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I offered him a box of New Mutants 87 in the early 1990s. Somehow he didn't bite.

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The "art world" is a community much like the community we're taking part in here. In that world, instead of going to San Diego Comic Con I go to Art Basel Miami Beach. All apologies to San Diego, but Art Basel Miami Beach is a lot more fun (I've been there five times and San Diego only once.) Anyway, there are hundreds of years of thought, criticism and commerce that have evolved to represent the current framework in which we judge and value artwork in 2022. The criticism of someone like John Ruskin, who died 122 years ago, is still referenced today because his ideas are foundational about the way that we look at art today. And people have been building on those ideas for more than a century. There's a whole network of dealers, auction houses, curators, museums, artists, critics and buyers that combine to create the collective framework. Whether or not it makes sense to someone who doesn't have a sense of that framework doesn't mean that there's not a logic to the way that art is evaluated in 2022. That's the point I'm trying to make. Whether or not something is appealing is only part of the equation. That's the way it works. Just like the numeric grade on a comic is part of the way that the comic world. Even comic book collectors question the vast difference in value and the minute difference in quality between a 9.4 and a 9.8. An outsider would look at that and not understand it at all.

The recognition is that there's a permanent gap between what the art world actually is and what some people in this thread think the art world should be and I'm aware enough to recognize it and predict that the response would come.

It's like magic.

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As for the actual comics mentioned in this thread, I think they've increased in value by like 25% since I posted this thread.

He might just be the most famous living artist. There are other options (KAWS, Shepard Fairey, Kusama, Jeff Koons, Ai WeiWei), but with the notoriety factor and the mystery of his identity, Banksy is like catnip for both the art world and the public at large. If you're interested in Banksy, I'm particular to the documentary Banksy Does New York about his "residency" in NYC in 2014 (where he attempted to do 31 clandestine works over 31 nights) and the attendant media frenzy it caused. I know a few of people who are interviewed and know many more by reputation, so I can vouch for the fact that they did their homework. His most famous single work is probably this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_is_in_the_Bin (Spoiler alert! Some of you are not going to like that painting!)

I'm halfway convinced that the best Supreman #1 is the third most valuable individual comic. It's at least 4th (behind the 2nd best Tec 27)

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Yeah, I should add some of them because any Superman #1 (etc.), that exists is on the list, but those books are all really vague. All the photos are like... through a paper towel roll at the end of a hallway.

That's what makes it unpredictable and made it a no-brainer, to me, to get over $2,000,000. If this breaks the record I'll lose my mind.

And, I need to revise it! I'll need to include this book.