

I just spoke with eGerber and was told that they aren't currently taking orders for mylar. They didn't have a timeline for resuming sales, but I didn't think to ask if this is pandemic related. They directed me to BCE, but prices have kept me away from them for a long time now. I noticed that others are experiencing shortages (especially in 4 mil products) - I am hoping that this is simply COVID at work and that eGerber will start sales again in a few months. I would prefer not to pay 2-4x elsewhere.

I have a few DPS pages and a couple of pages with overlays, all attached with masking tape. All of these pages are relatively new ('90s and newer) - I have been considering whether or not this tape should be replaced with something I know is archival. Has anyone here removed and replaced tape on a DPS, and what did you use?

To be fair, this isn’t the “cheap art Wednesdays” drop. This one isn’t advertised as cheap.

I don’t recall ever seeing this, but I like it! If I can track down those issues, I will take another look.