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There's one in the ComicLink auction. Let's see if you still think it is undervalued at the end of the auction.

Clearly a lack of supply. For anyone else but you, I don't think they would be undervalued. For you, they probably are. I guess I'm not going to get a nice page until you get tired of collecting them!!!! I might have to wait a really long time.

Had to look that up as I didn't know what it was. What is the price range for this work when it is available? Don't worry, I'm not going to buy any.

I too would like pages from him, but they aren't undervalued. Maybe Felix sold them to cheaply on the last drop, but the real market is significantly higher. I was offered an older one for $6k (which was more than I was willing to pay). It was late at night and I missed the email and it was sold by the morning at that price. Maybe the best way to explain this topic is that if five pieces were in a Heritage or ComicLink auction, do you think you would win them all? One, that would mean you really want a lot of pieces from this artist (not just a specific cover or piece) and two, you value them more than anyone else out there (or at least it seems you value them more). If you look at my CAF gallery, I collect Joe Jusko's Tomb Raider: The Greatest Treasure of All pages (a one shot book). To me, the art is incredible and you will see that Joe has commented on the pages several times saying this is the work he is most proud of. On Heritage, I had made an offer on two pages four or five months ago. The person did not accept my offer, but about a week later, both pages showed up on eBay with reserves several hundred dollars less than my offer. The seller made it clear that he would not end the auction early. So I bid the reserve and near the end of the auctions, I bid a lot more than the reserve for these two pieces. I won them for the reserve, as no one else bid. Hence, I value pages from this book higher than anyone else. I then purchased five more pieces from a UK Seller that was a logistical nightmare for much more per page than the two I just purchased. All that said grapeape, if you are willing to pay say $15k a page for Tradd Moore SSB pages, than I would agree that you value them more than anyone else especially if you would buy as many pieces as available (up to your financial limit).

Not sure what the secret is about your grails, but OK. In terms of Heritage, now almost every state has to pay the sales tax, so where they are located doesn't matter. They set-up an office in Palm Beach, FL about five years ago, so for three years I had to send all my wins to my parents house in VA. They then sent it to me (pretty much uninsured). Some packages were more than $10K. Fortunately all arrived safe and sound. I absolutely hate paying the sales tax but since almost everyone has to now, that should be factor into the price (which prices still seem to be increasing dramatically on a lot of art).

Nope. 1) I will wait to find a piece from that artist that I like or 2) I will find a piece from another artist In the case of Byrne, cost would be too much to pay for something I don't like much. And there is enough supply to find something I would like. And a perfect example is art from an artist I really like, but they make the character do something silly. Or the character is just someone dressed up as the character, not the "real" person. Can't stand those pages.

So what are the three you have?

But would you be a buyer of a lot of that art at current prices? The idea of the topic is that to you, the prices that the art is selling for now, seems like a bargain (relative to other artist that you collect). And it would need to be something where you would want to purchase multiple pieces. Think of it as "who do you think is undervalued, but there isn't enough supply to fill YOUR demand". Everybody has artist that they think are undervalued, but if their art is readily available (dealer sites, auctions, etc.) that artist doesn't really count for this topic.

Interesting to know which artist you would buy a lot more artwork, at current prices, if they became available. You can tailor it to individual characters or books, but in general, when a piece of art comes up (dealers site, auction, etc.) you pretty much have little to no issue with the cost and will buy that piece. Your not buying it for investments purposes as much as to you, the work is undervalued compared to other art that you buy. I'll start off: Dan Brereton art for DC or Marvel. Yes, he has a lot of pin-ups out there and did Nocturnals (which is his characters), but I only want his Red Sonja, Legends of the Worlds Finest, Seven Caskets, etc. work. About two years ago I picked up this piece in a ComicLink auction for less than $400. If ten more pieces came available from this book for anywhere near this price, I would own them all. Covers by him usual sell for less than $2k. I think because his work is in color, it doesn't fit in with most Comic Book art collection, but I love it (especially at current prices).

What's funny, is that I want "EVERYONE" to know what I collect. If someone see that I collect a certain artist or book, I absolutely want them to try to sell me something. Especially if they don't post their art on CAF (and are just members). If someone wants to add a "premium" to something that I had no idea was available (and maybe it wasn't available until they realized that I might buy it for a premium), I'm all for it. It's absolutely MY decision if I want to buy it or not. But please, show me what you have that you think I might be interested in. I put out my wants on CAF, but I'm also looking for specific pages from a book. And in the description of the pages I do own, I make it clear that I'm looking to buy more pages from this book. I would much rather decide that the price is too high to buy at this time and know who has those pages, that have no idea who has those page. Please look at my CAF gallery and try to sell me something!!! And on a different note, this has happened to me twice. I get an offer to buy a piece that I have NSF ("not for sale"). We agree on a price and then the person goes dark or tries to get the price down lower. I hate that simply because the piece wasn't for sale in the first place. If you want some ones NSF art, and make them an above market offer (which should be the only reason they sell), please follow through!

Two different statements. My bad. * Lots of Kaluta and Anderson art has been released. In Kaluta's case by him, and in Anderson by his estate? (or whoever bought a lot of it, not sure). * Mannarino came on board awhile ago, and has been selling a lot of his collection in the auctions (that's what he told me). Speculation on this, but that is probably why he works for Heritage now (instead of All-Star Auctions his own previous company).

Maybe. Also, both a lot of Kaluta and Murphy Anderson work has been released lately. This auction has 27 pieces that Anderson worked on, and off course none are Marvel. Nor are the 7 Kaluta pieces. Those artist have also been filling up a lot of their weekly auctions. I think the supply of quality material is drying up a bit. And this is based on a conversation with Joe Mannarino (who I think called a lot of people including myself in May to discuss selling art), a lot of the art over the past few years was his collection. I have to believe there isn't much left (but that I don't know). But two points that really matter: * Doesn't really matter how much artwork they have in an auction. Matters do they have something you want. If I win one piece it's still a successful auction and if they had twenty pieces I wanted, I still at best would get 3-4 at the most. The only difference is that you feel (and this might be a mistake), the more pieces, the better chance that the piece you want sells for a little less (more supply keeps the prices down). * They do seem to have more "complete stories" for sale than usual. They could in theory have broken those up and sold them over several auctions and therefore had more individual pieces. Good luck to everyone!

I have bought and sold off of CAF so far () without any issues. If you see a piece that you really want, do a little research on it if you aren't sure of the buyer. About two weeks ago, a premium member offer a pretty nice piece of art I was interested in as the price was below what I thought it should be (and it fit well in my collection). I thought I had seen the piece before and search and it was on a dealer's website. I told the Seller that I would take the piece but asked if he was also selling it through dealer. He said he bought it from them. Note that he was selling the piece for $2k less than on the dealer site, so I was skeptical. Also, the Seller said someone else was interested, which was not a shock based on the price, but put pressure on me to buy/pay quickly. I then emailed the dealer but he didn't reply so 10 minutes later I called the dealer and he did confirm that the Seller had bought the piece and the dealer just hadn't taken it off the website. I still paid with PayPal and paid the Seller the extra 4% fee so I would have some protection. Seller was supposed to send a tracking number but never did. Big finish....I did get the art yesterday, so everything is good. But there were plenty of red flags so just make sure you are careful. I know from collecting comic books through ads 30 years ago, a bad or even fraudulent transaction can really spoil your desire to collect for a long time. If you have any concerns, ask the person for their phone number and give them a call to discuss. Be polite, but don't worry about hurting anyone's feelings by asking some questions or getting info from them, in a nice way. Every honest person in the hobby should understand the concern a buyer would have making a significant purchase without an intermediary (e.g. eBay, Dealer, etc.)

Since they are have five auctions a year (instead of the usual four, one every three months), they don't have anywhere near as many pieces in this one. It's been stuck on 400 for a few days so I think that might be it. Most of the time they have had 600-700 pieces. Obviously quality matters more than quantity, but I also don't really like the quality of this auction. 87 in total are strip art (which I don't collect) with 37 of those being Jim Davis Garfield pieces. Very weak auction. I hope this isn't a harbinger of things to come. That said, there is one piece I am very interested in. I tend to want "items" that aren't readily available or are more unique (but has to have been published). I will also say that the piece I want would be hard to determine the value / what it will sell for. For anyone who would like to guess, if you get it right, I will email you. One last hint, I own a X-Men Steranko page and I don't own (anymore) Jack Kirby art. Love both of their work, but I know I can get a Kirby page when I want, and when Heritage had a nice Steranko page (several years ago), I knew, buy now or wait a long time.

My issue is that they don't describe the condition at all. Some is obvious, but Heritage mentions everything. Of course, doesn't seem to matter as even art with lots of "issues" still seem to sell at either site as if they are in mint condition.

I'm on CAF as Steven Filosa. I really like this one, but mostly because it is pretty large. A lot of covers have almost nothing on the top third of the art, as that is where the Title goes.

Perfect comment regarding grail. I actually do own a SSOC cover by Earl Norem that I think is one of his best (my opinion of course). I have been offered or seen in auctions between 5-10 other SSOC covers by him (since my acquisition), that I think are nice, but I passed on because I did not like them as much as mine. Price was not really a concern. Yes, if they were being sold at 1/2 off, I would have bought them, but in general, I didn't feel like I needed to add them to my collection. But is the one I own a grail? No, because there are a few other covers that if I was offered, but had to trade mine (KEY POINT HERE), I would trade and pay some cash. Hence, my piece isn't a grail, but I am very happy with it. I don't feel like I need to own another unless I like it more than mine.

The one thing that wasn't mentioned in the other post are "why did you feel you needed to buy a lot of covers and 2 complete stories"? My first thought is that "this artist" is an "artist grail" for you. By that I mean you really, really like this artist and his work on this title. Sounds like they are all grails in some form or fashion. And if they really aren't, then you should have maybe bought one cover and that complete story and called it a day with this artist. Also, "grail" is overused. To be a true grail, it would have to be absolutely your favorite piece, maybe by a specific artist or character, and you would not sell/trade it for any other piece (regardless of price) unless it was time to get out of collecting. Most of us have pieces we love, but if another piece came around that we liked better, we would buy or trade our "grail". Now what really happens is that we have a "grail" and other better pages/covers that we would trade that piece for might be out of our economic reach. That pretty much means the piece we own is not really a grail, just our favorite piece in our collection at the time.

Graphic Collectibles had a lot of covers early on. I think these are all directly from the artist.

Please post the two. Always love to see an awesome panel page.

Also a lot of Michael Kaluta art has just hit the market. Once again, look at Heritage. I think that Michael released this himself (with a lot going to Graphic Collectibles). Just to point out, this isn't like a rep artist that publishes something new and then releases it. These are pieces that are 10 or more years old, just released to the public. Once again, if you like any of this stuff, buy now when you have options. Five years from now, all the good pieces would be gone into collectors hands.

Look at Heritage Auction archives and type in Murphy Anderson. I don't know the story but sort by recent sales and over 600 pieces that he worked on have been sold since mid February 2019. Before that, there were sales but more like three or four a month, not thirty or forty a month.

For me it is the teased hair on the women. Very popular style in the 80's but looks silly on women who are supposed to have lived a thousand (or more) years ago.

In economic terms (and you will probably see me say this in lots of post in the future), I look at the "opportunity costs" of buying the 219 instead of the Galactus cover. Basically, my dollars could get me the 219 and anywhere from 8-12 nice interior pages of the FF drawn by Pollard (I sold a nice one at ComicArtLive for less than $1k). I know most collectors don't think that way, and you can always rationalize buying a ton of interior pages instead of one cover, but in this case, you would still get a really nice cover plus a lot of interior pages. I'm not basing this on resale, just as collector.

Normally I would have been interested in that but it looked more "preliminary" and it was in watercolor and not a scene that interested me. Still you did very well. Your Joe Chiodo page went for a lot more than I would have expect for what the content was. It did have nice colors but there are a number of pages available for significantly less (but most are hanging out overseas).