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Jamie McKelvie’s redesign of Captain Marvel was a big reason for her rise in popularity years before the movie. 

Even more impressive considering the issue it’s from is not particularly acclaimed or popular.

Here is an example of the Dark Knight blue lines from my collection. You can still see the blue lines in the word balloons and the oar. 

Mister Miracle has risen in prominence the last few years due to the Tom King/Mitch Gerads series. Not enough though I guess to give the Kirby pages a more significant bump. 

Being relatively new to the hobby, I’ve yet to have a bad rep experience. I’ve had painless, professional transactions with Albert Moy, Graphic Collectibles, Essential Sequential, and BritComicsArt. 
 

My purchases have also mostly been of the “thing was in stock, I clicked buy, it shipped” variety, so I’m sure I’ll start to have more “mixed” experiences as my requests get a little more involved. 

Just discovered a new turn off. I saw a piece for sale that I would otherwise love to have in my collection, but one of the word balloons contained a derogatory statement. A statement that was probably an accepted joke back in its day, but definitely doesn’t fly in 2020. 

Jorge Fornes Batman. Newer artist with only a half dozen or so issues of Batman under his belt, but the desirable pages have sold out quickly. Prices are still at a level where I could conceivably buy several pages if/when more were to be released. 

David Finch. I used to think his stuff was too over-rendered with everyone looking like they were on steroids. That aspect doesn’t bother me as much anymore, but I think my new opinion of him has more to do with the fact that he just flat out improved as an artist and storyteller than it does with me changing my tastes. 

I’ve used Goods & Services as a seller, but it’s been under circumstances where the buyer clearly had a decent collection and reputation to uphold, and I was relatively inexperienced. So really it was a very similar situation to what jaykza was saying. I felt like the onus was on me to “earn” some cred. Now that I have some references, in the future I might ask to just do F&F.
 

As a buyer, I’ve only ever used F&F and have had no problems. In all my cases though it was pretty easy to tell that the seller was legit. If it’s a profile with little activity or no activity in years, I might be a more hesitant.

In the last two or three years a number of pages from my grail series have gone up for sale but I lacked the funds. Now I have more than enough to go after one but the opportunities have dried up so far this year. I’m trying to practice patience but I admit I’m tempted every time I see shiny new objects from dealer sites. I’ve already caved twice in the last few months 😅

I recently picked up this page from his Batman RIP run with Morrison. His art usually isn’t for me but RIP was an exception. I love that story and I thought he put in career work on it. 
 

I think the prices I’ve seen his pieces sell for on eBay and auctions, and what I paid for this, is about fair. 

If it’s an artist I love but I don’t love the story it’s from, I will probably pass unless the page in question is just an absolute killer. Even then I’d probably take a long time to think about it. So long that someone else would snatch it up and make the decision for me. 

Sorry to hear it, but absolutely the right decision. Hope we have better luck next year. I miss cons.