Mighty Hal

I'm not yet a nerdcrawler bidder, but I appreciate following the old links to see the winning bids. Thanks for leaving them up.

Beautiful work. Your tenacity paid off!

Great images! Congratulations on adding them to your collection. For those OA collectors who hunt first appearances, how much importance is placed on ads or promotional material? Will a first appearance in a comic book be viewed as more or less desirable than an earlier advertisement or promo?

All pages have sold.

To keep others from having to look this stuff up: Art by Pat Broderick, six issue series published by DC in 1986.

I suppose it depends on whether you're buying the OA because of the art or as an investment. At that price, probably both? Let me share my view from the Morlock tunnels. I've never spent five figures on a piece of comic, but I've gone four figures a couple of times. One of those times, I bought a panel page from a smaller dealer; a Jaime Hernandez L&R page. A fellow collector emailed me a few weeks later, asking if I had anything new, and I was happy to share my prize. "I've been watching that," he replied. "I wondered who overpaid for it." His comments didn't diminish how I felt about the page, only how I felt about HIM. Years later, I still love the artwork, enjoy looking at it several times a month, and would be sad if someone else had overpaid for it before me.

Gone.

This summer, I inquired about this splash. $450,000. Free shipping.

Dave Williams is such a talented artist. Type "David Williams" into ComicArtTracker, and you'll find some $200 pages at MGA (moregreatart.com). ComicArtTracker is a resource I use daily. Thanks, Nico!

Well, a pre-auction estimate of $400k plus. On the Felix podcast, didn't Jim Halperin say they tended to lowball their estimates? Enjoyed seeing the photo. Thanks!

I wonder if this will become the norm in the future. A couple of days ago, I emailed an artist to see if he still had the OA to a cover I liked. He did, but said, when the time came to let it go, he'd be consigning it to auction.

I'm beginning to think all OA collectors are not created equal. For me, anything close to $10k is a high-end piece!

So far, there are over 800 lots being offered. Some true treasures, but also some underwhelming pieces, to my eyes, anyway, with artwork I would normally expect to see in a Wednesday auction. Is this usual for one of their Signature events?

Krenkel is an amazing talent, but I only remember seeing his ERB-related work. In a nostalgia-based hobby, an artist will command the highest prices if he's worked on popular characters that achieved wide distribution. I haven't followed Roy's career, so I don't know how many "Greatest Hits" he's had. I do know it's tough to be nostalgic for material I've never seen.

Some collectors believe that any character appearance during a "first appearance issue" also counts as a 1st appearance of the character even if he or she was seen on the previous 10 pages. They call this a "first", but not a "birth" appearance, which is when a reader first sees that character.

McFarlane art prior to Spawn. He stepped up his game. Frank Miller art except for Sin City. Love his Sin City. Tradd Moore art. Alex Nino did it first, and did it better.

Nice illustration. Batman and the Joker? Great duo! To get an idea of value, what size is the artwork? Has it ever been published? Bigger is generally better, value-wise, and publication is a definite plus.

Let me second Fables in the trade editions. Great stuff, and I only picked up the first volume on a whim. Terry Moore's Rachel Rising is a terrific and absorbing read, too, but best in omnibus form.

Nice art, fair prices. There was nothing for me in those listings, but I appreciate that you're giving this a try. You're absolutely right; the auction houses do get too much of our money. Plus, going from collector to collector, there's no BP!

Truer words were never said!

I agree, it's an iconic image. I'll still take the under.

No idea how popular Johnson is, but his covers on 100 BULLETS made me a fan. Like some of the others here, I really enjoy J. H. Williams' artwork. I also think Terry Moore has done wonderful work on STRANGERS IN PARADISE and RACHEL RISING, as well as some other series. He writes, pencils, inks and hand letters every page.

I gotta tell you, the qualifications for "God" status seem kind of thin.

Mike, I used to visit your website frequently, hoping to see new comic art for sale. Then you flooded the "new" listings with SOLD ON DUELING DEALERS promos that soured me on seeing what you had. That's not new art, it's sold art, so why waste my time? I hope this announcement means shoppers will have a commercial-free experience again. I mean, relatively speaking.

The price for each? "Offers."