malvin

On 11/15/2022 at 10:39 AM, J.Sid said:

Are there any pricing restrictions in place for sellers? What's to stop me from listing my Chas Truog Animal Man panel page in the event at $5m?

No pricing restrictions.

But if you have the secret sauce to boost Animal Man pages to $5M each, let me know how I can help, I have lots! 

Malvin

On 11/15/2022 at 8:24 AM, G.A.tor said:

Guess if folks don’t even have the courtesy to respond (I sent two inquiries of interest and neither bothered  to respond ), maybe that says more than their pricing. Who knows 

Wow! I'm shocked.  Just so I am clear, these pieces didn't sell, and you sent an inquiry with a question or an offer off their listed price?

I guess it's just me.  I almost always respond. Even on CAF when people lowball me on NFS pieces I send a polite reply saying it's NFS.

Malvin

On 11/14/2022 at 7:53 AM, Garry Ghoul said:

A CAF collector made a purchase request to one of mys pages and asked me to confirm he got it. I mailed him back and put the page as sold! Today as I sent him my info, he told me he moved to another purchase... Gentleman!

Sorry to hear.  I usually don't make the piece sold until I have payment (or it's a known user and he confirms it).  Heck, I don't even mark I on hold until it's pretty much sold.  At least that way I will still get emails if others are interested (I do tell the they are not first on the list if they email)

Malvin

We all have our own approaches.  With crazy auction prices, I was gun shy in trying to sell higher end pieces.  I would just consign them.

That's why most of mine were only a few hundred bucks, even if I priced it "too cheap" I would only have left 50 bucks on the table 

I hear people saying their $$ for heritage, but I think the majority of the items for sale on CAL were not really competing with HA, they were lower end.

Malvin

Hi Everyone,

I'm glad to sell quite a few pieces today and I've applied my final discount to my remaining items.  So please take a look!

CAL Gallery

Malvin

Ok, finally done looking at the new Sunday listings.  Everyone done and anyone buy anything? I saw a couple that I thought about but trying to be more disciplined so did not buy anything.

I also got 4 purchase requests so I'm happy with that (assuming all the sales go through)

I just noticed that some were Saturday postings re-uploaded at a lower price. I just lowered my prices, I might do that next time! 

Malvin

Yeah, I bought 1 piece and sold 3. The item I bought was a few hundred more than the 3 I sold 

You are right. Many pieces had aspirational pricing. 

Malvin 

Hi Folks,

Hope everyone is having fun at Comic Art Live.  I've sold and bought a few things.  I'm headed out for the rest of the day but reduced prices across the board on my items so please take a look

Malvin's Comic Art Live Booth

Key Items are:

1. Jr. Jr. Thor vs. Thanos unused cover

2. Bart Sears Batman Splash

3. Bisley Lobo original miniseries page

4. Page written by Alan Moore and Grant Morrison

Thanks!

Malvin

Hi Folks,

I just uploaded a bunch of art to my CAF:

1. Jim Lee Wolverine full figure sketch on the back of a Jim Lee Punisher War Journal Page

2. Dale Keown Wolverine vs. Hulk Commission, and one with Mark Farmer Inks over bluelines

3. Jae Lee Captain America (Ice Storyline) Unused cover

4. John Romita Jr. Bullseye page from the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe

5. Tom Grummet Animal Man pages featuring the first full appearance of "Grant Morrison"

6. I normally don't post art until it is in hand, but with his untimely passing I posted a Carlos Pacheco Superman/Batman splash that is on the way to me

CAF Link to recent uploads

Of course as art comes in, I have to pay for it! So I will have 27 pieces of art for sale for Comicartlive.  Most pieces are priced from $100 to $1000 and artists include Jr Jr, Leinil Yu, Keown, Grant Morrison Animal Man and more.  Heh, even if I sell everything it probably isn't enough to pay for this art day, but don't tell my wife that!

Malvin

MCS use to have tons of great art when few people knew they sold art (Adam Hughes Justice League pages and covers, Tim Sale covers, Will Eisner, Michael Golden and more) but you are right, they have been very weak lately.  

I don't know how consignors are thinking but we do need more venues that auction art.

Malvin

On 10/25/2022 at 7:20 PM, Customx12 said:

Sorry to be redundant but the paper ones and the plastic material ones are both color guides, right?

The paper ones are colour guides.  The plastic ones harder to tell, they might be more colour proofs with no hand coloured elements

Malvin

On 10/25/2022 at 3:54 PM, Customx12 said:

Thank you. What about the ones on paper that appear to be hand painted/colored?

The same comment applies.  Those are colour guides, where the original art is photocopied and the colourist either colours directly on it or adds notations for the printer so they know what colours to use.  They tend to only go for the tens of dollars max.

Malvin

Sorry, my gut says they are not worth a lot of money.

Colour guide tend to go in tens of dollars max.  If any of them were colour guides to highly desirable pages (e.g. the original art page would sell in the tens of thousands) then the colour guides would be more.  But at a glance, I didn't see any highly desirable pages.

It's still neat to have regardless.

Malvin

On 10/22/2022 at 6:44 AM, jjonahjameson11 said:

Malvin, a few notes on the Maguire results:

1. The page from issue 5 was the strongest of the Maguire offerings in the auction.  Up until this issue, Guy Gardener was a loud mouthed pest at the best of times, often challenging Batman’s leadership.  Well, you just knew that Batman wasn’t gonna put up with Guy’s nonsense much longer so he baited Guy into a confrontation on this page, which immediately precedes Batman knocking Guy stone cold to the ground with one punch!  The ‘One Punch’ became a running gag for several issues and is highly memorable even today.

2.  These Maguire covers rarely turn up for sale in public, and this one plays on a woman’s indecision/changing her mind during moving day, as the JLI moved headquarters in this issue.  Far from the best cover, but you may have to wait a decade for another opportunity at a cover

3. page 7 - I have no explanation for this very strong result.  I was thinking maybe 8K at the top end.

Hi Yoram,

Thank you for the detailed explanation.  I get the One Punch and that this page was two pages before it (and I am lucky enough to own the one page after it).

The pages were high, but everything is high so it was more of a pleasant surprise.  I'm more surprised that:

1. Page 7 was valued almost the same as the cover and issue 5 page 5

2. The cover was not valued more than the 2 panel pages (and I get than one was an A+ panel page, and that the cover didn't have Batman like the 2 panels).

Then again, many prices confuse most of us these days :P

Malvin

I'm scratching my head on the Kevin Maguire Justice League page finishes, in terms of the relative price of the cover and interior pages.

The were basically the same! I get that the interior pagers had better content and characters, but did not expect the cover to be priced the same as an interior page.

Malvin

Not DD but I saw Ankur list a Maleev Prof X cover that I thought was decent (image and price)

Malvin

On 10/10/2022 at 2:20 PM, KirbyCollector said:

So... we are supposed to accept the integrity of a Chinese wall he put up with the guy who saved him from bankruptcy. Well, that's fine -- just don't expect me to participate in CAF's pricing data collection, ever.

What exactly is CAF's pricing data collection?

Malvin

On 10/9/2022 at 11:30 PM, Overthetopinc said:

No worries brother. You have been a long time collector so I was surprised when you mentioned it. What is the deal on the Frazetta's?

They have a coa that looks legit. Seems like a good buy,no?

Thanks for understanding 

Don't know much about Frazzeta so can't comment sorry 

Malvin 

On 10/9/2022 at 9:28 PM, Overthetopinc said:

Malvin, with all do respect that is 100% a Fake! Without a shadow of a doubt. Look at the signature. He could not even do it straight. 

What I am curious about are the Frazetta's. Those might be real but that Ross is a Fake, No question!

Hi Matt,

OK, I look at the signature and it looks off too, I stand corrected.

I did see a similar scan sell on ebay on $900, not sure if its the same fake or that there is a real one out there that looks similar.

Malvin

On 10/9/2022 at 5:33 PM, Overthetopinc said:

Came by this earlier and just wondering who does this?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/204100880860?hash=item2f855c49dc:g:8AEAAOSwe1RjLhZH&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAAoES7m%2FTbaqP6LRmBukVZf5C99dX1HlIA3XQSRg4bSHVRoIOEHrmtB85LTjNSctcgKKsGloU607BguABJSW6jYoz6O2PE7fT0WyMACqXIou%2FnMPdOOTJhcRl4abKPWiEq9fSyPdzuhq0nSJ0UWW1VdhSatgsnQXJ%2B1PWKO9VWTpHnH30BRRRsFykWbLeX6Av4D3hjdp8OPG2Gmk0xJGYHf4w%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR77J7fT3YA

I don't think that Alex Ross is fake.  It's not the published piece but a study so not worth that price.

It sold on ebay in 2019 for $900.

Malvin

On 10/7/2022 at 2:02 PM, BCarter27 said:

...versus what was already at Comic Art Con, not much!

As you know, most artists are either holding for Heritage, cleaned out, or don't bring art to shows -- only selling through their rep or their social.

But I managed to snap a few random pics around the show-

https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/share/XmaDJNn8gVF0B7yqyZ6Pp261LlceK4MAnsjpL5c8vTc

appreciate this! Thanks!

Malvin

I think its just all spread out now, mainly to various FB focums.

CAF has it's own forums but I think activity is low.  Comicart-l is still around but has lower activities.  Statue forum had and maybe still has an OA sub forum too but I don't know how much activity is going on there.

Malvin