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I don't want to argue about this. I too think the art world is a ponzi scheme. But even there, many works "speak to people's emotions" beyond the hype that may or may not have been responsible for you seeing it somewhere. As for the old masters, basically they were old, working a long time ago. Times were very different. They painted NOT what they felt or even chose to paint.. They painted to eat! They always had a benefactor paying them for each portrait, etc. It wasn't until centuries later that the leisure classes could paint from the heart. Ironically a large impetus came in the early 19th century with the invention of the camera, and more specifically, film on which to record with photographic realism. That was the painters goal all along, and now painters weren't necessary for realism, or even as good as a camera. Soon after widespread usage of film and prints did Impressionism begin, when an artist could interpret what he say on canvas. One more thing about the old masters. Many scholars call them that because they had the god given talent to paint so realistically suddenly. Well, did you know they cheated? Just as artists today utilize technology to make their work easier, so did the old masters after the invention of lenses and then the camera obscura. Hockney published an exhaustive study proving the use of lenses so that artists could trace (light box) from real life, then paint on top of the accurate photographic layouts. Shocking!!!!

analogies are rarely perfect. Yours succeeds in as far as it goes, but only part of the way, because it completely omits the visual... which is a painting's essence. How about a photographer taking a picture of a building? or a train, or a car? reminds me a great quote about film criticism: Writing about Filmmaking is like Dancing about Architecture!

thanx guys. and it was typed pretty gud too!

Again? The difference lies in the purpose and execution, and in the reception the art receives. As one panel in a Crappy comic book aimed at kids and miscreants, he image is easily forgettable. But singled out and recreated as a full size painting, hung in a Gallery where it is reeaxamined by itself, or in a series of similar images on canvas, invites an appreciation of the meaning of the elements and emotions of the panel. Taken out of its original context increases the focus of the throwaway panel drawn for a per page rate on a deadline. The viewer sees the image and experiences the same image in a completely different way. Anyway, that's the theory. It works for me. How different is lichtensteins work, basically reinterpreting an existing man made creation, than any painter painting any other found object and reinterpreting it in a new context? You could argue tht Lichtenstein saw more value in the original panel than the comic book artists did, having sold it for pennies.

I misspoke when I said 9.2. It was corrected a few posts later. I think I was referring to h 58K sale hat t misremembered had to have been a grade higher than the 9.0 sales for so much less..

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I cried when I read it... Great moment when Luthor is on trial in Kandor, as they read the verdict and he schemes to change it.

I didnt buy any pulps, but the hardcore porn sure looked out there! yikes!

Never noticed how twisted up herc is on this cover

I forget.. Why are Luthors shoes glowing yellow? Anti gravity boots?

Boring did the cover of issue 200. I love his work. Su it's a bit over styled, kinda like DCs Ditko. Too often his work looks kinda dated or stiff. Like all his women pointing all the time. But his Supermans flying were heroic and made Swan look bland

Wow!! That's super cool, Jeff. Has anyone ever checked other issues of Ring magazine from the same time period for additional letters written by Howard? I have a bound volume of issues from February 1924 to January 1925 I could check. unfreakingbelievable... a collection if Ring Magazine too? i love it Bang!

I dont think you can definitely answer the question whether soft or hard ends create higher prices. With a hard ending on a book you have to have, you arre forced to pick a huge final bid or risk losing it. Downside is running up against someone else playing the same strategy. But in a soft end, you wouldn't put up your absolute highest bid, allowing you to gradually get there depending on the competition. You could argue that either auction could yield higher final prices given the number of serious bidders and the strength of their competition.... or lower. Say you win at the close of a soft end on a bargain price. You can now lose it in a sudden death bidding war. On the other hand, with a soft end, you get to rethink your win at all costs bidding as the after hours progresses.

Looks like a color breaking crease on GLs leg in the black. Probably keeping th grade where it is. Or was. Or whatever.

Couldn't agree more with this perspective ... the 9.4 - 9.8 market right now seems to be fueled by the speculators / dealers looking to flip in the short term. The 8.5 to 9.2 market is much more stable due to COLLECTORS buying to hold onto the books, and the pricing of the book fits into the space of: a person who wants to depart with the book / has stopped collecting / needs money and the buyer is someone who is buying something he likes / needs / wlll cherish. Seems a lot of HG books are being snatched up at 5x 9.2 prices and then showing up next week on another site for 10X 9.2 price - one speculator is crossing his fingers hoping the next speculator will bite ... and so the vicious cycle goes on...until the speculation collapses - didn't this happen in the 90's with new issues ??!?!? Perfect example in recent times is GL#76 CGC 9.6 - this book can be bought for half of what auction prices were about 9 to 12 months ago. Nobody held onto this book in the past year, it kept on flipping... and flipping... and flipping Well, GL 76 is indicative of something, but not the point you aremaking IMO. GL was considered scarce in 9.4+ for a long while. Then many copies showed up, and the lone 9.6 was sold for a fortune. I think the thought was that it would main the lone 9.6 forever, like the lone 9.6 AF15 has. Sounds silly now, but ... Then a 9,8 appeared! So what killed GL 76 was more and more copies coming out. Not flipping the same copies.

well, big spread between 100K and 10K.... thats a crash to me.

I'm in page 111. I prefer fewer long pages to scroll thru.

Looks like a case of the buyer wanting it at any cost ... And another bidder only a little less gung ho. Don't know if it signals a market upswing. And i agree there must be other mid garde copies we will see as a result.

apparently this is Feige/Marvel's plan all along. It really mimics the Stan Lee crossover/pollination technique back in the early 60s. Exciting to see it carried out on screen "for real."

Aman, you were correct. DC can't generate the Marvel flick wave. (thumbs u Which of course is why the biggest grossing comic book movie of all time is "Dark Knight". The Bat is an exception to the rule... I think the death of a lead actor before the movie came out had a ton do with so many people going to see it. The death of the very popular Heath Ledger brought world wide attention to the movie, that made a lot of difference. To me Ledgers performance stole the picture. Thank you Captain Obvious! i wasnt sure anyone else noticed that...

Aman, you were correct. DC can't generate the Marvel flick wave. (thumbs u Which of course is why the biggest grossing comic book movie of all time is "Dark Knight". The Bat is an exception to the rule... I think the death of a lead actor before the movie came out had a ton do with so many people going to see it. The death of the very popular Heath Ledger brought world wide attention to the movie, that made a lot of difference. To me Ledgers performance stole the picture. And Glossed over what was in essence just another Batman film. His scenes pumped adrenalin in between many tedious scenes of hand wringing and explosions.

what did Gilda Radner always say? "never mind.."

who the heck is BCW?

wait... BCW is NOT Bill Cole? seriously, thats a piece of info that ought to have been more clear

how many overseas markets are in that 21 million? if its ALL of them, whoops. but unlike some other recent films, GL may be planning a slower rollout.