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[DocGo]

A pretty good looking Thorn Tales from the Lantern is up for bid in ComicLink’s Summer Featured Auction. They say it’s an 8.0 VF, which seems fair to me given the wear on the top and bottom of the spine and the general wear on the edges of the front and back cover. IMHO, it looks better overall than the VF copy on Heritage last December.

What do you guys think?

[SpineTic]

 

[DocGo]

On 8/23/2024 at 7:51 AM, SpineTic said:

 

A few minor factual errors aside, it’s a pretty good summary. Thanks for posting!

[Aaroncash]

On 8/16/2024 at 3:58 PM, DocGo said:

A pretty good looking Thorn Tales from the Lantern is up for bid in ComicLink’s Summer Featured Auction. They say it’s an 8.0 VF, which seems fair to me given the wear on the top and bottom of the spine and the general wear on the edges of the front and back cover. IMHO, it looks better overall than the VF copy on Heritage last December.

What do you guys think?

Went for $5,677

[DocGo]

On 8/31/2024 at 2:24 PM, Aaroncash said:

Went for $5,677

I think the buyer got a great deal. With the prices I’ve seen on Bone stuff over the last few months, it’s not surprising.

[Aaroncash]

Hmm prices seem to continue to be dropping. It’s not over yet for a few hours but an 8.5 under $1k seems like a good deal.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/235726345767?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=paxRjZd1SKa&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=hmF4jHV2QVm&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

Edited September 9 by Aaroncash

[DocGo]

On 9/9/2024 at 4:58 PM, Aaroncash said:

Hmm prices seem to continue to be dropping. It’s not over yet for a few hours but an 8.5 under $1k seems like a good deal.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/235726345767?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=paxRjZd1SKa&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=hmF4jHV2QVm&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

Ice cold 

[DocGo]

Heritage had a very interesting auction last night for one of the elusive Bone sketch cards from the first series produced in 1994. This one was graded by CGC which surprised me. I asked them a few years ago why they graded gaming cards but not comic cards so I’m glad this has finally changed

As you can probably tell by the avatar I use, this card has always fascinated me. The holy trinity of sketch cards in the early to mid 90s have always been the Art deBart by Matt Groening, the Wildstorm Groo by Sergio Aragones, and Fone Bone by Jeff Smith. I believe the Bone card was the second ever pack-inserted sketch card (after Defective Comics Trading Cards in 1993) as the Barts could only be had via a separate redemption card.

The auction description said that this particular example was from the David Sire collection. Not knowing who this was or what it meant, I did a search and, sure enough, his collection included both a Groo and two different Art deBarts, along with several uncut sheets and numerous autographs cards from the 90s 

I’ve now seen two of these sketch cards come up for sale in 2024. The last one before these was an eBay BIN back in 2014.

[ADAMANTIUM]

On 9/20/2024 at 6:33 PM, DocGo said:

Heritage had a very interesting auction last night for one of the elusive Bone sketch cards from the first series produced in 1994. This one was graded by CGC which surprised me. I asked them a few years ago why they graded gaming cards but not comic cards so I’m glad this has finally changed

As you can probably tell by the avatar I use, this card has always fascinated me. The holy trinity of sketch cards in the early to mid 90s have always been the Art deBart by Matt Groening, the Wildstorm Groo by Sergio Aragones, and Fone Bone by Jeff Smith. I believe the Bone card was the second ever pack-inserted sketch card (after Defective Comics Trading Cards in 1993) as the Barts could only be had via a separate redemption card.

The auction description said that this particular example was from the David Sire collection. Not knowing who this was or what it meant, I did a search and, sure enough, his collection included both a Groo and two different Art deBarts, along with several uncut sheets and numerous autographs cards from the 90s 

I’ve now seen two of these sketch cards come up for sale in 2024. The last one before these was an eBay BIN back in 2014.

Awesome. Glad it is reinvigorating this hobby for you. Not that it was gone by a longshot, but that it is to reinvest itself or reinvent? Sounds like you'll have some more friends along for the ride.