Musa Acuminata

I don't know if Friday's in the summer are typically slower or not, but I counted the number of posts on the CGC boards starting from @adampasz above, back 24 hours: Total posts: 228. I did the same count for the same time period on the Collector Syndicate board, since that has the same or former members, and the number of posts was 291. Not a huge number either, but for a 3 month old board to have 28% more posts, and no Ask CGC Q&A posts, no birthday posts contributing to that number is interesting. But Sales threads ae slow everywhere, and there are fewer of them. to see a sales thread of ft88's here get zero buys? That's unusual. Picklerick just started a SA slabbed Marvels thread in the CS, and the prices seem reasonable to me, but it's slow too.

Welcome to the dork side!

CAF Comic art Live! Watch Party in new OA Forum

Howdy, didn't see one here- but there's a CAL Watch Party Thread started here: https://collectorsyndicate.com/topic/477-comic-art-live-2025-05-17-and-18/ Everyone is welcome to join. I know Bill does not promote CAF or CAL on these boards because they are something of an anomaly and don't really fit into CGC's business outside of sketch covers, but the Collector Syndicate is entirely fan run, and has forums and subforums for just about every collectible, including OA. In fact I've seen more OA from members that don't normally peruse this sub-forum because they are mostly comics guys, but those Venn Diagrams obviously overlap, and there's more art out there in the hands of collectors than is reflected on CAF, etc.

only the Magazine FS forum survived being consolidated because the powers that be didn't realize it was there.

just a heads up: @lizards2 has posted some Marvel Mags FS on this forum: https://collectorsyndicate.com/topic/118-marvels/page/11/ Starting with this page. Foom, Crazy, Apes, Vampire Tales, Hulk, etc.

John sets up at OAF con - so we’ve seen him the last few years

@CGC Moderator Team can you respond to my request above?

Hello, quoted below is content from the CGC Terms of use (Updated 1/13/2024) it refers to a “Moderation Review Forum” I cannot find any such forum, and the link in my user profile to request a review of my board restrictions says “We could not locate the item you are trying to view.” I sent a pm to the moderation team, which appears to have been read, but was not responded to yesterday. The only other option I have is to contact CGC customer service but I don’t think that is the correct team to reach out to. I’m requesting a moderation review of my board restrictions. My 3 points expired yesterday but my account still says : Content moderated - Indefinitely Does this mean I can never post again without having each and every post approved before it will appear on the site? In the event of a notice, warning or violation, the CGC Moderator Team will communicate to the member an explanation of how the user violated the board rules. CGC’s system keeps a tally of points for each user, which increase or decrease based on additional violations or expiration of points. Violations and points of a user are not seen by other users. These moderator actions are taken after careful consideration, conforming to the stated policy and practices described here. If a user has a question or concern regarding a violation he/she receives, the user can post in the Moderation Review Request forum. A senior management team from CGC oversees moderation and will assist with certain violations or possible violations that require their input. The primary goal of this hierarchy is to maintain integrity by ensuring that moderation is handled in an objective, impartial manner that is fair to users.

Dick move CGC - the Gold 500 thread alone is going to P-I-S-S off some high roller CGC clients in a way that’s going to materially hurt your bottom line. This proves you don’t know WTF you are doing

Don’t forget :

Vodou, Shawn just called you old. I'm like a year older than you. But....I see more and more content in these auctions, not "old" stuff but new stuff, decompressed, sparse, no lettering, no backgrounds because that's all done on a computer- and I"m like "meh" this art sucks. I'd rather buy some obscure, "cheap" strip art from the forties that heretofore was unknown to me, that came out 35 years before I was born versus "new" art that came out 35 years AFTER I was born, with the realization that there's almost another 20 years hence of art that is progressively even less interesting, in terms of nostalgia, content, execution or aesthetics. That describes aging out, I know, just as I don't really recognize many names of the Top 40 Billboard artists, or who is presenting or receiving little metal statues at award shows. Still, there is this defiant little voice in me that says, yeah, but this stuff, pound for pound, apple to apples, take the pepsi challenge- really is inferior in a multitude of critical, measurable, definable aspects. Mostly because the production methods in comics and printing require far less of the artist and more of the computer and technology to produce the final product. The OA produced now is diminished proportionally to that, if it even exists at all and not as bits and bytes on a computer attached to a wacom tablet.

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Bingo- Gary Dolgoff was trying to sell pages like this on eBay 10 years ago and they sat and got re-listed over and over for $400-500 because they were overpriced then. Same for Doc Savage pages. Now someone got it in in their head that every Doc Savage page is $1000-1500. These used to be $200 pages tops.

The Palmer estate has really diluted the Buscema market. If I see another non-action character or talking page from Avengers or Thor on HA I'm gonna start collecting Pogo strips.

70% of the books are off their peak. there's no bottoming out. How do I know this? less than 10% of the books have gone up or down less than 10%. There's no deceleration or soft landing. Furthermore, of the 28% that have gone up, 75% of those are examples of books that don't have recent sales data from the last few year, just last sale data. If a book in that grade sold in 2012, then yes, that book will appear green. all the holes in the data were books have gone up reflect that. MSH #20 is a good example of this. It's an extreme outlier for reasons that are easily explained. Other books like Cap #6- just not a lot of recent comp data. I'd consider not even including books that don't fit the time frame of the analysis, they just muddy the data and mislead and misinform less discerning individuals who never had stats or know how to read a spreadsheet. but @DC# you've done a great service to all these discussions with your auction sales data. It's probably the single best thing in this thread or any thread you've shared them in while most are pontificating flatulent ideas.

then you've not been (active) in the hobby for very long or very recently. Or you collect Archie art.

why is the Eye of Agamotto on her back shoulder? This is Clea isn't it? From the private letters of Dr. Strange. He put the Eye on her like an Apple Airtag.

Albert would want it in cash. That's 800lbs in 20's.

THAT'S NOT ATTUMA! (said in Arnold's voice)

Vuescan is the universal remote for scanners and has been for 25 years. Many scanner OEMs will drop support for a model after a certain point, especially when there is a major OS upgrade that requires new drivers, but Vuescan will still support that HP, Epson, Mustek, even older high-end scanners like Heidelberg. So if you have access to a working 11x17 or 12x18 scanner and software is your issue, then Vuescan is the answer. It also has far superior user controls and settings to most off the shelf OEM scanner software. Mac, Windows, Linux, all are supported. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VueScan

yeah that doesn't age well. Plenty of digital artists and musicians for the last 25 years. IMO most of what has been done by Christo is one of the largest scale frauds every committed. And it's killed people. But there are far too many people, with and without money who enjoy the idea they know what art is. The emperors clothes and all that... lemme drop this here though, as it seems appropriate to the conversation: (I don't necessarily like or agree with this nepo-baby, but I think he makes some valid points in this video that trickle down to comics and comic art collecting in the future)

Curt Swan never thought what he was doing was "art" he was drawing a comic book from a script for 8 year olds to read. By your definition, an inked blue line or light boxed inked page is not art. Vince Colleta wasn't trying to produce art, he was trying to get the job out the door. Same with the can of Bumble Bee tuna. All commercial art, which all comics fall under if they are work for hire are commercial art. The artist, the writer, the copy editor, the pressman, the distributor, the salesman were all part of the production process to generate a product. If it's purely the intent of the person that "makes' something, then I can pee in the snow and call it art. IF the Scientist inking the tree to measure it's growth shows it to his wife, and she thinks it's cool, and hangs it up in a frame is it now art? Is it the creator or the eye of the beholder that is the arbiter of what is or isn't art?

but if prints are art, it' stand to reason production art is also art- because the production art itself is a print, a prototype of the mass produced print, it is in many respect the "original" because matchprints color keys, chromalin, dyesubs, Fuji's, whatever the era "Press proof" was the target to which the press is adjusted to match. Nobody is looking at the original inked artwork, it's not even in the same state or country as the press.