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dem1138

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Yowza, look at the bidding on the X-Men Annual cover

 

Someone really really wanted that cover. I thought 15K tops.

 

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It was more than just one person who really, really wanted that cover. Looks like three separate bidders duked it out.

 

Big time congrats to the winner!

 

True Felix, but the person with the last bid, really really wanted it. :/ At 44K you have to be thinking, "I'm spending 44K on an X-Men piece NOT drawn by John Byrne, and I don't give a **#*$&%&" Its the only way to still pull the trigger.

 

But that image by Byrne, on a cover, from that time period would have a "1" in front of that "44".

 

True, I'm just saying that if I'm spending 44K on an X-Men piece, the artist is Byrne.

 

Pieces like this are such outliers because the image is so strong. The market seems to have segmented towards image being more important than artist for certain pieces.

But when I see results like this I always wonder if the same price would have been realized if it had been auctioned by Comiclink? Or is this unique to Heritage? It almost seems to be the luck of the draw in terms of what piece is sold where and at what time.

Look at that ASM 29 page. On Heritage it doesn't meet a reserve in the 25K+ range but then on Comiclink it goes for 100K (given there was about a year in between but the difference was still very significant regardless of time being a factor).

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delekkerste

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Gave it a shot, but Nope on the Schultz 3-D 1 Cover, ah well. Nice piece, lotta cake. :pullhair:

 

That was my consignment...took a loss on it after more than 5 years of holding it. Looks like I will end up losing money overall on the lots I consigned, despite owning most of them for a long time. My expectations weren't high, but I had hoped to at least break even. Granted, most of my consignment isn't mainstream superhero stuff, but, it just goes to show how a lot of niche material has done nothing for 5-10 years even as the primo Marvel art has soared in price. :sorry:

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jbud73

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Gave it a shot, but Nope on the Schultz 3-D 1 Cover, ah well. Nice piece, lotta cake. :pullhair:

 

That was my consignment...took a loss on it after more than 5 years of holding it. Looks like I will end up losing money overall on the lots I consigned, despite owning most of them for a long time. My expectations weren't high, but I had hoped to at least break even. Granted, most of my consignment isn't mainstream superhero stuff, but, it just goes to show how a lot of niche material has done nothing for 5-10 years even as the primo Marvel art has soared in price. :sorry:

 

Hey Gene, it does not surprise me that that was your piece as it really is a fantastic representation from the latter stages of the Golden Indy period. Obviously Schultz has a following and I think it is work every penny of the 8.6K if I am a tad surprised the price tag was in excess of that years ago. I was out after 7K.

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Bronty

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Those Fastner & Larson portfolio plate illustrations went WAY lower than I expected.

 

As the winner of the Wolverine poster, I agree 100%

 

Nice score! I put in a low bid on that one too. I remember I gave that particular plate to a friend as an X-Mas gift when we were in junior high. I've largely moved away from collecting painted art, but, at these prices, I'm willing to make an exception. (thumbs u

 

The usually only give "featured" positions to pieces they think will make a minimum of $20K, so both very good buys.

 

I guess I am not familiar with this portfolio not having ever been an xmen fan, but honestly, from the description write up, I would have guessed 5-8 on wolverine and 2-4 on alpha flight. Am I out to lunch?

 

On the face of it my take is that they were overestimated by quite a margin, although again, I'm not a xmen fan so perhaps I am off due to not being that familiar with the material, but as out of continuity artwork... I wouldn't have expected a fortune personally.

 

Put that wolverine image on an xmen comic from that time and you'd get quite a different result though.

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