Purchased some Golden Age art....

[Real Elijah Snow]

It's a 7 page complete Tom Mix story from Master Comics (Fawcett) #114 (1950) .

I can't figure out who the artist is, and I'm really unsure on value.

Can anyone here provide any insight on the artist or potential value? (guesses would be fine, as I am seriously lost on the Golden age art market)

 

(sorry for the glare, all 7 pages are in nice frames)

 

 

 

 

 

 

[alxjhnsn]

According to the Grand Comicbook Database, this story credits were:

Fury in the Hills - Tom Mix / comic story / 7 pages

Writer: ?

Pencils: Carl Pfeufer

Inks: John Jordan

Colors: ?

Letters: ?

[Mighty Hal]

Golden Age art appears to be criminally undervalued. Rarity alone would seem to drive those prices higher but that hasn't really happened.

 

Looking through some dealer sites, I remembered Golden Age Collectibles offering a single Tom Mix page. Checking there again, I see it's from Master Comics #111, same team on the artwork, with lots of Tom in the Mix but no splash. They're asking $175 for the one page.

 

A complete story would be more valuable but there's not a large demand out there. If you placed it on the 'bay, I'm guessing -- and it's a complete guess -- you'd be looking at $300-350 or so.

[alxjhnsn]

Oh, yeah, the second part of your question! I forgot.

 

On the assumption that teaching a man to fish is better than giving him a fish. I offer the following:

 

You might want to explore the following resources:

• The OA auction archive at Heritage Auctions - This archive presents the results from all of their OA auctions.. Once you sign-up and get an id, you can search for pieces by your artist and see what they have sold for.
  
• The CAF Market Data - More auction results (more than 1,000,000) are available if you join the Comic Art Fans site, pay for Market Data access, and access eBay and other auction sites as well as Heritage.
  
• The Comic Art Database. It contains transaction records entered by the owners of Comic OA.
• Dealer sites. Dealers, generally, post their art with fixed prices though there are exceptions. There is a list of dealers on CGC OA board and the Dragonberry site has a list as well. The CAF site will search the inventories of several dealers for you.
  
• Blouin Art Info which tracks sales at major art auctions. It can turn up some Comic OA as well. Look for the “Art Prices” item on the top right of the screen
  
• Jerry Weist's Comic Art Price Guide - Heritage published a third edition of it. In my opinion, it's a good history book and might be useful for comparison work, but it was out of date a year before it was printed.
  
• A topic on these CGC OA boards, A-level panel page valuations by artist/run - thoughts/additions/changes?, holds a discussion that relates to your question. It provides some "generally agreed upon" ranges for popular runs by popular artists on popular characters.
• The Biggest OA Prices thread tracked some of the largest sales in the OA space. While that particular thread has stopped; it's probably worth reading for the discussions. Meanwhile , the information is still being updated - just with a different mechanism.
  • The price information moved to The OA Elite blog. Click on the categories on the top of the page to see the updated list.
  • The discussion moved to Biggest OA Prices: The Blog

New buyers and sellers often find that OA is too hard to price. I agree. However, I think that there is a valid reason. Each piece is unique. Uniqueness make art sales generally and OA specifically non-linear.

 

For example,

• Consecutive pages could and do sell for radically different amounts.
  
• Take page layout - In general, you might say:
  Covers > 1st Page Splash > Other Splash > 1/2 splash > panel pages
  However, that's not always true either. The right panel page can be much more compelling than a bland splash.
  
• Take pencillers- There are "A-list" artists, but not all of their books/characters have the same value. Kirby FF pages generally go for more than JIM/Thor pages which go for more than Cap pages (2nd run) which go for more than ...
  
• Take combinations of pencilers/inkers - Kirby/Sinnott FF pages rank above Kirby and anyone else on FF, but a Kirby/X FF page might be more or less than a Kirby/Stone Thor page. Hard to tell.

 

Finally, you should join the comic book OA community. The three main points of Internet contact are:

• Yahoo's comicart-l mailing list
  
• The Comic Art Fans website
  
• The CGC OA Board

 

The main points of physical contact are probably:

• San Diego Comic Con
  
• New York City Comic Con
  
• Comic Art Con
  
• Heroes Comic Con

 

One last comment, if you are looking to buy or sell, spend the time to learn the market. That might take 6 months, but it's worth the time.

[Real Elijah Snow]

Thanks very much for all the info. I've been dealing in modern stuff for about a decade and a half, but this is my first time having stuff this old. The majority of my stuff is 90's.

Again, thanks for the info. I definitely didn't expect that level of a response.

[alxjhnsn]

I definitely didn't expect that level of a response.

Oh, if you mean the "How To" response, it is canned; I wrote it quite some time ago and drop it on all the "How much is this worth?" threads. I can't believe I didn't include in my original reply. Must be getting old.

 

[Peter G]

Nice piece(s)

[comicartcom]

an "old friend" you have there. the art is by Carl Pfeuffer as previously noted. His other credits include Sub-Mariner for Timely. He did the triangle head Subby

 

[vodou]

Golden Age art except obvious GGA (and really it needs to be bondage) and Superhero has no nostalgia attached, so no great demand (or price). Archie stuff w/the girls is classic and probably another exception, but otherwise...no heat. Which is neither here not there if you don't pay too much and really like it. I like what I can see of your story and have many similar myself. The stuff is always around (but maybe not forever?) at reasonable per page prices when taken down in bulk. Do some research, there are old fogey stories of pallets of this sort of art being sold out of warehouses and being broken down slowly in the sixties, seventies, eighties (and probably still today...the supply greatly exceeded the demand).

 

My cap currently is $50/page for decent generic and $75-$100/page for hot 'n sexy. More for really good Archie LA and offbeat pre-code horror. You won't retire (well) on this stuff but you can enjoy it and likely get what you paid or even a bit more out down the road. Definitely more for the Archie, hot 'n sexy and pre-code horror.

[Real Elijah Snow]

Thanks for your insight!

[ciorac]

It's a 7 page complete Tom Mix story from Master Comics (Fawcett) #114 (1950) .

I can't figure out who the artist is, and I'm really unsure on value.

Can anyone here provide any insight on the artist or potential value? (guesses would be fine, as I am seriously lost on the Golden age art market)

 

(sorry for the glare, all 7 pages are in nice frames)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'd be interested in the splash page

[Real Elijah Snow]

Unless you want to give me $500 for it, I'm keeping them together.

[ciorac]

Unless you want to give me $500 for it, I'm keeping them together.

 

 

How much for all of them?